There was something of a horrible knitting accident

Jocelyn and Donna and I were having a nice little knitting afternoon in my living room yesterday, working on the last little bits of the super secret baby present for next weekend's baby shower. I was just starting to put the super secret baby sweater together and was sewing an i-cord onto one of the fronts. I didn't really like the way it was turning out so I got my scissors and started cutting and cut - the - sweater......

Yup, cut right on into it. Cut a nice little hole into the front right side of that super secret baby sweater.

Here, look at a picture of some flowers Tony bought me. This should help you get over the shock a little.




So, yes it was quite horrifying. I remained quite calm- ask Jocelyn and Donna. Shockingly calm actually. So I've had to rip out half of that front pannel and am reknitting. But Jocelyn and Donna's super secret baby bootees are totally rocking.


Yeah, so I am reknitting the front pannel that I DESTROYED, which isn't that big a deal because I like to knit quite a lot actually. Its just that I've moved on from the super secret baby sweater and would so much rather be knitting this:


Mmmmm, its my new favourite sock yarn ever! Its Tofutsies sock yarn and I think it will probably make the nicest summer socks ever. Its made from things like soy silk and shrimp and crab shells. Its true! Its also magical and knits in a spiralling pattern. It is the smartest sock yarn I ever saw. I am knitting it into Roza's Socks from the latest issue of Interweave knits and I'm knitting it on my new 2mm Britannies that my sister gave me for my birthday (Thanks Ang- leave a comment!).

In other news, the monkey socks fit!! They are just extremely thick, lace socks. Perhaps an error in yarn judgment. They are too hot for now but what the hey, they will be perfect come November.


We couldn't get a good picture of these socks, despite standing on a stool. Odd, I know.

Happy Administrative Professionals Day

Apparently that is what it is today. Sara told me about it last week so I immediately put it on the white board at work. Hey man, we are all administrative professionals there, so it seemed like a good day to party. We went to Chocoatl in Yale Town for some hot chocolate. That place is amazing! mmmm, delicious! They have 2 pages of different hot chocolates. I feel like I am high right now. We went to the Safeway after work and my lips felt like they were buzzing.

No, I am not supposed to be having caffeine but you know, Administrative Professionals Day comes but once a year.

So, I just got an email from Robin who suggested that it is actually Secretaries Day. I don't care. I got hot chocolate. You can't take that away from me.

You will note to the left a very fancy stitched landscape photo that I took and with only minimal whining got stitched together. I am feeling more genius like each day. The photo is of the super secret baby sweater I am making and it may just be the easiest thing to knit in the entire world. I think back to the 6 months plus that it took me to make that Baby's First Tatoo and I shake my head. I don't mind spending 6 months on something but I kind of hated every moment of that sweater. This one, well, its a dream and I've been working on it for exactly 5 days. Yes that is the last sleeve I am working on. If this actually looks cute when finished, well it might just be the only baby sweater I ever knit from here on in. (That's a total lie as I already have my eye on this: Vestee. Man that is a cute sweater. Maybe its just a super cute kid.)

So Tony told me I had to get some carbs in me to counteract the effects of the hot chocolate but in other news the Monkey Socks are still drying so tomorrow is D day.

I'm worried about my monkey socks

I think they might be gigantic monkey socks. Adding water to them seems to have made them expand. They are very cute, don't get me wrong. They just seem quite large and in danger of becoming larger. They seem to want to keep growing. We'll see how it goes. A male friend or relative with large feet may end up with some very cute monkey socks. I guess women have large feet too. Maybe I'll ask around.

Well, anyways, those are done now. I'm working on a very secret baby sweater that I guess isn't so secret as the parents to be would never look here. But my camera needs a new battery and I am too lazy to change it. So no picture. But it looks like it will be very cute. Trust me.

Its internet shopping night!!!

Yahoo! The rest of the world (o.kay Canada) is watching hockey but me, I get to do a little internet shopping. Frankly, that makes me the lucky one.

I have no choice. I'm stalled on Flair waiting for Donna (who's final is tomorrow, so I guess I'm not stalled too long) and my second Monkey sock is coming along quite nicely:

So, yes, nothing else to do but to go internet shopping!!

I'm going to buy this:

Fad-Classic from Knit and Tonic. (Holy crap, do you see that hyperlink I just included there? A genius, I tell you, I'm a genius.)

O.kay, yeah, so I am making that. I think it is so cute I may weep. Mine will be black. And will be made from Knit Picks (another one!) Shine Worsted in Ebony. I've read varying reviews of the Shine Worsted. Some people seem to love it, others, well not so much. I've decided to give er a try. I'm a little obsessed with the idea of purchasing yarn on line right now so I'm going for this.

Wendy from Knit and Tonic also suggests Cascade 220 which is awesome yarn and my yarn shop carries it. Its wool though and I kind of want something spring like. (Spring like and black. Ah, I do what I want.) But if this pattern works out I'm making it in Cascade in the fall. Damn straight.

In other news I met my new cousin. Yup, being very very good looking must run in the family.

Donna says

Well she says that I only allowed to work on this:

Which is cool. That's the, er, Monkey sock from Knitty's winter issue. Nice sock for sure. Yup.

What I kind of want to do, however, is go button shopping for this:

Mmmm, the lovely Flair jacket from Knit and Tonic. Yeah, I'm not sure how to put links in yet, but my one reader, Alex, is familiar with all of these sites. Anyhoo, Donna and I started the Flair together and then I had last week off and she has exams coming up and I am really far ahead, so now I have to wait. And knit socks. A lot of socks.

In other news, Alex says she is close to finishing her scarf.

I'm hoping to get some socks in here

Emma found my blog. Nice detective work. Or, I was drunk enough on my birthday to give it away. In that case, nice follow through.

I dreamed the other morning that the radio had gone off and Emma was on the radio (this had actually happened once in real life and I woke up one morning to hear Emma on the CBC talking about a knitted scarf exchange so it wasn't unbelievable at all) and she was talking about people that drink too much. In my dream I was lying there in bed thinking "ooohhh noooo, she's totally talking about me". Then I woke up and realized that it was a dream and I laughed out loud. Yeah, that was good times.

O.kay! Look at this! Its Mr. Bear with my new socks.

So that didn't last too long and turned into this:

That cat sure isn't very good at modelling socks. I told him so too. I guess if you are going to have a knitting blog its sort of mandatory to include pictures of your cat. Don't blame me, I don't make the rules.

Well, these are the socks on my feet. Why yes, we did have a sock photo shoot after work today. Once again, Law and Order is on so I have nothing more to say.

Baby's First Tattoo

Hi Alex!! My one reader!

So I've spent the morning learning a little something about photo files and I feel a little better about my blogging abilities. Ever so slightly better.

O.kay! So!! I finished Baby's First Tattoo from the Stitch and Bitch Nation book. I started it months ago for my cousin's baby who is now 2 months old. Lucky I made it big.

Alright, I am going to add a photo now...




Excellent. A photo. O.kay, that wasn't as easy as I thought it would be and I am now typing in the html area of blogger. But that's cool. I'm flexible. Time for another photo!!

Here is a detail of the left skull and cross bones. The side that I am pleased with. The other side is a bit wonky and I chose not to take a picture of it. I did, for 3 milliseconds, consider pulling the other side out and redoing it but man, this took soooooo long to make and was not a massive amount of fun (i blame it on the cotton yarn) and I already ripped out one arm and redid that because I was unhappy with the finishing. So, um, yeah, this is the side that I like.

O.kay yeah so here are 2 less fun photos and less commentary. Law and Order starts soon so I don't have a lot of time here.

brand new blog

This is my brand new blog. It will be about knitting.