I’d like to file a Missing Cables Report. February 2, 2009

So it’s been a while since I’ve updated my blog, and I’m sitting around tonight doing absolutely nothing feeling guilty about it. Here goes nothing!

I forgot to take a picture of the “Diablo Anaranjado”, so the only thing I have to post is this cruddy picture I took of it with my cell phone. It’s been a few weeks since I’ve worked on it with any diligence. Mostly because I’m almost out of orange yarn, and I know the second I run out, I’ll just have to rip more of that orange worsted weight yarn in half again to make it fingering weight. :/ A task I’m definitely dreading!

But overall, I’m super excited with how this beanie is coming along. It’s a thousand times better than the last beanie I made for my friend! This one is actually a good recreation woot! I think I might try to get the other beanie back from him to yank apart that orange yarn so I can split it in half to finish this one. I’m pretty sure that he’ll never wear the ever beanie anyway, so it seems kind of silly to open up the other skein of this yarn that I had purchased. I would much rather return it and get my 5 bucks back! Haha

SOOO even though I know it’s bad for me to start multiple projects… I bought new yarn today anyway. I want to knit a little baby boy’s vest for my friend who is having a baby in May. So when I’m sitting around late tonight thinking I should work on a swatch so I can cast on, I realize something very bad. I didn’t have any straight needles near me in the right size, so since I see my handy dandy Needle Master case, I open it up and decide to use my size 5’s from here. However, I noticed that ALL OF MY CABLES ARE MISSING!! :O There’s only 1 accounted for–my 12″ cable which is in the car with a beanie on it.

I feel so dumb!! I have no idea where any of them could have gone! I have to rip apart the house tomorrow and try to find them. But I have a feeling I’ll have to end up ordering replacement cables from Boye Stupid stupid stupid. And in the meantime I’ll probably end up buying the correct size 5 circular needles so I can work on the vest. Which entirely defeats the purpose of owning an interchangable set! grr.

So I had to test my guage in an interesting way..

Yep… on the tip of the interchangeable size 5’s. The guage is probably tighter than it would normally be, which stinks. Plus it didn’t feel too nice on the insides of my hands having the needle ends gouge into them as I was working, lol.

But hopefully I’ll be able to cast on for the actual vest in a few days, and then I”ll take better pictures of the yarn that I picked out for it!!

Also, the last thing I wanted to post about was my new knitting club!! Haha, it’s a few of us girls who know each other from the concerts we all go to, and we decided that we needed to have a knitting circle to keep ourselves entertained at these shows. It’s nice to NOT be the only one knitting outside the venue trying to pass the time before doors open!! Here’s a picture of us, how cool are we?? Haha, and you can see that the beanie I’m working on this time is properly a ridiculous shade of orange! Hooray!!!

Sorry that this post is a little goofy looking! I’m trying to switch up how I post the photos, but I haven’t quite gotten the hang of it. I’m sure my text got wrapped all stupid. Darn.