Not dead, Just busy.

See main blog for details. Here my vest though. I finished it 12 days ago but its 6 inches too big. see the buckling until my left arm? thas me trying to pull the back together for the picture so it looks right. It shouldn't be so damn big, my gauge was perfect! Perfect I tell you! When does that ever happen? I even knit a size smaller than thier suggestest sizing because its a heavy yarn and i knew it would droop pretty quick.

As for the sock, the first three attmpts failed. ill try again this summer

2 weeks of...

I hate it when life interferes with my various forms of crafting. I had a big paper on Ethnic representation and stereotypes in Grey's Anatomy due last week and it took all my available time for a looooong time! but now its done and I have a few weeks before the next wave of academic hell hits.

I did manage to accomplish something while I was up to my elbows in Grey's Anatomy. I finally finished the Ravenclaw Scarf! Its over 9 feet lone including the fringe. Its about 8.5" without it. pictures will be posted later. I'm too lazy to do it now. I'm at a bit of a lose now. That thing took forever and i had very little else on my needles otherwise.

I took a few days off from knitting while I contemplated my next projects because heaven forbid I actually finished something I started. I wasn't completely idle. I made a Grace Beanie from knitwhits.com. That took about 2 days.It was my 'I'm finally going to learn how to work lace' project. Its not perfect but the hearts actually look like hearts so I'm happy. I kinda wish I hadn't used the crap acrylic I had though. No, I'm not a yarn snob. I actually like synthetics, I sort of have to due to an allergy to all forms of fibre coming off the backs of mammals. This Acrylic is crap though. Its ugly and not very nice to wear. I bought it as practice yarn and that's about all its good for. Back to the point, now that I know how easy the Grace Beanie is, I'm going to make a cotton one for the spring.

On to current projects. Two things were started today after an inpromtu trip to wal-mart to stock up on my favourite Bernat yarns. The first one is a vest from the "Best of Snow" pattern booklet by Bernat (0f course). Its a lovely little book and the yarn it calls for in all the patterns is awesome stuff. It's called Glacier. Its thick and soft and shiny, all the things I love in yarn. It works up soooooooo fat too! I cast on at 10 pm and I already have nearly 5 inches done on the back of the vest. That's taking time to eat, play with my new puppy, and do a little laundry. If I keep this up I can wear it to school on Tuesday.

I'm also making the lace hard from the book too. I refused to buy a book, even if it was less than 2 bucks, without at least using two patterns from it. I'm loving it so much I think I'm going to have to make every last thing in the book lol

My final project it, drum roll please, my first pair of socks! I'm excited. I've done the cuff of the first sock already. It's going faster than I thought It would. I'm hoping the rest of the sock goes as quickly so I can avoid second sock syndrome.

That's all for now, I have to get back to my vest. I just can't stop. Its too soft!