A Heavy Sigh

I am in the knititng dolldrums now. I am back at school and working too, longer hours per day, between a little under 12 hours and 14 hours, and the lack of energy extounds me. But between working on one of those cowl/hoodie things and a pair of purple socks for my friend, guess which one is not winning...Both! I really want to work on the cowl but really have to knock out the socks. The only problem is that my friend is a permanent purple devotee, even down to describing purples as too red or too blue. And after making hand warmers and a cowl/hoodie for her, I am in a major purple haze funk... As you can tell, I am really hating purple after the holidays and I am only on the first leg part of the first FLOGGING sock! I have to force myself to pull the sock out of the bag its in to freakin knit on. I am soooo tired of purple that I feel I am bleeding purple out of my eyes. I am so tempted to mail her all my purple yarn for someone else to use, that's how sick I am of it! But once I get these stupid socks out of the way, I am soooooo looking forward to some other color than bloody purple.

OMG! Two Words to Describe Me Right Now!

Yarn winder!!!!!!! Got a $19.99 yarn winder from Knit Picks yesterday and I am in heaven. Holy snot! I have been winding yarn for two nights and yarn cakes ROCK right now!!!!!! I am finally getting the jist of the whole thing and rewound a couple and decreased the cake population. YES!!!! Now I can decrease the pile in my yarn drawer. But in winding stuff into cakes I realized that I have more verigated yarn than I thought. So I might be able to make a third pair of anklet socks. Who knows???? Or I will just make another cartridge cowl.

One More Thing

I keep hearing about these patterns on podcasts that I defined as patterns gone wild. But what I thought was a FERAL pattern is actually a FAIR ISLE, an island off of Scotland, pattern. What a hoot is that! Just looked it up and the patterns sort of remind me of those Norwegian sock patterns, I think.

Frogged

After about 13 rows of doing chartridge in chenille I realized that couldn't do it with the chenille I have. So I am going to just knit up some squares to try to do a blanket or use as washcloths. Oh well!

I Am Not Sure What I am Smoking!

Well, I finished the anklet socks and washed them! Yay! So I have two scrap socks for camping. Goodie!

This is where I am wondering what I am smoking part. I decided to make another cartridge cowl again! I decided to see how much chenille I can use up with it. I have too much of it and want to get rid of some of my stash. I love the pattern, my carpal tunnel doesn't! I am also going to make some small handwarmers (3" up and 3" down from the thumb hole) to see if I can get some of it out of the way too. So here I go here I go again!

Happy New Year!

I finished my cartridge neck warmer for my friend just before the ball dropped for the left coast. Wahoo! I love the pattern but the carpal tunnel made my hands and back hurt on days if I was trying to do much on other days and a couple of days of not wanting to do much except for two flogging rows. I don't know if this is felt by many or a few but there are days where I just didn't feel like doing much of a sneeze of knitting.

But I have gotten rave reviews for my pouches for the soaps for my step mom. Not only from her but from my dad also... Hmmmm.... Maybe my sewing wasn't to shabby after all. Plus my home made hot sauce was a hit too. Think the only one who didn't comment on the hot sauce was my uncle. Well raspberries to him...

On a side note....the podcast Electronic Sheep is leaving me a little peevish. The last two podcasts seemed to be more movie review than what was on or off her needles. Still giving her the benefit of the doubt.

Now onto finishing some anklet socks for me, a pair of socks for my friend, a pair of socks for her son, and some wrist warmers for her son. Might just do wrist warmers after the anklet socks for the sheer easiness of them for a child.