….i got the mott’s!
does that age me? and by that, i mean, quoting old commercials? ah, i can’t hide the dorkiness anyway, so why bother trying?
anyway, reporting in: i did find the camera battery and set up my little studio, sans studio (remember the one my husband gave me for my birthday?). i only have some spot lights, a mini-tripod and a camera. sigh. i’ll work with what i have. see…i’m making progress!!
hope you’re having a good weekend!
we all have excuses for NOT doing the things that we want to do. and who wants to be the girl who makes excuses? i’m done with excuses!! i just need a plan…feel free to waddle through my chain of consciousness as i reason myself into submission (otherwise, click next in your RSS reader and standby for another more knitting-related submission):
okay. i’ve become one of those bloggers who says on a (not so) consistent basis, “I must really post more!!”. let’s be serious people, we all know that really bloggers walk-the-walk, not just talk-the-talk!! i must not be a real blogger. i realize that my life will not be documented in a movie and nor will i ever be offered a book deal that chronicles my creative living. well. i’m okay with that. i think…right now my desire to write posts may just be to justify the subscription cost for my domain name and mapping from wordpress. or maybe i miss the community of knit blogging and need to reintroduce myself. or MAYBE i really do need an outlet for the right side of my brain. no matter. this all boils down posting frequency. what is keeping me from posting?
1. lack of camerage.
sure, sure…i have the old point and shoot, but it takes terrible picture. knit blogging (hell, blogging in general) is much more interesting with some eye-candy. poorly shot photos with bad lighting and ugly staging just makes for some UN-inspiring posts. i have to find the charger on our ancient camera and set up the studio that my husband gave me.
2. lack of inspiration.
funding has been cut. yarn clubs are but fleeting memory. my knitting group has dissolved with my lys closing.
3. lack of time.
i know. wah. in my defense i did just start a new career…and a lot of my time off work is spent in gym (a result of three things: A. a 15-20 lb gain over last year; B. a SIGNIFICANT drop in my metabolism and; C. i’m attempting a sprint triathalon for 2010). all of this equals little time for knitting. oh. and must-see tv. yet i still manage to knit. hm. something is not jiving.
so how do i overcome these things? how about one step at a time?
this weekend, i’ll get #1 & #2 done. i’m putting it in rtm right now (rtm = remember the milk = FAAaaaAA – bu -LoUs!). i’m hoping that the field of dreams effect will take over, and the blogging will roll out naturally…
IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME.
I really miss blogging….but between work and knitting and exercising…where is the time. I thought that my ne phone would help me post more…but the photos taken by it are uninspiring, ugly even!
But regardless, here is proof I am still knitting (mostly socks…at a rate about a pair a month). This is knit in Soxie…a skein that has been aging in the stash. More details to follow. Bye for now!
just wanted to see if I could post from my phone. 
hello strangers, it’s me!
i’ve had an on-again, off-again relationship with this blog. but this is mainly due to the fact that i had been in hell graduate school trying to earn my master of science in nursing…the knitting has been sporadic (which is definitely disheartening)…the yarn shopping even less frequent. but i am hoping to get back on top of things and get my creative juices flowing again.
since i am devoid of anything knitting related (and knitting pictures!)…i’ll post my most recent kitchen victory: potato soup! This was a product of the CSA bounty we had this fall. (CSA = community supported agriculture). We often struggled to find dishes to prepare with the, at times, weird food combos. however, this soup just came together. i made a giagantous batch of the stuff. the neighbors loved it. my brother’s MIL said it was better than her “good cook’ husband’s potatoe soup. even my filipino parents liked the soup – and they are NOT soup people.
potato soup with leeks & mushrooms
ingredients:
directions
i hope you get the chance to try it! don’t forget to save me some!
“nupp” rhymes with “soup”
but it also rhymes with “POOP!”
i hate nupps today.
it’s nice to have something easy peasey on the needles. since my brain is currently full, partly of school stuff, partly of work stuff and the other part full of snot (i’m having this awful, awful mid-winter allergy thingy), i found myself reaching out for these babies! i like them.
double wrapped short row heel
matchey matchey!!
simple socks
pattern: my own (my ravelry link)
knitpicks simple stripes in vineyard
2 skeins | 231 yds : 50 g | 75 wool : 25 nylon
started: january 10, 2009
completed: february 25, 2009
needles: US #1 2.25 mm knitpicks nickel plated options
notes: figure 8, toe up cast on 10, increased to 64. basic 2×2 rib. a little baggy on the ankles…but not too bad.
i love it when you find the right combination! this was attempt #2 with the variegated yarn on the right. i have been dying to knit with the sundara yarn, too. my records say i bought it from ebay, but i don’t remember buying it. anyway…a photo story:
lovely yarn.
lovely pattern.
lovely start.
grey spot socks
pattern: spot check socks by beth parrot (my ravelry link)
in knitting socks with handpainted yarn
sundara sock yarn ochre over lime & cth supersock in african grey
started: january 28, 2008
needles: US 2.5 and 2.75 mm knitpicks harmony dpns
notes: started with the smaller needles…my guage gets smaller with two colors.
sometime last year i did a roundup of my unfinished sock projects. (yes, i realize that my last post introduced YET ANOTHER sock).
i counted seven at the time. of the seven (plus another i started later in the year) i finished one. ripped out and remade another. gave up on three not-so-exciting socks. two others are still waiting wips.
i have officially given up the claim that i only work on one project at a time. (including my other non-sock knitting…the grand total of wips is (drum rolllll)……14! (high hat!) crazy. even crazier? i couldn’t find anything to knit last night. i ended up spreading out my stash over the living room floor, hoping to find inspiration. instead, i found a lot of sock yarn. much more than i thought i had. so much for keeping an up to date inventory (is it okay that i blame lack of time and lack of decent camera?)
anyway, this morning for my “study break” knitting, i picked up a long forgotten project i started made of this:
cidermoon ‘flurry’ in jackie o
100% superwash merino | 440 yds: 110 g
note: purchased at kc ‘06
cidermoon is a now defunct business. what a shame! their colorways were fun and i really liked the base yarns they chose. during their heydey i was attempting to be more conservative in my buying habits. thus, i only have two colorways in their fingering weight yarn. (sigh). i should have snatched up a couple other ones.
for those interested, one of the owners opened up shop as tuscan grove fibers. i’m not sure if it sells online, but i do know she sells through a lys, knitter’s mercantile.
anyway, i had the cuff and the ribbing to go….then i needed to fix the non-stretchy bind-off for the first sock. it was my first and only attempt at a tubular bo for 2×2 ribbing. i failed miserably. i debated if i should i try again or just use a sewn bo a la elizabeth zimmerman. given my enthusiasm might have waned quickly, i was going to just go for the EZ (pun intended!) way. ha! i kill me sometimes. how corny can you get? instead, i just did a loose standard bo cuz i was too lazy to find a yarn needle.
jackie o! lace socks
pattern: cross hatch lace from more sks (my rav link)
cidermoon flurry in jackie o
1 skein | 440 yds : 50 g | 100 merino wool
started: july 2007
finished: jan 27, 2009
needles: US #1 2.25mm knitpicks nickel plated circs
notes: fig 8 cast on 12, increased to 60, loose traditional bo…and yes, i know, almost two years in the making!!
hooray! i already have 2 fo’s for 2009!! this is probably due more to procrastinating from studying than a propensity for being uber-productive. oh well. i’ll take it.
now…what’s next?
beep! beep!!
hey you! don’t look!!
(ha! made you look!) drive by posting….
simple socks
pattern: my own (my ravelry link)
knitpicks simple stripes in vineyard
2 skeins | 231 yds : 50 g | 75 wool : 25 nylon
started: January 10, 2009
needles: US #1 2.25 mm knitpicks nickel plated options
notes: figure 8, toe up cast on 10, increased to 64. basic 2×2 rib.
this is a discontinued yarn. i loved the old knitpicks sock yarn. very durable and not squeaky like the new essential. the new essential is just okay. and i would knit with it if i *loved* the colorway, which i do in the kettle dyes.
i happen to love knitpicks. yarn snobs be damned!! the lace yarns (gloss and shadow) are fantastic and while in the past the color choices were not to my taste, they are now becoming more sophisticated. add to that the pointy and inexpensive options needles….and an obsession is born.
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