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So i'm only to the leg of one sock. i got a bit bored with it. i don't see knee highs in my furter.

I finished two stuffed cat toys one looks a little better then the other. i got my other copy of stitch n bitch. and toby say a tiger toy now he wants me to make him that one. it will have to wait

I made a few ribbon flowers yesterday. the cats love to steal the puffy ones

then i wanted to use my sewing machine. i pulled out all my fabrics. all my patterns. an none of it sparked anything in me. then i remembered that i wanted to try to make a quilt this year. an my cousin is having a baby. may as well start off small right. she doesn't know if she is having a boy or girl yet. but i had a larger collection of girl colors, so yea. if she has a boy then i don't know what im going to do with it.

I have all of the stripes sewn.now i have to sew the stripes into one big block. then im not to sure about the rest. i looked at craftster and that helped alot. now i just need to keep going with my gut and im sure it well turn out ok right?

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five projects completed so far this month

this hat was finished on new years eve , so I'm just counting it as a 2011 project. the hat is for my friend Jessica. who just said I want a beret, in green. that is all. so i figure if she really feels the need to pay me for what i do all day every day. I need to kick it up a notch this is the first project that i have done with this complex a cable pattern. it was like now two rounds where the same. I personally don't like the color green, but i had it in stash (donated) and need to use it for something.

I used size 5 and 7 needles, the yarn was an old red heart skein in worsted weight , pattern

Gretel by Ysolda Teague  from stitch 'n bitch superstar knitting.

 

I also was a little bored at my mothers house while i was on a visit so i made the same hat in bulky yarn with size 15 needles. then i was running low on yarn so it ended up being a convertable cowl hat. its not the prettiest thing i've made but its super warm.

Then i felt bad about not finishing off jessicas item so that she could give it as a christmas gift so i made her something extra. its a extra slouchy hat , with a dimond pattern.

using size 10 needles and red heart  worsted weight yarn.

 

I got the Amigurumi Knits book from the library I really wanted to make something from this book for a while. but i found alot of those patterns to hard. so  i started out with the Earthworm by Hansi Singh . using size 3 needles simply soft yarn. everything was going fine until i had to do the picking up of stitches and kitchner stitch. I don't like either of them. I guess that i need to practice them a little more if i want to grow up to be a superstar knitter. I left the worm in a pot at the library. i wonder if they've found it yet.

then i got a little brave and tried to do the spider. it took a pretty long time and it didn't turn out well at all. my sewing and picking up stitches messed the whole thing up. but toby likes it and thats who i made it for so i guess thats all that matters.

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right now im working on test knitting a hat. and then once i go yarn shopping i will being on a gretel hat in black for someone eles. and maybe make another for myself.

ravelympic list

These are my first pair of knitted socks. they are DK weight and knit on size 5 needles i think. they started off good. but after i put them in the washer they got bigger. i let them air dry and every thing. oh well. they still kinda fit. and i still like them

the birds are ready for action. they just need a second color, eye sewn on and to have pins or hair clips sewn on. the red and blue bird is what one looks like on step two.

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Ravelympic 2010
Time for the next round of madness that is the Ravelympics. This time we’re “gathering” in Vancouver, Canada during Feb 12-28, 2010. Goal: 2 weeks of focused, intense personal & team challenges to tackle while watching the actual Olympics unfold before our eyes.

oh yea, you should join ravelry its the best website ever!!!
WIP's on my list:

yellow Fat Bottom Bag
yellow bird
red bird
orange bird
lilac bird
light blue bird
orange fat bottom bag
diva halter
ingas bag
blue stripe FBB
heart vest

new projects:
bowtie scarf
slippers

fit to be tied
blanket square


well i think thats enought on my list for now. i know that im not going to finish all of this i would be surprised if i even finish half of it. i took all of them from my ravelry page. if an item had been frogged then i just counted it as a new item. most of those WIP's im not even sure where they are. i like to start a lot of thing and i just dont finish them. sometime it just gets boring.i like new things no matter what it is.

you can check out my craft pictures on craftster
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toby and i are trying to see who can lose the most weight by summer.the winner gets to spend 50$ at the mall and make the loser watch them. so i'm trying to win,lol.

but we're not doing very good. we eat what ever we want.and exercise when ever we want. i went a full week with out working out. toby has been hogging the t.v so i forget to do my dvd's, yes there is a t.v in the work room, but its on the floor not very easy to go along with.

i've gotten into knitting podcast latly. i listen to Yknit and Diva Knitting. i will add more as soon as i get though the two years i missed on the first two podcast.

my hats are coming along slowly.but a two hats a week is great right.

i had to make a hat for my self yesterday, i've been wearing an earband but its getting to cold so i'm going to combine the two, yea.

I really need to get working on the stuff that i'm going to sell this summer. quick cute little projects.

toby and i have been working 4-10 together, i'm guessing until spring. so we are short on money. so i need to relearn how to live on less. there is a program at the library on it i'm hoping to go.