there's no crying in crocheting....

Ok, so there really is, because i messed up this pattern again!! And let me tell you that it was one of the stupidest mess-ups that I've ever done! I blame it on the pressure to get that stupid pattern right and once I got it all figured out I had unraveled my previous one and started it at work during lunch, aka hardcore crochet time seeing as I have all of these lovely projects to finish. I went to make my foundation chain and guess what?! I made the number of chains that the finished bust size was, so if I was making a size 40, I chained 40 and thought that it was small but didn't think too much of it...I realize it when I finished the back and went to go do the neck shaping, oh and this pattern doesn't move quickly either...so I almost cried, David came home to find me a disaster and sad because this stupid pattern had beaten me again.





Determined to not let Interweave Crochet beat me, I decided to start a new pattern in the yarn, the Mesh Peplin Cardi-Blouse. And finally some success!! I'm going to make the sleeves 3/4 length and not put the mesh on the bottom (if you know this design you know what I'm talking about...) and here's some progress from before the weekend:

And when we went back to my parents house for thanksgiving, I couldn't work on it as it was for my mom, though I could have easily lied to her. Instead, I worked on Abby's sweater and I'm almost finished with the back of it! So excited!! And last night I added about 7 or 8 rows, I'm only 5 rows from completing the decreases in the body and then I'll shape it myself from there.

Once I get mom's sweater finished, minus the finishing because I still need to find buttons that I like, I'll start on my knitting adventures. Meaning a cable knit scarf. Now, here's the problem, I haven't really knitted for that long, only about a year, but I've crocheted forever so it comes pretty naturally to me and I long to do cable knits. I even bought the cable needles from knitpicks...mmm harmony wood....so we'll see how that adventure goes!

Oh, I'll take pics tonite and post tomorrow...hopefully, as long as work isn't too busy. But when is work ever busy??

Ok, I should actually do something as I've been here for an hour and nothing yet!

Kar

I want to cry...

Ok, so i made really great progress on my mom's sweater for xmas which is only what...6 weeks away and I was doing so well and getting it all done...well once I realized how the pattern was going to be formed, I think it's just too big and not the right size. It really bums me as I've already done 20+ rows and that was a lot of work because I thought that it was folded a different way instead of the way that it was. AND there was no clear way that said how the pattern was going to be folded and it never made sense to me, so now I have to start that all over....

on a good note. I've printed and will cut all of the inserts today for the invites. I should have that all done. Yesterday I also made the girl's earrings and learned that my idea for the toasting flutes is not going to work at all. So instead i'm going to make something like this since I refuse to spend that much on a serving set as well.

Boo urns.

So now I'll be crocheting away fast like to get everything together. So now all the things that need to be done in 6 weeks:

• Mom's sweater
• Abby's sweater
• David's mom's scarf (oh and i'm doing a cable knit for this one, wish me luck....)

Ok, I'm done with this now, I'm going to go update my deprogress on ravelry :(

Kar

a little bit of this and a little bit of that...

Ok, you need to forgive me because I've been sick since last Friday, yes, that's a whole 6 days and from Thursday night until about last night I've been somewhat dead to the world and going off of sudafed and afrin so that i can finally breathe!! I'm starting to feel better but I do have to stand out in the freezing cold tomorrow to take stats for football...boo-urns for the cold midwest.

Ok, so let's start with stuff that's not fun, such as, wedding things that I didn't do last week. I didn't get all the inserts cut but I did make up that cutesy poem! I still need to print those out, maybe I'll work on that today and maybe I'll cut some more inserts today, but they just take so long and I have to think about program design...yuck. But I did create a cutesy knot profile and have joined onto a national board to keep me entertained....so maybe most of my ramblings could go on there, but not likely!

OH and WORST ONLINE ORDERING EXPERIENCE EVER. BEWARE CRAFTERS. I ordered from the Plaid website because i needed gold liquid leading as they didn't stock it in any store that I found, so I ordered it online and the shipping wasn't anymore than other companies had been (such as a yarn one that ships from ohio). Well, I ordered it the day before I ordered yarn from knitpicks. It shipped a day earlier and shipped from the Chicago area. So I thought it would only take a day or two. Well the day or 2 went by, and then a few more days, and then I got my knitpicks package! So I emailed them because I had already tried to call them but their customer service was down. they responded that it would take 7-10 BUSINESS days for me to recieve my package and get back to them if i didn't recieve it by 11/8 (yes, today!) Well, i still haven't recieved it, the "tracking" system doesn't show where it's at except it went all the way to wausau, wi!!!! And it was coming from a suburb to another suburb!! how obsurd!! So today, I wrote back a nasty email saying that I needed to hear back from them in 24 hours or I would dispute the charges with my credit card and how this has been the worst experience EVER and trust me, I've done a whole lot of online purchasing! So I'll update you on what they say when they reply.

Ok, I started my mom's sweater and have gotten to the armhole shaping. I can probably finish it in a few more weekends but I should probably start on Abby's soon and do the scarf for David's mom as well. I'll really have to buckle down the next few weekends, but it will work out! I'll hopefully post a pic but anyone who reads this (cough cough jessica) can just look on ravelry. Anyway, I gotta actually do work now, I'll keep you updated!

Kar