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...