what's up crocheters?!

Ok, so I totally haven't picked up a needle OR a hook forever and 3 days. I really do miss it but find it so hard to work with yummy yarn when it's 80 out! So now that it's cold, I'm totally into it. And I have to finish that cardi that I meant to make for the wedding and then totally didn't. I WANT and NEED to finish it...I love it even in it's own right, and the yarn is to die for! MMM alpaca.

So that's on my first to-do list by the end of the year. I should take it with me and do on lunch breaks.

And I was inspired to write as I have a new ravelry friend! YAY! Do you read this and are on ravelry?! If so, add me!

Oh and lastly before I leave and cuddle with the hubs, I totally had that quarter-life crisis and here's the proof www.karatography.com

yeah, it's super fantabulous I know!

::shakes head::

I'm sorry!!

I need to write more....I'm so addicted to the knot, I barely write in this anymore. I suppose it would be nice. I totally almost wrote in it the other day about the election but then decided you all didn't care (well maybe one of you...and by one, I mean jessica....)

Anyway, I'm almost done with work and realized I needed to make an update! Maybe I'll get the urge to crochet and knit in the coming weeks....just maybe...I have so many friken WIP's...and I love when I get an FO! But such is life!

I'm thinking about having a quarter life crisis...stay tuned.

Kar

It's about time...

Ok, I'm sorry, really I am, I got so entraced with wedding stuff that I kind of went nowhere with crocheting or knitting. Though, I did in February try and teach some HS kids how to crochet to no avail. It helped that everyone wanted to do other arts projects and few wanted crochet. And that they gave me no help for a classroom of 30 kids, and when the one other adult did know how, she taught them wrong. great. So I'm sure my reviews SUCKED but hey, they're students, they'd rather decorate cakes.

I started the wedding sweater and didn't finish it at all. Maybe I should start back up but being lace-weight fabric it takes FOREVER. I do have a long weekend and I could finish it by June 5th I'm sure now that I don't have wedding projects to finish anymore (except this one!).

I'll have to post pictures of my progress on it so far! I'll be happy when it turns out just right! I am trashing my dress on June 5th so it's a reasonable goal for sure.

I do miss crocheting, it's fun. I need to get back into knitting as well. I do have *the coolest needles ever* (see knitpicks options...mmm...)

OK, so if you must, here's my knot married bio, enjoy!

Kar

sorry...

Ok, so I'm sorry that I've been MIA for the past month or so but I was so busy with trying to get all of the christmas sweaters done, that I didn't have time to blog...

There was also all the wedding related DIY parts that needed to be done and now I sit here with only the programs to really get done. I can't believe it! There's a ton of little stuff that I can't do closer to the wedding to get done like talking to vendors and such, but I'm trying to get all that done. I'm also impatiently waiting on the verdict for my menu. I hope and pray that it's not as expensive as I think it may...if so, that's no good at all and I'll have to do some major changes to it to get it there. The only thing that is stopping me from finishing the programs right now is the fact that we haven't set our ceremony, which will be done in 3 weeks. I have my hair trial this weekend and dress fitting, so that's checked off. Whew. I don't know what to do with myself or what projects to take on next...but I've done all the little things that matter...like the monogrammed aisle runner...the only project I have at home is the cardbox! Which I'll probably work on this evening...

Now i had originally said I was going to make a wedding sweater, and I'm planning on it, but I don't know. I forgot that a girl at work has commissioned me to make her a sweater (see my mom's sweater) which should only take a few weeks, so that will keep me busy. And then there is my mom's sweater which needs some help, but maybe I'll work on the wedding sweater...but not stress out about it all...

oh well, hopefully I'll post some lovely things more often now!

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