It's the final countdown!!

Two scarves down. One ballband down. One halfway done. Log Cabin almost done.

Now I just need to knit some hats and a few more ballbands. Not too shabby. I'm going to be up weird hours this week because Vince has a million papers to write and I'm trying to offer moral support by staying awake with him. Which might actually be distracting him more... Anyway, I'm going to go knit a few rows on a ballband.

Blues clues

I couldn't resist the lure of new kitchen cotton... I cast on for a ballband yesterday evening and finished it up this afternoon.

I made it with 9 stripes so it won't be ginormous. I think the 13 stripes just make it way too large for me.

I added the pink stripe just for the heck of it and to add some more color. I have little odd bits left of many different colors. I'm going to end up with all sorts of oddly striped ones by the end of summer.

I've set a goal to finish my Hourglass: June 10th. I am almost done with the first sleeve. I'd probably be much further along if I weren't using the most slippery and annoying DPNs on the face of the planet. I get irritated after about 45 minutes of knitting and just end up putting it down and knitting something else (Noro hat, ballbands, etc...) until I'm less pissed off.

I've taken my little break and I'm all set to finish the first sleeve tonight while watching some DVDs. Wish me luck!

Some progress...

El Cabin de Logs as of yesterday afternoon. I was very close to just cutting my losses and giving up on it. I was going to just make it a huge pillow and start another throw. Instead, I decided to fire up the DVR and watch a ton of stuff. Without realizing it, I added one complete strip and started another. I think that's what I needed, some mindless knitting. I haven't been knitting a lot the last 2 weeks. I'm dealing with an odd illness that leaves me with the attention span of a cracked-out fruit fly. Miles and miles of garter stitch is just what my fingers needed.

Message in a box

Another ballband.



This one went to my friend Aimee in Nebraska along with some wonderful tea and some silly toys. I wanted to wait until she actually got it before I posted it and then forgot to post it until today.

I made it with only 10 repeats. I find I really like that size a lot better. The 13 repeats make them just a little too large.

December is flying by...

Ballband number 4 is done. I finished it Saturday (I think...) and cast on for another one last night.

Same colors as 3, just reversed.

I re-cast on for the Twiggy Bobble Hat today -- at work. I always forget how odd people find it when I randomly break out the knitting. I really don't think it's that odd... but that's me. I had people stopping by my desk all through my break (a measly 15 minutes people! I don't want to spend the entire time telling you that I'm knitting a hat and yes it takes 5 needles and no, this isn't the thing with the hook and no, I'm not crocheting. Sorry.... mini-rant) and then later in the day because I left it sitting on my desk next to my computer.

Um... I just totally blanked and forgot what else I was going to blog about. Yeah. I need a nap.

WIP rolecall.

Since revamping the blog and my quick production of ballbands, I've noticed a sad trend here in the house of Libertine-ville. A growing stash of WIPs. Yes.

WIPs!

Everywhere...

Hmm... I have socks that I haven't touched since mid-September. A blanket that I generally tend to forget about until I have the urge to knit something red and once I dive into the stash to find red yarn, realise that I harvested all of it for said blanket. (You'd be surprised by the odd color urges that come over me. I've been staring at my basket of cotton for ballbands and willing some purple and blue to show up and maybe some light green... and maybe yellow. But that's a whole different story. Those little things are like crack.)

Back on topic -- there's the scarf that was supposed to be quick and dirty just sort of looks like a Muppet on crack. Another scarf, my second Irish Hiking scarf... that I haven't touched since I moved. The Log Cabin blanket for Mom has been moved back to Mother's Day. A flight means limited space and a huge heavy blanket just won't make it into my bag. A rug for my cold, cold floors. And finally the Twiggy Bobble hat. I knit several inches of this on Thanksgiving and then realised I had made the bobbles wrong. Oops.

So that's it for now. Yikes. I'm sure there are some other ones hiding away in a box somewhere but we'll ignore those.

Three, it's the magic number.

3 in a week! Woo!



Lily Sugar 'n Cream in Dark Pine and Natural Ombre


And just because the other photo of number 2 was taken at night and looks really dark and wonky...

Another one bites the dust.

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Originally uploaded by museumatpurgatory.

Second ballband down! I started it yesterday evening, but didn't really knit a lot. I knock out the majority of it this afternoon.

Same needles and pattern as yesterday.
Same brand of yarn this time in Strawberry Passion, Wine and Cherry Swirl.

I'm off to start another!

One down...

A million to go! Well, maybe not a million, but a lot to go.

I knit my first ballband dishcloth yesterday. It's adorable and knit up so quickly!

ETA: I forgot the specs... Durrr...

Ballband Dishcloth from Mason-Dixon Knitting.

Size 7 US metal (crap needles that I hate.)

Lily Sugar'n Cream in Strawberry Passion & White

Started about 3 pm 11/27/06, finished about 2 am 11/28/06. (I have a cold so I'm sleeping in weird bursts hence the being up and knitting at 2 am.)

I can't count.

I'm dumb. I really can't count. I know that each color needs 9 garter ridges. I know this. And yet somehow, I knit 10. Not once. Not even twice. Three times! Three! In a row. What in the crap? I'm not going to go back it rip it out because I've already added a few new blocks since then.

Lincoln Logs

I'm knitting right along. Currently there are a lot of projects on needles: Grey IHS, Coral IHS, Blue IH headband, Magic Stripe socks, the red side-to-side throw and finally a log cabin blanket. Whew.

I do have to admit that I haven't really touched the socks or the scarves in about 2 weeks... I got distracted by the thought that the holidays are quickly approaching and I had a huge project planned for my mom.

So that's where we are now... 6 projects on needles: 2 huge (one of which isn't on any sort of time line), 2 medium (both of which need to be done by the holidays and a hat made to match the coral one), and 2 small (neither need to be finished any time soon but the headband will probably end up getting finished as I get sick of knitting row after row of garter stitch.) OK, now I'm exhausted.

I'm also planning to knit a few more things out of Mason-Dixon Knitting for the holidays. Lots of dishcloths. I also want to knit a log cabin rug for myself. I need rugs. A lot of rugs. My floors are freezing!!!!

Here's the problem I'm having right now: I can't decide if I want to knit the log cabin blanket in long, long, long, long heavy never ending rows of garter stitch -OR- if I want to knit 9 smaller, more manageable squares, but then have to do miles and miles and miles of seaming.

Please excuse the crappy camera phone photos. I was too lazy to take two sets of photos that day.

Here is my progress as of last night. It's getting down to the wire about the blocks... I could always do 4 large blocks. Ugh. I can't make decisions!!!!