yarngurl: the crafty one

so, they finally got my teeth out! well, at least two of them, which is good enough for me....the right side of my face is swollen, AGAIN! Still no crunchy or spicy food, and back on the soup, yogurt and ice cream diet. i was so disoriented when i came home from the hospital last night that i messed up on basic stockinette. i don't even know what i did but it really sucks cause i was making so much progress on the vogue knitting cabled sweater. i mean i started on sunday and i just finished the armhole decreases....will post pictures soon.

finishing hell!!!

now that i am feeling a little better, yet still unable to work, i have decided to dig deep in my UFOs and finish something that i could wear now that the weather is breaking and i stumbled upon this:
this was my remixed version of a striped sweater in rowan #32. e was just black and gray so i just used 3 colors, but i stuck to the wool cotton. to my surprise, all that was left to knit was the last sleeve's decreases...but i do hate weaving in ends, blocking and finishing more than anything else in the world. so i put the pieces together and finished the collar. frankie, my darling calico, always loves to nap on my current prijects, but she is so cute, i can't help but photograph it.

the colors are a little bit off, but you get the idea and hopefully i will post a photo of me wearing this sweater sometime next week.

i also venture out today and stopped by knit a way a yarn store that is quite nearby to my new apartment, and picked up some yarn to make a cabled cardigan from (of all places) the fall vogue knitting! i never really find things in there but i actually found a couple things that i wouldn't mind making. i went to the site to try  and grab a photo of it but it wasn't there. but i will show you how it's going soon. i haven't forgotten about the socks, they are my subway traveling project. i want to get one of those percentage bar thingies for my sidebar to keep track of my current projects.

while digging in my UFO bin, i found a few things that i could probably finish and wear this fall/ winter. and sadly enough i am not going to go to stitches but there is always next year....

dental drama, cont'd.

i know that shobhana does a weekly self portrait on tuesdays, here's my turn. i took the photo on tuesday btu only posted it today, so does that still count for self portrait tuesday? my cat frankie and my boyfriend are the only ones who doen't run from me in horror. i feel like frankenstein

dental drama

so they tried to extract my tooth with only local anesthesia which was horribly painful and the dentist had to stop midway through. they told me to come back today to complete the job, only this time, i would be i.v. sedated. well when i returned to the doctor, i looked like this and felt like crap! i was in so much pain that i couldn't even knit! well, the folks back at nyu told me that they could not use the iv since i couldn't open my mouth and may have complications breathing....they sent me to bellevue hospital where i was given stronger antibiotics and will have to have serious surgery to remove the wisdom teeth. i mean general anesthesia and intubation. i didn't know this would be so tough. i am out of work for the week and am still in pain. i just want this to be over....

movin right along

so i finished my warm up project, the double moss stitch scarf. i gave it as a present on friday night to one of my oldest friends. she enjoyed it thouroughly. i must say that i have some bad news about my socks....well my boyfriend's dad has very large feet and i don't have enough of the yarn i started with to make two socks.  so if anyone know where i can get my hands on some cervinia calzeterria in color 905, lot 41630, please let me know. 

i realize this after i turned the heel and was on the way making the gusset decreases.  i guess ti will be winter hats for the men instead of socks, or at least i have to get a lot more sock yarn, which destroys my plan of severe stash reduction...

so i have no idea what on earth i am going to do, perhaps i will cry. i just wasted a full day of potential knitting time. but i will need to start a new simple project to pass the time while recovering from my extraction of my two right wisdom teeth. again, something that i am not looking forward to....

now on to my grand lofty ideas....i've got this cone of superfine alpaca yarn that i would like to make a sweater out of but it is really fine, i mean lace weight fine. i am afraid of knitting something that small, but the cone has been calling out to me for one quite a while....

still no digital camera to use, but i will try again with my cellphone to give you the latest photos.

socks, socks and more socks...

so every fall i get this grand ole lofty idea of knitting presents for everyone near and dear to me---which just doesn't happen because the list of people for who i would knit is ever increasing. but this year, i have decided to try and knit for my partner's family....they are much smaller than my family, thank goodness so this year the whole lot will receive socks.

i have forgotten how much i enjoy the clank of tiny double pointed needles and the scared looks of the people on the subway who think i will poke their eyes out...i have never reallly done any sock patterns, jsut casting on and going where the yarn takes me. but i think i would like to step it up a notch. does anyone have any recommendations of patterns/ books , let me know!

ipod cover completed

did i mention that i have somehow misplaced my digital camera and have been relegated to documenting my knitted works with my cell phone? well it's not exactly working out but it's the best i could do for the moment. besides i wanted to show you how productive i have been.

i have been trying to do some stash only knitting before i allow myself to get anything new and i have been quite succesful. today, while waiting to see the emergency dentist to get my wisdom teeth extracted (still no dice, i have to go back next week) i started a moss stitch scarf  that will be a future christmas present.  i used the same yarn that i used for my pants.

when we came home i decided to knit my beau an ipod cover that can be seen in my finished objects folder and here is another peek . i think that i am definitely back in business...well at least on the knitting front. my use of typepad is a little rusty and i can't seem to make my crappy photos appear in the middle of my post...once i sort it out, i have even more flix of my works in progress...

show me the road to stitches!!!

so in my few but intense years of knitting, i have never actually made it to the grand  stitches but i always make an attempt. this year will be like no other, despite the fact that i almost forgot that it was coming up sept. 22-25 in atlantic city.

in the good ole days when i lived in philly, my lys would organize trips to show things...all the new york stores that i call aren't even going and they think i am crazy for even asking! the nerve. but that's alright cuz the girls of the stitch n bitch have come to the rescue! ideally, i will go on the sunday so that all the prices in the marketplace will have lowered since it's the last day (well that's what i am hoping) and i can increase my stash exponentially.  so let's cross our fingers and pray that i don't miss the bus.