Doggie Sweater!

Complete with pictures and everything! How terribly exciting!





This is Yazoo the Chihuahua. He is fat and approximately.... 10 years old. And I loves him! He is ambivalent about his sweater. He hates to put it on, but he loves how warm it is. As a tiny dog in Northern Ohio he needs all the help he can get.

Ambrrr out!

I'm still sort of a liar, but pictures at last!!

So, about that whole "Monkey" thing... not happening for a while. Stupid stupid JoAnns, and their lack of no2 DPNs. I mean, who stocks 1.5 and 2.5 DPNs in sets of 4, but not a set of 5 2s?! MADNESS! SHEER MADNESS. And for some reason the order I put in at KnitPicks didn't go through. So... I'll be trying that again after the new year. Wheee!

PCITURE TIME!

Since I was already in the store I decided to get the yarn to do Caliometry, using Paton's SWS in Natural Blue, which apparently stands for Soy Wool Stripes. More like Stupid Wooly String. Anywhoo, it's 70% wool and 30% soy, in a skein of 100 m/110 yds and 80 g/2.8 oz. While the striping turned out amazing, the yarn itself had the tendency to pull apart. I hated it, and have no idea what I'm going to do with the like, 10 feet I have left. Maybe a really crappy pompom?


So here's me wearing the Ravenclaw Scarf, ends all woven in and fringe added! Wheee! I'm also modeling Caliometry, which doesn't have ends woven in or the button yet. At the time it was safety-pinned to my head.


More of the same.



Close-up of Caliometry. How mexciting!

Well, pictures of Yazoo in his sweater coming soon. Have a Happy New Year, y'all!

- <3 Ambrrr

I may have lied.

My next official project (I have completed the paperwork and everything) is going to be ...... (drumroll).... Monkey, from the Winter '06 issue of Knitty!

I KNOW!! Not only is it a SOCK (fear!) but it is done on US No 2s (horrors!!)!!! What am I thinking?! And why am I using so many exclaimation marks?! !!!

I confess that Cookie herself had some part in this decision. Or rather, her picture. Look at her! She is tiny and adorable, and clearly having a lot of fun making that sock. SO I WILL TOO. I'm dyeing my hair blue too. Oh, that may have been another lie.

The Ravenclaw scarf just needs ends woven in. I'd post pictures, but I hate my camera. I think I might get a new one. Ooops, yet another lie. :D

<3 Ambrrr

Merry Christmas

hello! i just read ambrr's latest post, and apparently she has been reading my mind. I am dying to try Eunny's Endpaper mitts. I printed the pattern and drool over it frequently.
Anyways, I've returned for a holiday journey to Tennessee to see some family. I was fairly productive in the knitting department. I finished the mittens in time to stuff them in my mommy's stocking. Sadly there are no pictures of the completed pair because I finished them at the last possible moment (surprise, surprise).
I also started on my very own Harry Potter scarf. Let me tell you how big a dork I am. I wanted a Harry Potter scarf after I knit my brother one last year, but of course I've recognized the fact that I could never be in Gryffindor. I'm just not that cool. So, after careful consideration and a few too many online quizzes, I decided I'm most definitely a Hufflepuff (How lame is that?) so I started my Hufflepuff scarf. It's black and yellow, and I have hopes of acquiring a patch to put on it. I'm pretty excited.
Speaking of excited, I've been comissioned to knit a Harry Potter scarf for a friend of my brother. It's going to be very cool. Time consuming, but cool.

<3 uhlissa

Oh Lordy.

OK, so even though we have established that I have about 4 more repeats to do on this Ravenclaw scarf (photos soon, I promise!) and Marilyn's hardwarmers to finish (which I stupidly forgot in NOLA, and will have to finish like the second I get back), here are some patterns I want to try soon!

- Eunny's Endpaper Mitts (never mind that I am terrified of any needle under a 6, I'm convinced it'll take years to finish it)
- Caliometry from Knitty (what in the name of Buddha is a short row?! Hopefully this will help me out.)
- Queen of All Cosmos earmuffs!

OK, that's enough nonsense from me for now.

- Ambrrr

Oh Winter Break

Hello! So, I'm back home in Tulsa for winter break. It's cold. Well, not really I guess, but colder than New Orleans for sure. Well, anyways, I've been here for a little over a day, so of course I've accomplished something knit related (while accomplishing nothing else that I needed to). I realized earlier today that I needed to make my mom something for Christmas, so I headed to a yarn store I had never been to before. It was nice, but I think nothing compares to my love for Garden District Needlework. I picked up some wool in a beautiful turquoise. It's Mission Falls' 1824 Wool. I really like it. I was knitting with some Mission Falls cotton a couple of weeks ago, and I really liked that too, so maybe the brand is just awesome or something. Well, anyways, I bought some beautiful wool and decided to make some beautiful mittens for my beautiful mommy. I have this really easy mitten pattern that someone gave me when I learned mittens this summer, and I added a simple cable down the middle. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. I've used the mitten pattern/ cable combination pattern before on some really cute mittens I made for one of my suitemates. I wanted to do a more complicated cable, but I wasn't in the mood to try and fine one. Oh well. I love it the way it is. I'm not so excited about making the other one tomorrow. That tends to be my problem with making pairs of things - I never want to do the second one. I need to get it done tomorrow though, so I'm sure I will. I'm pretty excited about the knitting I'm anticipating doing over the rest of the break. I might have an offer to sell a scarf, so that might be the first thing I have to do, but it's not for sure yet. I'd also like to start something big and complicated to test out my skills. Either a sweater or the most adorable baby dress I've ever seen from the awesome "Knitting for Babies" magazine I purchased at the grocery store and have since been in love with. It's a tough choice. We'll see what happens. Be sure to look for frequent updates, as I have nothing more important than my knitting for the next four weeks. <3>

I swear I am not dead.

OK, even though it looks like Uhlissa killed me and took over the BHnPKS, this is a lie. I am still alive! A little. I'm finally home (Northeast Ohio) for winter break, so I'm looking forward to finishing the Ravenclaw scarf this week and perhaps even starting a little lace. Or something. Branching Out looks neat. But I did do a little more of the scarf on the plane ride here.

I don't know what this fetish I have with knitting in public is all about. Perhaps I just find it amusing to turn that preconceived notion of only old ladies and spinsters knitting on its head. Then again, I am an old lady/spinster. Oh well.

Alrighty, two Issues of Contemporary Architecture final essays to complete and then I am done with first semester! Whooo! Whooo. ... Aw, man.

- <3 Ambrrr