Crafty Kitty

I might have missed my new goal of posting weekly to the blog but I blame it on deciding to start a job hunt. Not that my current job is so incredibly horrible by an stretch of the imagination but I've been looking for a change of pace, a change of scenery and maybe something related to the field that I've decided to go back to school for. Updating my resume and writing cover letters took up a good chunk of my time last week. And I also planned a mini dinner party so I had to take the time to go food shopping and seriously clean my apartment. I don't need people to know that I'm sort of on the piggish side when it comes to my living space.

SIDE NOTE - If you're making Mexican food anytime and want a really good side dish to make with it I highly suggest you check out this recipe which was to die for. SERIOUSLY.

I did however manage to get some knitting in and I made it to Stitch 'n Bitch which was again super fun. I'm going to try to make it this week and every week from now on. I know it will be slightly more difficult once my class begins, which is actually this Thursday, but it is still an admirable goal. The kind of sucky thing is that I started knitting the Jaywalker sock last week while I was at SnB and sadly I didn't check my gauge and it was all off and plus I decided I didn't really dig the yarn I was working with so I had to rip it all out. It's so sad when you see an hour and a half's worth of work go bye bye. I bought some Dye Your Own sock yarn from Knit Picks and once I dye it that's what I plan on using. I also have a bunch of mohair to dye for the Dye Your Own sweater from the Stitch 'n Bitch book. My weekends are pretty full for the next few weeks but I'm setting aside a weekend to do it in February. I also need to find a big ass pot at a thrift store so I can use it for dying the yarn as you are NEVER supposed to use the stuff you actually cook with. Needless to say, I don't even have a pot large enough that I actually use for cooking purposes so I need one anyways. The boy and I had plans to get our thrift on this weekend but he ended up having to work which worked out sort of well as I got a lot of knitting in.

I am almost done with this here Ella. She's turning out GOR-GE-OUS and I'm hoping to finish her this week. I kind of want to finish it by the weekend because I'm going out of town this weekend and want to have something pretty to wear to dinner. Granted I'm only going to Wisconsin Dells to Kalahari (it was my Christmas present from the boy!), but I do know we'll go somewhere half way nice for dinner one night so I might as well debut her then. That is if I can get her done in time. I'm on the sixth repeat and I have 8 more rows to go of increases plus 2 rows of knit. But I have tomorrow and Wednesday at SnB to finish her off so I think I'll be able to manage.

This is a more accurate picture of the colors.  It's actually more purple than it is blue.

My next project in the queue is the Pinwheel Baby Blanket for my friends who are expecting in March. I couldn't for the life of me fall asleep last night but I didn't want to work on Ella anymore after spending a good portion of the day on her so I cast on and got a few rounds done. I need to switch to circulars but my size 8s are currently being used on Ella, which I suppose is good motivation to get her done so I can continue to work on this. They are decorating the baby's room in a green-y kind of jungle theme so I thought this yarn would match nicely. Plus, they're having a boy so the blue works well too. I really like it thus far!

One last thing - I need to give a big shout out to Laura from Scooter Knits who was awesome enough to purchase one of my knitting needle cases from the last post.  It was great to finally meet someone who I've only ever really conversed with through the comments section on our blogs.  She works at a neat yarn shop about 10 minutes away from where I work so I'm sure I'll be seeing her again when I go off my yarn diet.