welcome to the world

i finished my legwarmers. the knitting was done last evening and i just now finished sewing them up.

peace,

-Sarah

fringe is my friend

i’ve finished the little pink scarf and it’s only 1:07! the legwarmers are a few rows away from being done, then i just have to sew them together.

the scarf wouldn’t have been finished at this time if it hadn’t been for my genius idea of putting on fringe. fringe is fast, or faster than knitting is, anyway. fringe also shows off the lovelyfulness of the yarn.

either late today or early tomorrow i should have up pix of the legwarmers.

peace,

-Sarah

a hat is finished, a plan is born

i finished a project last night!!! i actually did!!! it was almost finished anyway, but…. i present to you what i titled “Green Head Hat” on ravelry.

so here it is.

the Green Head Hat.

isn’t it beautiful?

i also have a plan. well, i don’t have it YET. i’m making it up as i write this thing. but pretty much, the ravelympics end this friday and the way i see it i have to finish all the projects that i entered before the thing is over.

TODAY (monday) i will finish my legwarmers AND my pink skinny scarf

TOMORROW (tuesday) i will finish my tea cozy

THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW (wednesday) i will finish the lace bags and work on the wavy scarf that i have

THE DAY AFTER THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW (thursday) i will finish the wavy scarf, while i am at knoebels. i don’t know how i’m going to do that. maybe if i decide to not sleep or something i can just knit then. you know. like. at night.

THE DAY AFTER THE DAY AFTER THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW (friday) the ravelympics will be over and i will be grinning like a lunatic with no projects going.

DISCLAIMER: this might not work, because parts of it are kind of intense.

in any case, when i’m done, i have an idea for a wristband that i should design.

peace,

-Sarah

i haven’t knitted in forever.

i want to knit projects that i don’t have going. i don’t want to knit the projects that i do have going. those two thoughts are colliding in my brain. consequently, i haven’t knitted in five days.

what is wrong with me? why am i acting like this? i don’t want to act like this. i want to have this immense joy for the projects that i have going, so much so that i have to, you know, knit and eat at the same time so i can, you know, feel better about things. but NO. i’m looking at my yarn thinking baby hats. BABY HATS! i mean! i don’t even have a baby! I’M A TEENAGER. i won’t be having babies for at LEAST another 10 years. the idea of being pregnant and giving birth freaks me out. WHY DO I WANT TO KNIT BABY THINGS? i want to knit baby booties and baby hats and baby sweaters, and i’m stuck knitting lace bags, hats, scarves, and legwarmers. oh, yes, and, I STILL HAVE TO FINISH THAT STUPID TEA COZY. and i’m in the ravelympics with this stuff. I WANT TO KNIT BABY STUFF. why do i want to knit baby stuff???

maybe because my youth leader has the most adorable ever two month old baby. he’s really cute. maybe i should knit baby stuff for him.

BUT IT’S AUGUST. i’m NOT going to knit him a hat in AUGUST. that would be mean. that’s like telling someone to wear a bikini in december, just in reverse. you don’t wear summer clothes in the winter. you don’t wear winter clothes in the summer. you don’t make a baby wear a hat in AUGUST.

i need to appreciate what i have going.

gaaaaaaah.

peace,

-Sarah

shouldn’t have bought that yarn yesterday….

i did something terrible.

i started a new project with some of the yarn that i bought yesterday.

but what can i SAY?!? it was CALLING to me!!! i mean. i should have waited until AFTER the ravelympics. but somehow i couldn’t.

this is bad, very bad, considering i can’t tag it for the ravelympics anymore, and i’m in WIP’s wrestling, and this will distract me from my WIP’s that i’m trying to wrestle.

but a part of me is happy that i gave in and casted on.

knitting emotions can be so WEIRD at times.

peace,

-Sarah

Finished Object

i finished a scarf. ’tis lovely. or at least i think so.

peace,

-Sarah

the yarn i got

at 2:30, my mom and i left to finish yarn shopping. first of all, we went to A.C. Moore to get cotton yarn. as i was walking to find the cotton yarn, i noticed nice big bins of yarn, on sale yarn, yarn that looked like it didn’t need to be on sale. it all looked pretty recent to me. most of the stuff in there was Lion Brand fun fur, but as i was walking by, i spied this stuff:

yes. it’s moonlight mohair. it’s normally 7.99 but i got it for 3.99. it was kind of a coincidence, actually, because when i was in michael’s earlier on today i was admiring it and telling myself that i’d never be able to buy it at the price that it was at. and here it is, on sale, for no good reason that i can see.

i also bought some red heart yarn to go with it… i’m thinking about making a ripple scarf:

i also picked up the cotton yarn that i originally went for:

after that, we hopped back into the car, turned the Leeland music back on, and went to Yarn-Love, where i got two more skeins of yarn:

and while i was there, the yarn store owner reminded me that i had store credit. so we got both of those skeins of yarn for a little less than the price of one skein of yarn would be.

and someone was in the store who had a very, VERY cute and friendly dog who was coming over and saying hi to us and licking us and being generally amazing. that was fun.

today was a good day.

peace,

-Sarah

1/3

well, i went to Michael’s and i quickly found out that they currently don’t have the cotton yarn colors that i’m looking for. it was kind of sad, kuz the store music was all *sad classical music* and i was like waah. they don’t have the yarn that i’m looking for.

so later on today, around 2:30, my mom and i are going to go to A.C. Moore for the cotton yarn, and then to Yarn Love for a bit nicer yarn.

i did, however, get this lovely yarn for a little under a dollar:

i’m thinking about making a pointy hat with it (after the ravelympics).

peace,

-Sarah

i get to go yarn shopping!

my fine blog readers, today something incredible is happening. i get to go YARN SHOPPING. i haven’t been out specifically yarn shopping in AGES. so i’m really looking forward to this. i’m going to make this post short, because, pretty much, as soon as i’m done writing this post my mom and i are going to be heading to the yarn store.

yay.

peace,

-Sarah

p.s. i created another blog last evening. if you’re more interested in reading about interesting stuff that i do rather than interesting stuff that i knit, this blog is the place to go.

the ravelympics

for those of you who are extreme sports followers, you know that the olympics start tomorrow and you are stashing up on things like snacks and soda… or maybe people only do that for the superbowl.

anyway, the olympics start tomorrow, and i probably wouldn’t know this fact if i wasn’t participating in the ravelympics. the ravelympics is pretty much where all the crazy knitters (and crocheters, too, i guess) on ravelry get together and tell themselves that they are going to knit certain things before the olympics are over, and they get into teams and stuff. for example, i’m doing WIP’s wrestling (that’s Work in Progress to you nonknitters) and i’m on Team Teen. they have other categories, too, for pretty much any knitted item out there… afghans, sweaters, socks, bags, scarves, cowls, shawls, and even things like skirts and bikinis… and there’s even more teams than there are categories. it’s very diverse.

and i’m really looking forward to this… partly kuz i love being in little online groups and partly kuz i have 9 WIP’s that need wrestled pretty badly.

peace out,

-Sarah