Hopeless Knitter

2007-09-14T14:42:00.000-07:00

Not much knitting happening but I did complete the fake-o-gamo. I have not constructed it yet. It is beautiful. I am just typing away as if the last time I blogged was yesterday...in reality it has been 9 months. Babies have a way of keeping you busy. Not only do I have an 8 month old but I am about 24 weeks pregnant. Oh yes. Needless to say I have my days were I am on the verge of a nervous breakdown and then there are the good days where I believe I am made for motherhood and homemaking. Okay, I never really feel like I was MADE for homemaking but some days I actually feel like I am getting the hang of it. (I have been a stay at home mom since April). Now that my 4 year old started preschool, my life is a smidge easier.

Well as far as knitting is concerned. Pictures are forthcoming. I took errotic photos of my entire stash for your viewing pleasure (who ever you are??).

By the way, today is one of those bad days that I mentioned happen on occassion. My old man was going to take care of the smallest bambina for me so I could get a step ahead on my spring cleaning and laundry (not to mention hygiene) and he cancelled at the last minute, devestatingly cancelled. I needed a mental health day even if it was only going to be for 5 hours. Sigh. No rest for the weary. A woman's work is never done, blah blah blah. Off I go to fee the little one.

2007-01-24T17:39:00.000-08:00

The amount of sleep I get is directly proportionate to how pleasant and content I am. Today I feel great due to the two naps I was able to get in (the newest bambino sleeps no more than 3 hours during the night....and the DH is incapable of a night feeding because he conveniently cannot get the baby back to sleep).

Baby S is so good that I managed another FO. Knitty's Clapotis in Noro Lily in turquoise. Of course I have not weaved in ends. I have come to terms that I have no idea how to properly do this and will do some research on the subject. HATE weaving in ends. Also there is the matter of a tiny mistake on a drop stich row that some how got fudged up and now has resulted in a loosey goosey stitch which I will have to some how rig. I think I will actually have to sew it. See the offending mistake:

Currently on the needles:

Fake-a-gamo in Classic Elite Provence (Provence which I would never have pronounced as prah-vahnse as the lady from the yarn store did) in an army green color. Here is a pic of the yarn. I will add a pic of my progress tomorrow. I am almost done with one side. I purchased some bamboo handles from an Etsy seller and was sadly disappointed that one of the handles is at least an inch smaller than the other. They look handmade which I like. I think I will probably still use them. They have character. We'll see. You can get the pattern here: http://fakeagamo.blogspot.com/

2007-01-13T15:06:00.000-08:00

I started this blog last year in March right around the time my husband and I got preggo and promptly abandoned it. Well it's nearly one year later, one bambino later and (waa waa waa) one FO later.

2006-03-15T16:53:00.000-08:00

I frogged Angelica. When it came time to put the sleeve stitches aside and start decreasing, pathetically I had 95 stitches in the front and 100 in the back (should have the same # stitches). I have no idea what went wrong...ADD related for sure.

I am medicated but the effects still annoying linger. I guess some of my ADD habits are die hard. I'm sure my DH thinks I need stronger meds. He says he can't finish a thought without me coming out of left field with something along the lines of "I had a milk shake today".

I am swatching on size 9s now hopefully I will get guage and "get 'er dun".

2006-03-13T03:52:00.000-08:00

Frustrated, with my less than perfect progress on Angelica, I have picked up Lady Eleanor. She is an amazing knit. As other bloggers have so elequently stated she is satisfying as hell to knit. Something about it is just ... yummy. Entrelac is amazingly easy and produces such a complicated looking result that you spend a lot of time petting the fabric. I will pick up on Anglica again soon and worse comes to worst, if I don't like the final product I will frog.

Angelica ... frog or not to frog

2006-03-09T12:22:00.000-08:00

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Originally uploaded by alexafree.

This my angelica. I'm using Noro Lily. I'm below gauge by a stitch and a row so I am making the next size up which is the 48 but then when you get to the section where you join the fronts the sizing changes to 50 (????). I made a few errors in my increases, my guage is off, the yarn is kinda thin and delicate and my sleeves are a little too loosey goosey. What to do? I tried it on infront of my co-workers and they vote not to frog. OH, lets not forget that the # stitches I have on my needles are off so I am confused as to where to put my "body shaping" decreases. OY!

2005-11-11T10:39:00.000-08:00

Here I am.