Duhnkey!

It actually looks good in the pictures. A lot better than I thought it did when knitpicking all the little flaws in person. It pumped me up to want to complete more projects, and start more!



The ear seaming isn't perfect:
(They look uneven and crooked, but it's a flaw in my photography. I didn't realize it until it was blown up on the screen right now. It was taken on an angle. (I'm actually tempted to take this photo down).



A better angle perhaps?

Since I was using two different colors, I knew that in the seaming process it wouldn't be hidden too well. I don't mind it too much, it's hidden on the inside lining and on the cuffs.



I think I might make a pair of Saartje's bootees in Lion's Brand Cotton-Ease TerraCotta. A good friend of mine had her baby girl early this morning. I was getting text messaged updates all night long. She likes girly stuff, but not overly pink. Everything she bought for her room is red or sage/mint green. She's a non-knitter and I think Cotton-Ease would be easy to just throw in the washer if she needs to. Now off to Michael's!

Congrats Connie!

Sunday's are for Seaming

The best picture I could come up with in such short notice. I literally seamed the ears on within 15 minutes from the beginning of this post.
*Thanks iMac Photo Booth!*



I don't know what happend. I woke up around 8 and the baby slept in until 9:30 (!). I went on Ravelry and admired patterns, then realized I needed to get my ass in gear. I've had this whole sweater done since June! I had all the pieces knit up, and just sitting there! It even got so bad that I started to lose pieces, which really irritated me since they were times that I had planned on seaming them together. (Hence, how I realized pieces were missing). Well, no more excuese, the thing is D-O-N-E.

The knitting part was easy, but as someone who has very little experience in seaming, it looks kind of terrible. I'll take pictures when I have my camera handy. I guess I'm a masochist that way. I'll show you my failures. I really don't think I'm just being hard on myself. It should look better. But I AM happy I finished something. It still looks cute. Seamy looks adorable, but I will be very paranoid of knitters hissing at my seaming skills.

Ravelry has been doin' me some good! If only I could figure out why my flickr ID is working on Raverly...

Annoyed Knitter

I thought that I would got the hang of Trellis the second time around, but one of the front pieces still doesn't look perfect, so I am temporarily fed up. I had planned on knitting the 12-month size for my son, but with yarn yardage issues, and the fact that my gauge is apparently off. I may not have enough for the LimeDrop color that I had hoped for.
I still haven't seamed together the finishing pieces for the Donkey Jacket, because I wanted to keep my fingers busy actually knitting. So I bought some more yarn and attempted Trellis again, in white (with tons and tons of skeins to spare) in the smallest size, thinking I wouldn't get fed up as quickly. I was right, but then I hit the same bump in the row (road). So I put it down and decided to knit some wash clothes. I bought the Mason-Dixon book and tons of Peaches n Cream yarn. I knit two washcloths rather quickly, actually a little too quickly, and am now bored with the pattern, yearning for something a little more advanced for my A-D-D, but then I get frusterated when it ends up getting too diffucult. Now I have tons of extra wash cloth yarn, for thousands of wash cloths that I am in no hurry to finish, I have scattered baby sweater and jacket pieces all over my bedroom and have hit the same point where I wonder why I bought all this yarn when I could have found a sweater that looked flawless at a store for similar to the same price as all ths freaking yarn!

I finished seaming the body together last week, and have been slowly inching away at the sleeve lining and ear linings. Very quick to knit, but doing everything x2 was a bit of a bitch. I don't know about knitting with linings again, even if they are baby-sized.

The front:



The back:



The pocket still needs to be seamed:





Last night I stayed up until 1AM finishing the last sleeve lining and watching Season 3 of Rescue Me. I'll probally finish the seaming tonight, and then off to the next project. I should probally pick up an old one and finish that up too.

I just bought a bunch of Peaches & Creme yarn online last night for Mason-Dixon BallBand Dishcloth's. Lots of them. If you could see my kitchen, you would know why. And maybe if I finish them, I'll show you why.