Today is my last official day off, back to work on Monday... I wonder if I'll ever have a job that I don't mind going to every day, somehow I just don't think that's going to happen.

Anywho, I've almost finished the fiery bolero, I've just got the ribbing on one sleeve left - but I keep putting it off... I've started back on the Orangina which is now a welcome relief to boring old stockinette stitch, I'm sure I'll get sick of it again soon!

unfortunately we left the camera at my SIL's place at Christmas and we've only just got it back so I wasn't able to take progress pics of the bolero, but here are some not-quite-finished pics:





In my travels I found this awesome video that shows how to do the stitches on 'My so called scarf':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKpuUxVbQtc

I've had this project on my to do list forever and it always gets put off for something else, I just don't wear scarves that much so I'm loathe to make them cos i know they'll just end up unworn.

I tell you what tho, I'm damn sick of daytime shows aimed at housewives who want to loose weight, I cant believe how many crappy and expensive machines that are guaranteed to help you loose those extra kilo's .... UGH, money grabbing crap.

and whats up with the garbo's in my area, they're supposed to pick up the bins on Thursday mornings but the last two weeks they've come on Fridays... I can hear the squeaky breaks of the damn truck right now. Why don't they do something about the breaks on those trucks!! Sometimes they come at 7am and wake up the whole neighbourhood with those screeching banshee breaks.

But on more pleasant yarn p0rn Friday news, yesterday I visited my LYS to pick up some stuff for my KnittingHelp.com 2008 swap partner. I swear that will be the last time I go there... she expected me to pay 57 bucks for yarn that would eventually be just a scarf.... a 57 freaking dollar scarf... UM I DON'T THINK SO!!
I had to do some major backtracking and just got 3 skeins of Noro Blossom... which by the way was pretty much all the Noro had left because it was on sale, I really wanted some Kureon. It was 10.30 DOWN from 16 bucks a skein.... HOLY CRAP! That's why LYS's are virtually non existent, when I got home I had a look on eBay and found that I could have gotten 6 skeins of that for a little bit more. Sure it would have taken two weeks to get to me but seriously its not worth spending more to have the stuff right now.

From now on I'm totally buying ALL my yarn from eBay! woo Go EBay!

anyway here it is:


The black yarn is some acrylic from my stash... i blew my budget with the noro yarn. I'm also going to provide a print out of a scarf pattern that alternates between the coloured yarn and the black yarn. I think the colours of the noro will stand out much more against the black than it would by itself.

I also put together some stitch markers and decoupaged a box for them: