La Noche de Frecuentar

Expect some knitting in costume and Blue Moon party pics later this weekend.

And have a good All Hallow's Eve :D

November

Because I like to mess things up :D

NaKniSweMo (National Knit A Sweater Month)
NaFinSweMo (National Finish A Sweater Month)

Mon Cherie: it's getting on my nerves. Because I have been ribbing for a good month, and still have like eight rounds of ribbing to go. I swear it will cast-off by the 30th!!!
Er, I hope.

NaWriNovMo (National Write A Novel Month)
NaWriPlaMo (National Write A Play Month)
School: it does not like me.

So stay tuned for angst, anger, and more angst! And did I mention angst!
:P

My Saturday . . .

was spent, as usual at the museum.

I love my job. I get to let little kids hold dinosaur bones, enjoy art for free, and access secret doors with my ID badge :P
Oh, and eat lunch out here:

(Whoa, check out the trees!)

Aaaaaand some cool white plant-thingys that I have learned are called sea oats:

Hope you had a great weekend :)

FO: Music Is My Boyfriend

Because my old earbuds were ripped and . . .icky.

Koigu is most certainly not icky ;)

And since I have been such a terrible creative person, I've gone and made the pattern for you as well :D

Happy knitting (and listening)

Free Pattern: iPod Earbud Covers

Materials:
fingering weight yarn scraps (less than 15 yards is more than enough)
US 3 double-pointed needles
Tapestry needle

Gauge:
8 stitches=1 inch in stockinette stitch

Terms:
KFB~K into the front and the back of the stitch (increases 1 stitch)

Cover:
CO 9
K 1 round
Round 2: [K2, KFB] around
Round 3: [K2, KFB] around
Round 4: [K2, KFB] to last stitch, K1
K 1 round
Round 6: [K2, K2tog] to last stitch, K1
Round 7: K2tog around
Break yarn and pull through remaining 8 stitches
Fit onto earbud, tightening and adjusting as needed
Weave in ends

Make two

Find tunes. Rock out :P

IOU

Some art.



And knitting. But there's really not that much to see. Both my WIP's are unchanged, just longer :P

And designing. Hopefully this an area I can satisfy. Because I has a BRILLIANT IDEA for this yarn:

Okay, so a few days ago I was at Target, and guess what knitted item is in vogue this fall?

Fingerless gloves and mitts. The accessory section is stuffed with them.
This pair was around $!2. I CAN MAKE THAT. EASILY!

So? I'm going to design a pair of gloves (fingers included) with my Snowflake yarn. And they will be nicer than $12 fingerless gloves (which I will also probably make some of soon).

Ta ta for now!

Fall is Just Something That Grownups Invented

The approaching holiday of Halloween puts me in kind of a dark mood.
But only because it's hype for the SWEETEST HOLIDAY EVER!!!!



I used the zoom for this one. They were like five of these things, and they were the size of my palm.
*twitches* Ewewewewew


What the—daisies?

And some chocolate-chip banana bread to finish you off!

Fangirl

I have become one.

The Office season premiere was amazing. Funny, dramatic, cute, full of surprises. Amazing.

AND Pushing Daisies starts next week, and rumors and teasers all have something to do with Olive and—nuns? And apparently, a tribute to The Sound of Music haha.

In other news, there's no news. I still knit. Haruha is inching along. Mon Cherie is inching along. Fall is inching along, as I am reluctantly making the wardrobe change to sweaters and jackets.

Yeah, I feel your pain. How boring can my posts get? :P But hopefully I shall have some art done soon, so you'll get to see something other than my excuses to blog and not research my History project.
Also (hopefully) I'll kick my brain into gear and churn out some new knit designs. Cause the fans demand more patterns!!!

Yes, that is overly exaggerated ;)

Aaaaaaaarrrrrgh!

WARNING: YOU ARE ABOUT TO READ AN EXTREMELY GEEKINESS-FILLED POST. SERIOUSLY, HOW LOW CAN I STOOP?

Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day.

I wouldn't have known that if it weren't fer

an' th' brilliant

In honor of this grand day in hist'ry, Captain Casey has adorned th' colors o' our flags an' promoted sailor talk thr'out th' main forum seas.

An' in th' words o' Bonny MJ, "Walk th' plank, ye scruvy dogs!"

(Translation: I shall go now. Happy International Talk Like a Pirate and Sound Like an Idiot, But Hey It's Fun Anyway, Day. Aaargh!)

When you have no electricity . . .

1. You play the piano for a good half-hour before your brothers shout that they're sick of hearing Fur Elise. Your mother agrees.
2. You try to draw, but this fails as there are no lights and the sun is setting.
3. In defeat, you listen to your iPod until you are sick of hearing Fur Elise play in the back of your head, despite what's coming out of the headphones.

Finally, the cable, Internet, and power come back on and you nearly sprint to the computer.

I discovered Haruha on Ravelry and had an itch, no, AN ABSOLUTE COMPULSIVE NEED to start it.


Malabrigo.
Lace.
<3<3<3
Sometimes, I wonder if loving my knitted pieces as much as I do can lead to some strange mental condition :D

However, there is a tiny (but evil) creature crawling back into my life

Grrr. Unfortunately, The Frog work in stages, too.
1. You're ecstatic because the lace is coming out so well.
2. You see a mistake a few rows back. No problemo!
Rippit.
3. You hurry along, churning out another lace repeat.
4. There's another mistake, but only a few rows back. We can make that up!
Rippit.
5. You knit like a madwoman (but a careful, chart-reading madwoman), lace flying.
6. Guess what I see a few rows back?!
Rippit (in an insane, sadistic frog croak/laugh way).

>:/ Orange is a lovely color, but I'm really starting to hate green . . .