Ok just reposting what I just wrote in my LJ, some of the info may be redudent from yesterdays post here because I haven't ever just posted the same same things to both sites but the short of it is New Project!

Ok I'm just taking a small moment to do a yarn Squee!

I've gotten sick of the Rose gloves, they've got mistakes in them I'll need to rip out a good portion (my mother says I'm a bit picky but if we don't have standeres then what's left?) So the gloves are going to be on hold for awhile (long enough for me not to want to puncture my eyes with DPN's.)

So I've started This: http://www.knitty.com/issuespring05/PATTbranchingout.html

My first Lace project. IT IS SO COOL! I feel smart, I feel like Knitter and just a knitter. I'm using this yarn
http://www.patonsyarns.com/product.php?LGC=grace&SPP=999
in a color called lavender. I've had it in the stash forever and when I saw that it was the right type and weight for this pattern I had to make it.

After a few miss steps and a very handy life line I've completed the first pattern repeat and, i have to say it again, It is SO COOL!

Sorry , but the cats were not excited enough when i showed them so You all have to pick up the slack by hearing me talk about it :)

I'll post some bad web cam pictures soon!

Sad but true

I'm thinking of frogging the rose gloves, if not all the the way then most of the way. Perhaps I'm being too nit picky, but I have a small mistake where i knit instead of purled on two stitches (I could live with that one) At some point I made one of the cables too small (or large) and now the sides don't match up and there is a bit of laddering going on that is driving me crazy. But because I've started and restated these gloves so many times I'm a bit sick of them to tell the truth so it would be a while before I would try them again... So what to do in the mean time? I'd like to use some of the sock yarn I've got and.... imagine this... make socks.

hmmm Still need to think about it

Greetings!
I'm being very good and still only working on one knitting project, The Rose gloves. Go me! I'm almost to the thumb gusset and both excited and worried about it. the first attempt i made at doing them (almost a year ago) is were I went wrong last time, so I'm hoping it'll be better this time. After the rose gloves I've got to bring something with me to Media West con, maybe two somethings, one for the car and one for the SnB at the con. or it may just be one project. Who knows?

Anyway I'm mostly posting just to keep this blog updated a bit my more personal blog is over on LJ, which is friends locked because I'm avoiding someone who has me as a friend on there, maybe it doesn't matter now, but the journal will stay that way. But anyway you're only here for the pretty yarn right?

Making very good progress on the rose gloves so far. I'm actually on the second diamond but I don't feel like re-taking pictures. I've found it best if i work on these without any distractions like Tv or people because when I add those in the stupid mistakes happen. I'm trying to be good and only work on one project at a time, I'm using the Ravelry queue as my nice to do list. I've found projects for almost all of my important stashed yarn. I may allow myself to make a few wash cloths for gifts that I'd want to give as gifts very soon .

Next Please

Happiness! I'm now on Ravelry as SeverusSnape. It is like the mecca of knitting! So many patterns! Although I feel like a knitter and not Knitter there but I shall aim to become better a be one of the really cool people and less muggle.

For my birthday I went and bought myself yarn as a present: Two balls of Lion brand Wool ease Worsted weight in 139 dark rose heather which will be used to make The Rose Doomsday Gloves from Doctor Who. Pattern Here. And Two balls of Patons Decor First Spring Varg for purposes not yet decided on, mostly I just loved the color way. I've cast on for the Rose gloves a few times but I seem to have a mental block with them as I keep making mistakes early on. the thing is though Is I've made one of the gloves before in a different yarn (caron simply soft) and while the color was perfect the yarn drove me nuts with all it's splitting. (that and I didn't do the thumb gusset very well) But I will get through them I am determined that I make these gloves!
Oh also for my birthday I bought myself dpn's sizes 6, 7, and 8 yay!

I did in fact finish the quilt in time and I got one of those disposable digital cameras to take pictures with so as soon as I take the camera to be developed I'll post the better pictures until then I give you the bad picture from my web cam, please ignore the mess in my room It wasabout 2am after I had gotten home from work and I really didn't feel like cleaning up to take the picture.

Ok so I want to show off

I'm currently making a Quilt, which I should be working on now instead of blogging. The Quilt is for a baby boy, the shower is on the 20th of April I hope I make it in time! I need to add another row of three blocks the boarder and of course the back. Those will be in blue 9the same blue on the front. Once again note that the colors captured on my web cam are not very close to what they are in reality. The colors are all bright primary colors The green has vines in the pattern, the blue kind of splochy and wavey, the yellow has , well almost a chicken foot pattern in it and the red has dotted circles. Originaly I was going for earthly elements sun, fire, water, earth, but it's been pointed out that i also managed to pick the four Hogwarts houses. Anyway, since I have to keep the project under raps until the 20th I've been limited on who I can show it to hence the desire to post it here with the knitting (none of my friends know about this journal, this just for those who happen to wonder by)