Ravelry Update

I just learned that you can change your username on Ravelry so I am now StitchBitch23 (like my blog URL) if anyone is looking for me!

And don't forget about Ravelraising you might just win something fun!

Flighting, Drinking and Twirling

Last night Carl and I had the Fight of the Century and all because I’m a messy little tall person that doesn’t fold their clothes. Apparently, after a year and a half living in a bedroom turned girl closet can get to a person. At about 1 am I learned the following:

1. I have to put my clothes away as soon as physically possible or Carl may kill me

2. Trying to talk to him like an adult when he’s fuming is completely impossible.

3. Maybe I shouldn’t push my luck when he lives in a world of yarn which was not what he signed up for when we moved in together

4. Drinking half a bottle of wine very quickly will not make the yelling man go away and will actually make you feel like death the next morning.

Anyway, I was fortunate enough to be able to make it to my knitting group last night and boy did I need a little girl time. I think I have officially lost my mind and need a vacation because there is no filter left. I know you’re all asking yourself “when was there a filter?” but there was, it was just small and didn’t really filter all the much. Now that little bit I had is just G-O-N-E GONE. I apologize for anything awful that I said last night. Maybe that placenta thing was a bit much but I hope I was at least entertaining???

I wore my skirt to work yesterday and everyone LOVED it. There is nothing like getting complimented on something you’ve worked so long and hard at. It looked great and all day all I wanted to do was go to the park and twirl. It’s definitely a twirling skirt. I would have done a few twirls at work but I just didn’t think it was professional.

Gotta work but the Fair Jacket is coming along nicely. Pictures of my progress soon! I will need help picking out buttons but we'll get to that later.

Will this week every end?

I decided to start knitting on the bus again this morning since the flair jacket is a little smaller and lighter than the skirt had been these last few weeks. I waited and waited this morning for a bus and god rewarded my patience with a totally empty bus stopping at my stop. I got a single seat and started knitting. I was having a simply marvelous morning commute till about 2 stops from my office when the cord of my knit picks options came right out AGAIN! I had fixed the other end before starting the jacket and now the good end is broken. Somehow I managed to save my stitches but this was just a little too much excitement for me especially before coffee. So after a very long day of work I have to fix my option again before I can knit anymore. I'm tempted to run out and buy some addis and just say fuck the option but I love them too much to give up on them now.

Oh and I learned today that STP is getting back together, pretty sweet.

And what's this about MagKnits being down? I must investigate...

Monday Monday...

So it looks like its going to be another long week at work. Yesterday Carl and I were discussing how amazing it would be to wake up and have it be Friday night again in some sort of Groundhog Day like time warp thing. Alas, its not to be. Luckily my mother stopped by work this morning to drop of the quilted bag she made me. Isn’t it great?!

I’m making progress on my Flair Jacket and I can’t wait to see how it looks when its complete. I still need to decide on buttons but I think I’ll do that when the whole jacket is complete. I do have to say it’s really nice to knit with worst weight. No tiny needles and stitches here!

I’ve been listening to LimenViolet while I’ve been working and I have decided that they are freakin hysterical. I love all the yarn porn and yarn related adventures. The story about the protesters chanting “give geese a chance” oh my sides hurt after that one. I want to jump though my ipod and into the room with them. If you haven’t listened to their podcast before click over to iTunes and check them out. I promise you will laugh out loud. I kept trying not on the bus in case people though I was weird but I just couldn’t help it. Seriously, they’re great!

My yarn diet is doing great. It has been especially hard since there is a yarn store in the lobby of my office building but I’m coping. The food diet is a little harder. I’ve been working so much I haven’t been eating during the day so I get home and just munch munch munch. If I can resist the yarn I can resist food.

Ok back to dinner and knitting oh and getting rid of this migraine. Damn work and its being all crazy right now…

Yippie FO

Finally I’m all done with the skirt. I decided not to cinch in the bottom to make it a tulip skirt because my gauge wasn’t totally right so it didn’t come out quite as long as it should have been but I really like the flowiness of the skirt.

Back

Front

Now I’m off to swatch the flair jacket. Yah I know I’m going to actually swatch a project. I’m such a good knitter!

EEK!!

5 more rows and then I can bind off, sewing in my ends (all 90,000 of them), cut my ribbons to length and WEAR MY SKIRT!!

YIPPIE!

ok back to work pictures soon!

Sweet Jesus its Friday

I'm so happy you have no idea. Its rainy, work is quiet and I don't have to do anything for two whole days...well at least nothing work related.



We're thinking of having some people over tonight to watch Dr. StrangeLove because they have NEVER SEEN IT!! I think that's a cinematic crime. If you haven't seen it you better rent it this weekend. Peter Sellers is amazing. Go, rent, enjoy!



It's also a friends birthday today (HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEN!!) and some other people have invited us out so we'll see what happens tonight. All I know is this time this week I want to be posting a pic of me in the puffball skirt and maybe (if I can do it) a little snap shot of the start of flair jacket? Its going to be a knitting frenzy this weekend.



Happy Friday everyone!

Oh what a night

The Yarn Harlot was awesome. This was my first time seeing her speak and she was very funny, smart and tiny. You see all these people in blogland and you think they must be like you. I’m tall so I think everyone is tall. It’s always a shock meeting someone and finding out they are what you had imagined, like reading a book and then seeing the movie, they don’t always match up. Ok I’m off track, I do that a lot…get back now. I met up with Sarah and we had a great time sitting on the floor knitting and laughing. She stood online for a bit but that had to leave so I waited and waited in the massively long line of knitters to get my booked signed. I then said something stupid to the Harlot that I basically can’t remember.

Here she is sigining away (not my book) and you can just see her traveling sock there behind the sweater. Thank god for camera phones or I would never have any photographic proof that I had gone.

She talked a lot about how non-knitters see us and how you can’t really define who a knitter “is”. We’re a tricky demographic. Her insights were great. I loved when she talked about when non-knitters say “I wish I had the time to take up knitting” and how they’re usually sitting with you waiting for the same plane or doctor or something. Apparently they’re so busy being bored they can’t possibly knit. All this talk about how “they” see “us” was made even more hysterical when I met up with Carl and his guy friends at a bar after the signing. All he had told them was that I was at a book signing. Of course when I got there I had to explain what kind of book and then they played right into everything the Harlot had been talking about. It was all just too funny.

Everyone was so nice. I just love knitters. Everyone is interested in what the other is knitting. And the compliments just flow. I loved see what others had made (of course you must bring out your finest knitwear for the Harlot right?). This one lady had this amazing Fai Isle sweater with all these inter-connecting rings. Oh it was gorgeous. One day I will make something like that. I wish I had a picture of it I really do.

Anyway I should really getting home so I can get back to my skirt (that everyone thought was a giant sweater without arms). Last night was exactly what I needed, I little me time doing what I love with people who love it just as much as I do.

Getting excited!

Work is winding down and I'm about to head up to Columbus Circle to stake my place to see the Yarn Harlot! I'm super excited and a little ticked at myself for forgetting my camera this morning. I was too distracted by all the sunshine this morning to remember anything.

OOOO Can't wait to share the yarny goodness with you!

Carl's got the Mets...

And I have: The Yarn Harlot, April 2- NYC, Columbus Circle Borders, 10 Columbus Circle, NY NY, Time: 7pm! I'm kind of a lotta pumped. I haven't had much knitting in my life the last couple of days and I feel like this is just the jumpstart I need. Work has been insane since sunday and its only Tuesday. But on hump day I get a little Harlot, the week can only get better.

We're watching American Idol because we're weird and cheesy like that. The April Fool's joke was AWFUL but that really didn't bother me so much. What did is the insane why FOX always finds away to advertise or plug its own shows all the time and in the most random ways. Everytime Seacrest says something he manages to plug FOX and FOX programs at least 3,000 times. It's just shameless.

Ok back to the cheese and I promise to finish this skirt soon so I actually have a finished project for you to look at.