Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Picture Happy


So in the process of packing I did eventually find my camera cord, so I uploaded pictures. YAY!! I wish there was more time to play and knit but sadly I need to finish packing and studying.

Anyway I give you tons of pictures...

Here's the clap that I started that will probably never be finished... oh well. It's pretty to look at.



HARRY POTTER
Ok this dates back to Harry Potter 7 release date. Mimi, Loren and I all went out to dinner and headed over to Barnes and Noble to wait for the books to come out at midnight. Miranda and my roommate Ashley met up with us. Of course we brought knitting and found fiber friends near the knitting books. We brought all the house scarves with us.. .even if they are the wrong colors. Oh well. Here's them mostly done. It was our little area until they had potions class at which time we were almost plumbed to death by small children. I would say around 11 pm... Mimi had either too much coffee or not enough sleep, or maybe a combination of the two. This is what happens when knitters go crazy. Watch out they are letting her teach little kids soon.. you might want to home school your kids. ;-)

But the night was not a total waste... Look at the awesome pattern we found. How was my life complete before this... I totally need a knitted Little Tea Pot hat... and with arm gestures and everything. I think this is going to be the newest "it" item... you watch.


But where can I find such an awesome pattern... oh no worries here's the source. Better hurry up and get your copy before they are all gone. I mean with patterns that HOT it's going to be hard to keep it on the shelf.

The latest knitting project (along with the 8 million things I haven't finished... SOCKS!!
Now I thought I hated knitting socks. But for some reason I decided I wanted to knit socks last week. I have tried several times to knit socks, I get 3/4 done with one and get bored, put the stupid thing away and never get it out again. I have decided a couple things. I don't like knitting socks with magic loop, although there are not 4/5 needles, it's just inefficient with all the moving and looping. It just takes too much work/time to get the stitches where I want them. I much prefer DPNs. I also figured out I don't like knitting plain socks. I have the attention span of about 5 minutes (see 8 million unfinished projects.. and I don't think I am really exaggerating). So knitting a stockinette sock kinda makes me want to take the needles and poke my eyes out. So the remedy: knitting a quasi patterned sock with DPN. I give you a modified version of the Rainy Day Sock from Magknits. I turned the rib section between the YO into a mock cable.
So now I am starting the second sock, because right now I have one, and that doesn't do me any good. I also bought a lovely shade of purple Koigu that will be made into socks when I am done with boards.

In other news... I leave for EVMS on Thursday. I take my second set of board exams on Friday morning. I need to pack and study but yarn is way more fun. Ok aback to work...

Sunday, July 15, 2007

I just realized

I have knit 7 uteri so far this year....

1. Russian Uterus
2. FSU Uterus
3. John Deer Uterus
4. Heidi's Uterus
5. Dr. Fox's Uterus
6. Women's Center Uterus
7. Gina's Uterus

I think I might have a problem with either knitting or anatomy.

Saturday, July 14, 2007

Harry Potter

Miranda or Mimi... (or anyone else who reads HP)... you game for getting books at midnight. Miranda I know you are going out of town, but I wasn't sure when you planned on getting your book.

I am super excited about reading the book. I am giving myself 26 hours to read it..... wooo...

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

I have returned from falling off the face of the earth..

So I kinda fell off the face of the earth for a while. I was really busy last month being on ob-gyn. I liked it, didn't love it. So that makes me confused on what I want/need to be when I grow up. But right now I am not thinking about that because it causes me stress and to not sleep.

I spent last week at the beach (Sanibel Florida) with my family. It was nice to sit around and do nothing all week. I ate good food, slept, read a little (mostly school related.. I know not on vacation), knitted, and sat on the beach. I have tan lines, and the only part of my that is burned are my ears. I am so excited that I didn't turn into a burned painful mess.

I did visit a yarn store in Sanibel. It was not as lovely as my yarn store here. I still love you the most Gina. I did buy a new skein of yarn, because well you can't go to a yarn store and not buy yarn. I think I will join the bandwagon and knit the clapotis with it..I'll have to take pictures of it later, first I have to find my camera. I am not sure where half my stuff is right now. In the past two weeks I moved from Wytheville back to Christiansburg eptied out my car and suitcases and then headed to Florida for a week. So my stuff is everywhere and I can't find a single thing.

We have end of the year testing this week. It's so joyous, please note the massive amount of sarcasm in that statement.

Well that's my update for now.

I'll post pictures of knitted things when the camera is found.