GREYS!

I am a huge Greys Anatomy fan, and a very dedicated one from the beginning of the show. A lot of people catch onto to shows after they have been on for a couple of years but I have always loved Dr shows and so when I found out it was going to be airing back in like 2005 ish my brother who is 3 years older then me and I decided to watch the show and have been hooked ever since. If you are also a Grey's Anatomy fan you will know that tonight was the season finale for the 6Th season of this wonderful show. Not only was it intense I decided that I needed to knit through the show which had its ups and downs. With such intensity I didn't think that it was good that I was holding needles that at any scary or shocking moment I could stick them hard through my skin. (i was knitting with size 3 needles -- I will talk about what I am working on later) The ups though were the fact that when I didn't necessarily want to look at the TV screen I could just knit at a rapid pace, psyching myself out thinking if I knitted faster the show would go by faster and thus be less scary at times. All in all the finale was absolutely amazing and I definitely recommend anyone who hasn't watched Grey's anatomy to start from season 1 and watch it, you will love it!

OK so now that my love for Grey's has been expressed onto what this blog is suppose to be about, me and my knitting adventures.

I decided to look into a back pack that is still packed from moving out of the dorms and I found a project that I discovered (thanks to ravelry) that I started on Feb 10 and it happened to be a dish cloth for my mother. It is in purple because that happens to be her favorite color and was suppose to be finished for mother's day but as seeing it is way past that its just going to be an "I love you for being my mommy" gift. Its a cute dishcloth and such a simple pattern I am not sure why I haven't gotten farther along faster, but I am going to keep it in my bed side table drawer and it will be my night knitting before I go to bed until I finish it, which I project to happen in a few weeks as I am going to be taking my time.

The sock is still coming along nicely and I am a few or like 30 rows away from starting the toe. I have made an executive decision to take the sock and frame it and use it as artwork in my new house that I am going to be moving into in 80 days! It wont fit my foot or my sisters and since its a simple sock I decided to make it art and then start a real pair of socks for myself after I finish this one.

I think I have ranted and gone on and on for now, until next time, let the adventures continue!

Summer Time

I am home now with my family which includes my father, my mother, my two sisters, and our new addition to the family, our dog named Ruby.

When I got home from school my plan was to knit and craft and knit and craft as much as I can because I have so much more time, or so I thought. My plan was to come home and work a lot because my roomates and I are moving off campus next year and into a beautiful house located close to school. I was hoping to work anywhere from 25 to 30 hours a week and luckily my boss said that was fine, even though I wasnt really expecting it. I have come to realize that as I have way more time that I am way more tired because of work, a 9 hour day on your feet can be exhausting and by the time I get home I dont want to do anything but sit on my bed and watch TV.

This past weekend I got a few text messages from the one who taught me to knit and a really close friend of mine and she told me that she was having a hard time but being that she lives an hour or so away from me I couldnt be there right away for her. I decided though to suprise her and go on a day trip on a Sunday when I could go to church and then lunch and then to her new apt to hang out and be with her. I had stopped knitting a few weeks ago when I got to a point in my socks where I did not know what to do. I finished a scarf for a guy friend of mine shown below. I decided that since I was going to see my friend that I might as well take my socks and have her help me along to the next part of the sock. She is the best I must say and has helped me get going on the next part of the sock.

Something that came to me when I was visiting her was the fact that I want to knit more when I am in her presence then when I am home alone, I hoping to start kintting more progressively instead of spending as much time on the internet. So now I am off to lunch and then knitting and watching a movie.... untill next time

END OF SEMESTER

As my junior of college comes to an end I find myself looking back and attempting to figure out just how all of a sudden I am going to be starting my senior year of college. I guess luckily for me I get to stay an extra semester for an internship but I still look back in amazement of where time has gone.

When I started knitting and was thrust ed into the online world of Ravelry.com I looked at a bunch of different college groups that mentioned how much people knit during finals. I happen to knit all of the time so I didn't think that finals week would be any different. Boy was I mistaken completely. I have come to find that a good way to relieve stress and to feel like you are actually accomplishing something is to knit during finals week. You feel the take home finals and studying are getting you no where so at least with knitting you can see the actual progress that is happening.

My 20th birthday was a few weeks ago and my wonderful knitting master who is teaching me/taught me everything I know gave me my first ever sock kit! I was really thrilled to make socks as it was one of the things that I had not dived into yet. I have completed my first ever cardigan and it looks amazing and I get so many compliments on it but I hadn't begun my first ever pair of socks. At first I have to admit that I found it completely awkward to knit with needles that I could literally fit through my ear hole where I put my ea rings in. As I finally got the hang of it and continued I am starting to like it a little more. I still prefer my size 8 or 9 needles when making a scarf as i seem to get somewhere faster but this is satisfying. I am working on a basic sock as to not get too ambitious even though it seems that I am in regards to knitting. I just finished the ribbing section of the cuff of one of my socks and I am now onto the 70 rows of St st.





I have already completed 3 finals and only have 2 left tomorrow and then I am off to my home where i get to relax (work at a local fast food restaurant) for 3 months before moving into a new home and a new adventure starting my senior year of college.

The adventure continues.....

Clean Clean Clean, Yarn Yarn Yarn

As I sat in my dorm room on a really nice Sunday afternoon, I realized the need to clean was at hand.

I started by just cleaning the very small portion of my dorm room and putting clothes where they belong and everything else that was crawling on my floor.
After I cleaned the main part of my section I decided it was time to tackle the craft box and the knitting box. As a young knitter I dont have as much yarn as the one who has been knitting and collecting yarn for years, but I would say I have a rather good amount.

The one thing I dont like about cleaning out things like a yarn bin is the fact that you dont think you have that much yarn untill you see it all. As I pulled out skein and balls of yarn, I started to feel proud and ashamed at my yarn collection but more proud then ashamed that I own as much as I do.

I also found that the whole I will only do 4 projects at a time went to the wayside when i found two more projects at the bottom of the bin that I had just put away for another day. I guess I will just add more to my to do list of projects and attempting to get them completed fast as I am known for in and among the people I know.

The pink cardigan is most likely not going to be finished in my initial time frame of three weeks as that comes up on Saturday and I havent even finished the body and I still have the sleeves to work on, but the ambition is not gone and I still plan on finishing it before the spring blink our school gives us in a couple of weeks...untill next time!

Roundabout Knitting

As I continue on my knitting adventure I find that I can very much so get easily bored with any one project and want to move on to antoher. I have 4 projects going right now, and it is all that I will allow myself to have (to start a new project i must finish one thats already in the works)

I am now working on the orange scarf for my far off friend, a green hat that will be traded for some lovely head bands, and my pink cardigan which is going much better then expected, even though I do not think that my 3 week goal that I set is going to be accomplished.

For the past couple of days i have devoted each day to a certain project and focus on doing as much of that project as I can and then the next day I work on a different project, it is working well for me for now, but it might not last long.

I finally purchased my first ever knitting magazine because I loved the cardigan on the front cover (Creative Knitting March 2010). There is a lot of other good things in there that I am going to try and accomplish as I continue on this wonderful journey into the world of knitting.

As for now I am back to watching The Amazing Race and working on my lace pattern for my cardigan....off to more adventures!

Oh Math Class!

My adventures sometimes take me past ust knitting as it did today. I had to write a poem for my math class on anything that I wanted but I had to use 12 math terms out of a whole list that were given to us by the teacher. I knew I wanted to write a poem based on knitting since its something that seems to draw a lot of attention expecially since I am young.
Here is the poem I wrote:

KNITTING

A hobby in which the ratio of young to old
Is definitely a story to be told
The skewed views of the world
Are views that need to be unfurled.

Knitting is not for the faint of heart
It is a hobby that is really a work of art
Circular knitting needles and I-Chords
Are definitely not something to be ignored

The formula for getting a project complete
Starts with a graph that needs to be neat
Next you must decide on what yarn to use
It’s not that simple so be careful what you choose

Next you must pick the right needle size
Circular, straight, or double pointed you must be wise
Casting on is what you do first
You need to keep your lines straight or you might be cursed

Once you get to the midpoint of your project
You will need to take a moment to reflect
Check everything before moving on
Or else all your work might end up gone

The proof will be in your work
You will most likely be so satisfied you will smirk
The positive praise you receive
Will leave others to finally believe

Knitting is not only for the old
It is for all ages who dare to be bold!

School and Knitting

So its been a while since I have written on this thing, and even though I doubt that anyone reads this thing since I only have two other posts, I figured I would still write on here.

Last Thursday I started my first ever very big project, which is the February Lady Sweater in a nice pink color. I have so far complete the whole collar and have started on the actual lace work for the body. I am suprised at how fast I am going and originially decided that I would be able to complete this in three weeks but looking at it again I am not so sure that would be possible, but I knit fast so we shall see. I guess the race begins.

I am also working on two other scarves right now, one for my roomate which I have been working on for a while and will not take that long to complete but its such a simple pattern that I seem to get bored very easily. Another scarf that I am working on is a beautiful orange scarf from a friend that I hadn't heard from in a long time. It seems that knitting brings people into your life that you didnt even remember existed because all of sudden, they want this and they want that to be made for them, and it seems like you become popular for a split second, only to realize that the reason you are becoming popular is because you are knitting, which in and of itself could be considered, not cool.

School is hectic but i still manage to find time to knit, especially in the classrooms where all they do is lecture I find myself sitting in the back knitting because honestly its the only way I can concentrate.
I should probably end this now as I have to go and prepare a lesson to teach to kindergartners on simple math. Till later.