I've FINALLY started to get somewhere on my Orangina:

The photo is a little blurry so its best viewed small. I also now know why i've avoided taking shots of myself, trying to get good shots in shitty lighting is really really hard!


Since taking these photos I've frogged that bit of ribbing and replaced it with more lace stitch so its a little longer. Now i'm back on the ribbing...... its soooo boring and there's a shitload of that to do as well. I've given myself a pat on the back for getting this far!

On Sunday I also recieved my ISE6 package:


It was AWESOME! One of those boxes has Peanut Butter Chocolates and the other Solid milk chocolate bunnies:


mmmmmm yummy... the Peanut Butter ones are all gone now, and i've made a nice dent in the solid ones too!

Also not forgetting the whole point of the swap, the scarf. This is an Elizabeth I, Glorianna variation scarf done in Knit Picks Alpaca Cloud - Autumn colourway, which is a reddy brown colourway that is just not done justice via photographs!



Anyone who's worked with Alpaca Cloud will know that its incredibly soft, and so thin! I dont know how Angela did it! I certainly wouldnt have the patience... look how long its taken me to get this far through my Orangina!

THANKYOU ANGELA!!

On the weekend, I accomplished a few things:

1 - I ripped out my Corsica.... sigh

2 - I wrapped up the yarn into hank type things, soaked them in Eucalyptus wool wash overnight and hung them up to dry.

3 - I created this awesome home made dryer/hanger thing to accompish no 2:

Hubby has a habit of accidently breaking coat hangers along the bottom edge, its cos he violently grabs at the shirt hanging on it and just pulls. If the hanger gets stuck he keeps pulling until it breaks... which means those hangers are no longer good for hanging pants.... Men....

The hangers with the yarn are broken along that edge which means i can thread them onto a non broken one and use the hook part to hang the yarn on... it worked really well. Unfortunatly the half dead tree in our front yard (which is the only yard we have) was the only place in the sun that i could put them. Our clothesline is under the carport which houses our white van 99.9% of the time.... so we cant use our clothesline.... sigh.

What is hanging there was the 2nd batch, the first was much bigger.

4 - while outside all three kittehs came to say hello and all three put on a little photoshoot for me.

I took 87 photo's that afternoon (not all of cats tho, I swear!) It took so long to upload them to flickr that it froze!

This is my Fav Crazy pic:

He knew I was taking photo's of him, I just kept snapping in the hopes that i'd get something good :)

This is my Fav Kitty Pic:

well, actually its a tie because I couldnt decide between these two:

I call the 2nd one the Princess Pose because of she's holding her leg up like she doesnt want it to touch the icky ground.

I like this one too, but its best viewed small because of the blurryness, its a bit arty more than ground breaking photography :)


Fav Leroy Pic:
Not to be outdone by the new intruder (thats crazy) Leroy decided to do some cutsey rollin around too.... dude this is why you always have burrs and sticks in your fur!



I like this one too because he reminds me of those cat pyramid statues


Fav Group Shot:
Awwwww


Unfortunatly for most of the shoot Crazy sat on the outer, kitty doesnt mind going close to him (they play fight often which usually leads to crazy hissing at mid air - kitty's usually too fast for him) but he's become amazingly affectionate towards me... they all are because i'm the hand that feeds them! Crazy's been sitting on my lap.... sometimes both Kitty and Crazy will plonk themselves on me while i'm trying to knit. It has definatly produced some jealously amongst the three. Leroy never has been much of a lap cat, but even he has started to jump up and plonk himself down... although he never stays long and usually it means that there's no cat bikkies in the bowl!

I also got some Proof of crazy's affection... in case he trys to deny it later:

Aw yeah, thats him rubbin against my leg showin the love!

5 - I also made a mint slice. Okay so it was easy as pie and straight out of a packet.... I'm not a homemaker people, knitting is the only homey type activity i do and I prefer to think of it as crafty rather than homey or womanly.... anywho i made the crappy slice that tasted like it came from a packet.... because it did.

so this is what the packet said my slice should look like:

ah huh yeah whatever:


Okay it didnt taste as bad as i make out... we ate it all so it wasnt THAT bad.

i'm not a cook.

and by the end of the weekend this is what my corsica looked like:


While i'm waiting for Fibre Fiend to release the updated version of her pattern with larger sizes i'm back to working on the Organiana now in the round, which has been sitting on my side table for months and months now. I wonder how long it will be before i get sick of it and start doing Wicked?

Because last night I found a hole in my Corsica...

The first Epp aired in the US on Friday night, and it lived up to my expectations. Great new CG, no real answers to the burning questions left from the final of last season, but a whole heap more to ask.

I'm just so glad to have them back... even if it is only for the next 10 weeks, and then who knows when SciFi will air the 2nd half of the season. Right now I don't care, it has been over a year to wait for new episodes... that's a fracking long time when you're obsessed with something!!

sigh, its going to be the best 10 weeks evah

I ordered some Malabrigo for my swap partner in the International Scarf Exchange 6 swap.

I tried to go for something cheaper at my LYS but it just wasnt turning out how I wanted so I got a refund on that and bit the bullet and ordered two hanks from Nancy at Whitnits.com while they were on sale :) Nancy is fast becoming my go to online store for malabrigo.

mmmmm, its really lovley - but then when is Malabrigo not :)! In the Violetas colourway, cos my partner's fav colour is purple :)

I've got Corisca on hold at the moment, I'd just joined the sleeves onto the rest of the body. But the ISE project has a deadline so it's more important now :)

I've started the My So Called Scarf Pattern. Its really fun and I like doing it, its very easy to remember. I've even brought it into work today cos I thought I could be really sneaky and duck out every now and then (with it hidden under my sweater) to work on it. I would try and work on it at my desk, but if I got caught doing that i'd get in sooooo much trouble. Its bad enough that I waste a lot of my time on the internet and not working.... like right now :)!!

I'm doing the version with the YO on the knit row, its much easier than trying to knit into the back loop like the original version is written. Also used the you tube video to get the hang of it all at first (i've linked to that video before, but if you just search for 'my so called scarf' on you tube it's one of the first two that come up).

As I said I'm really likeing this pattern, its fun to do and easy to remember, and its got me wondering how the pink & brown monstrosity yarn would look done up in this... I might have to do a swatch :) although i've got 6 200 ood yard balls of it... it could become the My So Called Blanket!!