Moving

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a hiatus

My camera is officially dead, so i think that for a while at least, my blog might take a short hibernation.
Thanks to the people who read it, and i promise, when i get a new camera, or i get a chance to borrow one, i'll update. Till then, happy knitting!

How to make knitting exciting.

Sometimes, life just takes all the energy out of me. I get home from work lately, and I'm beat and the time flies.
I haven't gotten too much done on the sweater, when I'm not so sleepy I'll post a pic, it's actually turning out nicely. The only problem is that the only time I get up the energy to hold my arms up to knit is on the T for about two seconds. This is also why my pictures have been either nonexistent or totally lame. I promise it'll get better soon.

One thing I was thinking about with this blog thing is that it forces you to think about knitting exciting things. After all, there is a whole knitterly world judging your every knitting move. This makes me feel like I should be knitting fair isle in short rows with cables, and quickly. It gives knitting deadlines, or at least you start to feel lame when there's no time or desire to knit, even though you're crazy about it.

And yet it's totally worth it, to know that out there in the world there are other people who feel the same way that you do about something that a lot of people don't understand. The pressure I feel with the blog helps me expand my knitting boundaries, and links me with an international group of amazing people who are so creative that it makes me want to be very creative myself.

I think I'll start to give myself little blogging assignments to make this more interesting. Tomorrow I'm picking up the fabric for my quilt and I'll start the chronicling of my adventures in that. Also, I'll begin my preparation for the holidays! I'm starting to think about how I want to wrap my presents, decorate, gift, and celebrate, and I want to include you all in that :)

alarm clock catastrophe!

ok, so i'm just running late, but have you all seen the new dunkin donuts commercial? hilarious.
The fabric that i ordered online, big issues. they can't deliver to appartments with tiny mailboxes unless someone is there, and right now, i'm never there in the afternoon, so i had to have them send it to boyfriend of stitches's appartment. i really wish i could have started this week, so i'd have pictures... grr.
better news though, i decided on a lace pattern and started the repeats on my purple sweater, which is turning out to be a very make it up as you go sort of affair. I think the next sweater should be exactly like a pattern to make up for all the loosey gooseyness that's going on around here.

apples and quilts, but not apple quilts

 Not much is interesting on the knitting front.  But i did do the most sterotypical New England thing in the whole world this weekend, I went apple picking and it was awesome!!!

There were a lot of kinds of apples and I'm pretty sure we tasted all of them.  That was before i read the 1 apple per bag rule, but we had fun. 

My favorites were the gala apples, which i'd tasted before, and is pictured above. 
Another favorite, the Roxbury Russet (it's very Bostony haha) was nice and sour, and my first experience with a russet.

Russets have a distinctive textured skin, which is porus and dries out easily.  They aren't the shiny types you generally see at the grocery store because they aren't really as attractive.  but boy are they tasty!

The purple sweater is going well, and I'm going to start a series of pieces on my dip into quilting. 

First step was shopping!  my first quilt will be a present for my father featuring some Carolina panther's fabric i found

<a href="http://www.jandofabrics.com/proddetail.asp?prod=nfl00034">Fabric</a>

It's going to be a simple nine square quilt with black backing and white squares. 

more updates later when the fabric comes, or i finish my ribbing!

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it's scarf time!

as the ever fashionable zebra lamp shows, it's time to drape yourself in warmth and style!

except that that isn't a scarf (still the sweater ribbing), and it's going to be 80 on Wednesday.  oh well, i've got about 3.5 inches done, i'm guessing around 2 or so more and then i'll be on to the as of yet to be determined lace pattern. 

next time: top tens

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like i said, the knitout knitting in public, and solitary time

The knit out was fun, I got there a little late, but met up with a fellow northeastern student and knitter, who i always seem to run into (and whose blog i forgot to get shoot!). 

And then, i went and knit in the common by myself for a while, it was nice.  However, it was interrupted by a whole family with a newborn sitting on my bench.  They took over!  It was very frustrating.  Then they left and all was well with the world again. 

there is something about being alone that i like.  First of all the quiet is nice, but also, i'm just kind of a solitary person.  and i feel like i haven't been alone enough lately.  I'm the kind of person who needs about five hours of alone time a day.  no joke.  Lately since roommate of stitches and i are the only ones in the appartment, we feel like we have to spend quality time more.  and then there's work, and the lit. mag., and all of a sudden i have 15 minutes of good quality me time a night. 

and i think, wow.  This is life.  I'm getting old!  With a 40 hour a week job, when will i really feel like i have enough me time?  Will I always have to grasp at straws of relaxation?  Oh how i wish that i could be a housewife:)

anyway, progress shot!

Here is the new sweater, lounging with a crocheted blanket that was left behind by one of our old dormmates. 

it's going quite well, and i can't wait till i can try it on!  i'm waiting till it gets a little bigger though

THis is an awesome video! <a href="http://www.thisisknit.com/2006/the-last-knit>thisisknit</a>
I love the animation!

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new beginnings

the appartment furniture is finally complete! we finally got a couch, which is huge. somehow, without a couch, life isn't complete.

Isn't it glorious?

the great thing about is that it fits, since the old couch couldn't even make it through the front door.

this new couch gives me the opportunity to talk about 2 things. one, how much do i love the wood panelling on that wall in the living room?

I've had mixed reviews, but i think it makes it feel like a comfy den.

number two is, i adore <a href="http://www.ikea.com/">Ikea</a>. it's like disney world for adults! and the food in their cafeteria is awesome.

and lastly, the almost lucky sweater got cast on a couple of days ago, but lately i've been knitting soooo slowly, so it's not much to look at but i'll show you anyhow hahah

On the new couch of course

now on to knitting!

next time on haveyouinstitches:the boston knit out (pictures i promise), knitting in public, and solitary time

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on the plus side

I finially finished the swatch, it looks all kinds of scary, but i've got some things figured out

which is good, this is going to be a wing it sort of sweater that i plan as i go.  does anyone know a good raglan sleeve guideline?

i was going to knit it in the round, but the yarn store was closed when i got there today, so i might just give in to temptation and start the back now.

that's the best part of the swatch, and the best picture i took... sorry guys

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just when i think i can't love my appartment more

i see something horrible.

after the bed bug scare (it was definitely not one). and the cockroaches, i said at least we don't have mice.
sometimes i just have to eat my words. Of course we have mice, or rather a mouse (i think) i saw it run by three times but it better damn well be the same one. if it is the same one, i'm shocked at the audacity of it to run by my bedroom door three times while i was hurling obscenities at it.

am i ready for this at 7:30 in the morning? no.

does anyone know when it's the landlord's turn to deal with this?

gah,i don't know if i can leave my bed. my only thought is that hopefully it's just because of trash day and it was scared out of its usual home.

in other news, there is a swatch drying from being semiblocked for the new sweater that's going to be made from yarn intended for lucky.

lastly, who's going to the knitout sunday? ME~!