Just keep knitting, just keep knitting...

Lots of grey knitting lately... and I did it while watching reruns of Grey's Anatomy online! Yeay!

Anyway, here is the previously mentioned "INFERNAL" hat:


I forgot my friend's birthday. Really. Just plumb slipped my mind. Even Facebook failed me! So, he requested beanies for Christmas. He showed me one he particularily liked, not knowing how painful it would be to recreate in knitting. I guess the only thing that makes it so annoying is how tedious it is. 200 stitches of 2x2 ribbing. Egh. I need to finish it for my friend because he goes back to college on the 3rd and I go to college about 3000 miles away, making it difficult to give it to him later.

Coming home meant rummaging through yarn I'd left behind. I found a lovely skein of Claudia's Handpainted yarns in Carribbean Blue. I had used the other skein to knit some socks for my mom... I think I'm going to try to recreate them for a pair for me.

I also found two skeins of woolly grey yarn...


The yarn has a long history and story, but that's for another time. I'm trying to decide what to knit with it... either the Irish Hiking Scarf or Backyard Leaves. I'm leaning toward the latter... I really wanted to knit the Backyard Leaves in a silvery grey for some reason, and this is the perfect shade... However, the yarn is so squishy I feel like it's more suited for cables. Oh well, we'll see.

What do you mean it's after Christmas?

So. Christmas has come and gone and I'm still not done with a lot of my knitting... and the ones I managed to finish I sent off without taking pictures. Wow. I am the epitome of lameness and clearly not an experienced knitblogger. Argh. Oh well, perhaps for 2007 I shall resolute to be better.

I did manage to snap a nice clear shot of the Scarf From Hell which has found a nice home with my friend Olivia.


Scarf from Hell
pattern: the Harry Potter PoA scarf from atypically.net... only managed 10 stripes though
needles: 4.25 mm
yarn: Cascade 220... not sure about the colors but 3 skeins of the blue and 1 skein of the white (only used half)

Some of you may be curious as to why this was the "scarf from hell." Well, first, it was over 28,000 stitches of stockinette. YES. And secondly, it was of the infernal colors of the Dodger Blue and White. Blegh. But Olivia liked it so I guess it is all right.

Remember these?


Vintage Beaded Gloves
pattern: from Handknit Holidays
alterations: Didn't use beads
needles: 2.00 mm
yarn: Blue Skies Alpaca and Silk

And currently I'm still working on my mother's gift, the Twilight Lace.


I've actually made even more progress. I have to say though, I could not get 16 repeats out of 227 yards of Rowan Kid Silk Night. I couldn't even get 15! I only managed halfway through the point before I had to break into the second skein. Sigh. I think I'll only try 11 repeats on the second skein before decreasing.

I'm also working on this INFERNAL hat for my friend. I stupidly decided to try to knit a hat in fingering weight. What was I thinking?!

More pictures and such to come when there's daylight... It's break now and I'm surrounded by yarn! But no needles. Stupid girl.

And there was much rejoicing...!

Fittingly, I have finished my first Christmas present on the first day of Christmas.


Dalia's Scarf
pattern: just a seed stitch
needles: 8.0 mm
yarn: Brown Sheep (no idea what color... it's a beautiful teal though), 1 skein; Koigu KPPPM p122, 1 skein

The colors are much bolder than they appear in the photo (4:30 pm sunsets? wot?!) and are absolutely stunning. The simple seed stitch shows off the lovely yarn wonderfully.

On Thursday, I stopped by Downtown Yarns and came back with this:


3 skeins of Koigu, 2 skeins of Brown sheep, and 2 skeins of Baby Ull Dalegarn which will eventually be a hat for my friend.

I had an interesting experience at Downtown Yarns... I had been there before, but this was the first time I needed them to wind up the yarn for me. The girl working there wound up three and then asked me to wind up the other two, which has never happened to me before, anywhere. I was mildly confused, and while I do enjoy winding up yarn for some reason, I was perplexed. Is this common?


This will be another scarf, much like Dalia's, except not.

Anyway, I thought I'd share some of my other WIPs.

Here's the Scarf from Hell... it's blurry because there is a remote chance that the person it's for may read this:


Vintage Beaded Gloves (minus beads)


So little time so much knitting to do... Gah. I have to write a paper... and I'd so much rather just knit. Sigh.