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Yay for moving my best friend this weekend!! Tracy is finally giving up all her lame friends & coming to live by the coolest friend ever…ME!!  Unfortunately it means having to fly to her house, pack the truck & drive for 8 hours! But fortunately for me it’s Mother’s Day the day we drive back so my perfect husband has decided to give us a spa package at a resort in Pismo Beach on our way home. Hello!! Nice break from driving & moving! Really excited about all that!!

Now, on the knitting front, there has been a break in anything productive happening. I made a cape for the kids to use as superhero dress up. Just a boring rectangle in St st then sewed to make the head hole. Nothing spectacular. Didn’t finish my other 2 tops for myself because the kids were demanding something fun for them to play with. Okay so they weren’t demanding it but it popped in my head & was really fun. SO I want to make a fun lacy poncho for myself before I leave on my trip but I am not sure that it’s possible in a day & a half with a ton of errands to run. I will start & take it with me to work on on the plane & such.

So that is that & I will post to let everyone know how awesome Mother’s Day was!

Whew! Record setting heat here in SB. Nasty! So I switched to cotton yarn for a crossover tank out of the lastest Vogue Knitting. But it is the first time I have used the wrap & turn stitch method on a piece & for some reason I just can’t wrap my head around the instructions (teeheehee) Lame! I hate that! Makes me feel dumb  Alas, I just move on to another of my many projects until I have the patience to just do it until it is correct.

I love my Crystal Palace Deco-Ribbon!! Black with red stripes, making the cutest tank top! Front is finished on that one & the back is over half done. I love fast projects! Of course using size 10.5 needles doesn’t hurt either. I finished the baby blanket of Marilyn’s that she couldnt’ finish, being in the hospital & all. She is being moved to UCLA again, unfortunately! All that driving into LA gives me anger management issues

So now that it is heating up I think I am going to put away all sweater & blanket projects & start some fun light projects. New is the key word for this summer knitting season. I will post the rest of the new project photos shortly.

 

 

Wow was this weekend a fun one! We decided that Saturday would be a good day for Universal Studios Hollywood. Since we live in Santa Barbara it’s not too long of a drive & Tyler has been BEGGING to go since he discovered that it existed. So for the pleasure of our 3 delightful monsters we went. I have to say that it was 8 hours of one big advertisement. The Studio Tours ride, where you see Jaws & go through an earthquake, actually held us captive, unmoving on the tram, for about 8 minutes in the middle of the ride and showed us trailers to upcoming movies! Helllloooo!!! Not okay! I believe that is called ENTRAPMENT! <sigh> I hate to admit it but it was a lot of fun with the kids.

Yesterday was a nice relaxing day, made a trip to my LYS and found to my delight that they had so much new stock I couldn’t decided & left empty handed. But I did go back with Sadie in the afternoon & spent a good amount of money. Man were there some fun linen & silk yarns! I will have to dig through my patterns & find a fun summer top so I have an excuse to buy more yarn! I will post pics of my spoils. Sadie wants to learn to knit, she already knows how to single crochet, so she picked out some fun yarn~Lion brand Landscapes. Cute! She is only 6 and doesn’t have a lot of patience so teaching her will be a long process. But she has been asking for months so I must let her do it! Certainly can’t hurt her!

SO all in all fun weekend but NO knitting at all! That makes me sad   Today is my day of knitting redemption! I am going to clean quickly this morning so that I have all day with my precious needles. Can’t wait any longer! L8r Sk8r!

Oh how do I show the mail lady how much I love her deliveries? I ~run~ out to meet her! Today was a good mail day! I received my order from Serendipity in South America, the Ebay store. Great, gorgeous yarn for a great price!

I started my jacket last night out of the la luna pattern book & frogged it this morning. Just not the colorway I liked. So that yarn will go to another use.

Why is it that I find myself online talking, IMing & emailing more about yarn & knitting than actually knitting? I may unplug for a couple of days for some deep knitting therapy! I am also kinda tired of using huge needles for the chunky look. I may just have to resort to a tank or something that uses 5 or 6’s soon. It’s not like I don’t have enough yarn to choose from for a good project

Off to start something new!Yee~haw!

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Got all these projects finished…feeling so good…now I am depressed. I frogged Marilyn’s antique shawl because she fell in love with a poncho I was wearing. Project change #3 for her. Who knew it could be so difficult to knit for one person. I haven’t had that trouble before. Oh well. Then last night while watching the Kings game~awesome awesome game~ I knit 14 rows of the colinette la luna hooded coat & frogged it this morning. I don’t like how the moss stitch comes out with the #17 needles. So I will start over with #15’s but I may not do the jacket. I have some more coming in a chocolate brown color that I really want to do the jacket with. So now the decision of what to make…fun but frustrating…I had my hopes all up for that jacket but it’s not perfect so I must start over  

Such is the life of a knitter!

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My latest acquisition in yarn is a bunch of fun odds & ends for hats & socks for my nieces (all 5, all A’s; Amber, Amanda, Allie, Annika & Autum) for Christmas. Love the discount yarn sale at www.smileysyarns.com. Makes me happy!!

I also am addicted to the Chenille Yarn shop on Ebay. She has the greatest cones of yarn for those big projects.

I feel like I could buy & buy & buy yarn! But alas I am running out of room and George tells me that I better start knittin’ some good s**t out of what I have! I suppose I can always sell some of the older yarn to make room for the new stuff….hm… Now that is a good idea! Dur…like noone has ever thought of that before!

Enough computer…more knitting!

I posted a new photo to knittingphotos.