Oh happy day!!!!


I'm ON! Yes, that's why I haven't been blogging, I'm on Raverlry as of late Sunday night and now it will take me a lifetime to enter my stash!

I have spent the last few non-blogging days surfing the net and checking out other knitting blogs. I'm very impressed. I also found I have a lot to learn. You gals are really good! I've spent the last several years crocheting, because I thought it was easier to correct and I'm a perfectionist, so correcting is sooooooo important to me! So just recently I signed up for a bi-monthly kit for socks at The Knitter.com, Sock of the Month Club, but now must practice my changing colors so there are no holes! Most of my knitting has been simple scarves, shawls, hats and I love cable hats! So now I will start stretching myself!

I am on the waiting list for ravelry and there are now only 1523 people are ahead of me in line. I've been waiting since 1 February and can't hardly wait! It looks soooo cool. All the gals that are on it are sooo good, hope I won't be the worst knitter!

Well, Laura's scarf is done
and now I will start on the blue cabled hat (out of Not Your Mama Knitting).




But thought I'd do some fast Valentine Dishcloth(© Designed by Rachel van Schie February 14, 2007) for some of my friends for Valentine's day--I know, I always wait until the last minute!

Podcast Sites

Oh, everybody is so much better at knitting than I! But I know there is knowone that likes it more than me!

I stole some podcast sites:

Stash and Burn

The Knitting Cook

Knit Picks

Socks in the City

She-Knits

Stitch It!

Knit Naturally

Gwendolyn's Gifts

Sticks & String

It's a Purl, Man

Knit Spirit

Yarn Thing

Pixie Purls

Fairie_Knits

Unwound

The Crafty Woman

CRL with Vickie Howell

Yarn Craft

I Like Yarn

Knitting News Cast

Sweaters for Dragons

Stitch Stud and His Bride

Knit Views

Changelings


Thanks to N. E. W. KNITTER since I used most of the Podcast list from her site.


Do you know what I have noticed as I surf knitting blogs? Most knitters have cats!

I'm not perticularly a cat lover. I don't think I would hurt any animal unless I was being attack or saw someone else being attacked. I've never owned a cat or been close to someone who was crazy about cats. Well, maybe I need to re-phrase that. People just don't play with cats the way us dog owners play with dogs.

I saw a sign at a vets this weekend. It read:

Dogs have owners.

Cats have staff.

I think that pretty much sums it up!

Okay, I've been spending too much time cleaning and knitting and not enough time blogging and checking-out other sites and STUFF!

You got to see Kat! Just click on the picture! (Yep--I've been learning again how to do fancy-dancy stuff!)




I download and watch on my Ipod and it is one of the most professionally done shows I watch!

Then I found out about Ravelry--which really sounds neat, but there is a waiting list!


ravelry is a knit and crochet community



It's like everything on one site--list your stash--list your needles and hooks--keep track of the items you've made--search for patterns and 'talk' to other knitters/crocheters! Have I died and gone to Heaven?

Well, it's been too long.

I'm working on a scarf and a hat for--of coarse--Laura. She got a new NorthFace jacket--blue and now she wants to have a hat and scarf to match. I'd better hurry, the weather here in Alabama doesn't stay cold for long!

How to add color knitting

Okay, why am I adding this one? Well, because last time I wanted to do a cute scarf it had big holes where I added the new color!




So I was afraid I wouldn't be able to find this video again when I needed it, so I put it on here

Okay, I'm posting this after the fact but on January 12th my daughter informs me she needs a 'wool' hat that ties for her ski trip NEXT WEEKEND!

After searching most of the weekend, and she not finding the 'right' one (it also had to be stylish, she buys me a skein of wool yarn and we start seaching for the right pattern. Finally, Sunday, in my 'not your mama's knitting' book by Heather Dixon, we find the 'right' one.

I start, oh, it was an easy one (NOT). A tall hat with a pom-pom and CABLES and from the top down, with EARFLAPS! Needless to say, her confidance in me was higher than my confidance in ME! So I start, and really started to enjoy it, then I needed to do an increase by purling in the front of the stitch and then in the back of the stitch. Sound pretty easy. But it just kept sliding off needle! Darn! I've spent too much time to start over on a new one and I'm getting frustrated!

So I go on the internet! Oh yeah, they're going to show me how to do it. I still didn't get it! So now what!?! I'm on a time-table here!

So I go to You Tube! Oh--Yes--there it is, and it's sooo easy!



Well, the hat got done on 16th of Jan,


she wore it to school on Thursday, and on Friday morning she couldn't find it!

Oh Yeah---I saw them-------

-----------------------------FLAMES of ANGER!!!


Then I turned it over to...............


..................................God!




I got a 'boat load' of peace! WOW!

Then I texted Laura at school and told her it was okay...and about that time I got a texted that she had it!

So she wore it to the ski trip and it was a hit and everyone thought her mom was a terribly talanted knitter! Yeah, got them fooled!

It is solid black! But now she bought a blue North face jacket. Just like this one!




Now, I'm doing a blue scarf (Laura want's to learn to knit, so I bought her this kit, but the first item was way to hard, so she picked a pattern for a scarf and kept asking questions, so I figured it would be easier to do one too) So that's whats on the needles no.



So here I go again! And we live in Alabama...it's not cold down here long...so I got to run, or should I say I gotta knit!

The Spiderman Afghan is done!

Yeap! About 46 hours and I used more yarn so had to go buy more blue and red, but the 15 year old Spiderman freak liked it!

I'm trying to do a black and white one for a nephew, but have lost my momentum!

Thought I had posted this before. It's "The Last Knit".