TAKING BACK [THE KNIT]

and got my cast put on. it's black and will be my constant companion for the next five weeks! so it looks like no knitting will be happening until it's gone. the good news is i don't need surgery, and my super nice doctor said it should heal just fine. he offered me more pain pills and i didn't take them. what was i thinking?

i also mastered the one handed shower today. it had been X days since i showered and it was getting out of hand. (no pun intended!) i don't even want to tell you guys how long it was! it wasn't a personal record but when you consider that i was going about my everyday life like that and not camping or something, then it gets gross. i know christine says she ends up not showering often, but i'm sure i could give her a run for her money. anyway, enough about that!

 

i think i'm going to con tinue to blog, just not about knitting. i don't want to get out of the habit ... even though typing one-handed royally sucks!

I BROKE MY RIGHT HAND! I was in a car accident on Thursday, and I broke my thumb in two places. I put my hand up to the dashboard to brace myself, and ended up jamming my thumb and breaking it. So I can't knit! Which has been killing me! I had been working on stuff that I was really excited about, like the Vintage Knits cami. But when you have two good hands, you don't realy realize all the little things it takes two hands to do. Getting things in/out of the fridge is so hard! Especially since it hurts to use my right hand/arm at all, still. I'm hoping that will stop soon. My sister had to wash my hair and style it for me. I managed to put make up on last night, although not very well. But it's the little things that are the hardest: taking the cap off of the toothpaste, getting toilet paper off the roll, openeing the right-side door of the car with my left hand. And as I discovered at 2 am last night when I got home from a freind's Christmas party, not only putting a bra on, but taking it off! And buttoning pants. Needless to say, I will be wearing pats without buttons and snaps! I'm really glad I'm getting cute work-out pants for Christmas.

That there would be the cami from Vintage Knits that I started a couple of days ago. It's blue Cotton Ease, that had been in yarn paralysis for months. I'm really not looking forward to seaming it, but I'm going to have to get used to seaming sooner or later. It seems to be going well so far, lots of easy knitting. It's great to just be able to be on auto-pilot. I really shouldn't be doing this at all, because I still have Christmas knitting to do. Lots of it. But by now you have probably figured out what a horrible procrastinator I am. While I was taking picture of this, my dog just stood at the sliding glass door and watched me, like "Can I be in the picture? I'd like some yarn." So I took a picture of him. I have to look at everyone's 'look at my kitty cat sitting on my yarn. oh how cute!' pictures, so I figured I would include my dog. He's a black lab who weighs over 100 pounds and slightly resembles a moose. I love him, and he for some reason loves me back. He's getting his big break and going hunting (pheasant, i think) with my dad on Saturday. He's basically a big dope who runs into things and doesn't realize quite how long his nose is. And he won't get into the pool without dipping his toes of first.

 

So that's about it right now. I still haven't taken pictures of that purse, or the aviator caps. I totally forgot about the damned purse until I had already done these and started to post. I will do that soon, along with the other ones I need to take.

So the other day when I was taking pictures, I totally forgot about a purse I made about a month or so ago! It turned out very well, even thought it was a pain in the ass. When I get a chance I will take pictures of that along with a couple of other things I didn't photograph in my last session.

 

I'm having one of those days where I am totally engrossed with knitting and such. I've looked through a bunch of books for things I'd like to knit. I've printed out a bunch of patterns and looked at a lot of stuff. I went through my knitting magazines and tore out patterns I wanted to keep and threw away the magazines I no longer want. I even broke out the crochet book that I checked out from the library last week and gave that a try! I really do thing I have a block with crochet, although I'm kind of getting a better understanding of how it works. I think that is my biggest problem: I don't understand the mechanics of it. With knitting, it's very simple. You're making a series of loops and putting more loops through those. Crochet just confuses me, but I think it's useful for somethings, so I'm going to keep trying.

 

Lately my hands have been hurting, even though I really haven't been knitting that much. I mean, not that much more than usual. The weather isn't that cold (in the 50s) and it's not that cold in my house (the thermostat is usually set on 66.) I don't know what it is but man! My hands have been horrible! I've started doing hand excercises more since I noticed it, and that's when I really notice how stiff and sore my joints are. I've been trying to sleep without my hands clenched/curled up, but I don't really know if that's helping or not. Geez I'm only 18, this shouldn't be happening yet! hahaha!

My computer is back, in better shape then it has ever been in! I've got Windows XP now, which means I also can finally put iTunes on here! Plus, everything runs faster and is just so much better than before. I never want to get off the computer!

 

In the time that I had no computer, I had a lot of free time. So needless to say, I did a lot of knitting. I made a second Amelia Earhart cap, but this one in black Paton's acrylic, and it will go to my sister for Christmas. I still need to take pictures of the first aviator cap, but today is not the day. I'm way too lazy to do my hair or put makeup on, and trust me I need at least on or the other. Okay, so here are some long over-due pictures!

    These are a couple of scaves that I made a while ago. They're both Red Heart acrylic in varigated colors, and the same pattern. (I make scarves like that all the time, and I went to Gap the other day, and they have scarves just like this! I think their cables might be 4x4 instead of 3x3, though.) The light colored scarf is probably my favorite of any scarf I've ever made, although I do like the camo one a lot too, so much so that I'm making it again. The first one was a gift and I'm going to sell the second one.

   That is the afghan I've been working on for months now! It's almost half done, even though I was going to give it to my mom for Christmas. I think it's going to be Christmas in April or something at the rate I'm going. The picture on the right is to show how the stupif garter edge flip up. I'm going to have to block the shit out of this thing once it's done. I'm not sure how the color will show up for you, but it's called "Chestnut Heather" and I think that's pretty accurate. It's Lion Brand wool ease worsted.

  This is the scarf I knit from some yarn I got free in the mail. There was some company that I guess was giving it away, and I can't remember if a blogger posted it, or if it was on craftster or what, but whoever posted it, thanks! I pretty much hate eyelash, and it is such a nightmare to knit with. I think I will give this to my mom. It really reminds me of Oscar the Grouch, plus some sparkles.

I have some other stuff, like a double-knit hat for my dad that I'm thinking about frogging, that I haven't taken pictures of but I might sometime in the near future.

I don't think many people wil agree with me, but I'm not a big fan of the new knitty. I just can't see myself ever knitting anything in it, unless it was for someone else. Nothing's really my style. But, there are some very cute things, like the Mrs. Beeton cuffs. That's a very cool idea, especially for someone with long arms like myself. Knecklace is also very interesting. It's probably the only thing in this knitty that I would actually make. Danica is neat looking, and I've never tried entrelac, but I don't like the back. I'm kind of into reversible scarves. I also really like Best Friend but it seems like a pain in the ass to attatch the purse to the handle, and I'm way too lazy for that.

I think I get my (FIXED and improved) computer back today, so hopefully I will be back to regular blogging! Right now I'm leaving some of you ladies some love, so I'm just going to leave it at this for now! I've been knitting like mad lately and will have a lot to update you all on!