I ought to add a few pictures to this post.

(Note to self: take pictures of your stuff when you get home and edit this blog to add them)

So. The woman who created the pattern for the Short Row Hat - holy crapola that must have been some challenge!! I cast on for it and I'm about 1/4 done and holy crap I am impressed. I would be very curious to find out how long it took her to come up with it and perfect it.

I had started on the caramel cable hat during the holidays and I'm about nearly done, but I ran out of yarn and cant make it to my local store until Saturday. So yesterday, I started the short row hat. I like it a lot so far, althought I dont know about the color I chose. I used a red skein I had on hand, but it would look MUCH better if knitted with some variagated yarn.

I'm going yarn shopping tomorrow, so I'll have a looksee at what I can get my hands on.

I am totally procrastinating on assembling my cabled coat. All the pieces have been done for over a month now and I am procrastinating blocking the front pieces and assembling it. I think I am terrified that it will be all wrong or wont fit me, which is why I've been putting it off.


At the yarn store, I have to buy the cream colored skein for my hat. I have to buy a skein of white and a small skein of black to make these awesome pants. I have a skein of red and blue merino, so I'll find something else to match so I can make these. I'll use a longies pattern I found, and will create the funky face. I should be able to make these even if I dont have that pattern.

I hate this stupid cabled coat.

I am so over kniting Vogue Knitting's Cabled Coat. So, so so over it. First, there were A BUNCH of mistakes in the pattern, two, I cant get anything else done because I want to finish it soon! I am down to one sleeve, and I am starting tonight the raglan cap decrease. Then after that, is weaving in ends (pukes) and assembling it (pukes again).

There are SO many other things I need to get done! My brother's hat and mittens! It's his Christmas presents, I have to get my ass in gear! I still have a skein and a half of Curran from Three Irish Girls to turn into newborn pants. And I still have two skeins from yarny_bits to make baby items out of. That's not even counting on the fact that if I find out on Dec 17th that I'm having a girl, I will be ordering TONS of stuff from Three Irish Girls as they have way too many cute girly colors.

Also, it's winter and I need a hat. I want to knit myself a short row hat but I dont know where I'll find the time.

I have way too many things to knit and too little time :-(

I hate the Vogue Knitting Website

So the goddamn Vogue Knitting website has been down for FUCKING EVER. I *knew* there was a mistake on the instructions, as it said that the 4-LC was slip 2 sts to cable needle, P2, P2 from needles when it should have been P2 and then *K2* from cable needle. I figured that out when I was almost done the done with the godet, had to unfrog it all because it looked wrong. I specifically looked online everywhere to see if there was a correction, and I finally found on Ravelry someone that said yeah, that instruction should be P2, K2. Ha!

I again looked for the vogue site, which was still down. I managed to hunt an alternate site for it, with corrections and NONE WAS LISTED.

Great.

Now, I am done with the back, the two pieces of the front, the godet, I am 3/4 done with the collar (knitting both pieces at the same time), I've got one sleeve done, so I'm only missing one sleeve, and I to finish the collar pieces.

And now bingo the Vogue Knitting Website is up and WHAT DO YOU KNOW LOOK AT THIS CORRECTION FOR MY CABLED COAT:

PATTERN #30 Cabled Coat
photo on page 146, instructions on page 200

Chart 1 on page 202, row 9 is incomplete.
Please insert an RT in between the 4-st LC and the 4-st RC on the left side of the chart.


*cries long, hot tears*

I *KNEW* it was missing a RT there, damnit, but hey, couldnt find any mention of a correction and it looked ok without, so I continued.

Fuckers.

Raverly

Ooooh there is only 62 people in front of me before I get my Ravelry invite!


*dances*

:-)

New yarn goodness.



I'm going to make these pants, but probably with a different, more cutesy girly cuff, with the purple skein.

I have not decided yet which patterns I'm going to do with the other two. I might do a boyish version of this soaker I just finished and LOOOVE LOVE LOVE to death.



The colors are just amazing.

Right now, I'm working on these:



I love the colors so much I want to roll around in it. Who needs porn when you've got pretty yarn? Oh and this project is from this pattern. Very nice so far!

And I also finished this soaker


It turned out way way way too small. I'm talking newborn size, here. I had heard that this pattern was actually quite big, so I knit it on much smaller needles. Yeah, I shouldnt have done that. But hey, I wouldn't have had enough of that yarn to do a much bigger version of this one anyway! It came from this pattern.

Anyway, I got new yarn and I'm done know what to do - keep working the pants I started already or start a new one. In which color?

There is not enough hours per day for stuff I want to knit!

WIP

Right now, I'm working on this soaker, from this pattern


Also, on this damn slippers



And this huge comfy shawl



The shawl I started ages ago and wont finish it for a while now. The slippers have to be done TODAY because I am sick of them.

And soon I'll get my yummy yarn and I really wont know what to work on!

Yarn's coming in the mail!

I am currently eagerly waiting yarn in the mail.


Mesto, Pink and brown and Anuk, all amazingly soft pure merino wool.

And the other two are Sunset and Revolution, also 100 pure merino wool, but dyed by the lady who runs this community

So many things to do now! I need soakers and longies for my son, and for my friend Jenn's daughters. Plus I want to make a few extra soakers to put up for sell.

I printed out a bunch of patterns and I am way excited to start them!