Frustrations

This semester of college is evil...I do not have enough time for knitting and reading and sleeping. Therefore, my knitting has been severely affected. I dont know how I had enough time to knit all the stuff I knit up for Christmas...in only two months!! EEK!

Traveling Teddy-Branston!

Branston arrived safely in Colorado on the 15th of August, and helped me move back into my house at school.

On Monday, Branston accompained me to Monday Night BOWLING!!
He helped us to pick out our Bowling Names, and came up with a new one for my friend Paul!
Then he went in for his first frame.... annnd decided the ball was WAY to big for him to be bowling...so he sat and watched and cheered us on for the rest of the evening. :D


After the evening was over, he got a little chilly on the way home, so he asked for a scarf, which I promptly started knitting. He went to class with me for the week, all while I worked on his scarf. He's decided that he wants to be an Engineer! Unfortuantely, my advisor didn't think we
We got Branston's scarf *which can later be used as a bookmark* all knitted up, so that he could stay warm!

Now hes off to Kansas, where his scarf will have to be used as a belt, because of the temperature difference!
house. Which involved so much unpacking that we forgot to take pictures...Then we spent the weekend resting on the couch. We did have to make an emergency trip to the yarn store for a ball winder, but since the camera was still MIA from unpacking.... could get him approved on such short notice.....

Traveling Teddy-Effie!

Effie has been visiting with me in Arizona! She started in Colorado, where I live, and we took a road trip down here...She snapped a picture of the welcome to AZ sign!


After arriving in AZ, she decided to spend a couple days resting. She helped me to knit up a blanket for my sister *see my daisy blanket project on ravelry!* and we watched a TON of movies. After watching Finding Nemo, she decided she needed a sea-creature friend to accompany her on her travels, so we set about making her a sea turtle! The only problem was, she wanted him in original colors, because if shes a pink bear, there's certainly nothing wrong with a purple turtle!!




After this, she went to work with me for a day, you can see her here in her hard hat!


Unfortunately, we couldnt take any pictures at work, because the camera batteries died, but she spent all day working with me in the mill designing new pipe fittings! She took a mine tour and even snagged a piece of copper rock for her very own.




After all this adventure, Effie decided to relax by the pool,

and take a walk around the apartment complex. She saw a cool tree, and needed to climb in it,
she said it made her feel like a koala!


Then she saw her first cactus and HAD to have a picture!! Unfortunately, it was across the street, and she couldn't be in the middle of the road, so things are a little fuzzy, but if you look real hard, you can see the cactus in the background!!




its been a lot of fun, but now its time for Effie to keep on a moving!
We sure had fun! Bye Effie!

Traveling Teddy

Meet Fuzzley! He's my traveling teddy friend! He gets to visit 10 other lovely crafters who will show him around and help him collect trinkets along his journey. He left home today, and should be in Kansas by Tuesday! I knitted him a little rainbow scarf before I sent him on his way, so he'll keep warm.


I've also finished my monthly bookmark for the yahoo KAL, the pattern for it can be found on http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MonthlyBookmarksKAL/ in the files section. Its a pretty flower!! *see below* Unfortunately my camera totally sucks because it's my built in webcam, so until I get back to Colorado, where I can use my real camera, all my photos will be crap-tastic! YAY!




^ Bookmark


Ive also started on socks for franken-feet. they shouldn't be done any time soon. Its been interesting to learn to knit socks though! I chose the two at once, toe up, circular needle method. *which was a LOT to take on at once* but I think ive finally got it figure dout thanks to some fellow knitters blogs. yay! Now, back to trying to make socks for size 13 feet on size 2 needles...hmmm....

Weekend Jaunts

I spent the week thinking about trying my first pair of socks...and have decided to take the plunge! While hunting through my stash for some yarn to use I found nothing too inspiring...but I did find a bag filled with simply soft brites, which I had intended to work into an afghan for my sister's birthday. So I decided I would do that, and in the use a black t-shirt that I cut up as a flower's outline. So I drew up a pattern for the afghan, and decided to take a trip to the yarn store!!

Since I'm working out of town this summer, I googled local yarn stores and came across one I wanted to use. Then, I dragged my darling boyfriend across town to help me pick yarn for his socks. the ladies at the store put him to work winding balls of yarn while I hunted for hours for the perfect yarn. I found what I needed. *And of course, several things I wanted*

I'm now back home and have put aside all my other fun projects to start on a *couple* new projects! yay!

Project Complete

Luca's beret is finished! i tied in all the ends last night added ribbon and elastic and will be shipping it out today! yay! I can cross one more thing off my knitting "to do" list. From the VERY top!

I've been working on a bookmark from a yahoo KAL group, its little bitty tiny. *probably because i downsized both the yarn and the needles! eep!* and while I'm not working on that I will probably be working on my "baby" blankie. i say "baby" because it ended up being gigantic. I'm not sure if this is because of some needle mishaps I had or because I wasn't in the mood to gage the yarn and just went for it. Either way, its more of a baby-yarn colored throw. If its too terrible I'll just leave it in the sorority living room for people to use while watching TV. Which is probably where it will end up anyways, as that's where all my throws end up! Either there or strung about the house because my roommates love them. I will eventually make them all their own, and until then, no throws will stay where I leave them. At least they're loved!

I'm Wired!

I have a knitting blog! woo hoo! Connection is a brilliant thing. I'll be updating/adding eventually, but I'm currently at work keeping myself busy during the lunch hour, so nothing fun yet! But soon.

Until then, I am working on a beret in a powder blue for a friend of mine's birthday. Which happend to be 5 days ago, but I figure its better late than never, right? Thankfully, I'm *almost* done with it. I've started the decreases! I'll post pics soon.