CrafTBQ

Ravelry?  Made of AWESOME. I just got an account there today and it is so shiny I can’t STAND it.  I want to do naughty things to it and never ever let it go.

Me? Totally drooling.  For serious.

Just some links for me. Turning comments off because this is for my benefit plus I’ve been getting hit with a lot of spam.

The Aardvark Project

(email photos to art at zucky dot com)

Hats that avoid the eyebrows

Am way behind on posting FOs and the like, I know. I’m waiting on pics of the hat that I made. I’m also in the home stretch of another FH scarf.

Anyway, just for my reference is Tasha. Also anybody else using WordPress may want to get the latest update.

This past weekend I made significant progress on the hat. I sat and knit for hours while listening to the DVD commentary on Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.  (The one with the kids, who are a-freaking-dorable.)  So I’d say I’ve got… four inches? Five? More? Somewhere around there.  It looks like a thing, and that’s what counts.

I tested it on my head and it fits in the sense of my head can go into the space, not so sure it fits in the sense of being able to stay on my head once it’s there.  But my hair is very slippy and tends to throw hats like a horse bucking a particularly annoying rider.  So if it doesn’t stay on this might not be a fault of the hat design per se.  (Though it does make me ponder possibly adding elastic to the band after the fact. Hmm.)

The latest Knitty is up.  There’s a couple of patterns I could see myself trying, especially Fetching, because I like cables and it seems a quick knit, and Halfdome, which I suspect would look good on Older Brother.

My LYS sent mixed news in their latest letter. The original owners are moving, which makes me yipey about the continued future of the store. However the new owners just added a buttload of sit-n-knit groups, one of which is scheduled for a time I could theoretically go to.  I’m so tempted to go this week but I don’t know if the schedule will allow. Perhaps I’ll play it by ear.

I need a new bag.  My weetiny and adorable purse is on its last legs.  It was a good purse in that it held just what I needed it to hold.  But what I also want it to hold is current knitting projects.  This will take some experimentation.

I had a purse once that was certainly big enough, but this thing could’ve carried a small child.  Way too big for every day purse needs.  I’ve since converted it into my crochet bag:

It currently holds all my crochet hooks (except the one I keep in my knitting bag to catch dropped stitches), scissors, practice yarn, tapestry needles, and the totally confusing crochet booklet that steered me so wrong all those years ago. (I THROW NOTHING OUT).

As a crochet bag this works pretty well. The little pockets inside are quite spiffy for putting my tools into, and the roomy inside is plenty of space for yarn and projects and books.

But no way am I hauling something this big around in my daily life. 

So off to buy a new purse I go. No clue if I’ll find something, but think of all the extra knitting I could get in if I’m successful!

ETA: The Girl From Auntie has a great collection of posts about Deb Stoller vs. Sew Fast Sew Easy over the use of “Stitch N Bitch.”  Recommended reading for anyone interested in that whole kerfuffle.

Current projects are doing more work on the scarf and getting ready to swatch something for a friend (*waves hi to my best enabler*). In the meanwhile I post links of note, interest, and general funitude. I figure this works better than posting the boring links that even I don’t care about.

First up, I point towards the Village Knittiot again as she posts links to different ways of looking at our consumption as part of her Summer of Knitting Naturally. I’m particularly interested in The Omnivore’s Dilemna as I find food culture to be utterly fascinating and the idea of tracking four different meals is a creative way to approach our current eating system. I mention it here both to remind myself to read it, and to point it out to friends who might share similar interests.

Next up, and along the lines of a completely different for your now for something needs, CrazyAuntPurl posts a review, with pictures, of Sexy Little Knits which has a title that’s fairly self-explanatory. (She also talks about loving to look at patterns even if she doesn’t make them, which goes far to comfort my guilt issues about doing the same.)

SLK reminds me of SKC which is the Sexy Knitters Club which I may try to join at some point. Possibly in the near future if they pick a project that I’ve been hoping to do already. I notice a few of their nominated patterns are ones I’ve had my eye on, so I’ll have to keep watching.

I’d post a link to my LYS but in spite of them swearing that they’ll do so, they have not yet updated their website since the Carter administration. Which is amazing when you consider that the store itself only opened a few years ago. The good news is that they’ve got new classes, and I’m sorely tempted to take some if they fit into my schedule. The bad news is that they’re moving to summer hours, which cuts down on my ability to scoot over there after work on Wednesdays. (Granted this might be good news for my wallet, but still.)