I got new buttons!

You know that Kids in the Hall sketch, well how would you know if I can barely remember it? Um, it takes place in a hipster clothing shop and 2 of the Kids (I can't even remember who) are female shop clerks. Um, I think. Anyways they are talking about all sorts of hipster shop clerk type things (circa 1989), punctuated with lots of "Oh my god!"'s, etc and one of their topics of conversation is about a girlfriend of theirs who had a fabulous jacket and went dancing. Something was haunted. Was it the dance floor or the jacket? I can't remember. Mmmmm, this is a good story isn't it? Suddenly, due to the haunting, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF HER BUTTONS POPPED OFF!.

No....!

YES!!

Well then the girlfriend comes into the store at the end of the sketch wearing the fabulous jacket and announces "I got new buttons!!!"

Good rendition, no? Anyways, more to the point- I got new buttons!! Here's a nice upside down shot:

Yes, Donna picked me up at work yesterday and we had a lunch date at Button Button. Man, that place is seriously a good time. I've never been in there, just drunkenly looked through the windows late at night after leaving the Cambie.

These little suckers are going to go on to my Flair jacket which is blocking as we speak. (I'm a little worried about my blocking abilities on this one, but that is for another day.)


I almost bought some awfully excellent yellow vegetable ivory buttons that just faintly had cowboy images on them. Those were really some of the coolest buttons I have ever seen, but after about an hour of discussion with Donna, the shop woman, and other customers I went with the subtler buttons you see. New in 2007, a subtler Tracy. (I am so buying those cowboy buttons for another sweater...)

Due to excessive alcohol consumption

Due to excessive alcohol consumption this past holiday weekend, not too much in the way of knitting occurred. I did manage to get started on my FadClassic vest ever so stylishly portrayed on my seriously in need of a wash bedsheets (not much laundry occurred this past holiday weekend either).

I am liking this Knit Picks Shine Worsted yarn and am planning my next internet shopping adventure. I'm thinking apple green and cream for this: Bella Blouse.

Thoughts??? Alex, you must have something to say about that.

oh Tofutsies, you've let me down

That's me there. Watching Lost. With Mr. Bear. With my new socks. They are the Roza Socks from the Spring Issue of Interweave Knits. Its a good pattern I liked knitting it a lot.

I knitted them out of that Tofutsies yarn. Is that how you spell it? I'm not sure. Anyhoo, I was totally loving that yarn (despite the fact that it smells a little bit) until I was just getting into the foot of the second sock. So I'm knitting along and suddenly there is a break in the yarn, which kind of annoys me. I think that sock yarn really should not have breaks in it but fine, whatever, I can live through this and attach the two and keep it going. And I'm knitting away and have a very nice time at it (of course because I do like to knit quite a lot actually) when I notice that the yarn after the break isn't the same as the yarn before the break!!! How uncool is that?? So the one foot (the one on the right that you can't actually see that well but just trust me) is totally different than the other 1.5 socks.

So yeah, Tofutsies, I had great hopes of you and I being the best of friends but clearly that is not going to happen. You totally let me down. Besides, you're kind of saggy. Louet Gems, you're next, maybe we could be best of friends.

Another shout out to all the fabulous people leaving comments for me. I heart comments. (I also heart facebook and will probably be fired soon.) Oh and the Super Secret Baby Sweater was actually called Little Luxury Kimono from Lion Brand (its free!). I knitted it in Blue Sky Alpacas Dyed Cotton in Pickle (I think). I modified slighlty and put a couple of rows of garter and the bottom of the body and the sleeves as I so do not heart curling.

Oh happiness! Oh joy!

Its been a great couple of days I tell you.

Check it out dude. Two things.

1. Suffragette Knitty is now Googleable. I have been obsessively checking to see when Google would find me and it was last Thursday. I practically fell off my chair.

2. I now belong to the Knit Bloggers webring. That means that people other than Alex and Donna might just look at my blog. This thrills me to no end. And has led me to my next exciting thing:

3. Three people (count them, THREE!) I do not know left comments on my blog!!! It rocks! Thank you so much people i don't know! That means that at least 3 people I don't know have looked at my blog which is, oddly, very exciting to me.

So i had lots of other exciting things to write about but its hot in Vancouver now. (20 degrees is hot to me. I haven't adjusted yet.) Here is a photo of Peter of Peter, Bjorn and John. We saw them on Saturday at the Commodore. It was awesome. Do you see how close I was??? That was pretty hot too actually. I need to live in Iceland or something.

The fruits of my internet shopping labour

Sara at work was looking at my blog today (thanks Sara) and she called my attention to a glaring omission on my part. I had never posted my yarn that came in the mail last week, leaving a huge void in the internet shopping saga. I apologize to my readers (sorry Alex and Donna!), here's the story:

The yarn came. I was really excited and wanted only to go online and purchase more things. Oh the lure of internet shopping is great!

O.kay, actually the yarn came and I thought they had gypped me and only sent me 6 balls instead of 11. i emailed them and told them they'd gypped me and they immediately emailed back and told me 5 more balls were in the mail. A few hours later I actually LOOKED at what they had sent me and they had in fact sent me 11 balls. So I emailed them back and told them I was a goof and not to send me any more yarn. They "they" in question is Knit Picks and they were very nice and didn't make fun of me at all.

Oh so here is the yarn taken on my very ghetto East Van lawn:

And this photo details how slender the package is. Notice how slim it is. How anyone could really mistake it for only 5 balls of yarn and not 10. I'm sure many people make that error.

This is not hot

It kills me everytime I read that headline referring to Paris Hilton's jail sentence. Perhaps I am evil but I think it is hilarious.

Another thing that is not hot is my eyelids which are puffy and red and disgusting because it seems I am a little alergic to my new moisturizer. Its a little sad and definitley not hot.

In more important knitting related news the Super Secret Baby Shower presents were a huge hit at the baby shower this past weekend. Here is a picture of my completed Super Secret Baby Sweater:

It was really quite exceptionally cute in the end. I forgot to bring my camera to the shower so I don't have a picture of the entire Super Secret Baby Shower Project- yet. I do, however have a picture of my teddy bear, Brigette, wearing the sweater.

He makes a good model.