I really do have some more stuff

Hey ya'll! I seemed to have hit a knitting slump these past few months! I've only been able to crank out dishcloths. I think the stresses of life just didnt allow me to have my mind settled enough to finish anything that required real brain power! Somebody send me some kntting mojo!!!!

I'm here!

So what have y’all been up to? Me – I’ve been working on the Bliss Blanket and some dish cloths. I’ve been reading all of the other blogs and trying to get my mojo back. It’s slowly creeping up and I’m getting to the swing of things. When I started Bliss I didn’t have anyone to give it too, so I wasn’t hard pressed to finish it. Now one of my co-workers is having a baby in November and leaving in October for maternity leave so I am now motivated to get it done. I am making myself crazy trying to find my next project. I thought about doing Tree of Life in baby size, or the Yggdrasil Blanket – but there is a lot of thinking involved in all of that. I need something easy – but not boring. Any suggestions?

Oh yeah – I participated in a Caps for a Cure round of chemo and the ladies in this group are fantastic! They donated a whopping 225 hats for the round of May/June and I dropped them off in stages at the hospital where I work. It was a lot of fun participating in this particular group and I will continue to do so often as I can.

I will be posting some photos of some completed projects soon – I promise. This yarn diet business is painful but if I don’t continue being on one – I’ll never finish anything! Am I the only one on a yarn diet? Michael’s has sugar and cream on sale 4 for $5 this week.

Bliss

Bliss, originally uploaded by missthg.

Well Ok - I've been a bit lax on the blogging - and feel like I've hit a knitting slump. I was recently asked what inspires me to knit. Well sometimes it the strips on a bag, the colors on a shirt. I love it when inspiration hits and I have money to buy the yarn to complete the project. I have many unfinished projects because of those whims. So for the rest of the year - I'm on a yarn diet. I am going to only work on the projects I have - and I'm sure that I have plenty of yarn to finish all of my projects.

Anyway - inspiration can hit in the oddest of places. A train ride, a church dress or the grocery store. I'm not usually looking for it - so it's just one of those things that just hits me. It kinda hit me when I started making this blanket. I had on a shirt that had these colors in it.

There is some brown in there now - but I haven't taken a photo yet. I will be finishing these soon. I'm feeling like I lost my knitting mojo. If y'all see it - tell it to come home.

The Lizard Grows!

The Lizard Grows!, originally uploaded by missthg.

The Lizard is growing. Very slowly I might add because it is no long portable on the train. It probably is - but I'm making two other blankets at the same time. What are y'all working on!

Sockhead Hat

Sockhead Hat, originally uploaded by missthg.

Ha! You didn't think I was just working on the rainbow lizard blanket did you? It's not portable anymore so I had to find something else to work on. This cute little floppy hat called Sockhead Hat. It's really easy and a quick knit!!!! I may have to make two or three of them.

Lessons learned so far about the Lizard

Ok so some of the lessons I learned so far when making this crazy pattern are trust the pattern. I never trust the pattern and always make myself crazy when I don't. I am soo goofy - I followed the pattern to the end and couldnt figure out why I had big holes in my blanket. So in my genius while sitting next to a fellow knitter/crocheter - I talked it through and realized duh! I need to keep knitting between the brackets.!!! Whew! I swear sometimes I have my bottle of Miss Clariol's brightest shade of blonde in my back pocket! I do like this yarn and will have to buy it two skeins at a time because well - the expense is shall we say prohibitive to buy all at once! I bought the first 12 skeins and got a little sticker shock but lots of yardage. This is the Brown Sheep Cotton Fleece.

And if you get a grand idea like I did to make something double the size of the biggest size listed for the pattern - make sure your needles are long enough!!! I'm having a good laugh about that one. I'm anxiously awaiting my package in the mail for my size six 60 inch needles. I'm still having fun with it though.

Hatian Donations!

I borrowed this from CiCi:

The Mobile Giving Foundation called it a "mobile-giving record" for funds raised for a single cause. Donations are rising swiftly. They are receiving up to 10,000 text messages per second. The foundation said more than $11 million has been donated.

Cellphone users can donate $5 to Haiti-born hip-hop musician Wyclef Jean's Yele Haiti Earthquake Fund by texting the word "Yele" to 501501, or they can donate $10 to other nonprofit organizations, such as the American Red Cross, by texting the word "Haiti" to a specified number, like 90999. The donation is charged to a user's cellphone bill.

Wireless carriers Verizon Wireless, AT&T Inc, Sprint and T-Mobile USA, and a unit of Deutsche Telekom AG, have waived fees for customers wishing to send mobile donations. Carriers are also letting users know they are not taking a cut of the donations.

This devastation will unfortunately be a lasting one. It will require years and years of rebuilding efforts. Let's support the Haitians in the rebuilding process.

May we not forget them and their plight as time passes and our lives move forward♥

Lizard Ridge

Lizard Ridge, originally uploaded by missthg.

This is coming along a lot easier than I thought it would. I did however make a mistake on it and had to tink back 435 stiches to fix it! Once it was off the needles I was happy to see that it will be substanial when completed! I'm using Brown Sheep Cotton Fleece in Roy G. Biv colors. I'm really loving the way it is coming out. I should have more pictures soon.

Happy New Year!

Dishcloths, originally uploaded by missthg.

I've been a little busy working on some dishcloths.....

Did I mention I was working on this too

Did I mention I was working on this too, originally uploaded by missthg.

Did I mention I was working on another Big Baby Blanket? This is I
think the third or fourth one I've done. I think I am just addicted
to the moss stitch part of it. I have more to show but no photos yet.
Those will come later this week. What else are you all working on.
Don't act like I'm the only one with more than one project going! Lol