Wool...Dye...Yarn

This post would of course be more interesting if I had pictures or it wasn't 11 at night and my brain is functioning normaly but it doesn't and my brain is half awake. Anywhoo-Wool is for the Wool festival in Estes Park that I went to on Saturday. It was fun seeing all the animals that yarn comes from. I am in love with the sheep. I was completly unaware that sheep literaly said "BAA!" I could not stop laughing after the first BAA! The llamas scared me because I didn't want to get spit on. I got two lovely things of roving. One is purples and white and the other is greens and purple (pics coming soon).

Dye- Today my mother and I had a dye day. WHOO! I got to dye some Faulkland roving. I decided to do blue, purple, and red. The colors were a smudge dull but I still love it because its the first thing I have ever dyed. Yarn- I have finished my very first skein of yarn. It isn't insanly horrible I am very glad to say. I am very proud of it. I just can not wait untill I start spinning 1 in July. It is now 11:30 and I am quite tired, so I am going to jam to my ipod until I fall asleep.

R.I.P Socks :(((

My first pair of socks, I am sad to say, have died. After knitting a majority of the foot, I realized they were too big for my feet. Shortly after frogging 4 inches of my lovely socks, I tried to restart. I went down a needle size and casted on less stitches, but became very frustrated with the cast on process. I tried 3 times before violently throwing them into my knitting bag with no progress to show, which I might add was very frustrating.

Because of my failed attempted at restarting my socks, I have been working on my blanket. I have the first row and two squares on my second row finished. I have already fallen in love with this blanket and cannot wait until it is finished. One of the squares on the other hand is 15 inches when the squares are 12 x 12. I will end this paragraph with a loud, angry, "GRRR!"

Tomorrow is off to the wool festival with my mom. I am so excited to go because this year I will be able to pick out roving for my to begin spinning. I start a beginner spinning class in Boulder on July 17. I am stoked! My mom has shown me the very basics of spinning but I am no where near as good as I want myself to be. Any who, I am sure tomorrow will be stellar.

My First Pair of Socks

I need to get better at blogging, that is a fact. I have been doing some knitting but not an insane amount. I have started my first pair of socks, which of course I am happy about. The pictures are out of order because I am not used to adding pictures or blogging for that matter because it has been about a year. lol. Any whoo the second picture is the yarn my mom spun after I picked the colors and carted on the drum carter. I am knitting them from the toe up (as seen in picture number 1) and in stockinette stitch. I am absoulutly in love with how they are turning out. YEAHH! More blogging tommorrow. :))

Skunks n' Bikes don't mix.

I haven't posted for awhile, (that's a shocker!). I finally finished my pillow. I still have to sew it together and but the fabric and stuffing in. I'll get to that....eventually. Me and my best friend got sprayed by a skunk...Oh what fun that was! We were riding our bikes home from McDonalds and we got stuck behind a skunk. At the risk of being late home, we gunned it. Unfortunately, just as we rode past, up went the tail, out came the stench, and then we smelled the worst I ever have. We called home and were told to not enter the house. We had to go through a lovely tomato shower, the we got rinsed off with my best friend...the freezing cold hose...what fun! After that we still smelled HORRIBLE! So my step dad ran to the grocery store and bought the items for the new treatment. It was hydrogen peroxide, baking soda and dish soap. WoW did THAT burn. But it did remove the lovely smell. With only a few rashes and burns we were happy good smelling campers.

Any who back to knitting. My new project is a blanket. It is made of three colors. Which three? Hmmm lets thinks, my favorite colors are....brown and blue! Yes my blanket is brown, light blue, and dark blue. The pattern is very purrty. It is made up of stockinette stitch, cables, seed stitch, and stripes. The pattern was in a library book, so in order to remember what to do i had to sketch it out on my own. I wouldn't recommend anyone else trying to figure it out, but i can read it.

So far i have done uno square. It is the one of the light blue seed stitch squares. I want a big blanket so I made it 12' by 12'. It is going to be a HUGE blanket!

This is an upclose so you can see the seed stitch.

If you noticed on the square there is a tag that says 5,1. On the pattern I drew I made it a grid. The square i made is 5th square from the left, and the 1st one from the bottom. So now when i sew it together I will know where to sew it! The next square I'm making is a brown cable square.

Again upclose, so you can see the pattern. This is my first cable project, and i think im doing pretty good. Its alot easier than I thought. Which is ofcourse good.

Well I'm out for now. Tomorrow I'm off to Six Flags with my best friend. Hopefuly I'll get a little tanner. OK I'm out for now. Bye! ttyl

Hello people of the blogging world!

HI!
Long time no see!
YOU DON"T RETURN MY CALLS!
just kidding!
Anyway.....
:)
Yes I am a tad hyper, as I am typing this but who gives a whoot? Not me! Anyway! So yeah I know I haven't posted in a gallizion bajillion years but who's counting?? Not me! So, I still haven't finished my amazing square, I mean pilliow. All I have to do is bind off, so thats technically done. I finished my spectatular leg warmers. Have I worn them you ask? No! As a matter of fact I haven't! But oh well. I will on Tuesday. What's on Tuesday you ask?(What's with all the questions) On Tuesday is my ice show rehearsal! I'm excited. So yeah! Ummmmmmmm......I'm trying to think of something that is knitting related, that is new in my life. Umm....my mother bought me some super duper yarn that I'm going to make a scarf out of. And yeah pretty much thats it. So I'm gonna say goodbye. GOODBYE! Nighty Night. ttyl!

Ravelry!!!!

Guess who got invited to Ravelry?? Oh ya its me! I have already added one project! WHOO! And I'm in two groups. I'm so happy! I have some friends but no like ALOT of friends, but oh well I'm happy. Then were moving in to our new house this weekend! I get my own room, I get my own room, I get my own room! Whoo! (yes I'm doing a little happy dance) WHOO! lol!

My first post with more than 2 pictures!

I'm so mad because I had to restart the other side of my beautiful pillow because I cast on way to many stiches and I would totaly have to buy anonther ball. This time I only cast on 65 stiches and last time I cast on 80. So I'm hoping that this time it will work out, because I do not want to restart again. I was done with my first ball when I noticed I cast on too many stiches.
This is one of the new stich markers my mom made. They are a set of different color mushrooms. I was looking through her new catalog to help check for mistakes. When I saw this set I fell in love, I asked her if she could make me a pair and she handed me a set! The other colors are turquise and peach, light purple and peach, turquise and blue, and red and yellow. My mom calls me her hippy child so ofcourse the hippy chooses mushrooms out of anything else!

So this is the blue side to my pillow! It is super soft! I love it SO much! I can't wait untill it is done so I can use it. This is an up close of the stiches. I knit it on US 15s and I knit it for 14 inches.

Today we are getting a new roof on the house, so I woke up to hammers hitting the roof. What a lovely alarm clock right? Well I g2g! so...ttfn!

New House

So as you all probably know my family is moving into a new house! I'm so happy because I get my own bathroom! I've had to share with my older brother since before my little brother was born. Finally I'll get my own! So my room also has a walk in closet! Which is awesome! Also the new house is closer to one of my friend's house, but i haven't seen her forever! She left my school in 2ND grade, but she still lives in town so I've seen her now and again. It'll be cool living closer to her. I will also live closer to my school, so it won't be as far to walk. Our backyard backs up to one of my other friend's house so that is pretty sweet!

Any way, something about knitting, I'm almost done with one of the balls of yarn for my pillow! AHHH! I don't think I'll have enough yarn so I'll probably have to go to Knit Knack and buy an other one! They were only $3 so that's not bad at all, and I can probably get my mom to get it for me.

This weekend I've got to start packing my room, because we move at the begging of next month! I can't wait until we move! I'm so exited! I was just spell checking this post and I noticed I say PROBABLY alot! Sorry if it annoys you! I hate it when people say something alot! It's like URGGGGGG!!!! so...ttfn!

Computuer CRASHED!

This is my dream swatch as I was knitting it! I didn't get to add them eariler because I didn't really have the time to and I kind of didn't know how!
This picture I like because it looks really cool!

Okay...so my laptop is not working so I have to use my mom's. I finished my dream swatch.(FINALLY!) And I have started my pillow. What I'm using is a blue and brown yarn. I have no idea what they are but I know that the blue is merino. I'm knitting it in stochenite stitch. Ofcourse it matches my bedroom! But what dosen't?

HOMEWORK...AGAIN?????

I can not believe how much homework I have had lately! It is madness I tell you! We normally don't get homework in geography so that's cool! But we had a test on Friday, then in science we have a test tomorrow. In math we had a test today that was so long its going to take up tomorrow too! Then in Home EC. we cooked crumble cake today but sadly we won't be able to eat it until tomorrow because it took too long to bake so the class was over before we could eat it! THE SUSPENSE IS KILLING ME! It looks SO good!
Well this is my knitting blog not my complain about homework blog so I might as well talk about knitting. I think that's a good idea! I haven't really had time to knit wit homework and all so I'm still working on the dream swatch. I swear that thing never ends! I don't quite know what sweater pattern I'm going to use...so THAT'S not helpful! lol. I really try to make my blog interesting like everyone else's but I don't have as much time to knit so I hardly have any thing to write about. That is why I try to go a little while until I update my blog so I then have more to say! I'm thinking of starting a new pole so I debating what to do with that! I hope to see you at knitting tonight! I don't know where its at though! But I'll be there! so...ttfn!