A Post Chirstmas Lull

Happy Belated Christmas everyone.

Since the happy holiday is over, I don't have the necessity make anything right away (except a striped bookmark, but it'll take five seconds). Since I haven't made anything for myself in over a month, I've decided to start a large undertaking. Yep, that's right, I'm going to make myself a sweater dress. Well, it's actually more of a sweater jumper, but you get the idea.
I've only done 3 rows of it since there are 171 sts in each row, but I'm hoping to get several inches done tomorrow.
After that I'm making myself the "square cake" purse from the winter knitty, and a sweater vest for my friend's birthday in early February.

I must say I enjoy being able to focus on a few projects for long periods of time, instead of tons of projects that I have to finish in two days.

Virginia!!

Have I mentioned yet that I'm going there for college? I am. William and Mary next fall. I wrote my essay on knitting, and how it's taught me a lot and helped me through even more. My extra submission was even a knitted item. I'm on cloud nine right now, and I can't help but beam even more widely than normal whilst knitting.

(The only time I'm not smiling is when I must work on that stupid entrelac scarf. It has to be done by Thursday night, and I ran out of yarn yesterday. Uggh.)

Ahhh, Entrelac

I'm at a bit of a standstill when it comes to the scarf I have to make for secret santa at work
I've only knit two squares of the thing since last Friday, and I really should finish is by next Friday. Basically I have a week to get it done. The problem is thus: I have presents to make for friends still. I feel like I should finish them before I even think about coworkers. But, I have put a great deal of effort into this scarf. Maybe if I just suck it up I can be done in two or three days. I've only got about a foot or two left to make. ughh. Entrelac is a fun technique, but I think I'll be done with it for a while after this WIP.

Finished!

I finished "Cherie Amour" last night! And then I finished "Hearts" this evening!
Annnnddd I got into college! It's been an excellent day!

Photo Time!!

I finally uploaded pictures of finished Christmas Presents!

A hat::

A harry potter scarf::

That's all I've got for right now.

Oh dear

That scarf I'd started has been changed from green wool to grey acrylic. It's easier to get out of the skein, and much smaller, so I can take it to school and such. I was doing really well with the entrelac until this afternoon. I screwed up, I think, and now my stitches are facing the wrong way. Ughh. I don't know what I'm going to do with it if I have to frog the triangle. The technique is easy enough, but I can't really back track. I'd probably have to start the whole dang thing over again.

Needles off limits??

Okay, I got grounded from something that most teenage girls don't get grounded from. This evening, my dad had a serious mood swing, and took away my needles. Yeah, I was amazed too.
So I have copious Christmas presents to make, and very little time to make them. Little does my father know that there is a pair of needles in my purse, and several skeins of yarn under my bed. I can start on my "secret santa" scarf, at least. Somehow I pulled my boss. I decided to make him a modified version of "Danica" on knitty. I'm only going to use one color throughout the scarf, a forest green. It's a fantastic wool that I used to make a pennant. I think he'll like it. I don't know really. I'm not even sure how I got roped into Secret Santa, since I just went back to work today. The only thing I'm sure of is that I'm going to be working on Danica for several days, since I only have one pair of needles and a few skeins of yarn, and I have to knit in secret.

I feel like such a rebel.

Road Block

I'm a little distracted. I've finished a hat and a scarf for Christmas presents. Now I've got to make another mitten and a scarf for a friend. After that, I still have no idea what I'm going to make for my last friend in my close group. Besides all of that, I'm a selfish knitter really, and I started making a pair of mittens for myself today.

I'm an awful person really.



And besides all of that I'm still waiting very impatiently for my Ravelry invite.
I've been to the waiting list three times in teh last two days. Uggh.

Ahhh! Christmas

Okay. There are 38 days left until Christmas!!
I'm already going slightly stitch crazy and that is not a good thing.
There are about a hundred projects on needles around my house right now, probably because I have the shortest attention span of anyone I know.
I knit a really nice hat for one of my friends in a bulky variegrated yarn (cream, light blue, and brown). I made it on really small needles so the stitches are close together and it's really warm. I added a row of yarnovers after the ribbing just to make it a bit more special.
Then I'm working on a pair of dark purple mittens for one of my friends. I finished one, and I started the second, but they're sized kind of oddly, so I might have to remake them.
Tonight I started working on a Harry Potter inspired scarf for the only friend of mine who is as obsessed with the book series as me. It's made with (gasp!) red heart on size 15's. I was loathe to use that yarn, and now my fingers feel like crap, but it's not that itchy and I'm planning on doing some major work on it to soften it up.
I also got some really pretty white and grey twisted yarn to make a scarf for a friend. I figured that the grey streaks would make the cables in the scarf stand out. At least, that's what I'm hoping.

I'll get some pictures up tomorrow as soon as I take some.
=)