Oh Noes! Ravelry is down for the next 20mins whatever will I dooooooo!

Update my blog apparently :)

So having finished my wedding shrug I'm able to cast on a new project (keeping to my 3 proj max) and seeing as summer is creeping up on us in the southern hemisphere I've finally begun a Rusted Root in Lion Brand Cotton Ease, colourway Stone:





I'm treating it more like a normal top down raglan and omitting the puffy sleeves look. Its coming along nicely and the leaf motif is making the sea of stockinette a little more bearable. The lacy bit is okay as long as I don't fuck it up. Usually I don't realise that I've fucked up until two rows later (there's the usual knit all stitches on every odd row of the pattern) which is a little tedious but its going to be a good summer top, even if I'll have to wear a Cami underneath it cos of the yo's in the lace.

Although I haven't blogged about it I'm almost done on a Something Red - Finally! after having it in my queue for EVA. All I have left is the button band.... which I've frogged twice now. The first time I fucked up and used the wrong needle size, I was going to keep going but it looked a little loose and ultimately I buggered the short rows and they looked ugly so i frogged it. The second time I didn't pick up stitches right to the bottom edge aaaaand didn't notice until a couple of rows in that it looked kinda odd :(





After that I put it down and kept working on the Rusted Root for a while.

Hey Wadda ya know Rav's back... CurlyToot out :)

I've noticed that my recent blogging has been very non knitterly related.... well time to fix that!

I've been working on a couple of boring projects. The first is that shrug that i wanted to make in time to wear at my SIL wedding, where i am Maid of Honour no less.

Well this is it:

I used the stitch pattern from knitty.com's Spirogyra and pretty much knitted a rectangle. Unfortunately this pattern doesn't make a nice straight rectangle, it looked more like a parallelogram in that it leaned heavily to one side. If I'd had proper blocking wires it probably would have blocked out better, but I don't so I had to do the ol million pins block.
That's okay it's wearable.

And kinda hard to take a photo of while it was on:



The cool edging is a Scalloped Edging and the pattern for it can be found here



How is all this crap about the global credit crisis tho huh? Its insane, the Aussie Dollar is down to around 60 US cents per dollar. It's hit 5 year lows (at least i think that's what they were getting at... finance is so hard to understand sometimes!) its CRAP! Especially because I buy all my yarn directly from the US and a lot of other things like books and DVD's. Well not right now I gotta tell you!!!