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Melissa posted about needing ideas for a growing yarn stash, that got me motivated to clean up my yarn room/ office so that I could actually take pictures of my stash control techniques. Plus get a better idea of what I have that needs to be knit! There was too much yarn that was calling to me “you want to touch me, you want to hold me, you want to marry me”! I did not give in the woolen sirens singing to me, I swiftly put them away without any fondling or fornicating. Now I can finish posting pictures and get back to knitting so that I can read harry as soon as it arrives! Oh that reminds me, I have to find my book holder so that I can knit & read at the same time. Off to organize my corner of the living room!

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Sometimes small groups are the best way to go, a bit more intimate, a bit more loose. Last night was such a night. Tracy, Suzanne, Betsy & I all had a lovely evening chatting, knitting & doing a bit of laughing. Topics of conversation were all over the place, from knitting of course to reality tv, to anatomically correct knitting (loud laughing included) and many other subjects that we just laughed about.

Oh, yeah one thing! Tracy & Betsy are both a bit addicted to the Lifetime networks & all of the lovely b-movies! I am so glad that Tracy can have someone else to discuss them with cuz I just don’t care!

I did miss seeing the larger group though!
Thuy you have been in town but I haven’t seen you yet! Where are you???

There is this yarn that I keep seeing in one of our LYS and its making me really itch to start spinning again! I have all this roving but knitting just seems so much more fulfilling right now! So my plan is to move my spindle & roving inside the house next to my chair instead of having it hide out in the office. See? Sometimes I can be smart!

Speaking of knitting, I am about 4″ away from completing the first front piece of the camping sweater. The back is complete. I am enjoying this pattern. The yarn is a boucle so it splits but overall it’s not terrible to work with. It makes counting rows nearly impossible but I can bs my way through that! I have completed all pieces to all tank tops I had on the needles. Now I just have to sew them together. Right, and that will happen when hell freezes over, and since we are in a global warming era I don’t think it will happen anytime soon! But to make me feel a little better I am posting pics so that you all can see that there are pieces to sew together!

 

 

In a perfect world we would be able to see pictures of knit items, just cast on & go! Below are some gorgeous knit items that make me want to write patterns!

 

In my dreams I could just whip these out! I do think it’s more than possible to cast on & knit them I just don’t have the time, patience or energy at this current moment to fight with making a pattern. Someday…..

Current projects are growing and I can’t seem to get anything totally completed. My man asked me to make him a “camping sweater” so I shuffled through my patterns and found a great Patons pattern from the Our Guys pattern book. So I was a good little girl and did my gauge swatch then cast right on! As I finished the turned hem and started the body of the back I realized that even though my gauge matched theirs, the back seemed awfully wide. I measured & low & behold it was 28″ instead of 22″!! Wowza!! RIP baby, RIP! I reconfigured the cast on amounts & started over. It is now about 6″ long and that is my main goal for the next 2 weeks before we go camping.

I am still working on the chevron tank, the back is complete and the front is about half an inch from the armpits. Not bad, not bad. I could finish it in one solid afternoon I think.

Sadie’s bedspread received my attention for one section of purple and that is about all last week. It’s nice mindless knitting and last week didn’t seem to have much time for that. I needed to feel accomplishment in my knitting. Hence, the start of a new project & work on more complicated patterns.

I made my son, Tyler,  a hooded sweater about a year ago and he immediately grew out of it. Since it was a roll hem, all stockinette stitch, pattern I decided that I could pick up stitches along the bottom of the body & sleeves to make up for the size difference. Of course it’s been in a bin for the last 8 months gathering dust. He came to me begging for a new sweater on Thursday so I thought I would oblige in the quickest way possible. I grabbed his sweater, picked up those stitches, knit a 3×2 rib 3″ long in no time & voila! A new sweater! The really funny thing is that he really thought it was a new sweater that fast! I am a heroine for sure!

Sadie was also begging for a knit item but hers was a lot simpler, a headband out of microspun. So last night while George, Tracy and I watched The Life Aquatic (slow, dry humor, could have been much funnier, but I liked it anyway) I crocheted her a simple headband.

Trevor has been asking for a Thomas the tank engine sweater & there is no way in hell I am knitting something so ostentatious for a 4 year old that will rip & stain it within 5 minutes of owning it. Plus the fact that once I got it on him I would never get it off of him! So no, I will not go there I don’t care how much he begs me. Maybe a hat, maybe….

That just about wraps it up, I need to go get some more done on the “camping sweater”.

Tata!

Today is a great day to be an American!!

I have the freedom of staying home today to knit all I want!

I have the freedom to sit on my computer & blog about nonsense while others in the world don’t have access to this miracle of the internet!

I have the freedom to say whatever the hell I want, when I want and where I want!

So thank you to all of our past heroes, founding fathers and patriots who fought so bravely to bring us our freedoms, our rights and most of all our country!

America Rocks!!!

We are the best country in the world, hands down, no contest. If you think otherwise then you can live somewhere else! See??? That is what today is all about! My freedom!

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I posted a new photo to FinishedprojectsPhotos.