Here is the beginning of my Grace. Very pretty and very soft blue acrylic yarn. It's an old yarn, but I found that I had like a million billion balls of it (okay, like five) and so I rolled it all up into a ball. Note the hugeness of it. It used to be bigger though, I wish I'd gotten a picture when I finished it. After I finished and started knitting and couldn't add on any more, I found that last ball in my desk. I'm so happy! Yarn for free, in a quantity that's actually enough for a project! Not only that, but soft and fuzzy and I liiiike it. Yay. =D

Well, the colors are quite off, but as you can tell I bought three lovely balls of Wool of the Andes - avocado, stream, and mist. Ooooh, it's so soft and pretty! I love it. I know I said I was going to use the Lamb's Pride, but... well, this was just cheaper, and just as pretty. Anyway, this is destined to be my Hipster. =D Hooray.

holy monkey's eyebrow.

wow. I mean WOW. the new fall Knitty. best. Knitty. ever. nearly every pattern in that issue I want to make. seeeeriously, I love them all. especially Josephine, and THIS.

you do not know how amazingly appropriate that pattern is at this exact moment.

I just realized the other day that I have an overabundance of pants that just don't have suitable pockets to schlep stuff around in, and let me tell you folks, I rely very heavily on my pockets for things like that. I cannot carry a purse. I am physically unable to keep up with a purse. thus, if it can't go in my pocket, it ain't comin' with me. well, with keys and a cell that I need to carry around all the time now, I need SOMETHING to carry. so I had envisioned some sort of pouch that would be just the right size for just those items, and a pen and pad or something. I knew I wanted it to be felted, and I knew I wanted it to sit on my hip, because then it would not be a purse and it would instead be a permanent attachment that would double in place of my omnipotent and glorious pocket.

I tried making something. it was 100% wool, and it came out pretty well. but the long and short of it was that it came out WAY too skinny after felting. still not sure what it will be in the end, but not my hip bag.

Hipster has convinced me to finally give in and buy more yarn, because it is my PERFECT HIP POUCH. I'm always reluctant to buy yarn, because (a) I need my money! it is precious to me, and I don't have much! and (b) sometimes I don't wear what I make... and then I've paid lots of money for something that just sits around. but I've always wanted to try Lamb's Pride, and now this is the kicker. this is what gets me to finally spring for it. because THIS IS MY POUCH. it will be my baby, and I will use the heck out of it.

this feels really, really good.

lookit purdy. 

my graphics software class is SO cold. so, fingerless gloves! sorry the pictures suck again, more webcam pics ^_^;; I'm lazy about pictures. but not about knitting! I made the whole thing up myself as I went - and look, thumb gussets! ~_^ you can ignore the fact one's smaller than the other. 

surprise!

last weekend I was combing through my sad little stash (years of gifted grandma acrylic... yuck) and found that, much to my happy surprise, I have another full ball of the Cotton-Ease I used for my Asana and that tank! hoooray. ^_^ (which reminds me... I need to get crackin' on finishing my Asana. heh.) anyway, that made me happy.

another somewhat happy surprise: my grandma gifted me with more yarn, but this time instead of acrylic it was 100% wool. *happy happy sigh* my first time ever using wool. it was very very scratchy... I made a little pouch just the right size to hold my cell phone and my keys/college ID, and I'm hoping it will felt a little (last time I checked it, it was fuzzing a little... but the water wasn't very warm, so I'm running it through the super-hot cycle in hopes it may actually felt some). at any rate, on its first wash it got sooo soft, so even if it doesn't felt it will still be lovely to have. =)

I also got a couple skeins of Peaches 'n Creme cotton from Wal-mart last time I went. I like it a lot. I've made one of a pair of fingerless gloves out of half a ball of it - hoping to get both gloves out of one ball. they're super cozy but light and unobtrusive - just what I was looking for. they're just basic lil' fingerless gloves (with a THUMB GUSSET! that I figured out all by myself! go me!) for my Intro to Graphics Software class - the Mac lab is sooo cold, but I have to be able to type. so. =D I've been making a lot of things sans pattern lately... maybe one of these days I'll try a sweater or something. =P

anyway. that's about it.

I love surprises. ^_^