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So today I finished the Rectangular Shawl. Thank freaking God! I have grown to loathe the thing. I did cheat and only did 10 instead of 12 repeats of the 48 row pattern. I just couldn't do any more. I think it's long enough anyway. It needs to be blocked, and a few ends woven in.
I spent an hour or so taking pictures of my stash (what I have already) and putting them up on Ravelry. I got an email from them asking if they could use my picture for the pattern page for my Lillehammer hat. Made me feel good! I still have a LOT of stash coming in the mail, as well as my package from my secret swapper. Today I got some vitamins in the mail, and NaNa asked me why I kept ordering stuff. Sheesh, now I have to start hiding my purchases from my kids too.
Cee-Cee is sick and was a total crab today. It was frustrating because I couldn't do anything to soothe her, and either she was bouncing off the walls (when the tylenol and motrin kicked in) or sitting on the couch fussing. Her temp hovered around 102 at the worst. I guess we have one more day of being stuck at home.
I worked on the socks a bit but now I'm going to work on The Clap. That's what I've named it. I'm going to tell people I have to work on The Clap and see what they have to say.

Fugly Friday entry

So here's a picture of the fam (Dad, Step Mom, little sis) in my fugly entry. A poncho made of Bernat Galaxy, 2 fun fur hats, and an earflap hat on the sis. Good thing they were drunk when I gave them their Christmas presents!

STOOPID book

I finally got the book from Amazon today. The UPS man sure didn't tell me he was sorry his co-workers screwed up and I didn't get my book on time. At least Amazon refunded my shipping charges. So I start thumbing through my book, and on page 39, disaster strikes. The book has a page that is totally ripped. Not just ripped and I could tape it back together, but ripped off and missing 1/2 the page. So now it has to be returned to Amazon to get a replacement, which won't be here until Friday. That really sucks.
No yarn porn arrived today, due to me ordering it all Monday or Tuesday. God, I hope Dan doesn't see that bill. He will have a stroke (not that I blame him). So looking at yarn porn on the web today had to suffice, and let's hope the mailman brings me a big bag tomorrow. I'm not holding my breath though.
I am almost finished with the dreaded Rectangular Cover Shawl. I was supposed to knit 12 repeats of the 48 row pattern, but I am calling it close at 10. I just can't bear to knit 2 more repeats. I just need to knit the like 17 rows of garter to finish, weave in the ends, and do a light blocking.
I can't think of anything good to knit for my secret swap pal. I'm probably going to end up knitting her socks and hope that they fit. If I could just find a pattern I like now.......

Lots O' Knitting Day

G. woke up with a fever so we skipped VBS today. Actually my friend came and picked up Na-Na. and he went, and G and Cee-Cee and I stayed home. I had a lot of time to knit, and did about 30 rows on my Rectangular shawl, which made up for the few I didn't get done last night because I was just too darn tired. I also knit about 10 rows on the Clapotis and only took the sock out to look at it today. Now, I plan on working on a headwrap pattern that's in my head. I'm going to use the "fire and ice' pattern from the Vogue Stitchionary as a base and come up with a pattern that works. I wanted to make the Dream Swatch wrap but I decided I could come up with something on my own.
I also dyed up a skein of yarn with Wilton cake icing dyes. It's watermelon and chocolate. I'm not totally happy with how it turned out, but I have a lot to learn about the dyeing business. I am ashamed to admit that I spent WAY to much on yarn the past few days so I have to not buy any more for a few months until I get all the stuff I have on my que knitted. I did indulge in some Lime & Violet today, and ordered some Blue Sky Alpaca's Cotton for a blanket and sweater I want to make. OK, there's one more little purchase I'm going to make from Etsy in a few days but that's IT!
I think I may have podcasted myself out. By that I mean that I've lstened to every current podcast in the knitting podcast world. Come on podcasters, put some new episodes up! I've listened to a ton lately and I'm almost sure I've heard everything I want to listen to. I actually watched a movie tonight (Girl Positive) and might catch up on a few shows while I work on my headwrap.
I'm completely PISSED at UPS tonight. I ordered a book from Amazon (Favorite Socks: 25 Timeless Designs From Interweave) and paid for overnight shipping. I was just being greedy, I didn't really NEED it overnight, but I wanted it. Since we have Amazon Prime, it was only $3.99 to overnight it, so I thought why not? Well the idiots at UPS mis-sorted it last night and it stayed overnight in Seattle. Now come on, don't tell me they coulnd't find any other way to get it down here today. What a freaking joke. I emailed Amazon and told them I want my money back. I hope they get theirs back from UPS.

Socking along......

I'm working on the foot of the Saucy socks for my mom. Now I need her to measure her foot for me but I can't get a hold of her. Her internet is down, and since she has VOIP, her phone is down too. So she is only available on a cell and she frequently leaves it places. I've called her a few times but she's not answering.
So I'm back to knitting on the Rectangular Cover Shawl which totally sucks. I hate this thing so much. I'd let it fester in my UFO bin but it's a Mother's Day (obviously late) present for my step-mom so I really need to get it finished. I have about 3 1/2 more repeats of the 48 row pattern. Remind me to never do a pattern with a 48 row repeat again. It takes FOR-freaking-EVER!
I spent my morning helping at VBS, which really isn't my thing but I did it anyway. I wanted the boys to have something to do, and if Cee-Cee was going to stay, I had to stay too (they didn't have a group for toddlers except for workers' kids). All the while I was thinking about all the knitting I could have accomplished. It's interesting about obsessions. You know you are obsessed when you can't stop thinking about something. I know that statistics say that men think about sex every 10 minutes or something. I can top that with how much I think about knitting or knitting related things these days. My PT told me today that I am totally obsessed because part of my vacation was to visit yarn shops.
That reminds me, I did forego a yarn shop visit today. We were in St. Helens going to Wally world (the kids needed a new DVD/VCR) and we found a little yarn shop. I don't even know if it was open but I passed (don't faint) because he had a bunch of other things to do.
Must go knit on the neverending shawl...........

More yarn shopping and yarn porn at home waiting for me!

We went to a yarn store today in Kent called Renaissance Yarns. It was really a nice store. We got there about 5 minutes before it opened and there were about 8 people waiting to get in. I guess they had 2 classes going on this morning. I looked around alot. They had some of the nice Duet sock yarns, but only 2 in fingering weight and I wasn't fond of the colors. They had some DK that I liked but decided was too expensive. They were selling kits for the Mariner's Stitch and Pitch, with Mariners color sock yarns (I guess they were Duets) but you could only get the kit with the ticket and there's no way I'm going to get back up there for the game. I couldn't see paying $40 for a pair of socks and wasting the ticket. I suppose I could have tried to sell it or something.....
Anyway, we tried to find another store that was supposed to be in Burien but there wasn't a yarn shop there when we got there. Oh well.
We stopped at REI on our way home and I got my lovely Haiku bag, and I just want to hold it and stroke it.

IPOD socks

So yesterday in the car on the way up to Seattle I thought I'd make a sock for my IPOD. I had a pattern, but I didn't check to see if it would fit until I was almost done, and it ended up being huge. So today I decided to make up my own pattern for a snug fitting IPOD sock. I decided to make a "toe-up" sock and so I had to learn how to properly cast on. I remembered that I had seen on the knittinghelp.com site that someone had linked to Knitty's article on the magic cast on. So I pulled that up on the laptop and in less than 15 minutes I had it all figured out. So I'm making a cute little IPOD sock that has little cables and a lacy stripe up the middle. I think it's going to turn out nice.
I found out my Haiku bag is at the store in Hillsboro and I've convinced DH to take the long way home so we can stop and get it. I'm already drooling and I don't even have the bag in my hot little hands.
On a non-knitting note, we went to IKEA for the first time and dropped $550 on a bunch of crap. We actually did get 2 dressers to replace the one that DH and I share, and is falling apart. He's going to fix it (the drawers are broken) and give it to the boys and we each will have our own now. Whoopie! I'm tired of only having 3 drawers and they are always crammed full of crap. And my sock drawer has been sitting on top of the dog's crate for weeks now. We also got a bunch of other pretty nice stuff including a big butcher block cutting board for $10.