Monthly Archive for August, 2007

HSKS3 Questionnaire

Published on August 31, 2007 in HSKS3. 2 Comments

1. What Hogwarts house have you been sorted into?
GRYFFINDOR!

2. List your favorite double-point needle brands, including size and length. Or would you prefer circulars?
I prefer circs, but I’ll use Bamboo DPN’s.

3. Would you like to try a new brand needle? If so, which brand? Size? Length?
I never really gave it much thought. As long as it does what it needs to do, I’m fine with it.

4. If you are a RAVENCLAW, do you prefer the colors in the film or the book? Do you have a strong preference?
N/A

5. Do you have any allergies?
Yes, WORK!

6. If you are swapping scarves – what is your desired length for the pattern? This will help your partner find the pattern that is just right for you and buy yarn accordingly.
N/A. I’m a first year and still trying to find my way around Hogwarts.

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I’m G rated!

Published on August 29, 2007 in Everything Else. 0 Comments

Some people may differ with this opinion, but apparently I don’t curse enough on this blog and received a G rating.

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Just call me Suzy Homemaker

Published on August 26, 2007 in Craftiness, FO, Knitting, Rockin' Sock Club, UFO and Yarn. 0 Comments

I’ve been a little busy-body at home lately. With my decision to start the Flylady thing, I’ve also gotten into cooking again, and have been enjoying it as well. Here’s the “fruits of my labors”:

How cool is that! I made Blueberry Muffins! I think this is awesome because I can take them with me to work and have one for breakfast with my usual morning coffee, and all is good.

I’ve also been a knitting fiend as well. I finally finished one of my Inside Out socks from the Rockin Sock Club and have already cast on and am working on the second one. The leg still came out a little tighter then I would have liked, but that seems to be my curse when knitting cables. Every time I knit cables it always comes out tighter then I’d like, but Cocoa approves.

I’ve also been trying to finish the Mystery stole, but that one is a bit harder to work on since it’s really hard to knit lace3 everywhere. You need to really sit and concentrate on that one, so it’s taking me a little longer then I would have liked, but I know once it’s done I’m going to love it! I just need to knit and not lose my concentration. I seem to be one of those knitters that easily distracted by newer projects, as I’m *dying* to cast on Absorba from the Mason Dixon book, but I’m not allowing myself to cast that on yet until I finsh BOTH the stole and the shawl.

As promised, here’s the pictures of the latest Rockin Sock Club yarn. I hope this isn’t a spoiler for anyone, but I have to show this off because it’s absolutely fabulous!!! I’m going to knit the socks in order, so it’ll be a while before I get to knit these, especially since I’m knitting the Knee High to a Grasshopper socks, well, knee high. There’s the option to do them knee high or not, and I’m taking the option. I’ve been wanting a pair of knee highs for a while, and these have the calf line down the back like hose, so I thought that would be fabulous!

Ok, I must get knitting now, so I’ll post more later.

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I must be going crazy!

Published on August 23, 2007 in HSKS3, Knitting, MS3, Noteworthy, Rockin' Sock Club and SP11. 3 Comments

I think I’m going through Harry Potter withdrawl because I just signed up for another swap! It’s not enough that I’m participating in Secret Pal 11, but now I’m also doing the Harry Potter Sock/Scarf Kit Swap too! I couldn’t help myself though, and this kit isn’t due until Halloween (YIPEEE!!! I love Halloween!) so I have plenty of time to get my kit bag knit and gather the supplies needed for the swap…I think. This should be fun! I went ahead and got sorted, and guess what house I belong to?

This is really no big surprise to me as I feel I have all the qualities of the Gryffindor house. Tee hee. I’m such a Harry Potter nut!

Ok, well that’s enough for Harry Potter stuff as today I also received my ROCKIN SOCK CLUB PACKAGE!!! I was not expecting this at all! I love these neat little surprises that pop up in the mail for me! The color way is SO beautiful! It’s called Flower Power and is a great combination of typical tye-dye colors (as if the name of the color doesn’t give it away!). I just got this today, and I’m at work, so I’ll have to snap a pic of it when I get home tonight. I’ve also been seriously working on my Mystery Stole, so I have to snap pictures of that too, and I haven’t even picked up the Inside Out Socks since I discovered the leg was being knit too tight. In my defense though, time has run out! It’s hard to keep track of the house and all my other responsibilities (and obsessions) now that school has started! I’ve also been wanting to put together a couple of pages in my scrapbook and I haven’t been able to do that either, but my house is REALLY clean!

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Trying to Catch Up!

Published on August 17, 2007 in MS3, Rockin' Sock Club and UFO. 0 Comments

I’ve, yet again, picked up knitting the Mystery Stole. I’m in the process of trying to finish up clue 5 so that I can move on and try to get this thing finished within the next couple of days (hopefully!). Whether this will actually happens or not is up to speculation as there’s a ton of things that I have to do this weekend and next to prepare for school and there’s a ton of things I need/want to do around the house as well, other then sit around and knit. I’m going to attempt to take a progress photo some time this weekend while I’m taking care of all this stuff so that I could post it up for you all.

I also did two repeats of the Inside Out socks, but I need to rip out the leg and start over again because it’s just coming out way too tight and I don’t want a repeat of the ultra tight jaywalker socks that I need to redo, so, a-ripping I will go.

This sock is really nice, and I’m loving how it feels. I try things on as I knit, because I’m just OCD like that, and these socks are by far the comfiest socks I’ve knit. Not to mention, knitting these have taught me a lot about how to work a sock in a different method, and I don’t have the dreaded holes that I always get when I knit short row socks. They’re awesome! I’m loving it.

It’s a bit ironic that I’m knitting things the way I have been lately, because I’ve been reading from Stephanie’s book “Yarn Harlot: The secret Life of a Knitter” and I just finished reading the chapter about her trying to get control of her ginormous pile of UFO’s and how she intended to finish them all and be a one knitting project at a time knitter, and that’s kind of what I’m trying to do as well. I’ve got a couple (or 5) projects that have been sitting around and I really do need to finish them, so I think I’m going to get inspired by Stephanie finishing the pile of 35(!) UFO’s that she had stashed and hidden all over the house.