Well Soctoberfest Starts today! I’m excited. I’m preparing! I have never knit socks but have started collecting sock yarn, thanks to  Lime and Violet! I hold them responsible for my new addiction!  They keep talking about such yummy yarns!!!I may have jumped the gun a little bit.   But then I am still waiting on my size 4 needles to finish my skb.  OK well I have the size 7s but they are on a hat, a bright orange hat I’m making for my niece.  It’s what she wanted.  I think the color is awful, but I’m plugging along. I can only work on it for short periods of time, with sunglasses on. I guess this will inspire me to finish, unless I just buy another size 7 16″ circular! HMM  I signed up for a mobius class next weekend.  I’m using the pattern from KNitty Gritty, I ordered the yarn yesterday, it’s cashmere!!  YUM!

Hi my name is Michelle and I am a yarnaholic fiber obsessed.  OK so I was trying to clean out the yarn room spare bedroom and I realized that I have a fabric yarn problem. This picture is only a small sampling of the mess. I should probably go on a yarn diet.  I found a strangely large amount of fun fur!!  WHY I ask myself WHY and what should I do with all this weird novelty yarn?  Right now It’s in a box by itself, in time out. I couldn’t even bring myself to take a picture of it!

In other news, I’m moving along on my SKB, I did the collar, and now just have the sleeves to do. I think I did a  pretty good job since this is the first time that I have picked up stitches. There is a spot or 2 that are curled a bit. I need to get 16inch needles for it, I think the 24″ will be too long. Hopefully I’ll get to my LYS to pick them up tomorrow. (Seeing my yarn stash of things I’m really wanting to knit-I need to finish this so I can move on!!) If I knit this again I would definitely make the next smaller size. I would also use a wool or wool blend of some sort.

Hooray! I’m done with the lace! I’m so happy! For some reason I couldn’t seem to get the lace on 7 stitches, I was doing mine with 9, with the YOs and K2tog and sl1-k1-psso. Can anyone explain to me how it was done only with 7. I just can’t figure it out! I’m very happy with how it came out. Esp. Since this was my first try at lace! I hope to finish the purl rows tonight or tomorrow and then try it on before switching back to the other yarn. If I knit this again, I think I’d just go with one color and not at the fancy in the lace. The sequins are kind of scratchy. I know that I will be wearing a cami under this. (I’m thinking a lt gray would be pretty.) but still. If I have enough of the reg. silk I think I will just use that for around the neck.

I am also still plugging along with the lucy bag.  I’m working on the straps.  I hope to finish very soon.  It’s my take and work on in the car project.

My niece loved her purse I made her for her b-day.  I will have to get a picture of her with it one of these days. She is away at college.

Well I couldn’t bring myself to take any picts of where I had to frog my SKB, actually it wasn’t too bad.  I messed the lace up good and had to rip back to repeats of it.  It took my a couple of hours yesterday and today I plan to restart the lace.  I need to sit in a quiet place.  It was a pain to rip out the sequiny fancy stuff, bur for what I spent on the yarn, I couldn’t just leave it as is.  Here’s a pict from before I joined.  Don’t mind hubby’s lack of photo skills.

Also here’s a pict of my fun fun fun stitch markers.  Notice a theme in the color?  I still have stuff left over so I had to go buy some beads that weren’t blue or turq.  They are crazy easy to make,  I just love  using the toggles, it makes so easy and your yarn doesn’t snag on them like they did one the ones I got that were made with jump rings!

Anyway I guess that’s all from here for now.  I’m off to go knit some lace!  Wish me luck!!

OH I’m sleepy and have a Killer headache.  hubby has my cold and is crabby! That’s an understatement today!  We had openhouse today, I stopped by my parents for dinner (since they live like 5 minutes from my school) I worked on my Lucy bag there, still not finished..but my mom’s cat Dixie was quite the helper.  She had a ton of fun. 

Then I had to go back to school for our open house.  I have a whopping 4 parents show.  One kid today asked me if they were serving pizza, because if there was no food they weren’t coming..NICE. Then hubby told me he might be getting laid off (combined with the cold gives hime the really bad mood) Won’t know much till January anyway.  He’s a Tandem (that’s the big main frame) programmer, and there aren’t many jobs for that up here in Ohio.  So that may suck.

Anyway I didn’t make much progress on my SKB I am to the last round of 2-9 repeats I’m anxious to join in the round.  But I’m just to tired  to work on it tonight.  I’d just screw it up.  I think I’m going to bed, and then I’ll work on it tomorrow after work! A couple people are almost done with theirs already!  They must be seriously fast knitters!

Well the weather here is crap today.  It makes me fell like this : Taking a nap.

You’d think I’d be knitting away on my SKB.  Our knit along started yesterday! If your intersted in joining stop on by!  Pixie is running it and she’s up to 75 people!  She’d like to have 100!

Well my cold doesn’t help either!  I think fall suddenly came swooping in.  I’m not quite ready for it yet!  I did get my cord for my camera and can now hook up to my laptop without having to go to the basement!  Yippee. DH of course corrected me that it is NOT a fire wire…whatever, I knew what I needed and found it at Comp USA.  He however wanted to argue about it while there.. UGH men sometimes!

I am also working on the Lucy felted bag.  I want to have it done by Wed. so I can go felt it over my mom’s house.

Here’s mine so far. I’m using a yarn I’m calling pink chocolate, I think it’s malbrigio,I”m not sure of the brand name off hand. It’s 100% wool and really soft! I’m making the smaller sized version.  OK well I better go knit some on my Simple Knitted Bodice…I don’t want my other KALongers to get to far ahead of me!!