14 days.

That's two weeks. Yikes.

The Hive hat was frogged last night due to some shitastic yarn issues. As in I was using shitty yarn and it sucked. I dropped a stitch about 4 repeats below and was trying to repair it but the yarn would not budge. It was being a prat. So I ripped back a few rows to try to fix it. No good. Ripped back another few rows. Nope. Ripped back more and now I am only one repeat above said dropped stitch -- FINALLY got it fixed...

And. I. cannot. get. the. stitches. back. on. the. damned. needle.

I dug into the DPN stash and pulled out 6 tiny sharp metal DPNs. All size 3, I was using a size 8 for the hat. I picked up all the stitches (which was still frakkin' hard with those tiny needles!) thinking I can just transfer them over to the 8s as I go.

NOPE. The yarn had other ideas.

So I showed it! I ripped the whole hat out. HA.

I think I may have screwed myself over while teaching the yarn a lesson.

Crap.

Back to the drawing board for me. I'm reinventing a few items already knit. I have some better yarn to knit hats out of and I have a rather large scarf that I need to start but I don't have the right yarn. Nothing in the stash was speaking to me.

Blustery.

It's very cold and icky looking here. I'm still gimpy and can't go outside, so I guess the crap weather is okay.

We went to a dual birthday party Friday night for myself and our friend Michael. His birthday is actually today and mine isn't until the 26th, but we celebrated early. No cake though. :( That made me sad. It was nice to get out and see people though.

Saturday we went to see Aimee Mann's Christmas show. It was great. I love Aimee Mann so very much. I'm trying to find a good clip on Youtube of one certain bit, but I haven't had any luck yet.

Let me tell you just how interesting the combination of snow boots, a dislocated knee cap, a painful knee brace, snow and crutches is... There was about 6 or 7 inches of snow on the ground. I basically just slid across the ground using the crutches as guides. Normally, I wouldn't have been so cheerful on crutches, but it was almost a little fun. I think I was just happy to be outside in the fresh snow.

I took some photos with my phone of the Hive hat. I need to clean them up a bit and upload them to flickr. My real camera is pretty much dead. I'm not sure if it's the battery or the camera itself. It won't hold a charge for more than a few minutes, but even when it does work, the photos are fuzzy and have a lot of noise. I might get a new one for Christmas or my birthday. I hope so! I like taking pictures!

Some stronge language and violence.

Mesa Dating

Gosh. I thought I cussed a lot more. Whatever.

I'm almost done with the Bzzz Hat for Queen Bees (which may be the most annoying project name ever so I'm calling it the Hive hat) from Stitch 'n Bitch Nation. It seems a little large, but since it's a gift I'm just going with the flow. I really like the pattern though. It's an interesting way to add some texture without doing ribbing which I'm a little done with for the time being. I'm doing the hat without the bee buttons all over it. That just seems a little childish for me.

I'm going to try to churn out a few Ballbands this week. I haven't done one in quite a while so I'm looking forward to it.

I'm on the hunt for a good Celtic knot pattern. A friend wants a cashmere scarf with some interesting detail -- since he's Irish and I love impossible cables, I thought it would be perfect. Now if I could only fine one I like.

Speaking of violence (the title), we finally watched The Bourne Identity last night. Yeah. We were the only people on the planet who hadn't seen it yet. I enjoyed it. I like spy movies.