Month: April 2009

FO: The Social Disease

Posted by zyllah – April 29, 2009

I’m not sure I mentioned it but….I started a clap sometime after Christmas. My mom ganked my old one and it was looking a bit ratty anyway so I didn’t fight her too hard for it. I had decided to go with Dream in color’s gothic rose for yarn because *cough* well if you knew me 10 yrs ago you’d understand. I was oh so very goth.  At least until I decided it was time to at least go for art fag librarian instead of Elvira.  Anyway without further blathering…

Pattern: Clapotis the Social Diease
Yarn: Dream in Color Classy in Gothic Rose
Needles: Addi Interchangeable sz 8
Size: Me
Pattern Notes: Everyone has made it haven’t they? However I did twist the stitches on either side of the dropped stitch to prevent biasing. I do wish yet again I had made it larger but I could block the sucker more aggressively.
Would I knit it again? Yes of course but I’m not sure when…

Knock Knock, is anyone else still reading this?

Posted by zyllah – April 11, 2009

Well now it sure has been a long time.  After my last post I went into packing and cleaning mode so I was pretty busy. Then we moved into the new house. I love the house. I’m still working on it and in fact I’ve rearranged since I took those photos.

However I’m going to wait to take more till the tv thing above the fireplace is closed off and I have it painted. Anyway after that I had to get my husband ready to deploy. Also we found out I’m pregnant.

I’ve got about 15 weeks left before I give birth. We’re having a girl and naming her Elke Sophia unless I can’t stand it by then.

Pregnancy has been interesting, they found out I’ve got thyroid issues which explains why I’ve been so tired for so long. Anyway lets just say with the tired and trying to get the house organized I haven’t been doing much knitting. I have been working on another Clap out of dream in color. So hopefully it will be done in a day or so and I’ll have pictures.  I also started Strangling Vine.  It’s a nice fingering weight lace scarf. I’m doing it in this blackish purple sock yarn I got from knitting notions.

I still haven’t finished that black cardi since I won’t be able to wear it for a while so I lost motivation. However I did finally get an FO shot of my wicked cardi. Which although nice looking fits almost no-one. Oh well I did it in yarn I didn’t really care about and it was a steeking experiment.

So I will try to blog more often but we’ll see.