1. What is your name? tammy
What is your quest? to sleep as much as possible? :D
What is your favorite color? purple/blue (and red) (and green)
2. When is your birthdate (year optional)? jan 23 1979
3. Do you have any special birthday traditions? i always go to outback for dinner...always. but i never tell them it's my bday.
4. What is your favorite birthday memory? when i was sixteen, my parents gave me surprise birthday party and it was so awesome, all my friends/family were there and yelled "surprise" it was so fun!
5. Any allergies we should know about? bees! not that anyone would send me a box full of bees... well, atleast i hope not!
6. What crafts do you do - knit, crochet, spin, dye, bead, quilt, etc. etc. ? just knitting.
7. Any sorts of fibers you particularly love or hate or are dying to work with? pink fibers... not a fan of pink fibers. :D
8. What weight of yarn do you prefer? fingering (sock)
9. What are your favorite knitting accessories? (i.e.: stitch markers, row counters…) i could use a row counter. i dont really count alot of rows but they are cute and clicky! :D otherwise, i am constantly vacuuming up my tiny (sock) stichmarkers.
10. Do you subscribe to any crafty magazines? nope!
11. What do collect aside from fiber-related things? totes, purses, eco friendly bags, if it's got a strap and can hold stuff, i pretty much need it. :)
12. Favorite candy, chocolate (dark, white, or milk), tea, coffee, other treats? i love gummys, twizzlers, starburst, caramel corn... no chocolate, please! coffee? nah, i dont even own a coffee maker!
13. Do you enjoy handmade soap and body products? heck yes!
14. Are there any scents you love or hate? i dont like flowery scents...much prefer fruits or spice sents.
15. What is your favorite: flavor, flower, letter, number, film, artist? flavor: cherry or mandarin... flower: gerbera daisies....letter: t... number: 23..... film: garden state.... artist: ?
16. Anything we should *not* get for you? as i said before... i'd prefer not to get a box of bees, but other than that, i'm open to anything :D
17. Do you have a blog and or wishlist that are not linked on Ravery or listed in the GoogleDoc? it's on there!
18. Anything special you would like your partner to know? i dont think so!
Finally able to sit down and do nothing tonight. I'm on the couch with the laptop and it's nice. Last week and this past weekend was pretty busy! It was pretty fun times tho... a couple of knit groups, a sheep festival, and a knit meetup/swap. Pretty crafty weekend! I picked up some yarn too! Might post some pictures....
Right now the dish washer is running and then every dish in the house will officially be clean. It's an amazing thing. But I actually came home today in the mood to clean the kitchen. Next step: be in the mood to mop the floors. :D We even went to the grocery store today... even though we picked up mostly snacks/sweets. Oh well. Derek starts his mandatory OT tomorrow so I guess I'm eating cereal the rest of the week for dinner. :)
Speaking of cereal. I wanted a box of Frosted Flakes, as they are my favorites. At Schnuck's, the big box was 4.98$! That is outrageous! 5$ for CEREAL! The small box was 4.48$. Still ridiculous. So I went to a different store.... Shop n' Save had the big box for 5.58$!!!11! Insanity! I went to WalMart and got the dang Huge Box for 3.74$! It makes me so mad that they think they can charge me 2$ more for the SAME THING! But at least there is a bowl of Frosted Flakes in my future.
My job is still going good. I started to feel a little sorry for myself today tho. My cube is right across the "hall" from a lawyer....and she is the same age as I am. I want to use my degree too! lol Oh well... at least I have a job! I love that it's dayshift, but man, i hate getting up early! I am not a morning person! :D
On Saturday I went to a new yarn shop that opened really close to my house. The owner is really nice, the only minor downfall is that it's inside a religious bookstore. But maybe some of their goodness will rub off on me. :D She was very willing to listen to what me and my friend had to say about her store too! We offered up some suggestions and she talked me into teaching a sock class in June! HA! I think it will be fun tho...I hope people actually sign up! :D I'm knitting some store sample things for her too. So that was an exciting day. :) The owner has the Moolah to throw at the yarn shop but doesn't know much about ..... well, anything. She can knit basic things... I was teaching her how to knit a sock last night. That just amazes me.... a LYS owner that can't knit a sock. *shakes head* I think that is the dream job for anyone tho... and to just have the money to do it without having to worry about making a profit, or heck, even making ends meet. Must be nice!
Nothing much else has been going on... Derek is racing online, so I actually have control of the tv tonight and nothing is on. SAD. There has been nothing but hockey on in our household for the last months. I am so tired of it! lol, but it's finally playoffs so it's almost over. And some of the playoff games have been realllllly good. Have seen some really good hits and some awesome black eyes! :) And we have the NHL network now... so if there isnt a current game on, then there is a game from lord only knows what year on.
Tomorrow night I am going to make Oreo Balls.... MMMmmm! Like we need more snacks here... Derek got honey buns, iced lemon cookies, a package of brownies.... of course Oreos, I picked up some butterscotch pudding. I stared at the ice cream for a while.... but that is another thing that I can't bring myself to pay 5$ for a pint (or quart) of. We also got some veggies and peaches for snacking on too... so it was ALL bad, just mostly bad.
Well I thought there was more I wanted to say... but I cant think of what it is now. *shrugs*
you want to see the yarn pics??
ok this is the yarn that i waited for a month and a half to be delivered. I think it was hung up in customs.
the beautiful blue:
i heart it:
and the other skein is this ugly green... and while it's pretty in it's own way...it's not what i was expecting. :( boo.
this is the sock i am knitting right now, for that new LYS:
and some sock yarn that i bought... love the color:
and my finished purple socks...
there is more yarn, but i am tired of posting the pics... if you are on rav, you can see them there if you want! :D
now it's time for some cereal!! :D
i have decided to grace vox with my presence. *grins* i never think about updating here when i finish something! But here I am... I will post some pictures of some FO's. I guess I just assume everyone could just look at my stuff on ravelry if they realllly wanted too. but alas, i like reading about everyone else's FOs on their blogs too... and ya'll are just like me i bet! so how about some pictures?
i did a test knit for a yarnie... she sent me the yarn and i knitted her some socks. i'll get free yarn when i decide what i want from her store. which reminds me: *stalks etsy store* I was aggravated with all the patterns I came up with for this sock, and finally Amy came to my rescue (AGAIN!) and I went with the cables, yo pattern. it's a really speedy pattern, i do recommend it for everyone! It's in Sensational Knitted Socks book.
and some in progress shots:
the yarn didnt really do what i wanted, but eh, what can ya do? yarn has a mind of it's own sometimes! I will knit this pattern again for myself sometime.
Hmmm, what else have I finished lately? I made Derek some thick wool socks to wear when he hunts... they took me all winter to make. Ha, oh well! I knitted them toe up so that they'd fit him.
let me see if there is anything else in the flickr album...
And it snowed here the other week or so...and I finally got a good snow picture after messing around with all the settings on my camera... it was snowing soooo much when i took this.
i also have this lacy scarf dealio on the needles.... i saw this pattern (omo scarf) on ravelry and it was so pretty in some cashmere yarn.... but the only DK wgt yarn I had is this pink berroco (cotton) so I went with it...it's not my favorite thing... but it's not for me anyways. I have quite a bit more done on it since this picture was taking...almost thru the first skein. i really suggest you look at the patter in other yarns. maybe blocking this will help some too. HAHA, and if you notice, I was using pretty bamboo needles, that I got for free, on it... but dang! SO SLOW! I have since switched to my knitpicks circs and it's zooming along now.
here is a funky picture of me and derek at the arch, while amy was here. i think at this angle, everyone has several chins! LOL
me and my aya, while she was here visiting! I MISS YOU COME BACK RIGHT NOW!
i'm sleepy. every day i try to sleep in and every day something wakes me up. yesterday the dog, today a wrong number on my phone. this whole working late thing is kicking my ass... after about 10 pm, my eyes just want to shut. they changed my hours again! so instead of 4.30 to 1am, now it's 3 to 11.30pm. so a little bit better but not great by no means. i have seen derek for a total of 30 minutes this week! :(
last night 2 of the people i work with got into it. the guy is new and the other girl is just a bitch. i hope he comes back today... other than me, he's the only other normal person in the office. i would have never let her berate me like that tho, hopefully he gets some stones after the "new person" thing wears off. but after all that, my mind would just not shut down last night when i was trying to sleep. i dont think i fell into real sleep until probably 5 am.
there is a severe weather alert going on here. ya'll, i know i talk about the weather alot... it might be a side effect of getting old. i'm not sure. lol, i just keep thinking about how my dad watches the Weather Channel 8 hours a day. But anyways, it's supposed to snow. I guess we are supposed to accumulate 1 to THREE inches this afternoon.... THEN another FOUR TO SIX tonight. so get your toes out, that's a maximum of NINE INCHES OF SNOW that could be on the ground before tomorrow morning! they are already pretreating the roads.
dont get me wrong. i want it to snow, snow, snow! but i do not want to have to drive in it. i'm trying to decide at what point that i leave work tonight before it gets too bad. i do not have much experience driving in snow... nor is my car a good candidate to be driving in snow. Luckily, if it does get really bad, the will shut down the factory that my office is associated with and no one will be required to go in. It takes no less than 200 people to operate said factory, so if 195 people show up, everyone goes home. Hopefully they call me before I try to drive there... but no worries, I have a strict personal policy that I do not risk my life for employment, especially menial employment with crappy salaries. If I think it is too bad, I wont go in period whether the plant is up or not.
but yeah, so i keep looking out the window watching for snow, just like a little kid. 2 things i am very excited about: one is trying my new camera out on the "snow" mode and the second is Snow Freaking Angels! there will be snow angels in my future. and i am also dying to play in the snow with my dog! :D
nothing else is really going on. my job is so slow that i actually got to knit some at work. there is a positive spin on this job finally! unless the supervisors walking in and out last night didnt like that i was doing it... then i will find out today that i cant anymore. everyone else was reading, i dont know why i wouldnt be able to knit. i casted on for something new last night but i cant decide if i think it's ugly or not. actually i dont think it's ugly at all... i just dont think it's my color and it's really throwing me off. i dont think i am going to rip it out tho.
well i am going to go apply to more jobs and then maybe knit on the couch for a few minutes. hopefully there will be snow pictures in everyone's future! :D
ok here's some pictures of this past weekend!
on saturday, we spent some time at the arch! it was a really pretty day, we were lucky! amy and i spent most of the time trying to get just the right angle for our pictures.
i was practically on my tummy in geese shit taking this one. it's 633 feet tall. hard to photograph from up close.
amy liked the arch!
and this is what happens when i ask derek to take a picture of me and amy with the arch. but we are in the pic and so is the arch. *rolls eyes*
luckily he was able to get it together before we left
this is me and derek playing around right under the middle of the arch. i think everyone has several chins at this angle.
here is a church in st. louis, i love the lights on it!
amy brought me yarn for christmas and my birthday! it's so pretty! and soft and squishy!
which i started to turn into this sock:
and this yarn too! look at those colors!
writing this entry from the mental institution? :D it was very stressful. Very Stressful. I got mad several times... heck, I even got sick feeling a few times. my tummy was in knots for practically 24 hours. i threw my sock down no less than 5 times. I stopped to take deep breaths. To calm myself.
I'm not even playing... it's probably the most stressful thing I have ever done. I did it right before my knit group yesterday... I worked on picking up all the stitches that i thought I already had picked up. Knitted fabric after it as already been knitted is a odd thing... it's very frustrating. It probably took me 3 hours of working on it constantly to pick up all the stitches and get them oriented correctly.
but yeah, it worked. :D
can you tell which one i cut???
i really like them... they are very comfy! and finished!! :D
yay socks!!
send in the men with the white coat. i think i am still even in denial that i did it. this is why someone should always be online to talk me out of stuff. left to my own devices and impatience things just get out of hand. my heart is beating really hard still. i cant believe i did it. i'm crazy, it's the only answer.
look, i finished my sock. the pair is complete! pretty, huh?
but remember how i hated the ribbing? and i had the idea that i would just undo the cast on and rip out the cuff, lalala. easy.... well it wasnt easy... it's not easy or fun to rip out from the "wrong" end.
you cant see how intertwined knitting really is...but this is after i picked out the cast on and tried to pick out some of the stitches too.
but it wasnt happening fast enough... i was getting mad! and 2008 is supposed to be Happy Knitting. So I thought of something else that might work. It was a crazy idea and could work. Then I came online did some research on the topic then looked online for my knitting friends to talk me out of it. but no one was there.
so i just did it. i am so obviously crazy.
so i just started cutting it off. i had put my needle back in to the stitches so they will catch on my cable.
I CUT MY KNITTING LIKE AN IDIOT! no one cuts their knitting. (well sometimes they do, but not in cases like this) you are not supposed to CUT cuffs off. I cant even believe i did it.
but i did.
i can barely catch my breath. this is insane. i really really hope this works out.
knit stuffs! whooo.
ok so i casted on this sock last sunday... it's the 2nd purple jaywalker in my beloved lorna laces yarn! wee! i casted on about 3 times and then ripped it out about that much too. realized that i am knitty stupid on a daily basis. i'm not getting into it but just know it's about ribbing. stupid ribbing, i dont like you either!
i knit a few inches and then amy conned me in to starting another sock. after casting on so many times, i agreed that i needed some instant gratification and nothing does that like a zen sock in dk weight yarns. she even picked out the yarn and everything! she found it in my stash and i would have never thought to use it for socks!
this is plymouth yarn dreambaby dk yarn. it is light purple and light blue. it's an acrylic microfiber... i think it feels like my couch. LOL but it's soft but sturdy and they fit good. cast on of 54 stitches. it just needs a buddy!
so there ya go! the purple/blue sock only too 2.5 days to complete! pretty good if you ask me! now back to the purple jaywalker grindstone! :D
well all that baby knitting finally came to an end because the baby was born! :D
the only hat that fit his wee head... the super hero hat i knitted him:
snuggling with the blanket:
and now for the current knitting.... looks wierd and bad, huh??
but no worries... looks much better when you put it on! :D it's a bit tight on me, but AP's hands are probably not as fat as mine and will fit her perfectly :D
and the back side:
close up of the cables.... alpaca is soft... but hairy.
and the only other thing on my needles... derek's 2nd sock.
ta da. there ya go. pffft.
is it 2008 yet? i am so ready for "Tammy Knitting 2008" so so freaking ready! :D
long time, no vox! my last update is july 4th. oopsy! i'm sure no one even reads this any more, but i am going to write out a long boring knitting post anyways. because i am bored and there is no one online to entertain me. *looks pointedly* you know who you are.
anyways... what is going on the knitty world o' sparkli? a few things. as you may or may not recall, my best friend turned up pregnant earlier this year. i have been trying to crank out the baby knits something crazy, but of course, not as much as i'd like. one of the main reasons is that i am stuck in baby blanket limbo. i have 2 baby blankets on the needles. festive fish and the pinwheel. i have no issues with the fish blanket other than i am kind of tired of knitting fish. i need to remedy that.
i have major issues with the pinwheel. can someone tell me what it says about a knitter who starts a blanket with only 2 skeins of yarn that dont even match? i'm sure that knitter has serious mental problems. that knitter would be me. i started it with 2 skiens of brown sheep cotton fleece... same color, just two different dye lots. and it's not reeeeaaalllly noticeable but it is to me. so after knitting the 1st skein, i bought another skein from a fellow raveler, thankfully, even tho it was a different dyelot, it matched my first skien. so now the pinwheel is 2 skeins big and measures a whopping 27 inches in diameter. which is *not* big enough. so i have this other skein that is a shade (or two) lighter. now in my mind, it's perfectly ok to knit a border with this lighter color... but it is not ok to start in the stockingnette portion with this lighter color. see, issues? so do i just start the border at 27 inches and just make a wide border (and the 3rd skein probably wont be enough for a wide enough border to make the blanket a decent size) or should i just try to procure another skein of this yarn and hope that it matches the yarn i have been knitting with?
what would you do?? i'm going to tell you what i am going to do right now. today, and i mean TODAY, since i have been putting it off for over a week, i am going to put a life line thru about 20 sts of my blanket... then i am going to knit a swatch off my blanket with the 3rd skayn and see what it looks like. so will see how bad it looks, or doesnt look. but otherwise, i am going to have to figure out how to get a skien of brown sheep cotton fleece in sage. anyone??
what else am i knitting? oh last weekend, i knitted up a baby sized center square hat. it's really cute. i used some knitpicks.com mainline yarn i had in the stash. it's navy blue and ivory. i had gauge issues (of course) and completely finished the hat before i finally admit to myself it was way to small, even for a baby. so i ripped it all out, which was fine, because i did a really shitty job on it anyways. you cannot magic loop color work. you just cant. but the second go around was a success. i still need to block it. i did a roll brim instead of ribbing. it's very cute.
i also started another hat with the bits i have left over from the mainline... trying to stretch the yarn, yo! it's just a plain roll brim hat too... blue and white random stripes. just something easy (pfft, i have started it over twice too).
THEN, i casted on a baby sweater on friday night. kipling. it is SO cute. well the one on the site isnt THAT cute, but i have seen other pictures of other people's and they are V. CUTE. so i started that with some of that vanna yarn from lion brand. that yarn is CHEEP. like 2.99 a skein and it is sooooo soft. it's acrylic, but really... with babies, it has to be washable... and they are just going to grow out of it anyways, right?? so i knitted about 3 inches on it... logged on IM saturday morning to discuss it with amy and then she conned me into not working on it til next week and she will knit it with me. so now it's laying here and i keep petting it. :D i'm trying to be patient.
hmm. and i still have 2 second socks hanging around... i really should cast one of those on. but again, i wouldnt say that i have issues with them, more of road blocks. one is a jaywalker and i have been thinking for months if i want the 2nd sock to have 1x1 ribbing like the first one...even tho i dont like it. i suppose the should match, but eh... i dont like it. and the other sock is just a zen for my sister...but i did a picot edge on it instead of ribbing... and while a picot edge is really cute, it's a pain in the arse to do. and i was thinking about it last night and i cant remember if i did a 52 or 54 stitch cast on. Amy?? it's pretty bad when i know that my friend will know my knitting details when i dont myself. what would i do without her? be pretty lonely and have long drawn out knitty conversations with myself, i guess. :D
i'm trying to think if there is anything else hanging around on the needles. i dont think so... i think that is all. there is so many things i want to knit. but no time or i dont have the yarn that i need or i have other things i need to knit first. and i dont like to have a ton of things on my needles either... so i need to deal with some of the issues in this entry and get moving on some stuff. because the knew knitty came out and i really like several things in it... one day... one day! i need to find them on ravelry and put hem in my queue to help me remember.
and in addition to all this knitty stuffs, i am moving from florida to st. louis, mo in just a mere 2 weeks. we have been working to find a place to live and stuffs. but we are about to uproot our lives and move to some place we have never been again. twice in one year! it's ridiculous! i'm really in denial about everything that still needs to be done... i just want to hide under a blanket with a flashlight and knit.
ok! i am off to deal with the pinwheel blanket, once and for all! so atleast i will know either way about the other dyelot. oh and the reason this is one long knitty post with no pictures is that my camera died a few weeks ago. hopefully i will have one on loan soon and can take some pictures of stuff.
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