Out and About (Day 41 KEDfaY)

I got out of the apartment today. I got to talk to people who don't share a living space with me. I got to drink coffee that I didn't make. Today was a good day.

I took a trip to the local knit group with a wonderful person who was generous enough to give me a ride. I don't mind not having a car most of the time except those times when I want to get out of the house and am limited to how far my legs can carry me. A wonderful lady was nice enough to give me a ride to and from the knitting circle where I got to meet many more wonderful knitters! It's awesome to meet new people and it's even better when they share an interest with you such as knitting or crafting. It was nice to talk about yarn and projects and HPKCHC and possible fair entries with people who have similar goals and mindsets. 

Today my knitting was a bit scattered. I knit some on my sock which I need to finish but ugh, I just don't want to. I made another square for a blanket that I haven't decided what to do with yet. I started another hat for a Christmas present for someone. I couldn't really decide what to take to the knitting group so I took the hat and the sock. I did the blanket square earlier today while watching my daily dose of Will and Grace. 

Yesterday was a bad day. I was in a bad mood in general and then someone who was trying to be helpful was just reminding me that I didn't have a job and I couldn't find one which put me in a SUPER shitty mood. Today though was much better. Sometimes it takes just getting out of the house for a few hours to get you out of a bad funk. And today definitely helped. 

I got to meet a great bunch of gals and I am really excited to actually find a knitting group that seems to be just as wacky and crazy and out there as I am! 

Day 40 KEDfaY

Best laid plans... (Day 39 KEDfaY)

I never used to be a fan of knitting swatches. I always thought that they were a waste of time and if something didn't work out right, I'd just rip the whole thing out. 

In recent knitting adventures though, I've thought that I might as well should at least see what it would look like. I'm glad that I've started doing this. 

The sweater that I talked about the other day was going to get another swatch today. I had already finished up the washcloth that is pictured above (and is currently sitting in my Christmas Present box to be gifted to someone random) and thought that I should take a crack at reversing that pattern so I can do what I wanted to do with it (top down raglan with the lace panel). Well that didn't work. Unfortunately the lace pattern that I chose and have my heart set on cannot be reversed, at least not easily so therefore not by me. My knowledge of how lace works is very minimal. It's a lot like baking to me. It's very precise and a science almost and if you are off a little then the whole thing could be a mess and I have no idea how any of it works. I know the basics of both but beyond that, I have to follow a pattern/recipe. This metaphor is getting a bit convoluted and not well described.

I wanted to knit it top down so I could make it long enough and then still have enough yarn for sleeves and not worry too much about running out but now that I have to knit it bottom up to get the lace panel I want, I'm going to worry about running out of yarn. It isn't a rare yarn, Loops & Threads Impeccable worsted, but I don't have money to buy more yarn if I need it. Being broke sucks, don't it?

Now I just have to be more conscious of how much yarn I use. Luckily I have some of that yarn in a different color that I used to knit the swatch out of (the swatch is grey where the sweater is going to be red). It's not going to be cast on for a little while though. I joined the HPKCHC so that I could feel more accomplished when I finished something and I'd like to make the sweater for the first term. I'm also hoping to finish up some other stuff laying around here before start of term so that I don't have as many WIPs just sitting around. Since a lot of them are blankets though, I think my goal is just to get some work done on a few of them. Maybe sort my scraps I have sitting on my desk. Maybe make a washcloth or two for presents. 

We'll see.  

Owwie (Day 38 KEDfaY)

My sore arm hasn't gotten less sore. In fact, it's gotten more sore. It's sorer. It hurts. I didn't do much today besides read. 

I just did one row today so I could take a picture and say I did it. Go me! Now back to doing nothing.

Jealousy (Day 37 KEDfaY)

I hate it when I find a blogger that's funnier than me and wittier and makes me laugh out loud and then makes me want to be their real best friend and jealous of how awesome they are. I hate it because that's what I strive to be. I strive to be that person that's funny and witty and makes the readers laugh out loud and makes people want to be my best friend (internet best friend will suffice unless you give me pizza, then we'll talk). But it's hard to be funny every day. It's hard to be funny at all especially when you don't have anything interesting to say or do.

My daily routine:

• Wake up
• Check Twitter (for the news, you know)
• Check my daily webcomics (the Funnies part of the internet newspaper)
• Tell myself that I need to stop being a lazy bum and go work out, c'mon it isn't going to kill you! It's not like you have anything better to do! 
• Work out
• Shower
• Watch 2 hours of Will and Grace
• Dick around on the computer and internet, wishing I had something more productive to do
• Maybe clean something?
• Maybe make dinner?
• Knit some

The worst part is when my daily routine doesn't change much from a weekday to the weekend. I just have more dicking around time on the internet and for some reason I have decided that it's the weekend so therefore I don't need to workout because what sane person works out on a Saturday? (Saturday also appears to be the day that I break the blender while attempting to make fancy coffee. Ugh.)

I enjoy writing, that's why I started this blog, was so I could write about knitting and do two things I love. But I'm a non-fiction writer. I enjoy writing about the silly hijinx I get into and talk about the crazy but true stories from my childhood. It's hard to write creatively about your boring ass life when the highlight of the day is that no one else is in the workout center when you are because really, who enjoys working out with other people around?

So that's why I've been phoning in my posts. Just writing a bit about what I knit that day and what I'm planning on doing with it because that's all I got going right now which is really sad now that I've made that realization.

Dammit.

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There's my knitting so far for today. I did a little past the heel on this sock that has been staring at me to finish for a while now. I do just need to sit and finish it and then possibly maybe even write up the pattern for it. 

I might knit more later but my hand is sore and the Boyfriend is back from his trip so I actually have someone to talk to that isn't a cat and who will actually respond to me with something other than pissed off meows. 

I seee youuu (Day 36 KEDfaY)

I'm really bad about being a monogamous knitter. I have numerous projects right now in varying states of finished-ness. Most of these are blankets but those are hard to work on in the summer when you're sweating sitting still let alone with a blanket sitting on your lap. 

I had thought that I might've lost my knitting mojo and it has definitely decided to go on vacation and leave me behind. I've wanted to start a sweater for a couple of days now but the sweater I had planned for this yarn no longer appealed to me so I went down the pattern hole on Ravelry trying to find something new and exciting that caught my eye. The pattern that did it is Ginny's Cardigan from the new Unofficial Harry Potter Knits magazine that I want so much holy crap it's hard to describe how much I want it. I like the idea of the lace panel down the back but I wanted a sweater not a cardigan so I started looking through one of my knitting treasuries and sure enough, in the lace section was the same (or incredibly similar) lace pattern. I now know what I want to do and I even swatched for it, even if I did miss a yarn over and it's pretty obvious now but I was just trying to see how it would work up. I also want to do it top down which would mean how the pattern is written right now, the owls would be upside down. I'm going to try just reversing it and see how that goes. 

I started watching Once Upon a Time. I did it because I was bored and everyone who watched it says it's so great. I'm almost done with season two. It gets a hardy "meh" from me. The plots are a bit ridiculous and some of the characters have no motivation to their actions but it's fun and it does poke fun at itself every once in a while and I like that in a show. 

The Boyfriend comes back from his trip tomorrow so I'll finally have someone to talk to besides the cat who I believe thinks that I am the reason the Boyfriend is gone. I might be wrong but this cat is crazy so we'll never know. 

Ladies Night (Day 35 KEDfaY)

The Boyfriend is still out of town on business and so I'm at home, by myself, left to my own devices. Last night I had fried chicken and mashed potatoes and corn all covered in gravy and it was delicious. Today I had leftovers and now I'm enjoying some wine and ice cream as I knit on this sock. I told myself I needed to get at least to the heel before I start working on more swatches for a different pattern. I'm just so bored with this pattern though. This is the third one I've made and while I like how it turns out, it's just a bit repetitive making the same one over and over again.

I kinda lost my mojo I think. I went to try to find a project to work on while watching TV today and I couldn't find anything that interested me. I even looked at my yarn to try to find something that might spark an interest and I came up short. I'm in a bit of a slump but much like writer's block, knitter's block just needs to be plowed through. And that's what I'm doin', a whole lot of plowin'.