Knitting nightmare.

I stopped by the LYS yesterday because I was in the middle of a knitting emergency. I am working on a pair of gloves on commission, and despite the fact that I actually SWATCHED for it, I seem to be in deep gauge doodoo (read: it looks a bit more like a leg warmer than a glove). While I was there on my lunch hour, one of the other employees was wearing a gorgeous sweater. Since I'm moving to frigid environs, I'm seriously on the lookout for good warm sweaters to knit. I immediately started thinking about what kind of yarn I'm going to use and what colors I want.

Which is why I then went home last night and dreamed that the LYS was completely, 100% totally sold-out of Malabrigo and never getting any more. *sigh* It was a nightmare of epic proportions.

What the Knit?

So I found this cute little set of mittens while I was surfing today. My first thought was, oh how cute. My second thought was wow, how pink. Next: I don't think I would wear those.

Next: This girl made them for her BOYFRIEND? Seriously???? (Grey's Anatomy reference)

Knitting Content or Knitting Nightmare? You decide.

The Weeked Update

This weekend FLEW by. There certainly wasn't a lack of things to do.


Friday night started off with a bang as I got dismissed early from work and headed over to the LYS for Bad Girls Knitting Night: The Halloween Edition. We had wine, popcorn, candy and knitting! I worked on my Jaywalker socks on the magic loop (almost done) and the men's golf shirt I'm working on for the store (not even close to done). Other knitting this weekend included my first 8 squares for the San Diego Wild Fire project. I'm mailing them off first thing tomorrow morning to become blankets. (and starting on my second set of 8 for this week....)

Saturday morning (well ok noon!) I met up with some friends to celebrate my coworker's birthday. (Happy 29th again Miss J!) We had lunch at Canter's Deli and then headed over to the El Capitan theatre for Nightmare Before Christmas in 3-d. What a great afternoon!

Then I raced home to do a quick change and head off for an evening of fun. A while ago Blenda from Oz and I took some pole dancing classes. Well last night was a Pole-o-ween adventure. We dressed up and headed over to Harvelle's for some drinks and a little pole time. Then we boarded a party bus and headed out for to see some strip clubs and pole dancers. Around 11pm we went back to Harvelle's and partied with an awesome jazz and blues band. A few pics are attached here. Let's just say that this is the NOT safe for work costume.

July 4

Today was a fun day. I can't think of anything I'd wish happened differently (unless you count wanting Wes to be here to join me!).


I slept in a bit and headed over to Knitmeister S's for some relaxing and movies. We watched Pitch Black with Vin Diesel, which was very good. I may or may not have missed about 10 minutes at the end due to a spontaneous nap, but I absolutely did not drool. I found out that kittens like plastic bags, and the exact yarn you're knitting with. Never mind if you give them their own ball of yarn, they want yours. However, they do seem to be loving on the knitted mice a little, and they're awfully cute, so I suppose I can forgive them.


Around 5 we headed over to my coworker Miss J's. She's down by the beach and hosted a little party prior to fireworks. Although parking was a nightmare, I took a chance on a shopping parking lot and managed not to get ticketed or towed. We played games for a while at Miss J's and then walked down to the Venice channel to watch the fireworks. The show was fabulous and I was even able to capture some nice photos. I LOVE fireworks. The noise, the spectacular view, everything. It's been a while since I've gone out in search of fireworks, but this was lots of fun.


We played a few more games, enjoyed cupcakes (yummy!) and then headed home. On my way home I discovered that horror of all horrors, there is a Kwik-E-Mart right near home. You can't see in the picture, but there was a line out the door at 11pm.

All in all, it was a fun day. The only thing I REALLY have to complain about is that tomorrow is a work day. What is up with that? I REALLY REALLY NEED more knitting time.

What the knit is THAT??? A Flamingo Beach Party.

My next knitting project - for the store. (Pattern available here.)
Genius or Nightmare? You decide.

Update Part I: I visited 5 states yesterday, did you?

I'm going to break this mongo update into parts since I have so much to share and plenty of photos to accompany. So hold on to your readers folks... away we go!

Yesterday I visited 5 states, did you? I had a great time in California this past week (more in subsequent posts) but coming home was a wee bit of a nightmare. Wes and I were set to come home on Sunday afternoon. However, when I booked our flights I was unable to get us on flights together. I managed to get Wes the last seat on the direct flight back to Kansas City, but I ended up with a connecting flight to Milwaukee.

Come Sunday night, storms were raging throughout the midwest and Wes was stuck in Omaha and I wasn't budging from Milwaukee. Luckily Wes managed to get home on Sunday. I was stuck in the airport until they canceled my flight (at 1am no less) and told me they couldn't get me home until Tuesday evening.

I managed to find a hotel room by 3am and hooked up with a Professor in the airport who knew people from USC - we ended up renting a car and driving home together. Yesterday we drove through Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas. And he had to drive back to Nebraska after that!

Remind me to stop flying places in the very near future.

So now I'm home, doing laundry and cooking and cleaning, hoping for some jobs this week, working on my wedding to do list and knitting (of course!).