bit of an update post…
- last week, Michael’s had LB Wool-Ease on sale. but not in the colors I wanted. grr… I ended up getting a few balls of it anyway. I plan on making the cat bed from SnB with it one of these days.
- went down to Milwaukee to visit some friends for the Thanksgiving weekend. no turkey, actually not much in the way of a traditional turkey day. it was weird. grabbed a newspaper to check out the ads.
- Friday shopping… in addition to buying some cheap-after-rebates computer stuff, I went to Michael’s and picked up a Knit Snowflakes pattern booklet. also went to Half Price books, where I picked up Knitting in Plain English and The Joy of Knitting Companion. haven’t looked at KIPE yet, but so far I like the Joy book. also picked up some of the Fun Fur on sale at Joann’s for the above mentioned cat bed. later in the day I went back to Joann’s to pick up some of the crochet thread for the snowflakes. also checked out Accents - they have a huge selection of yarns, at least compared to most general craft stores I’ve been to.
- I started working on the first snowflake in the booklet. screwed up a few times, so I think I ripped and restarted at least three times. Made it through four points, thought I had a mistake, left it for a bit, came back and forgot about the mistake and continued knitting. on point six, I realized I had a mutant snowflake (point five was the wrong direction, and point six was growing out of point five oddly). so I ripped back to four and now I have to figure out which line of the pattern I’m at to get it to go right.
- also made a bit of progress on the Voodoo’s. I’m almost to the thumb-hole on number one - just need to decide how long I want to make it.
- started a scarf for my aunt. I’m using an off-white acrylic that I got on ebay. It’s in a broken rib pattern (I think).