TAKING BACK [THE KNIT]

Blogspirit has been working rather well today, perhaps I was a little harsh on it the other day! Maybe not though, we all know it sort of sucks. I've thought about switching to something else, but laziness and lack of money have stopped me.

I'm working on my second version of the 'Letter Have It' bag from SnBN. (That's her in the pictures above.) I've got the back panel done and am working on the front, trying to make them identical. I always go on autopilot for easy stuff like this, and I have no idea what I did, like where my modifications/mistakes were. I am glad this thing is getting felted, because it's going to be interesting. I am fairly sure I am going to run out of yarn, which is why I decided to do the skull with intarsia instead of duplicate stitch like I had the first time. Also, I'm knitting the front, back, and handles before the middle/gusset part, because it will be a lot less of a big deal if that is a little shorter than it should be.  I really want to love this bag, but it just won't let me! Hopefully it will turn out nicer than the first did. I know I still owe pictures for that, but I don't know where my sister's camera went. You will laugh when you see them, guaranteed. The before and after size difference is crazy! I think this one is only going to get run through half a cycle. Perhaps even with half of the water warm and half hot, too. I just need to be in more control of how much it felts. Another thing that has been irritating me is how horrid the intarsia looks. I hate knitting at a huge gauge like this. I know when it felts everything will even out, but I can barely stand to look at it. Picky, crazy me. ...

And in the happy department, that is the finished back of Mariah. I am now on to the fronts, and I can't believe how quickly I got the back done! That 8 inches of stockinette was a breeze! I thought I would get bored, but it was pretty much over before I even got going. I am really pleased with how this is turning out so far. I'm so excited to get it done, I really foresee myself wearing it a lot. I'm going to let myself get conceited and say what I'm really thinking: I can't wait for all the compliments I'm going to get! I really should be casting on for one of the fronts right now, but I just figured out how to get around myspace being blocked at school. This is college for christ's sake. I figure at this age/point in our lives that if we want to get on myspace at school it shouldn't really be an issue. I guess whoever is in charge disagrees.

I typed all this up last night, but didn't get a chance to post it, because I ended up going out to dinner and having a lovely night [this is where the kicker comes] with a boy! Perhaps sometime soon I will be like the rest of you who talk about "the boy"! Things seem to be going rather well so far; I am optimistic. eeeeeee!