look, a comic that i could have drawn myself

no, seriously – i’ve had this conversation. but usually when the first line delivered by the other person is said in a totally snarky manner.

i’m not sure why some people begrudge when you can actually do something well. i’ve had people say, ‘i thought you just knit scarves’ when they see i’ve done something complex and nice, and others say, ‘couldn’t you just have bought that’? i can do few things reasonably well, and one of them is knitting. people just love to cut others down. i love you if you don’t, so this isn’t for you.

also, if you guess that this post is also talking about something else, you’re correct. it’s a great parallel to where i’m sitting right now which will not be named. but i’m here 5 days a week. i bet you can guess.

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where i was going to bitch completely about my braces

now i will only bitch slightly. the adjustment? SUCKED ASS. my front left tooth was SO sensitive changing out the elastics was like pulling it out sans novocaine. then the ortho looked in my mouth and said, ‘oh, we haven’t been aggressive enough’ – that really might be one of the last things you want to hear at that moment in time. he then proceeded to put five (5!!!) sets of powerchains (see this picture, not linked for those that don’t want to look at teeth) in my mouth. three bottom, two top. all OW. makes brushing even less fun. coupled with me not seeing any movement in my mouth (with the exception of a front tooth that looks crooked now to me) i’m not pleased. although just checking now and it looks like there is some bite difference. i just need some progress to feel better about them. right now they feel like one giant metal mouth’ed mistake.

Ravelympics WIPS as of 2/21

in other more positive news, my knitting for the ravelympics is going awesome. i’ve made a lot of progress – two items complete (one frogged and easy project and one knitted pair of mitts), and four more to go.

Out of the remaining four projects, the rainbow sock (upper left corner) was cast on 2/15 and is almost about to have the heel turned, the other sock (gryffendor) has only had one repeat of yellow done during this time (but it’s the last priority), the mitts were started and finished during the timeframe, and the bag (big black blob in the lower right) was new as well, made out of the yarn from the frogged sweater. it’s actually quite large, about 16 inches across and so far 4 inches high. the pattern calls for 8 inches before the handles, as it’s not a very large bag (it’ll be felted so it’ll shrink) – but i think i might make it a little bit taller. we’ll see.

Mm. Merino + Seacell = awesome

last is the spinning i’m doing on my new wheel – i’m spinning up some miss babs pencil roving - and loving every moment of it. i really spins incredibly well and i can’t wait to see how it plies. i’m not being very precise with it as it’s forgiving, so i’ll have to reserve judgment for the final result. i can’t wait to see it.

all my ravelympics progress pictures are here – i’m trying to take a picture a day so i and others who care (probably 1 of you) can see how it’s growing/going!

i swear i still have a husband and a wonderful son and am still pregnant. there’s a whole post i could do about them and i will – just not this one. :P

Current Mood: (good) good
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SnooOOoOOOoOw

yes we got a lot of it. more coming tonight but oh so thankfully it will not be anything significant. in total we had over 35″ here over the two storms total. probably closer to 40 but i didn’t measure so i don’t want to make such grandiose claims. husband bought a snowblower prior to the storm – he’d wanted to do so for a while, and we’d been using our neighbors (and getting his driveway too as a payback to him plowing out the end – he’s a plow guy) but it broke. he got some grief – “why do you need one some years we get no snow?” – ha. they changed their tune :P

pictures are here and here – it was a lot of fun until we were stranded for days :P

i got some knitting done too – i had been seeing a lot of cowls lately and i really wanted to make one. so i did:

it was a quick and fun knit, and i looove it. i’ve been knitting more as of late and really enjoying doing so. i need to find a way to balance all the crazy in my life – i’m working on it.

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knitting like a madwoman

so ravelry, which i think i need to go to a 12 step program to address my addiction to, has an event during the olympics called the ‘ravelympics’ — basically they have ‘events’ where you can enter projects in, things like

lace, works in progress, socks, etc. so since i have SO MUCH i want to get done and because i love to overcommit, i’ve entered 6 projects.

the good news is, there’s a category for frogging. so one is already done. :P

Soon this sock will have a mate!

so out of the 5 i’m making a new pair of mrs. beeton’s, this time for me. a french market bag out of the yarn that i frogged friday night, finally knitting the second sock of my snowdrop winter socks, finishing my gryffindor house socks, but those are the last things i’m going to do, and will only get done if i get EVERYTHING else done, and last but actually maybe my favorite thing i’m doing, is spinning my lovely merino/seacell pencil roving into either a dk or a sock yarn. you see, i did a thing. that wheel i was going to get as a reward?

well.

already started spinning this. even more lovely on the bobbin!

loverly fiber that's turning into even more loverly yarn!

it was on sale. for 20% off because of the snow. and i talked to husband, and we decided that if i was

going to get it anyways (i’ve been 100% on my target of not buying anything!) and if i was going to have a newborn that didn;’t allow me to really use it when i bought it, then why not get it now. plus? 20% off!! not insignificant. so i have my traveler still, which is a beautious wheel, but i also got a majacraft rose. :) pictures of that to come later with snow pictures. for now, it will be used to spin this beauty.

it’s ambitious, and it’s 6 total projects. i’ve cast on all but the mrs. beetons because i need needles that are used for the french market bag, at least until the bottom of it grows enough that being on the dpns is too unwieldy. my team is made up of girls from the knitting group i’m in (which is like completely an awesome group of knitters and i love them so much. like literally) and others who have found us and like our name (Team Grilled Cheese, which has nothing to do with actual sammiches – the story is here) have joined us as well.

we have 16 days (14 left!) to complete all projects. nothing is mandatory of course, but it’s great to have motivation :)

Current Mood: (crazy) crazy
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knitting and assorted other stuff

so i’ve been working on a modified version of this sweater for almost two years now. i’ve made it way longer (because I have an ass i don’t really care to show in a sweater like this) which has all but doubled the surface area of it. i’ve constantly put it down to do other things like spin, knit gifts for others, socks – you name it, if i could put this sweater down i would. but this meant i barely got anywhere with it.

finally i decided i was going to finish it, and by it’s birthday – april. so i have until the end of that month to get this thing done. i’d only had one side nearly complete before christmas, but here by the beginning of feb i’ve got the second side nearly to the sleeve. progress! add in that i’ve got a team for the ravelympics (if you’re on ravelry it’ll make more sense :P ) so i’ll be putting it down for 16 days, and it’s a real race. but i can finally imagine it finished, so there you go. i’ll be posting pictures of that and my other stuff i’m doing soon. at least that’s my current intent.

other stuff: braces – i hate them but not as much as i did four weeks ago. bleh. 19 more months to go. :P i’ve been feeling very yucky lately – this pregnancy is much different than it was with alex, and my dry heaving is my current most (least?) attractive feature. i’ve also stuck to my resolutions so far. some of them have caused slight drama, but i’m happy those people are not in my life actively anymore. especially when everyone else notices their behavior except them.

there’s other stuff of course, but for the moment it escapes me. must post more. will post more. but later.

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