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03/15/2006
Just-About-FO's, New Yarn, and a New Camera!
Oh yeah, I've been busy. I got half of my student loan in...paid some bills and of course, spent a bit on myself! Sunday I went to the mall in search of the long awaited NEW CAMERA to replace my junker Minolta X-700 (old school, but no longer my friend since it broke twice this year) and picked up a brand spanking new Canon K2, it's pretty sweet. I haven't taken it for a test run yet, but I will this week!!!
So I've FINALLY, FINALLY completed the knitting for the BACCARAT top. I hate it. I totally hate it. It doesn't fit under the arms so I need to figure something out there...and the droopy collar thing looks stupid and nowhere near as pretty as the picture. I'm hoping blocking will fix that, and my skills will fix the under arms. I'll figure something out and post a pic of me modeling it as soon as I get it finished up.
BUT! I do have a happy project to post! I cast on for the Steek Vest in Loop-D-Loop yesterday afternoon, and I'm about half an hour away from finishing it off (however I've been distracting by blogs and Craftster all day, and thus it is not finished!) so I'll probably have that picture up tomorrow! I flew through this pattern, it's a great one for that advanced beginner who's never knit a garment before. Which for a lazy intermediate like myself, is perfect!
Before my Camera trip, Allison and I hit up A.C. Moore (who had a 30% off yarn sale going on) and Eva's Yarns (our oh-so-posh LYS) a couple times for a stash dash. I bought the Wool-Ease for the Steek Vest, suade for a belt, Beads and wire to whip up some stitch markers, and some other random stuff. At Eva's I picked up some sweet sock yarn (the red stuff) and looked for the SnB Crochet book, which sadly hadn't come in yet. I've been tempted to buy it elsewhere...but I would rather give Eva the sale than some schmuck store.
So as you can tell from the sock yarn...I will be embarking on my first pair of socks this week. I've got to finish the vest, then a quick eyelash scarf for my mom (she wanted one because the other one I made her gets caught on her earrings) and THEN on to the socks. Anyone have any pattern suggestions????
I spent the whole day adding shit to my blog, finding out Knitting Blogs deleted me AGAIN (SO not worth the effort), and delving into this flickr and blogroll fancyness. Which led me to considering just how much I loathe BlogSpirit.
I'm seriously thinking about moving to a pay site for my blog. I've had it with Blogspirit and their bullshit. Now they've thrown a random sloppy ad in my neat and clean Webrings and Cool Sites thing on top of constantly screwing up and taking me to the same HEY YOU SHOULD PAY US AND GET ALL THIS screen everytime I log in. As far as I've seen the most popular blog hosting is with Pretty Posies and TypePad...anyone have any suggestions there?
Blogspirit makes me wanna holla...I WANT OUT!!!
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I am not happy to hear about the baccarat! I still have to finish mine... ugh. As for the pretyposies... although she doesn's say so outright, she only uses the server for her friends right now. I contacted her what I boogied form blogspirit. I tried TypePad too and decided my own domain name w/ Wordpress was the way to go! I had help though... I wouldn't suggest trying it on on your own without A LOT of time. Typepad has free trials at every level, maybe check that out! Hope this helps!
Posted by: kaitlyn | 03/16/2006
Do tell about the Steek Vest. I am knitting it with Deco Ribbon and had to put it down b/c the ribbon yarn was making me insane! What are you using? Love the color...looks like black. Mine is black too because it seemed the perfect color for this project.
Congrats on the student loan cash-ola. You just reminded me that I need to make my March payment. That means less yarn and shoe money! Ugh!!!
Posted by: Bonnie | 03/16/2006
The Baccarat looks interesting. I'll have to check out loop-d-loop.
Your blog looks good too..by the way. But I know how annoying things show up and it throws it all off. I think you got that annoying blueish purple thing going on because you don't have that little purple blogspirit 80x15 button. Unless that's it....then I don't know.
Posted by: Julie | 03/16/2006
That's too bad about Baccarat, you could always frog it ;)
At least your making great progress on the vest!
Posted by: lcord | 03/16/2006