All better!

Whoohooo! I fixed the site! Well except for that pesky no comment on the direct page thing, I'm going to get around to that one of these days... =P

Not a whole lot new in the craft realm. I'm currently addicted to making doll clothes, LMAO! What started out as a cute project for a friends daughter has become a new area for creativity and design.

As odd as that may sound think about it... Dolls such as Barbie are literally 1/6th our size so even something like converting an adult pattern to such a small size is a new adventure, heh. And when you need to frog back to a mistake or to resize something it's 20 sts and 5 rows back instead of 70 sts and 20 rows back, hehehe.

Ah well. *shrug* =D

Pattern: Lichen Symphony Scarf

Lichen Symphony Scarf



(I know this is a terrible picture, not to mention it makes my neck look fat [lol], I'll do my best to get some more out here.)

Yarn: Red Heart Symphony - Juniper (I used less than half a skein on this scarf)
Needles: US #13 / 9.00mm

Note: Slip first stitch of each row knitwise on knit rows, purlwise on purl rows. This will create a smooth edge along your scarf.

CO 18.
Row 1-7: K all. (piece should measure about 3")
Row 8-126: St st. (piece should measure about 42")
Row 127-134: K all. (piece should measure about 45")
BO.

Weave in ends. Block to 6" wide and 45" or longer.

Still broke, but here's some pics

So the sites still broke. The backup template's MIA, I'm still looking for it but I'm thinking I'll end up redoing it all. =/ Blah.

I've actually been thinking to go to a different blog system, maybe Xanga since a paid account comes with the web server package we buy. That way I'd be hosting it as well. *shrug*

Some new stuff...

Lichen Symphony Scarf - (Pattern coming) - This was a fun but simple knit project made out of Red Heart's super soft and fuzzy Symphony yarn. It was worked up on big needles so the stitches are big and airy but this scarf is still incredibly warm. =)


Red Mesh Hearts Tote - I made this a while back but didn't have a camera to take pics of it. I generally use it to drag my WIP to Open Stitch. I've been getting a lot of compliments on it so I figured I'd show it off here. =)


I finally got pics of all my Blue Squares goodies, I'll post them when they've been resized to something reasonable (versus the 2000+px the camera takes them at, hehe).

And for the craziest news of the week...

I've been nominated for President of our Stitch'N Club! I was floored when I received the email. Now I have to work up a Bio and all that good jazz for the vote on Dec. 16th.

Broke.

Yay, go me! I broke my side panel. =P I went to remove a couple items from my WIP list and BAM everything disappeared. I didn't even bother to preview else I could have caught my error.

But nooooooooooooo... I've gotta be all like "I know what I'm doing..."

Sure. Maybe when I'm actually PAYING ATTENTION.

LOL, oh well. I'll fix it later when I get home. =) Don't mind the blank spot on the right, heh.

Can't back down

Honestly... I can't. I know Tom Petty was all about "won't". But I can't. (More on this in a bit...)

Lately I'll admit to being a tad cranky.

Hash's grandma had a stroke and was resuscitated. She has living will but the ER team didn't know that when she got there, so they preceded to do what they do... try to save lives. Now she's bedridden and complete pissed they brought her back. Not that I can blame her, harsh as it may sound. We've talked to her since then. What do you say to someone that tells you they'd rather be dead and they mean it? =(

I had the stomach flu for a while. Had to take off a couple days of work, ended up missing a class too. The week of Thanksgiving was a hellish spree of preparing 9 filings in 3 days. Normally we're giving 3 days for 1 filing. I got a smidgen of overtime, car/bus-sick on the way home, and finally to kick off my shoes and celebrate the start to a 6 day weekend...

Ahhh and those 6 days were blissful. Short of a grocery stock up on Wednesday we never left the apartment. Waking up on the following Tuesday to go back to work was a nightmare. But some how I did it, on time no less!

(Back to my inability to just let it be)

The older I get, the worse this gets. But when I'm at work, every job I've had, I respectfully, but honestly, tell the people I have regular association when I have a problem with something they're doing, such as... dumping their work on me.

Not that it doesn't bug the shit outta me when they push it on others but with very few exceptions I don't feel it's my right, as I'm not the manager, to step in and make something of it. Today I just put my foot down, respectfully if a bit briskly, and walked away. It's baffling how people can act so shocked when you don't let them push you around. *sigh*

This weekend I'm hoping to take some pictures of recently completed projects, half starts to new projects, and all the great squares I got in the Blue Sqs Too swap!

I'm horribly behind on my blog reading too, I hope to catch up with that as well. Please forgive me!

Off to knit for a bit and crash out, so um bye. And peace. =)