11.11.11

Today I'm ready to be happy!!!

To make a wish at 11.11... and you get two if you make one in the morning and another one at night.

I'm off to help defining spaces and organizing the Spinners and Weavers Guild Annual Show... later the vendors will come (the guild members) to set up their stands... will be so interesting and fun to see the inside of a show, the set up and preparations, instead of just getting there when they are ready and open to the public...

Then I think I'll go to the Yarn Shop for an afternoon of making Holliday decorations with a couple of girls that go there after school while her mom gets out of work... don't you love the idea of "day care" where you can knit and crochet and learn fibery stuff???? I love that!

And then back to the show to see it in full with the vendors in place!

Have a great fun day and don't forget to make your wishes!!!

See you soon!
S.

Yarny business

It looks like my days pass by without giving me much time to seat down and write leisurely...
Anyway, here I am today... Very happy in the refugee of my home. I appears that it had started to snow... at least for short periods of time and not over the whole city at the same time.
Yesterday I had a bit of snow falling on me while I waited for the bus... I had that feeling of excitement that comes with the first snow, but also a bit of sadness that warmer days had finished.

I've been all over the place with my yarns!!!!
I finished my sweater, and its pretty, cozy and warm/hot... I'll show it to you later, as (again) pictures are in MG camera... but for know I have pictures of some of the parts... The back and one front...

The pattern is called Nimbus and as you can see is a knitted sweater. My first sweater knitted in parts and sewn together. The yarn I used is the one the pattern asks for and is Peruvia Quick. A thick chunky yarn in 100% wool.... ideal for the cold weather!!!!

But I do have a lot more thing to share!!!!

Here I am wearing the white shawlette/stole I finished a while ago... 

Very fun... I felt like I was wearing a cloud!!!

My LYS had a promotion with an already-dressed-loom so you could seat just for the afternoon and weave even when you didn't know a thing about weaving (like me) and without having to take a full class and dress the loom and all that.... so I took advantage of it and wove a table runner that I took to Mexico with me to give to my uncle as a Birthday present.... he was very happy with it and I was so proud of myself!!!

I did a couple of headbands using Shepperds Wool yarn... it was my first time using that yarn and I loved it!!! it is totally great for this headbands... they are knitted with 2 strands held together and are quick and easy to fix. they button in the lower part of your head and I added a flower to embellish one of them. I didn't have enough yarn to make a flower for the other one. I gave the one with the flower to a friend from Mexico and she loved it! she is living in North Carolina so it gets cold there the same as here, so with a headband we get to cover our ears and be warm even if we have styled our hair. 

And finally (before this post gets super long)... I want to share a scarf with you... 

Now... isn't that pretty???? but I didn't make it!!!!! you may recognize it from the web, because it was purchased in a big store. I don't know which one... the owner of the shop bought it and it was so popular with the customers and so many people asked for the pattern that I was asked to write the pattern for it. Or at least my version of it...

So I did.... and last week I had a class with 4 students to show this motives...

Here's what I did that day!

I need tons of hexagons!!!

See you soon!

S.

Quick trip, Halloween and Home coming weekend...

Hello guys!!!
I'm back and I hope to seriously be back to blog and catch up with you....

How you've been? I've missed you!!!

I had a quick trip back home last week... One of my friends was getting married. It was a very special wedding and I was so glad I was able to make it and be there with them. My parents went with me and all my friends were there so I had a great time!!

I came back on Thursday for a weekend full of events!!! MG didn't go with me to Mex and the wedding so he was playing crying because "he missed me sooo much and I left like for a year"... so we had an excellent loving weekend with lots of hugs and kisses because he was so happy I'm back! :o) that is perfection and happiness.

The weekend was Home coming weekend... and while we didn't got tickets for the football game, we enjoyed the night parade on Friday night... it was long and happy and I deffinetly love Bands!!!! I have a thing for them! every time I see and hear a band I get all happy and excited and jumping and more...
I don't have pictures because I forgot my camera that day... MG joined me there and he took pictures, I have to make sure to take them out of his camera and onto my computer.

Friday was a perfect autumn day. I had a nice walk in the main street downtown from the yarn shop to where the parade was going to pass... It was cold and chilly but not freezing and I bought a hot chocolate to make the walk. It was like a half mile walk and the hot chocolate was sooooo good! it was the first of the season and that made me happy!

On Saturday we went to our respective worlds: MG to his lab and me to the Yarn Shop.... :o)
Later we went to a store to pick up costumes for a Halloween party....
We dressed up as Pirates!!!

That's me... (oviously, huh?) the dress was a little tiny bit big but very comfortable, with cheap velvet and lace... I liked it... the skirt had pointy stripes in both fabrics and I wore fishnet stockings and tall boots.
Marco had boot covers, black pants and this set of hat and jacket:::

And here we are together:::  (You can see that MG is making a "Pirate" face)

We had a great time and the party was crowd packed with people in all kind of costumes...

What did you do for Halloween???

See you soon!
S.

I'm still here...

I don't know what's happening... I'm still here and I have a lot of things to share and write, but I just don't feel like writing... my camera keeps filling with pictures that I take to post and keep the memories and when I get to the computer I just can't bring myself to do it...

I'll be back, hopefully soon!

S.

Happiness and frustation...

I can't tell you how excited I am with my cardigan porject...

It had grown nicely, steady and pretty... VEEERY pretty!!!

You can clearly see all the stitches and the patterns are defined. I have 7 stitch patterns going on at the same time, so it's a major challenge for me that I'm not really a knitter. Although after this one I might consider myself one!!

I go to the sleeve and worked succesfully on it... (the growing part to the right)

And since the body is worked in short rows respect to the neckline, it actually makes the neckline to be a LOT smaller and have considerable few rows than the body, which makes it to curve which in consequence make the cardigan to shape itself without really shapeing...

I've been working on it for 3 weeks and I'm very happy with it... right now I'm more than half way to the back...

But today... I realized that I've made a HUGE mistake!!!!
I can't understad how or why but I increased in 3 different rows in ths same place, resulting in 3 extra stitches along one of the patterns, and an extra stitch marker on my needle that I ab-so-lu-te-ly cannot remember puting....

And I've knitted 16 rows when I realized it!!!!!!!! can you imagine!!!!!!!!!!!?????????

I'm so in shock!

I was at the Yarn shop, so we took those stitches out in an attempt of seeing if we could hide the extra yarn behind somehow, but I think there's no good choice...

I will have to rip off those 16 rows!!! I'm scared.
I don't want to take it back one stitch at a time but ripping off 16 rows of different stitch patterns is just painful!!!
I don't know how to explain it, but I'm sure you understand...

I'm off now... MG just got home, plus we are getting down with a cold, he's worse than me but I'm afraid I'll get there too... headache.
I'll rest with a movie...

See you soon!
S.