Chocolate has healing powers… kind of November 8, 2008

Wow, just when I thought I was almost done with Clapotis, I realize I’ve screwed things up horribly!

So the section of Clapotis that is worked straight is written so that you repeat rows 1-12 until you’ve done it 13 times total. Every 8th row, you have to drop a stitch from the beginning of the row so that you’ll be able to drop the stitch down the whole length of the scarf at the end.

I was on my 12th of 13th repeats (I don’t really know how to phrase that any less confusing) and then noticed I had done something very, very bad. 5 repeats back, I had forgotten to drop the stitch and had instead included it into the edge, where it had been purled together with another stitch. Meaning that an entire drop-stitch stripe would be missing from the scarf. I felt sooo dumb!

So that brings me to this photo, where I had to add in a make-shift life-line below the screwy row, in question:

After which, I frogged all the way back to it:

I frogged about 2 skeins worth of progress (220 yards).

Then I sat in front of the TV mopey and consoled myself with chocolate while I corrected the row I messed up and continued with the pattern.

:’(

A quickie gets complicated. November 2, 2008

WOW!! It’s been a very, very long time since I’ve blogged or knitted. But with the weather getting rainy and my schedule slowing down, I started itching to start a few new projects.

So I ordered a ton of yarn from knitty.com (it was my first time ever qualifying for free shipping, woohoo! that’ll tell you about the quantity haha) and was super stoked to start on a couple of new projects I found online. But of course, I was getting impatient with waiting on the mail system to get the yarn to me quick enough and I HAD to start a project, so I decided to do a little quickie project with some yarn I’ve had in my stash since December 2007!

It’s this blue/black multi yarn that I’ve been wanting to use for forever, but every time I would knit up a swatch with it I would hate how it looked, frog it, and wish that any project could look as pretty as the yarn itself. Anyway, I found this really cool ribbed beanie pattern and decided I needed to make it. I started knitting it in the blue/black yarn and hated how it looked. But I sucked it up and knew I would never use this yarn if I didn’t use it now. So I kept going, and the further I got, the more I loved the way the yarn looked in the beanie’s ribbing! Behold, beanie modeling:

• Link to Project Details page for Surpisingly Popular Beanie
  
• Link to Ravelry project page for Surprisingly Popular Beanie

Haha, I love how it turned out! I wish I had made it maybe an inch longer, but oh well.

Anyway, this beanie has turned out to be a hit! While knitting mine, my sister loved the yarn and so I offered to make her one. So I used the second half of my blue/black skein and started hers. While knitting hers at a coffehouse concert I went to, my friends Dan and Gary (Push Push Pull!!) both requested beanies. While wearing mine around, my friends Davis (Hazel and Vine!!) and Sky also both aked for beanies, and even offered to pay me for them. But I don’t have the heart to charge them Who knew knitting would make me so popular with the fellas?

So it looks like I have quite a lot of knitting ahead of me in the months to come. Luckily the beanie only took me like a day to knit. So those won’t take too long.

I did get my yarn in from knitty by now, but haven’t taken any pictures of the projects I’ve started. I’m making Clapotis for myself and I have a secret knitting project. I’ll blog more about Clapotis later, but you’ll have to check in on my secret knitting on Ravelry since I can’t put pictures or details about it on my public blog. Wouldn’t be much of a secret if I did.

Anyway, it’s super late and I need to get some sleep. I’ve been wanting to write this post for like a week, now, but haven’t had the time.

ON ANOTHER NOTE! My friends from Hazel and Vine & Push Push Pull have a side project band together now. It’s called My Long Awaited and you should give them a listen. They’re gonna be posting more music soon, and it’s definitely going to be epic Only listen to them if you absolutely love rad music!! Tell them mickey sent you!

Goodnight for now. Expect many more blog posts in the near future. I’ll have to update on *shudder* Thermal, and on my new projects as well.

<3!!! mickey