Tinking!!!!!

So I bought some beautiful cotton blend yarn (at a deal of a price) in December and started 2 weeks ago, finally, to knit with it. It's call KIM, manufactured in Italy. Very easy to work with. I picked a pattern and knit the front in a lace-type pattern. Beautiful to look at, but, when I looked at the finished piece it just was too heavy-looking and also started to sag. Well, I tinked it and put the time spent knitting it as a learning process. Now I'm starting a new project-a lacey cardigan embellished with pearl buttons. The pattern is from the May 2008, Creative Knitting magazine, page 28, Pearl-Trimmed Cardigan. We'll see how this works out.

Pics or it didn't happen!!!!

I will be posting pics of my finished projects when I get out the digcam and download them. Everyone,....don't hold your breath...but it will happen!

I Dreamt That All My Projects Were Complete!

For those of you who don't get the "Dream" reference, years ago, Maidenform Bra had a series of ads that started out, for instance, "I dreamt I went to the Eiffel Tower in my Maidenform Bra". This caption was under a women wearing her Maidenform Bra (pointy boobs, like arrows), with a beautiful skirt, standing under the Tower.  Well, I DON'Twalk around showing off my bra.....believe me no one wants to see my 70 year old droopies, but I would like to have all my projects done. I'm working now on a pullover that I started perhaps five years ago. Poor little thing got put away and didn't see the light of day until I got to cleaning and sorting the stash, etc. So back to the finishing and another cuppa coffee.

STASH, you are EBIL!!!!!

So today, another stab at sorting the EBIL STASH!  I spent about 1 hour sorting, trying to make sense of the stash built up over several years.  Some of the yarn, I have no idea why it's in my possession.  I'm stacking it in baskets and clear bags in a bookcase.  The top shelf holds patterns and reference book.  Now, at least I can see my yarnshame.  I promised myself that I would complete current projects, get out UFOs to turn them into FOs and NOT BRING IN ANY MORE YARN!!!! ::head hanging here::  I could not resist some beautiful Italian cotton blend yarn (14 skeins) I saw, on sale, at the Naked Sheep (Queen St. the Beaches) this past week.  There is a reason for the 'extravagance' ( $36) is that I have a hankering for a cotton summer tank and cardi for which I do have a pattern.  Time  to get back to the sorting, while the slow cooker does its job of making Chile.  Yum!

HAPPY NEW YEAR

My New Year Resolution?  Multi task.  Happy 2010 everyone.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Wishes

There is an old saying: "If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride".  Well I'm wishing I could spend more time knitting and I also wish I was skinny like the chicks in the pics!  Well, time is always available it's how you us it that makes you happy, sad, or angry.
So, over the next month I will make better use of my time and there will be PICTURES!