juliet, still a little wet behind the ears

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She's drying now, I am a little nervous about how she turns out. Here's hoping she fits.
I am testing out the Flickr blog posting feature, we'll see.....

day off

Despite a holiday, I don't have much progress to show. Instead of knitting away, cleaning the house, planting tulip bulbs or anything else so mundane: I went and drew pictures of castles with moats and princesses, little red riding hood and the big bad wolf. All with a little girl convinced that all princesses have yellow hair and blue eyes. I think she found my goth princess with purple hair a bit odd.

Much television was watched this weekend which led to some thoughts about programming: There was a advertisement for one of many law & order shows. One man (a suspect I presume) started talking about 'exercising' his demons. Doesn't anyone check programs for proper grammar and pronunciation when discussing evil spirits? Don't they know about a good old exorcism, these days?
I did watch a few things that made a good impression. TCM played movies today with 'the saint', you know the real one, George Sanders (that man had an awesome voice) NOT Val Kilmer.

my interests

I think it is time to address my interests. It was noted by my own personal stalker in a none too subtle manner that maybe I should blog about something other than knitting.
Well, my interests.....
nope.
it's just knitting.

O Fair Juliet

I've been unfaithful

Bianca has been neglected. Juliet has captivated me yet again. I picked up some new yarn and suddenly all I could think about was that new cardigan. A lovely olive green bulky knit. Only I started with large needles and was knitting along, but she didn't look the way I imagined. So I ripped her out and started again with smaller needles. I could have been done with the top by know if I wasn't such a tinker-er, but I think she will be lovelier now.

Wednesday...(oops, I mean thursday)

Knitting continues on the Bianca Jacket (not actually this green in real life). I spent the day knitting and laying on my couch, compliments of my in-advisably moving a large flower pot containing a tree in my front yard yesterday. The sleeves are progressing nicely (they are the wavy short things at the top). The bottom hem is rolling considerably, I hope this will block out and won't be a problem.
I've been listening to a new cd Pig Lib the lyrics are cracking me up:

Got your ballerina tights around my head
and a samurai pose on the bed

I have this widget on my mac called Canto Pod, you can search under artist or song for lyrics. I love it!

PS:They were already playing x-mas songs inside Wal-Mart tonight. Isn't it a wee bit early?

Everest revisited

Seems despite all my brilliant calculations and maneuvering, my vest is too small. This surprises me. Very, very much.

NOTE: Now comes the portion of the program where I outline my brilliance and it's flawed outcome.
I used the 34" bust measurement, which yes, is a wee bit small but I was using Cascade 220 which 'grows' with washing. And it did, I swear. Longer and wider. They must have the shortest person in history trying on that vest because I added a full inch to the length and it is still too short. I mean, look at the picture, I here present Veste Everest (supposedly named after the yarn the designer used, I prefer to think it has a lot to do with the desire to say Vest-ee and a inordinate love of mountain climbing):I know that her shirt is hanging out the bottom but still.....my completed vest would have a full two feet of shirt showing. Where did I go wrong?

Well enough of the self-flagellation, the question really is, what am I going to do to fix it? And the answer is.....a revisiting of my veste. Here is one option:

Bottom: I could pick up stitches (one of my least favorite things) and add ribbing downward until desired length is achieved. Unless, of course there is someway to rib upwards and attach live stitches to bound-off bottom edge? please, please say this is do-able? I really hate picking up stitches.
Sides: I could pick up stitches along the sides and add a ribbed button band (with buttons naturally) thus providing a little extra something and a little extra give (the uneven blobs along the side of the pictured vest-ee would be the proposed buttons, I never claimed to be able to draw).
This leads to several questions. Should there be buttons on both sides or just the one? And if I alter just the one side with buttons should I add some buttons also to the top of the shoulder as well? Or should I just rip the damn thing out and make a new one since all these mods would take a bloody hell of a long time?

random sentences from my fridge

me the hot delicious chocolate

a pecuniary yarnball fulminates in my stalwart rhythm

you do bite

Here is my daily post: yay! day 3 and I haven't forgotten yet. I been home all day, sniffling with a cold, watching hours of mostly pointless television (with the exception of Wilco on Austin City Limits tonight, that is never pointless) and knitting on my everest vest - almost finished with the front. I will need to choose my next project tonight since I will have to wait until the body is done drying to attach the neck and armhole edging. Decisions, decisions..........

weekend knitting update

Here is a finished infant hat in Navy Bamboo. I made the pattern up as I went along. Circumference is approx 16.5" stretched.I have been considering opening an etsy shop to sell knitted things per a fabulous suggestion made by a reader. The questions that come to mind: can i keep up? will this be cost effective?

Any thoughts?

I cast on for the Minimalist Cardigan from the Fall 2207 Interweave Sunday afternoon, doesn't look like much does it? Believe me, it is. 10.5" is a lot when you're knitting in moss stitch. This is Cascade 220 in Galaxy. It's been a little hard on my hands with all the dry, cold weather we've been having. In other news: I am leaving town to go see my sister Thursday night through Monday night. YAY! I wish I could say this cardigan would be finished in time to wear it Sunday - but definitely not. Why won't my boss pay me to knit?

Orangina Finished

She needs a name.....Orangina does not apply. Any ideas?
I told you i loved my photo booth.

orangina update

Despite some of this...... there is not much of this....... progress is VERY slow, due to many mistakes hard to notice when you're knitting lace with toothpicks.
the Tree Jacket, however......
is going much faster since i'm using actual yarn and knitting needles.