It's official - I am a Plucky

I recently decided to subscribe to the Plucky subscription program.  I picked Primo Fingering.

It was a few weeks ago and I got a surprise in the mail yesterday!!!!! 

My first shipment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How exciting, what color will it be?

I ripped back the quick strip and to my delight....

SNAP OUT OF IT!  (inspired by Moonstruck)

It's a lovely shade of dark dark dark grey (almost black).  Sarah must have been reading my mind! I was hoping for black.

Now, this oh so lovely yarn deserves a great project.  I searched Ravely patterns for a few hours.

I think I will do this....here.  It is Window to my Soul by Joji Locatelli

Here is a snap of my skeins.

I am totally so happy
Yay Yarn!!!!!!
Yippee

Hi me...

A pat on the back for forging ahead on your destash 2013

11 new projects assigned to stash yarn!

5 cast on

1 gift knit

Not so bad, ravelry stash is way smaller. Now you can see what yarn to put out for the townwide yard sale next Saturday. 

Finished object praise....

This is Kodachrome by Lindsay Ingram (http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/kodachrome)

Word up....

I was playing around with Wordle today and made a pretty uh, wordle of my favorite things....
here...

What fun...

Knitting update:

I am casting on every project I can to assign my stash to things.  That way I can decide what stash I can de-stash to others.  I have a lot of yarn that I bought before I knew about things like "sweater quantities" for my size (in all fairness to myself I have spanned three sizes due to surgeries etc).  So, that way when I buy yarn in the future it is not to just buy yarn as opposed to randomly  buying yarn and finding out i don't have enough to make anything good.  UGH.

I did however, join The Plucky Knitter subscription for 4 skeins of fingering yarn. I will be very interested to see what I get (oh and of course, I only ordered 4 skeins which guess what - MIGHT NOT BE ENOUGH SWEATER QUANTITY).  BLAST.  She said try it out and see.  I will have to wait till open enrollment to change it.  Sad face.

I think I am going to order some pattern books.  To begin to feed my design side of my brain.  I have some shapes in mind and want to start thinking about sweater patterns.

Dé tha thu ah deanamh?
What are ya making?

Take the negative with the positive

Looking at all my yarn I am trying to assign projects to all the yarn I can.

But I also have some old projects three of the which will require negative knitting. I discovered my Adrift cardigan has a missed increase one row back but also it has 90 stitches on one side and 94 on the other. So the question is...how much knitting back (a.k.a. Negative knitting) do I to do????    :-(

I went back two row already then put it on a time out. 

I brought it out this morning to access the situation and discovered the sides don't match.

So I ponder...

This is the bad knits time out spot....

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Bday knitting

Knitting with deadlines and I still cast on new project itching to use up stash. 

Here's a peek...

This is the bday gift

Plus I need one more bday gift in two weeks...mitts. Have to start them. 

Knit on!!!!

The Long Hot Summer...

Clara: Well don't throw in the towel yet, Agnes, dear. Those tranquilizers may see us through yet.


New Jersey is usually tolerable.  I lived in Baton Rouge, LA for 5 years and after that I thought I was immune to the heat up here.  I can count on two hands how many times I have left the AC on in the bedroom at night let alone kept it on all day to just maintain the status quo. 

This year I have not turned it off since Sunday.  I hate AC but it has its place.  I am moving to Florida as soon as I can sell this @#$% house sold and I know I will need and have it there. But, I am not one of those 68 degreers.  I like to keep it just at the level where the humidity is staved off.

Knitting Update...

Khodachrome is DONE!!!!
Breezy Cardigan is almost done - I am on sleeve 1 of 2.


I am now faced with having to Fix Marin and have it done for a BFFs Bday

My sis saw a cute cowl when we visited her LYS and wants me to knit as well.  Problem - I LOST what I have started.  I have 28 inches to go and bind off.  When I came home, I cleaned out my tote.  I "moved" it somewhere and can't put my finger on where.  UGH!


I am a bad bad shopper...
I have added one skein of Breathless in Black Truffle colorway and joined the Plucky Knitter's subscription club for 4 skeins of fingering weight (first to ship end of August).
Oh and another skein of Pura Lace (but I NEEDED it to get ready for one of these...)

Ta'

De reir a cheile a thogtar na caisleain(It takes time to build castles)

I kissed a frog...

Well my first official frog of a half done project....

I was knitting with a fun dyed yarn and it was a pretty shade of cream, pink and tan.  The first skein was very pale.  The second skein was noticeably darker.  I thought it would be okay.  Finished the second skein and wow - huge dark line from one to the other.  I thought hard and couldn't live with it.

Agree?

The stripe on the back looked so very noticeable.  Two skeins are darker and the third, which i started from, is very light. They all say the same dye lot number unfortunately.  It is a huge bummer.  If I had started with the two dark I might have not frogged it because the light would have been the ribbed collar.  I think i will turn the yarn into a cowl for someone for Xmas.

I think this yarn has to go in the time-out bin.

Bad yarn!