21 posts tagged “33 in '08”

I immediately cast on something with the Skacel Divine, which you'll see very very soon.

Then I packed a ton.

Then I went up to Ann Arbor yesterday to see my dad again at The Guild's Ann Arbor Summer Art Fair. The Ann Arbor Fiberarts Guild was there, so naturally I picked up something. This time around I got some 10/3 mercerized cotton to weave with (my next adventure ... learning to weave).

Bloody gorgeous stuff, I say. Good god, those colorways are amazing.

The homespun yarns at the booth were incredible as well, though way out of my price range. So I just took pictures instead.

While getting my oil changed today I finished the alluded-to project, Sunray by Ulli S. Shibuya (Ravelry link).
It really needs to be blocked, but practically all of my knitting stuff is packed already. It'll have to wait. The brooche is something I got recently on my last visit home. My Great-Grand Aunties had all sorts of jewelry and stuff, and every time my mom comes back from a visit to see my grandad she brings back a few boxes of jewelry and knick-knacks. The brooche also has matching clip-on earrings (hah! I can barely well regular ones thanks to my 0s, oh well) but they're genuine crystal so they seemed worth keeping together.

I also finished up a project for the BBC. I'm honestly not sure if I can talk about it here, so I won't. But once the project is all said-and-done and pictures are made public I'll share the details.

OH! And while out and about in BG today I saw a window display full of those Uglys things that M-----l is a big fan of. So I took pictures. Or tried to at least. I was getting major glare.

Oh, and for those of you that may for some reason be interested in seeing what my dad does, here you go:



That's it from me for now. It might be a few weeks until I update again, seeing as I am supposed to be moving soon. Like, this weekend. Who knows how long I'll be without the internet. It might actually be nice to get away from it for a while.

ciao,
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Oh, and I did some more holiday yarn shopping at Wool & Co. in Geneva, IL.
BUT! I was good and only got yarn for patterns in my Ravelry queue.

Totally unrelated:
I am seriously flipping out over tomorrow's Doctor Who episode. Although I have to admit, I am more concerned about Jack, Gwen & Ianto, and Sarah Jane than I am about Ten's pseudo-regeneration or whatever may happen. Please don't let Sarah Jane die! ah! ;_;
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I made the first one, Stella's Hat, today while at work. Very quick project, and I really like how it turned out. The yarn doesn't give much stitch definition (Knit Picks Swish Superwash) but it's light and you can wash it in a washing machine. Gotta like that. The second is a Twirly Top Toque from One-Skein Wonders. It's a great pattern, but not the best yarn for it. I still like it, though. I'm hoping the woman I knit it for likes it too. She probably will; she seemed pretty jolly. These bring me up to 34 projects this year. Hooray!

Now I'll leave you with the TILT I made yesterday and forgot about. Oops.
1. raspberries, 2. tea, 3. doctor who, 4. robots, 5. pinhole cameras, 6. cupcakes, 7. jellyfish, 8. corn on the cob, 9. reading

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ETA: I finally have a decent picture of my Aspen Neck Cowl. So here it is.

I made it while sitting at work watching The Sarah Jane Adventures. The last time I made a Calorimetry it took two nights and turned out gigantic. So, this time, I cast on 96 stitches instead of 120, and I worked on US7s instead of US8s. And the size is perfect. I didn't bring buttons or my darning kit with me, so I can't put it in properly (hence me holding it on). But I lurve it.

This is also my 33rd (!) project of the year. I hit my goal. Go me! Now I'm off to see if I can hit 50 projects before the end of the year. I think I can do it.
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That second picture may or may not be of me. I'll let you decide what you want to believe. This makes my 30th project, so I'm pretty close to the 33 mark and it's just hitting the half-way mark of the year. SO. I am upping the ante to 50. I think I can do it. 50 projects in 2008.

Also, I found amazing Futurama computer icons. Check it:
Al Gore's head is my Documents folder, because he clearly needed to be the most important thing on my computer. Bender is the downloads folder ("Warning, perform virus scan? I'm waiting for porn over here!!").
Morbo as my harddrive (just because he's awesome, as is my computer), Malfunctioning Eddy as my Windows partition (ooooo, burned Windows!), my external harddrive is the InfoSphere (seems logical), and Professor Farnsworth is my Time Machine drive ("So many loves half-loved. So many inventions half-invented. That damn time machine alone set me back 15 years.").

I have some other folders set with Futurama icons as well. My School folder is Wernstrum, my Knitting Patterns folder is Zoidberg (see my user icon for reference), and my Home folder is Clamps ("It'll be clamp this, clamp that, badda-climp badda-clamp!").

If you couldn't tell by my entry titles and constant references, I definitely am big enough of a Futurama freak to do this. And spend lots of time reasoning out who should be where and why. Now I'm off to watch "The Lost Adventure."
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Speaking of which ... I am about 98% positive that I have a house in Austin. Hoorah.

Well, this thing is supposed to be about knitting, so ...

I finished the lacy scarf. It blocked very well and it looks like it won't curl up as much as I initially thought. Definitely happy times.

Also, I'm participating in a Jelly Baby swap through the Who Knits? group on Ravelry. I've never really done a proper knitting swap before, so this is big exciting for me. I have my package all put together. I put in a mixcd, a nice little notebook, a skein of yarn, some tea, some stickers, and a bunch of candy. My swap is going to a non-Amerikanerin, so I tried to find chocolates and sweets that aren't around in ----. (I can't say where because my swapping is so-far anonymous! I can say more later once I know it arrives in its destination.) The only downside here is that shipping is going to be ridiculous. OH WELL.

More in WIPs tomorrow.

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p.s. Go Barack!

Anyway, I finished a few things and thought I should do the right thing and post about them.

This is the Triple Cable Muffler (duh) from One Skein. I had a skein of Blue Sky Alpacas cotton and thought I'd do something with it. I think I'm going to send this to my grandpa so he can wear it while he's on his boat.

And here is my completed butterfly tam. It's big enough for me to stuff all of my hair into the back, which makes me happy. I know I never put myself up here anywhere, but my hair is pretty long right now. Take my word on it. I am on run three of growing my hair out to donate to Locks of Love. I still have about two inches to go. Hopefully it'll be long enough at the end of the summer.

I'm realizing now that I never introduced Gretchen properly.

Gretchen is my Singer dress form that I bought from Joann.com a few weeks ago. I posted about it at some point I think. Anyway, her name is Gretchen, inspired by "Gretchen am Spinnrade" (op. 2, D. 118) by Franz Schubert. In my other life I am a vocalist and I specialize in art song. Schubert and R. Schumann are my favorite Romantic composers, and I sing their works often. Something about her singing at the spinning wheel makes me think of making clothes/being crafty, so I thought the name worked well. (What you're seeing in the background of this picture: my tv playing an episode of Futurama, a stack of Futurama DVD sets [with season one of Batman:The Animated Series and The Magnificent Seven thrown in], one of my lockers full of video games, a folded up DDR dance pad, posters for two of the three movies I'm writing about in my thesis.)

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Here is a non-related project that I finished a few weeks ago but never got around to posting here:

This is Purl Bee's cashmere cowl, though not knit in cashmere. This is a handspun laceweight yarn I bought off of an etsy store. It's awesome. The color is gorgeous, and this picture is surprisingly close to the actual color. yay

I'm off to work on my thesis, so I may or may not disappear off the face of the internet for a few weeks. 

Be kind, rewind.

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Why yes, I did finally finish the biscuit amigurumi for my friend knitmn on Ravelry. The photo doesn't do it much justice, but you get the idea. It's a pillow that looks like a biscuit. I've finished three projects today ... and I'm still completely unmotivated to work on anything remotely school-ish. I'll take The Doctor's advice, I suppose.

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