Author: Chauntel Ensey

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I just have to say how happy I am to finally have fellow knitters that can complete my sentences & thoughts for me (that’s you Laura ;o)) I finished the front of my rainbow version of the peppermint twist sweater out of S&B. So happy with how it turned out, especially since I decided to be daring & do my own stripe pattern after I screwed up the order given in the pattern. Very happy with it. I will get a pic posted tomorrow. Right nowI am waiting for the laundry to be done so I can go to bed. The men need work clothes!!

School is out so I am hoping to have many long days at home before I have to go to Idaho for our family reunion. I am hoping to find some fun yarn shops with something new to knit up on the trip. The drive alone should let me get at least one project done on the trip, 17 hours!!  Scary just thinking about it!

I also started an afghan for myself since I am the only one in the family that doesn’t have one yet! Something simple but fun, I will get a pic posted of what I started today.

So off to finish laundry & then bed!

Oh & Disneyland really is the happiest place on earth in case anyone is wondering!!

 

Well I finished another 2 ponchos in the last week, one for myself & one as a gift for a certain someone I can’t name because they read this blog.

Now I am determined to finish my striped sweater. I want it done for the fall & I know if I don’t get to it now while I am interested in it then it won’t get done. So overall I don’t have a ton of projects going. I am jonesin’ for a new afghan b/c I have some new fun yummy yarns to make it out of. But then there is the issue of guilt for not working on my mothers colinette absolutely fabulous throw first! Damn! Oh well I am an adult so I can do whatever I want!  

SO at our knitting group on Monday we saw some really fun yarn that one of the girls was working with. It is a patterned yarn that finishes with an intarsia pattern. Must have some of that for those projects where you really feel accomplished while still being lazy! Yay!

So we are doing a trip to the happiest place on earth! Yay! <clapping hands with a silly grin> Not much knitting will happen this weekend that is for sure! But maybe I will make my pretty husband drive so I can do a little something. It’s only 2 hours so a hat would be a good project. Maybe a fun pattern I haven’t tried yet. Who knows. I will just have to show you when I get back!! l8r sk8r

Yay! So Tracy & I went to a knitters group last night that meets at a local coffee shop & it was so fun! I have to say that we will  be there every monday from now on!!

Once again i have renewed incentive to finish some of my projects. Unfortunately I got so d**n frustrated with my vogue knitting wrap tank that I frogged last weekend. Then last night at the knitting group I met a few women who knew how to do the wrap & turn! So I am going to reknit the front this week to have it ready for next Monday. I will do it on 7’s instead of 8’s this time though & just adjust the pattern to fit the new guage. The provence yarn just looks nicer knit up on smaller needles. So that is my plan & I am sticking to it! Happy knitting days are here again!

So no time for knitting lately! I am spending all my time online shopping for yarn instead of actually doing something with it all! Lame!!

No pictures to post either…<sigh> oh well.

Did get a few cool books of patterns. Oh, and I got an Absolutely Fabulous Throw kit from Colinette for my mother for Christmas. Really excited about that one. Took my time & rolled all the skeins into balls.

SO that is all for now. Will start knitting soon, I promise!