Cowl/neck warmer and hat sets

The Cowl/neck warmer and hat sets are done!

These were purchase by my dear friends of mine Melissa & Dan. Thank You!

My first item sold on Etsy!!

I sold my Etsy item today.. It put me in quite a good mood for today =)

Mr. Silly Sock

This silly sock. *sigh I'm trying really hard to like making socks, should we all? I seem to always run into somethign when making one (ive made 3(singular) )
I started this sock and used for the FIRST time Toe up and Short row heel methods. I really enjoy both. everything was going grand, I did the toe, the the short row heel, made the cuff and put it on.....WEIRD, somethings of....O BOY, somehow I had made the heel crooked, off to one side....*siiiiiigh How I detest frogging things, even if if one row, in this case a whole heel! So I, reluctently, frogged the heel.I finished my heel today and the cuff(HURRAY not crook-ed!)..but alas...a big to long for my already big feet. Will the Sock Gods ever shine on me?


Now, SHHH! need to sneek into moms yarn stash for more sock yarn.MOoHoohAhha
J/k I always ask

OMG!!! AHHHHHHH!!!

OMG I think I almost killed my moms Jack Russel. I'm watching Chuck last night with my brother and working on my shawl...ONLY ONE MORE REPEAT TO GO! (in the chart) wooohooo right?! Not until good ol' JR gets all rowdy, ..under my desk...gets the yarn all rapped around his legs, I yell at him, He runs, and away my shawl goes flying off my desk, both my brother and i go to grap it. AT first look, it seems the shawl was OK......closer loook...NOOOOoOOOOOo! He ripped out like 20 stitches going about 3 rows deep. OMG I could have strangled that dog! It took the better part of the next half hour to fix the stitches. I feel really proud of myself for getting them fixed. I'm rather new to lace, and this is the first time I've used lace weight yarn..It was not a easy task, on the verge of crying, filled with frustration, and 2 cigarette breaks,and of course all the cuss words one could think of, I did it! Hurray go me...that dog is soooo lucky =)

First Shawl (scarflette)

Its called the SwallowTail Shawl by Evelyn A. Clark
This is also my first time using lace weight yarn!

I tried to take the best non blurring pictures i could with my iphone as posslible!

Im in love with this pattern!

one of my WIP...its gonna be sweet. i dont normally own kleenex....but i will just for this!!!

Upward Bound Slouchy Hat

another one of my designed hats, with minor mod

and just for fun lol

Finished hat!

i finished the hat
and want to make another, doing a lil mods to it.(of course the white string is not part of the finished product)
But i want to do it in another color, but i nly have black and grey heather(but i think its looks like silver), i also want to try making this hat in anther weight  but dont have enough yarn in good colors to make it out of decent yarn and am broke.. well dusnt this blow! sigh* ill just have to do with wat i got till i get more yarn. i cant await till my families yarn shop here in town will be open...austin is to far away and knitpicks would take to long. ug! ug!! ug!!...if i make this hat in black will the lace pattern show??? i wonder if im brave enough to try it and it not work and be really mad at it...

Heres Mr. Monkey showing it off for you
and then me

whew, wat a day trying to figure out all this html stuff. i am trying to get my "on and off the needles" staus bar stuff right. but seem to be html retarded now. its only showing my works in progress but i want it to show my finished and hibrnated one too.. off to read more forum posts about this and hope to understand something.

and the work more on my hat that i am designing....havent figured out how i am going to do the decreases yet. its one of ths 'slouchy hats'



and check out my sweet new yarn from The Knitting Nest in Austin

left to right: Malabrigo 100% Baby Merino Wool lace, Cascade yarn(sock yarn) 75% Merino superwash 25% nylon and the last to are both Malabrigo Kettle dyed Merino wool worsted
the feel so soft and are so pretty...now wat to make with them? hmmmmmm....