new job, and the county

First i’d like to state that the picture of the alpaca has nothing to do with anything, i just found it on my camera while uploading other photos and remembered how darn cute the little guy is. I took it a few weeks ago while at the Common Ground Fair with Genna, i wanted to take him home, along with a few angora bunnies.

I started a new job last monday at a credit union in Lewiston, which is fantastic. I love being employed again, its hard to get use to waking up early, but i’ll figure that part out eventually. I’m currently commuting an hour, but looking for a place in that area so hopefully i find something soon. i have a feeling i wont be able to afford internet right away, so that might be a bit difficult cause i’m kind of an addict.

This weekend i headed up to northern Maine for a friends wedding, and during the 3 hour drive up i had Ian pull off to the scenic view of Mount Katahdin cause he had never seen it before. Sadly it was kind of cloudy so we couldnt see much but i snapped a photo anyway. You can sort of see the lovely fall colors in the photo, but due to the lack of sun and cause its almost past peak they dont look as fantastic in the photo as they usually do, i still love fall in maine though. The wedding itself was lovely with a fall theme and instead of table numbers they were differentiated by Beatles songs, and each table had its own bottle of wine with the Beatles song title on it. I took that home, and im sure it’ll be pretty tasty.

My sweater is on hold for a bit as a work on a project for a friend that i wont delve into much hear in case they happen to stumble across my blog, i do have it linked on my facebook page after all. And soon i’ll have to start Christmas knitting, i should really start looking through my pattern books so i’ll start to have some sort of idea of what i need to purchase, though i am going to try to make most of it out of stash yarn cause its more economical…and i ran out of room in my yarn cupboard, OMG!

And one last thing, i highly recommend the band Owl City, and the singer, Adam Young, sounds just like Ben Gibbard (the singer of on my favorite bands EVER Death Cab for Cutie) so you should go download or buy the CD, or at least the single “fireflies”

Google Addict

i started using “Google Reader” and its amazing! i wasnt a big fan of going to each blog/site, which means i never did, haha, and now i dont have to! all i have to do is add the url to my google reader and when i check it it will tell me if there has been a new post, its FANTASTIC. Now i’ll actually read new blog posts, go me! Speaking of blogs, send me the URL’s of some good ones, i’m completely terrible at finding them.   Then i made igoogle my home page and i can see my gmail, google reader, weather and my gchat all there. so yeah, in the span of like an hour i became a google addict, haha.

So, i finally got to use my knitpicks Zyphers, i have mixed reviews, mostly because of the light weight thing. When they say “light weight” they mean it! its like i’m not holding anything at all, its just weird!  I prefer to have a little weight to my needles, so i’m probably going to switch back to my nickle-plated ones at some point soon to finish up my sweater. I do, however, think they will be fabulous with slick yarns because they are more grippy (or some would say ‘sticky’) then my nickle plated ones. So, most likely when i finally make something out of the fabulous 5000 yards of silk yarn i’ll be using the zyphers, then i wont have to worry about slippage. And i’m not quite sure of this last part because i’ve only used the size sevens, but the tip doesn’t seem as needle like, so therefor i shouldn’t stab myself to death, fantastic! Overall i liked them, i just prefer weightier needles, so i’ll probably just use them for smaller sized things.

And i’ve been slacking big time on my sweater, fail! so i suppose i’ll go work on that now…..and don’t forget to send me blogs to read!

Options!

I got my new zypher needles in the other day!! sadly, i was in Boston for the last 5 days, I just got back today and haven’t gotten a chance to try them out yet, which i’m not very happy about. They are beautiful though and look (and feel a bit) like glass. I hope they feel as fantastic to knit with as they look. I ordered more zippy cases for my needle binder with my yarn order the other day so that should be in soon to.

Another thing about being gone for 5 days, i haven’t gotten to work on my sweater at all, which is pretty depressing. Then again, five days of not knitting has let my index finger heal, i ripped a hole in it knitting a blanket on size 4 options needles (the nickle plated ones). I ordered the zyphers in the small sizes in hopes that wouldn’t happen again.

While I was down in Boston I got to visit both Ikea and The Container Store, and i want to live in either of those stores! i bought a fabulous bed side table and put it all together tonight, as you can see by the picture above. I even took photos of the time at the begining and end of the project, a little less then 2 hours, not bad if i say so myself. Its a pretty tall table for next to a bed, but my bed is pretty tall, so i don’t really care. and i LOVE all the storage it has. My mom mentioned that i should paint my yarn cabinet white to match, and think that’s a fantastic idea. first off, painting is a bit easier then staining, and then i wont have just one random piece of white furniture in my room.

So, who wants to come paint my yarn cabinet then? just kidding…..kinda

yarn fail

So i’m knitting away on multiplicity, i’m up to the arm holes on the back, then i started flipping out. I ordered 10 balls of yarn, but i am nearly done the 3rd ball and im still on the back, that cant be good. So i go and double check the yarn needed for the sweater and i apparently reversed my numbers and ordered to little, FAIL.

I just placed an order for more yarn and put in a little note mentioning the situation and what dye lot i want if they happen to have any left, which i’m hoping they do. Now, for attack plans if they dont! i’ve been thinking if there is a big difference between the dye lots i’d hold off doing the ribbed cuffs on the sweater and i’d make those cuffs and the flowey shawl like coller part out of the different dye lot. If you look at my previous post you can kind of see what i’m talking about, i think it’ll be okay, but i’m really not sure. I suppose i’ll know more when i get the yarn in and i can see how well it matches. I’m pretty sure i over bought yarn now, i only need like a skein more and i bought 4, haha. Its always better to have to much then to little though!

Anyway, i should stop worrying about my yarn troubles, i’m off to boston tomorrow and wont be back till tuesday or wednesday, i get to help my friend move apartments, yay! well, thats only one day of it anyway, the rest should be fun and include an ikea visit!

Mulitiplicity

Just thought i’d share a photo of my multiplicity progress, i’m about 8 1/2″ into the back of the sweater, and considering the fact that its dk weight yarn it knits up quite fast, its pretty exciting. I picked the grey color because, well, i make boring color choices, haha. Everything i knit is either blue, purple or grey, its a very bad habit.

I’ve been working on buying some other color yarns, for example i have a light pink for a summer top i’m going to be making, and a dark red for another summer tank top.  Oh, and last time i went to the yarn store i picked up some HOT PINK yarn from greece, yum! no idea what i’m going to make out of it yet though, perhaps a lacy scarf, i bet my sister would want it though, she loves hot pink.

so i guess i’ll add in a picture of my stash then while i’m at it…

you cant really tell how much blue and purple i have from that shot, but trust me there’s a lot. Apparently when i rearranged it a few weeks ago i hid all my boring colors and put the brighter stuff out front. The yellow is left over from a baby blanket, i also made a really cute tam out of it. the bottom shelf isn’t yarn, its boxes with picture frames that i need to paint and swap out pictures (i don’t really need high school photos framed anymore) and also some leftover fabric from a purse a made a few weeks ago.  the cupboard itself is unfinished and needs to be stained, you can do that for me if you want, i HATE staining, haha.

hmmm, well i suppose that’s it.

Brand New!

I previously had a crappy little never updated blog on blogger, and hated it, then i moved to tumblr, but i wanted comments, so now i’m doing wordpress. Lets see how this goes! i’m going to copy and past my tumblr post from earlier today, cause there’s nothing new for me to say 🙂

“cast on for Multiplicity (out of “sensual knits”) the other day. Spot on with my gauge swatch, so with any luck this sweater will be the proper size, unlike the fiasco with February Lady (TERRIBLE). i’m only about 6” into the back, so i have a ways to go.

Also ordered the new zypher needles from knitpicks! i’m pretty excited about them, i got sizes 4-7. Currently i have the nickle plated options, and the small sizes make me rip a hole in my finger and then it hurts like a bitch to knit, so i figure i’ll try these ones out and see if they are not quite as sharp. i’m thinking because they are acrylic they wont be, and i’ll be much more comfortable, but we’ll see.”