Archive for April, 2006
First of all, before I talk about anything else, I want so say THANK YOU for all of your wonderful words of support regarding my house hunting adventures. It has helped me so much. It’s such an emotional and stressful endeavor and your good thoughts have made it so much easier.
So I have some good news! We are going to get a house after all! To make a long story short, our realtor sent us a new listing on Friday, and we went to see it after I got off work. We made an offer on it that evening. After much drama, our offer was accepted. You can read about the whole sordid experience here and here, if you want to.
So I’ve been knitting away on the sleeves of Butterfly this week. I finished one and am about halfway done with the other. blah blah blah. I realized on Sunday that Mother’s day is in, like, two weeks! and I have to mail one of my gifts, so I have a very limited time to get stuff done.
I decided to make my MIL the “clutch you’ll never give up” from the book One Skein. At first, I ordered some chunky yarn from Knitpicks, and then realized that I would never get it in time. So then I went to a yarn store and got a skein of some beautiful chunky yarn. I will post the name of it when I post my official finished photos. Here is a shot of the clutch before felting.
I also decided to knit the second Broadstreet Mitten for my mom for mother’s day. She mentioned that she would like it if I knitted mittens for her. So there you go. They will come in handy after all.
April 25th, 2006
I finished my Project Spectrum knitting project last week.
Pattern: Jaywalker by Grumperina in Magknits .
Yarn: Two hanks of Claudia’s Handpainted in Paprika.
Needles: Clover dpns in size 1.
Started: April 2nd
Finished: April 14th.
Here’s another picture of them.
I loved knitting these socks! I knitted them the old fashioned way with five dpns (as opposed to two circulars). I don’t think I have a preference. I think the only good thing about knitting socks on two circs may be that the project is more portable. I love this yarn! the color is amazing. It reminds me a lot of Koigu. It is spun the same way, I think. This pattern was fun, too. Perfect for a verigated yarn.
I added some more Kool-aide dye to my orange hank. I like the way it turned out! More orangey. I also tried to used the lemonaide Kool-aide to add yellow and it didn’t work. Oh well. It smells sooo good.
So the house hunting thing is not going so great. I had kind of an emotional week last week. I wrote about it here. We found a fantastic house that we love and we were going to make and offer on it, but then we sat down and crunched the numbers and realized that we just would not be able to make the mortgage. It’s depressing. I feel like I’m never going to get a house. I mean, I can’t even get what I want here in Spokane, where it’s supposedly less expensive than everywhere else. We have some things we are going to do, like pay down some credit card debt, and check into a few first-time homebuyers programs. So maybe that will help.
April 17th, 2006
This is what I’ve been knitting all week with that orange Claudia’s Handpainted. Jaywalker socks! I can’t believe, after a week, I’m still not done with them. I’m a slow sock knitter! Oh well. Definately done in the next few days. Love the pattern. Love the color! Two great tastes that go great together. Doncha think?
Another Project Spectrummy thing I did yesterday was dye some yarn! I am going for yellow and orange. Hmmmm. Not so much. I only bought one packet of each color and totally ran out of Kool-aid. Obviously. So I think I will buy some more and try adding to it. I hope you can do that…Plus, I would like it to be a bit more saturated.
I wanted to show you something that my friend, Kathryn (Hi Kathryn!) sent me yesterday. It’s a tree sweater:
Erika from RedShirt Knitting knitted up a sweater for a sorry little tree in front of her house in Seattle, and then has documented the reaction to it over the weeks. It even made the cover of a local alternative newspaper! What an awesome idea! I would love to do that here in Spokane. I don’t think people would understand, though.
Guess what has been keeping me away from knitting the past week or so? House hunting. Yes, I’ve been house hunting. It’s quite the adventure! It’s unbelievable how quickly housing prices have risen in this town in the last year. But that’s a rant for the other blog 
. I think we may have found one so keep your fingers or (As Christie said) your knitting needles crossed for me! Will update you on the progress.
April 11th, 2006
Thanks for your nice comments on Chai! 
I wore it on Wednesday and loved it. I have one more pink project to show you for March.
Pattern: Corkscrew Scarf by Teva Durham. Found in her book (kick ass book) “Loop-d-loop.”
Yarn: Moda Dea Curious in mauve (but it’s really a very pale pink). I got it at JoAnn’s fabrics. I used two balls.
Needles: Denise size 10.5.
Started: March 9th or thereabouts.
Finished: April 1, 2006.
Here’s another picture of it.
This was kind of fun. It’s made by doing a series of short rows. But I think everyone and their mother and done this pattern so I won’t go into detail. Again, there was constant counting involved which I’m not a huge fan of. As for the yarn, it’s kind of pretty, in it’s own way. It’s very foofy. Not exactly me, but still kind of fun. I’m thinking of giving it to my niece.
Okay, Now for the Orange Month of project spectrum. I have some plans for this:
Stay tuned….
One more thing…Have you seen Melissa’s Granny Smith pattern? It’s beautiful. You should check it out. I have some purple kidsilk haze that might be this sweater someday….
April 2nd, 2006
