Needlephile

I got more knitting done than I have in a while, because I LOVE the idea of a mitered square blanket with no sewing! (How can this be true, you ask? See the girls over at Mason-Dixon and scroll down.) So, yesterday I showed you one square, now here's four together, with no sewing! Here's the RS:


And the WS:



I can't wait to make more!

Jonathan likes them:

I love Sunday mornings. I was actually able to sleep in until 10 am this morning, which I haven't done in a while. Of course, I went to bed at around 1am and my new neighbors decided to have a HUGE party in their yard last night, which is right outside my bedroom window. Actually, they've been partying pretty much all week now. There were four empty town-house style apartments that were empty at the same time, and then they all got rented out to a bunch of Irish students! Now, I have nothing against the Irish, but man, can they drink!! They were drinking from 1pm till about 3am, and maybe even later, but thats when I finally fell asleep. Hopefully they start school soon and won't be doing this much anymore.
Ok, so this is knitting blog, right? I did get a little knitting done yesterday, in the midst of trying to get some studying done. I finished one tiny square for my mitered square afghan!

I decided to go with the garter stitch version, because I like how it looks on both sides, and it lays flat, which is always nice. I'm using cheap-o Caron Simply Soft yarn and size seven needles... so this will probably take me forever to finish, but I think it will be worth it when its done.
Ok, now that obligatory knitting content is out of the way, can I just say how much I love this man??

That's David Ortiz, by the way, and I'm smitten.

I don't know about you, but I hate it when I actually have a day to sleep in, but I wake up at 6 am and I'm wide awake. That didn't happen yesterday, when I actually had to get up early. WTF? I tried to go back to sleep, but after a while, I figured it was a lost cause, and I should really get up and do some studying or something. So here I am, blogging.
In the mornings on my days off I like to catch up on the blogs that I read regularly, and this morning I was reading my favorite Red Sox blog (cuz the Sox just got swept this weekend and I think misery likes company), but instead of getting all fired up about the Sox, I was really touched by this post. It sounds like something my dad would say.

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Last night I actually finished a sweater! Can you believe it?? Well, a tiny little red sweater for RedSweaters.org. If you haven't heard about this yet, check out the website. This woman is making a statement about the war in Iraq by putting one red sweater in a tree for every soldier killed in the war. She needs help, though cuz there are 2500 dead American soldiers so far. I don't even want to go into how depressing and frustrating that is to me. But I will say that it only takes a couple hours to make a little red sweater and send it off to her to help with this project, so please help out if you can.

Wow. Its been kind of a crazy weekend so far. Yesterday was great... apparently it was Worldwide Knit in Public Day. Conincidentally, we had our monthly StitchnBitch in Hillcrest at WineSteals. We always set the start to be at 1pm, and somehow I am always the first person there, even though yesterday I showed up at about 2pm. C'est la vie. But then once one person showed up, pretty much everyone else did right after her. We thought it might just be three of us, but then four non-regulars showed up, which was so cool. Its always great to meet new knitters! I was hoping to make it to Kris' going away knitting party today, but due to my lack of studying so far this weekend, I don't think I can make it happen. Yesterday was spent recovering from a hangover, then going to SNB, then going to a housewarming party for a couple hours, and then to another housewarming party, where there was an abundance of Red Sox fans. Somehow we got a Yankee hat and we burned it in the fire pit. That was fun!

so today will be spent studying for my midterm and recovering from another slight hangover. Ugh.

Ok... we're doing better today!

1. When the Red Sox beat down the Yankees


2. the color blue


3. Fridays

4. strawberries


5. Free sushi... tonight my school's student coucil is throwing a little party, and we all get free sushi and drinks... how cool is that??

5 Things I Hate today:

1. being hungover


2. bird crap all over my car


3. going to the dentist


4. going to the dentist hungover

5. the New York Yankees... I hate them every day. Why? See Yankee Hating 101




I will try to be in a better mood tomorrow

So I've been thinking of what color scheme I want to use to make my Psychedelic Squares afghan, and I think I would like to use a sea glass theme: grey, sand, teal, light blue, and a darker blue color.

Then I remembered this handy little tool that randomly generates stripes for you... all you have to do is put in the colors you want and how many rows, and it will show you how the colors work together! How cool is that?? So this is what I came up with. Now all I have to do is buy a bunch of yarn... which I can't really afford, but oh well!

I can't believe its June already! How did that happen?? Well, no matter how it crept up on me, June means the color of the month is blue. Blue has always been one of my favorite colors (a close second to purple, of course), and I especially love a pretty deep royal blue, which is also the color of my birthstone- sapphire. When I picked out the color for my VK Tiered skirt, I didn't plan to make it blue for Project Spectrum... it just kinda happened that way.
I have only gotten about 15 rounds done so far, but I love the way the yarn knits up:
The yarn is elann.com's Endless Summer Luna. If you look real close, you can see I'm even using a blue stitchmarker!

Another project I want to start on is this Psychadelic squares afghan that I found via Craftster.org. I think I'd like to keep all the yarn of the same type instead of using leftovers... but we'll see. It would be a great stashbusting project.