Another LYS Trip...

Becky, Valerie, Justin, and I went to our LYS yesterday! Much fun. We bought Valerie a birthday present (some beautiful lace weight yarn. She's making a gift for her host mom when she goes to Japan). Becky found some of her favorite yarn on sale, the book she's been wanting, and she bought me some crazy cool novelty yarn that I'm making a headband with. Pics to follow.

ALSO!! I got compliments on my calorimetry TWICE yesterday. Once was from a random girl on campus that stopped Becky and asked, "Where did you buy that?" and the other was the other of the yarn shop who thought it was amazing and had to look up the pattern for herself. Squee.

We're going back to the store today for Becky's b-day present. I found the yarn I want to make my afghan out of, but it's $10 a skein and I need over ten skeins. :( Not in the budget right now. I wish I could buy it one skein at a time, but then my dye lots wouldn't match. Anywho, I do need to go back to Wal-Mart and grab a few skeins of Caron Simply Soft to make my dad's hat and Kelly's hat.

One last thing! The person I made the Jayne hat for received it yesterday and LOVES it! I am sooo happy!
~Kero

A Buttload of FOs

All finished and photographed!! Warning: Picture heavy!

I'll start with the calorimetries. The pattern can be found here.


This is the first calorimetry I made, which turned out way too large. It was knit on US #6 needles with Bernat Softee Chunky. It lacks a button or woven in ends because I haven't decided whether I should frog it or not.





This is the calorimetry I made for myself. I used Noro Silk Garden and US #6 needles. This is my first non-acrylic project. I used the same alterations as I did with the brown calorimetry.



This is the one I made for Becky. I cast on about 112 stitches for this one. It looks great on her! I'll try to make her let me take a picture. I used Caron Simply Soft Deep Plum Heather on US #6s.

Next is the scarf.





This is the double-knit star scarf I've been working on for ages. I used Caron Simply Soft in black and Autumn red, knitted on US #7s. The pattern is here.

Last but not least, a couple of hats.





My beautiful butterfly hat. I am sorely tempted to keep this, but I think I'm going to make one for myself in blue. This was knitted on US #5 and #7 circular needles. The yarn is Caron Simply Soft in Plum Wine. I love this hat SO much!



Oh, Jayne hat, how I love thee. This is supposed to be Jayne Cobb's hat from the series Firefly. The pattern calls for wool or cotton, but I used Caron Simply Soft in Autumn red, mango, and lemonade. This is a gift for a friend, and I'll try to get a picture of her wearing it. This was knitted on US #10.5 circulars.

Well, that's all I got! Now I only have one WIP: Becky's scarf, which is hibernating. I need to get started on a few more things!
~Kero

Accomplished!

Well, I got a lot of work done tonight! I wove in the ends on my star scarf, finished the butterfly hat (my first time working on double-pointed needles), and wove in the ends/sewed the button on my calorimetry! The pink button I planned on using went missing, but I found a nice brown one instead. :) Also, I did one ear flap on the Jayne hat and am working on the second. dare I try to finish it tonight?

Pictures will be along shortly, I swear! I just have to finish picking the dog hair off of everything...
~Kero

Happy Birthday, Becky!!!

I had to work today, so I took the butterfly hat along to work on. I got pretty far! I'm a little worried that it might end up sitting too far off my head, but it isn't for me anyway. I also got the button sewed Becky's calorimetry and the ends woven in using my brand new tapestry needles! Becky bought me a set with three different sizes in a cute little case, and the smallest actually fits through the holes on the button. The calorimetry fits Becky perfectly and she loves it, so yay me! Now if I could ever finish her skull scarf...

Just for the record, I'm terribly jealous of the sock she's making.
~Kero

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope everyone had a great holiday. I know I did! I ate a bunch at both dinners (one on mom's side, one on dad's) and had a bunch of time for knitting. Becky's calorimetry is off the needles, but since I don't have a tapestry needle I can't finish the darn thing. She did give me some hat patterns over the phone, so I think I'm going to cast on one of them. Time to use the Plum Wine yarn, perhaps?
~Kero

It's a Dog-Eat-Knitting World

I mentioned Cody in the last post, right? Well, since he was in a new place we wanted him to stay inside for the first night. I'm not used to having a puppy around the house (especially a three feet high puppy), so I didn't put all of my knitting away like I should have. To make a long story short, Cody tried to eat the brown calorimetry. It looks like he ripped out a few stitches, but I haven't examined it closely enough to see if it's ruined. At least they don't take long to make... If he had tried to eat the star scarf, I would be pissed.

Speaking of the scarf, I've decided it only needs 14 stars instead of 15. Two left to go! I think I may stay up and finish it, but you'll just have to hear about that tomorrow.
~Kero

Plum Crazy

Becky leaves for San Antonio tomorrow, so on our way to meet up with her sister we stopped by Wally World. I'm still trying to get Christmas presents done, so I picked out a really nice pink yarn (Plum Wine) for a scarf and hat. In case I wanted to change colors, I let Becky help me pick out a second skein. She chose this really beautiful dark purple color (Deep Plum Heather). It's totally coincidental that both colors are a shade of plum. I think I'm going to make Becky a calorimetry out of the purple. It all depends on if the Scarf of Doom (I love it, but I'm so tired of working on it!) gets finished anytime soon.
~Kero

Button!

Since I've been making a million calorimetries lately, I decided to dig out my button collection from when I was a little girl. I also bought a bag of mixed buttons to add to the selection. I found a perfect pink button for my Noro calorimetry!

Since I'll be home all week while Becky's in San Antonio, I plan on getting a lot of knitting done (including my star scarf, dammit!!). It might take me a while to get pictures up, but I'll do what can.

~Kero

Yay!

-^^- I've already finished my calorimetry! I was worried that it would turn out too small, but it's perfect and beautiful and I'm SO glad I did it in Noro! I can't find a tapestry needle at the moment, but as soon as I've worked away the ends and sewn on a button I'll take piccies. I am going to wear this EVERYWHERE.

I am a little over halfway done with the star scarf, and I'm casting on the Jayne hat as soon as I can get the needles away from Becky.

...Just wondering, but what the hell did I do before I learned to knit? O.o
~Kero

Love Love Love Love Love Love

I am happy.

Today Becky and I took a trip to our LYS and splurged! That's right, we bought yarn from somewhere other than Wal-Mart! Becky came out of the deal with some very beautiful sock yarn (Tofutsies) and sock needles, as well as a skein of yarn for a Christmas present. I bought a skein of Noro Silk Garden (my first non-acrylic yarn!) to make myself a calorimetry (so I can stop wearing the one I made for someone else).


Becky's sock yarn.


Becky's hat yarn


My precious, beautiful Noro. I'm in love.

We also decided to go ahead and get our joint Christmas present to each other. Here it is!! We needed it to make some more Christmas gifts, and I can start on my Jayne hat! Yaaaaaay! This also means that now Becky and I can both knit hats at the same time.

I don't know if I've ever been happier. :)
~Kero

A Couple FOs! Rejoice!

Yaaaaay! I won't keep you waiting any longer!

The first project is the Windy City Scarf from Stitch 'n Bitch. I knitted this on US #7 needles (smaller than the pattern calls for) and I cast on a few extra stitches. I should have made it longer, but didn't realize that until I had already changed colors. I used Caron Simply Soft in Denim and Chocolate. This is a gift for a friend.


The scarf in all its glory.


A detail shot of the colors.

Now for the calorimetry... I edited the pattern so that it would actually fit me (this is only after a beautiful but failed first try). I cast on 106 stitches and used needles two sizes too small (US #6). Then I only worked about twelve or so short rows (I kind of just eyeballed it... When I got it half as wide as I wanted it, I started increasing again. It fits me perfectly! Too bad it's meant to be a gift. This is a fast knit, though, so I will certainly make more. This is done in the same Chocolate yarn as the scarf, and I plan on doing some Denim blanket stitching around the edges.


Here it lies...


And an action shot, just for fun.


And finally, the two together.

Thanks for looking!
~Kero

...

I am posting my FOs TONIGHT! I promise! I am weaving in some ends right now and then I'll have Becky help me with pictures.

Also, I changed the calorimetry pattern to fit me and am really pleased with the way it came out... I'll give the specific alterations in the next post.

I bought Becky (and by extension myself) a book for her birthday. We now have our very own copy of Domiknitrix. Exciting.

Be patient with me, I'm busy. :(
~Kero

Proof

I just wanted to show y'all that I have actually been working on something...



I have a handful of rows left to do, and it's done done done! And my sweetheart and I have scheduled a time to take pictures of our work tonight. *sigh* Too damn busy!

By the way, I reeeeally want to knit this.
~Kero

Pattern Woes

I finished another project! Go me! My calorimetry is off the needles and... much too large for my cute little head. However, it fits the girlfriend, so I may give it to her. Or I may just frog it and then redo it with few stitches and rows. Had I been a good girl and done my homework, I would have discovered they nearly everyone has had the exact same problem with the pattern, and I could have saved myself hours of work had I looked around. :( However, I am starting another one with smaller yarn and fewer stitches, so we'll see how it goes.

Number of times I had to explain what a "calorimetry" was today: 7

I promise I'll post some pictures soon! I'm just too damn busy at the moment. Do you still love me?
~Kero

Calor-whaty?

I finally finished my keyhole scarf! Yaaaaay! But, I lied: I haven't been working on finishing my star scarf. No, instead I let myself be sucked in to making a calorimetry. Oh well.

I don't have time to post pics tonight, but I'll try to tomorrow. Laters!
~Kero