.[Projects and Projects and Projects!].

Since my last post I have completed a few things! I got the Little Red Riding hood done and it wasn't as hard as I was making it seem. I should have just finished it forever ago! :)

I have made two cowls, one for myself using Lion Brand's Wool-Ease Thick and Quick yarn. Color 143 Claret. The other is exactly the same except the color is 194 Denim Twist. Both very warm and cuddly. I have some black I'm thinking of making another. :P

I've been working on my Nyan project, and yesterday I finished a color! 25 squares of yellow, completed! It's just so nice to have a color done after all this work I have already put into this damn blanket thing. I am going to post official numbers for the blanket then in one of my next posts I will post how many I have done.

Nyan Blanket Square Count

Red - 48
Orange - 37
Yellow - 25
Green - 22
Blue - 33
Violet - 34
Peach or Tan - 58
Pink - 160
Grey - 115
White - 2
Black - 156

That's a total of 642 squares!

.[Taking a break!].

So, since I have a little bit to catch up on the hood, and I have to increase which I have never really done.. I am taking a break.

I have decided to make a hat for my grandma for her birthday.... That was over a month ago. She is finally coming back home from being gone for 3 months to do a treatment to try to 'grow' some veins to help out with her heart issues.

All I want to do is a simple hat. I even chose a pattern. I was so excited to start it, I went to Jo-Anns and bougth some super chunky blue striped yarn. (Her favourite colour is blue) I worked on it for about 10 rows when I stopped and said to myself, "You know what, this isn't going to be big enough!" I even tried it on my own head, and I'll be damned if that damn hat would fit my 2 year old and not myself. It didn't have really any stretch to it at all! So, I ripped it out. I printed out a new pattern to try, and am going to start that probably tomorrow. She's coming back Thursday and this thing needs to get done so I can give it to her when she gets back. I've got this pattern picked out, let's see if it works!

.[Red Riding Hood].

With Halloween 'fastly' approaching, I am freaking out.
I worked on the hood today after not having worked on it for a few days because of a big mishap. I still kind of consider myself a new knitter, I haven't knitted too many different things. I have never increased until... Last month.. I've only knitted scarves and hats. I am nearly deathly afraid of trying socks.. The lingo is so confusing to me I just don't get it.. BUT! Getting back to the Red Riding Hood. As I have said in the Halloween entitled post, we went with the more simple pattern. I read it wrong, or didn't get what I was reading and, long story short I ended up ripping out about two rows and getting very frustrated because ripping out knitting isn't all cheese and sprinkles. I managed to rip out two rows and only two rows AND somehow get every stitch (save for one) back on my circular. The one dropped a few rows but luckily I was able to pick it up fine. After a long ordeal of having to knit 1 then knit2together BUT having to turn the stitches so they were facing the right way, I decided that if I do this pattern again... Big if there... IF I do it again. Some notes need to be made on it. I've got two purl rows on my knit side, and I am following the damn directions and when I look at the picture on the pattern I do not see these purl rows. I hope this thing turns out.

Anyway, rant rant rant rant, done. I am hoping that the purl rows will be fine... Then again it is for trick or treating so it will be in the dark.... BUT! All I have left to do is the hood. The cape part is done. Woop Woop.

-T

.[Halloween].

There are a bunch of cute things all over the internet to make for Halloween. I wanted to make my daughter something cool for a costume, but the holiday just sort of crept up on me. We have settled for Little Red Riding hood. We as in - my mother and I.
Wouldn't it figure that we find a free pattern that is easy to do and order all the yarn for it that someone else would post a way better looking hood, free and close to the same yarn. Why not do it?! Well, Provisional Cast On for one. That is a bitch to do!I have tried and tried and tried. Finally, I GOT IT! Or, so I thought. Unfortunately, I had to give up on that pattern.. Halloween is fastly approaching and I would like her to wear a completed hood, not some awesome half done thing. I was even looking forward to doing this cape! But my mom pointed something out. The sizes for Capuchon go up to 8 years! So maybe she can be Little Red Riding Hood another year. Or maybe I will just make the cape in a different color.
I really don't know. Lol.
So, after gauging, I am using two sizes bigger than the pattern calls for for the needles. I am sure it will be fine. I'm just going to town on this thing. It's a nice pretty red, and I think it will be... Okay.... Good enough for this year. I really need to plan ahead next year.

One of my friends that I used to work with at Safeway has recently moved to Reno. I miss her. She has decided to make me a rainbow hat. And I have decided to do a swap. She makes me the hat, I make her something in return. I tell you it is hard trying to come up with something!
I'm not going to post what I may find because there is a small chance that she is bored one day and stumbled upon this blog. Surprise ruined. No thank you. :P

.[Dish Cloths].

Today is my mother's birthday. I can't believe she is a day past 30, but she is. Right now we are working on getting her house more... Homey. She's doing a home office in Orange, she wants Orange kitchen things... Long story short. She likes Orange. And when I say like, what I really mean is she loves Orange. I daresay she would have her car Orange if she could tolerate it.

So for her birthday I decided to make her a few nice dish cloths, but really she can use them for whatever she wants to. I made them in colors she would probably use in her bathroom, which is accented in Oranges and Pinks. I gave them to her early because today she works and I won't see her, but I will call and tell her "Happy Birthday!" probably when she gets off of work.

I guess I should have warned you, my pictures are amateur because I take them with my cell phone. I had lost my digital camera, but recently have found it.. Not that finding it will change the fact that I can't take pictures. LOL

.[Skyrim Chart].

This game comes out on 11.11.11, and a bunch of people can't wait for it, my husband and I being one of them. Well, honestly there is two of us. :P

Even on Rav there is a small cult following for this game, and a bunch of people like littlecaptina's Skyrim Mittens, and a bunch of people are digging the chart, yet no one has made anything with it. Honestly I haven't either.. So I guess I don't have much room to talk. :P

.[Nyan Cat Chart].

I would very much love to see this chart used in some projects, but as of today (checks Ravelry again) there is only one project that is documented. On Ravelry.