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February 22, 2005

Boy Do I Have A Lot To Tell You...

I've been out of touch for 3 whole days, what was I thinking?  I do, however, have a lot to report - it was quite an eventful holiday weekend.  Friday I finally found a sweater shaver when I made my latest trip to Target.  This was very exciting because my Baby sweater (the yarn, not the size) had become a pilling monster!  So, after about 2 hours of shaving, my first, and dearly loved, sweater was as good as new and this was what I shaved. I was amazed at how much fuzz came off one little sweater!  I hope it doesn't continue to pill like this or I won't have a sweater left in a couple of months. I spent Friday night winding my KnitPicks yarn into balls (and yes Jenn, it is black rather than charcoal as advertised!) since I didn't have the needles I needed to get started on the legwarmers. 

Saturday brought nasty weather, but we still headed to Denver and I made it to Shuttles, Spindles, and Skeins in Boulder.  I was sad that I didn't have hours to look around, but Travis was not being a great sport about yarn shopping.  I'm definately going to have to plan a girls' day to yarn shop.  However, I did find some lovely Koigu sock yarn and some Manos to make a superskinny scarf for myself (sorry the picture is so dark - I didn't realize until just now). I also bought my very first pair of Lantern Moon needles.  They only had a size 5, but not the size 3 I needed, so those are Brittanys.  I have to say that I like them both, but I love the Lantern Moons. 

I started on the legwarmers on Saturday night and made good progress - don't get excited, this story does not end well.  As you may know, I'm making up the pattern since I couldn't find exactly what I wanted.  This is not as easy as it sounds.  I got about 10 inches done (and when you're working on size 3 and 5 needles, 10 inches is hard to come by) and then tried it on.  It was way too big.  So, I ripped the whole thing out because the problem started at the beginning.  I did measure, but the increases messed me up.  So, I just recast on and am starting over.  This time I'm working from the top and will decrease as I go, which is the suggested method in the Hollywood Knits Style legwarmer pattern.  I hope this works because I was really excited about these (plus I really want to start on my other projects!) and I don't take failure well (I know, I'm anal).

I delivered the superskinny scarf to my friend and she loved it.  I hope it brings her good luck on the bar exam - I'm keeping my fingers crossed.  While I was at her house she told me that she's pregnant.  I'm so excited for her and can't wait to start making cute baby stuff.  What are the best knitted baby things?  I really like the baby blanket in Hollywood Knits or Hollywood Knits Style - I can't remember which one - but that may be something I consider doing for her.

I also decided over the weekend that I need to decide on a paint color for my bedroom - the white just isn't working for me.  Yellow is out (and I think would be the obvious choice) because Travis hates yellow (he sees yellow in things that aren't even yellow) and I don't think I want to do green because that's what I'm going to do in my kitchen.  What do you all think?

Ok, I think that's it for me.  Have a great week.