Pal sock update

This is the yellow I bought it is the Blue Sky alpaca in Lemondrop. This was way not yellow enough so.......

It turned into this Yellow with a little help of Cushing Dye in Lemon. I love the way it turned out. I really love these entrelac socks so I thought I would be really nice and really spoil my pal and do a pair for her. Hopefully she will like them. They remind me of any of the Pittsburg team colors. LOL too bad she lives in the west it would be perfect and double the fun. This is all I was able to get done in the car. I ended up driving most of the way so I only got about an hour of real knitting time. Thats ok I got a good start and I will just have to work my butt off on them now. Sake wanted to be my Barker girl. See her modeling the yarn for me. :-)

We just got back from a quick trip to NJ. We left Thurday morning and got back last night.

Another trip to Build a Bear. Lana did have more fun this time around tho LOL. she got a cute flop eared bunny named Snuggles

Kiki got a Hello Kitty.

Kristen got her first Build a Bear for her 1st birthday named Peanut.

Poppy (my dad) and Kristen the party was just too much.

It was a great trip the kids were good. We loved being able to see everyone and I got a DVD system for the car so the drive was so much easier. Hubby and I are going back in 2 weeks since he couldn't come this time.

I joined the Hogwarts Sock Swap today.
I need another project or hobby like I need another hole in my head. LOL
This just looked too much fun and I love Harry Potter so I had to do this.
I took the sorting hat quiz and it placed me in Ravenclaw. Not too bad, at least I like the colors (film).
Here is my questionnaire:

Hogwarts Sock Swap Questionnaire

1. What Hogwarts house have you been sorted into?
Ravenclaw

2. Shoe size?
US 9

3. Foot Length?
9 ¾ inches

4. Foot Circumference?
9 ¾ inches

5. List your three favorite double-point needle brands, including size and length.

a. Addi turbo magic loop 100 cm

b. KA

c. Clover

not picky on length or size just whatever gets the job done for the pattern.

6. Would you like to try a new brand needle? If so, which brand? Size? Length?
Any I haven’t used yet I would like to try. Possibly a set of Lantern moons made better then the ones I bought and won’t break in the first 10 minutes.

Or Brittany's I don't have anyone near me who sells those and I hear they are great.

7. If you are a RAVENCLAW, do you prefer the colors in the film or the book?
Film

8. Do you have a strong preference?
Yup I do not like the blue and bronze just cuz the bronze ends up looking yellowish but if done right I wouldn't mind book colors.

9. Are you willing to have an international Hogwarts Sock Pal?
Yes

Look what we woke up to this morning!

Ugh I am so ready for the snow to end Hello! I thought this was over. It was close to 50 degrees sunny and the snow had all melted. What is up with this?

Lana is now fascinated by sissy's undies she has taken to putting them on over all of her clothes. How cute. Super baby!

Second try on entrelac sock. Guess what? I went up two needles sizes since I am using slightly bigger yarn and the first sock was too small. Nope now this one is too big. I think I am just not destined to have a pair of these socks. Oh well!

I think its time to make another booga j bag. Lets go get some Noro! I need a break.

It's an entrelac sock.

It is not as long as it should be but when I went to try it on it wouldn't fit so I said frig this and started the cuff. I got the cuff done and off the needles. I am so happy. Since it doesn't fit and it has been the Sock of Doom I brought it to my favorite people at the Best Yarn Shop Ever and gave it to them to hang up as a sample.

Finished with the tassels on it. Gone! The bad Karma and Mojo better go with it too. So if that isn't enough and I am a glutton for punishment, while I was there I got The Blue Sky Alpaca in a chocolate brown and a pink heather to do another pair, but this time instead of the pattern called for 1's I am using 3's and I got the toe done last night. Already I know this will be much better and easier and fit me. Let keep our fingers crossed.

TA DA!!
All about finales.


My finale cake from course 2. Yes I made all those flowers and the butterflies by myself. And that is a lovely basket weave on the sides of the cake done by me!

This is Spunky Eclectic Sangria. After the sock of doom ( See above post) I needed a break so I got this Sangria and that glass (bottle) of white zinfandel and sat down to relax and watch the Godfather (yes I have never seen it) and I made individual toe socks out of this. Well they are no longer now as with the colors it looked like monster feet from Sesame Street and I just didn't like the flow. But it relaxed me and got the sock of doom off my mind. Now what do I make with this?

Kiki met the Easter bunny at a local restaurant we went to for dinner. Lana was petrified of the Easter bunny and cried the whole time we were eating dinner and buried her head in me. Poor Baby.

But when we got home all was OK when she could play with the kitty cat's new play cube tower thing. The kitties were not impressed. They wouldn't come near me the rest of the night they were so mad at me for letting her touch their home.

So here is my entrelac sock.

Here is the progress I have made. Not much I know. Wanna know why it has taken me so long to get this far? Lets put it this way these socks I have come to think are the socks of doom. Since I started them My life has gone to hell.

Since I started knitting them I have had nothing but problems. And not knitting problems. For the most part the knitting has gone smoothly. Just all friggin sorts of other problems.
1. The broken needle started it, then
2. My dog got run over and killed
(she ran out and I didn't know she got off the gated in porch at my mom's house and she made it to the street and got run over)
3. My brand spanking new $400 KitchenAid Pro 600 series died. While I was making the frosting for my afternoon class Sunday morning.
After class went back to linens n' things and got a replacement it was less then 3 weeks old and you just can't kill a KitchenAid Hello!
4. On the way home from class my van starts smoking and I have no heat.
5. It's not covered under the warranty and it cost me $485.00 to fix.
6. My favorite glasses which are just a year old break and that frame has been discontinued so I have to buy new ones.
another $160.00
7. My electric LitterMaid (kitty box) dies. They are $ 200 I went with the $30.00 scoop roll over box.
8. My office flooded this weekend and everything below 2 feet got soaked.
9. I get the smart idea to try my socks on and break another needle.
10. I fell and twisted a vertebrae in my back.

So this is why I have barely made any progress on these lovely socks. And I do love them. It is actually a very easy knit. I have not cursed them, I have not bad mouthed them, and I have worked on them at least a little everyday. But for some reason since I started knitting them bad things have happened to me. At least we are all healthy and OK. At this point I am now bound and determined that I will finish, they will not get the best of me. I will beat them and things will get better. And if they fit me I will wear them proudly and remember this point in my life forever with all the pain that is stitched into each rectangle. Then I will make more!

I love this. Kiki looks so cute here.

Lana so happy.

My goober heads.

I had to take a brake from my socks to make this.

The upside down daisy hat from the Knit it.

The intended baby modeling the new hat. How cute is this.

My wonderful husband got me these for my birthday. Plus a gift card to the new yarn shop and a book I have been wanting

The update on the entrelac socks I am halfway thru the leg and almost ready to start the increases for the calves.

I want to cry and scream. Matter of fact I did cry and scream. Thank God the kids were in bed when this happened as I do not want them repeating what came out of my mouth.
I am so so very upset. I actually started crying. (hubby was giving me some funny looks and was quite concerned as this is very out of character for me)
Now I am not a stresser or a stressed out person. I roll. I don't do gauge (yes it has bitten me in the ass) but I feel that if I knit it and it doesn't fit me or who it is intended for then it was meant for someone else who it does fit. Not much bothers me I can make it work. But this was then end for me last night. I have had a shitty week and the fact that I couldn't start this right away pissed me off so I was so excited to start last night. Too Excited maybe.

Look what happened in less then 10 minutes of starting.


See the scrid of needle in the stitches and the one laying on top. They used to be joined.
I bought these Lantern Moon Ebony size 1 DPN's and this is the first time I used them. I had been dying to try a set of Lantern Moon I heard they were incredible to work with. I finally got me a set. I got the most awesome yarn ever and a way cool pattern. I rock these are going to kick ass. and I will knit them up so fast and easily. HA! Little did I know fate had a much crueler idea in store for me.

I bought them with Blue Sky alpaca to do the Entrelac socks in the new Interweave Knits

I cast on and all was going well. I was not pulling or forcing the stitches it was going easily this yarn is a dream to work with. I did not have to fight it or anything. I was so excited to do these as I have had to put it off for the past week since the ball winder went missing and I had to finish a hat for hubby. I got the ball winder last night from my mom's house where i left it (duh!) and was so excited to ball up the yarn and start these incredible socks. 10 Minutes later. 10 f**king minutes. AHHHHHHHHHHHH!! I screamed cursed and started crying. Hubby now questions my sanity.

I was even too frustrated and upset to get up and look for my bamboo 1's. I think I am not intended to do these socks. Just posting this I want to cry again. Sob!!

My finale cake from Course 1. I did a horrible job on it but for my first attempt at roses its not too bad.

Here is what me and my SIL did yesterday. My MIL wanted one so we got ours first so she could preview it.

Sara's is blue mine is pink

This is just because it is so damn cute.

I F**King hate blogger why does it keep doing this to me with my pictures it takes me five friggin hours to blog and get pictures to show up. Then they still don't. AGHHHHHHH!
Mohawk hat on my nephew. He says he likes it. We will see if he really wears it.

Mohawk on Kiki I think she needs one too.

Goober head.



Look how haughty she looks. She is so photogenic.

She loves to hold stuff in her mouth like a little doggie. She also tries to stuff the extras down her shirt. I guess she wants to save them for later. LOL


Cake #2 from the decorating class. I like the look of this one but let me tell you do not. I repeat do NOT buy Dunkin Hines Moist Deluxe in Devil's Food Cake. That is what I used for this recipe and When I leveled it and cut off the top I tasted a piece of it. AbsoFREAKINGlutely disgusting. It tasted like black licorice. It was horrible. I thought so my mom thought so, my SIL and her BF thought so too. It wasn't just me. So as soon as I finished class I took it to hubby's work. Lol they ate it all. (Don't hate me, they loved it)

Hubby put together this Race car cupcake cake for my mom. It was her bosses birthday and she wanted something special since he races we thought this would be perfect. Hubby did a really good job. He is much more artistic then I could ever hope to be.



And finally a completed Mohawk Hat from DomiKNITrix. I love this it is so cool. Once we got past some minor difficulties it was a fast easy knit. I love doing it and I love the look of it. I did not love the 150+ pieces of green fringe that I had to attach but it still rocks. The intended nephew was not home since it is school break he was with his friends so I couldn't get a pic with it on him. As soon as he gets home I will. Hubby won't model any more for me. LOL
Now I am making the hat for hubby he really like the black base. No hair of course. But the rest will do just fine thank you. I have no problem with that since the hair is a pain to attach and the green shed everywhere anyway.