Here I am, All Over Again

I'm still working on my first design, the Pre K Winter Set for my daughter. I've been experimenting with different needle sizes and various brims for the beanie. The mittens done and undone, and done again. Here is my progress so far.

See that lovely item on the circular needles? You may of seen it before. I actually finished this hat, took it to my LYS, was asked if she could display it while I finished the mittens and scarf, been asked for the pattern several times and I HATE IT. So I frogged the darn thing. Everytime my daughter puts it on it looks like a mushroom; a really weird and freaky mushroom. So. I've doubled the sport weight at the brim and tried different things: 2x2 rib, 1x1 rib, but I have gone back to the stockinette brim. In the original hat, I tried changing needle sizes the the different weights of yarn. This time I am knitting the entire thing on the same needles, a happy medium of the needles sizes used before. I hope this will get rid of the "mushroom" effect.

As for the mittens, I may redo the top 5 rows. Spread out my decreases a little so the top is not so square. But I promise I won't redo anything else on those. I'm dying to get started on a new project and told myself that I can't until these are done. I'm not worried about the scarf, that is just going to be made of whatever yarn is left over.

I did spend an hour at the LYS picking out beautiful Malabrigo Worsted. I'll share those with you tomorrow, when I can be home during daylight to take pictures. I think people look at me weird standing outside the dental office taking pictures of stuff on the grass. At least, they did today.

Uggh

I thought that I would be able to buy more Frog Tree Alpaca yarn at my LYS on January 2nd, but it turns out that my LYS didn't open until today. That's cool, I've waited patiently. I was getting all ready to go shop on my lunch break, and I can't find the gift certificate that I got for Christmas.

I've kept it in my knitting bag, cause it goes everywhere with me and definately to the knitting store. Somewhere in my memory banks I recall taking it out for some freaky reason and I can't remember why. This makes it more difficult in recalling where I may have put the darn thing. So, I spent my entire lunch break digging in my car and house to no avail.

Don't get me wrong, I am still going shopping after work, and I'm going to pick up some worsted malabrigo, also. I am going to pay cash. Then I am going to spend the next three evenings throughly cleaning my house. You know all those places like under the couches and in the garage. 'Cause Lord knows where I put that gift certificate down.

Too Busy To Blog

We've had a pretty crazy and hectic last couple of weeks. It's surprising how little knitting I got done during my time off from work. I finished my Top Dog right off the bat. Then I got a nice surprise from Ravelry. They asked if they could you my photo as the primary picture on the pattern. Of course, I had to add the pattern to Ravelry and whoever it is that is in charge of making sure the stuff is legit needed to have a picture. Since there are a whole two of us making Top Dog and I have the only picture...you can do the math. I still feel special!

Pattern: Top Dog by Erika Knight
Source: Simple Knits for Little Cherubs
Yarn: Rowan Summer Tweed in Charcoal

Outside of that, not much knitting got done. I entertained at home and made my first Christmas Dinner, no help Ma! I spent time driving around SoCal and getting car sick because I tried to knit. My daughter had a wonderful time .And New Year's pretty much wrapped it up with way too high of a cover to get into a club I was way under dressed for. I'm am so not a party person anymore, can't keep up with the trends. That and I spend all my money on knitting and the kid.

I did get a lot done this weekend off of my WIP list. I finished one of the spiral boot socks and got all of my squares sewn together on the baby blanket. Now I have a lot of ends to tied in. I'll wait a couple of months to pick that back up. I also got about 8 inches done on the prairie tank. Now I am really almost done with this. I'm thinking that next Sunday I should be allowed to cast on something new. It's very hard to keep committed to this "work on WIPs before casting on" thing.