Mooooo......

Did you know that Lily's family had a dairy? I'll bet you didn't but they did or... do... that's the part I forget, anyway they have a thing about cows.  Particularly Holstein cows. Did you also know that Lily's sister is pregnant? She is and now we are all about the baby stuff.  I have decided to make another onesie since everyone loved the lamb so much only this time it's going to be a cow.  A Jersey cow. Lily's sis lives in Jersey and a Jersey cow is like a Holstein just brown instead of black so that's where that came from.  I am going to take some liberties for cuteness sake and it's going to have tiny stubby baby horns as well as an udder.  Yes I'm going to knit a baby udder with tiny baby teats that will either be so cute that your head explodes or so filthy that your head explodes but I'm thinking it will go the cute way... I'm using Debbie Bliss Teddy All-in-one as the pattern base and then I'll add the color changes and the teats as I go along. I am super thankful for Ravelry though as I went on and looked at comments about this pattern and everyone said that it came out really small and short legged and that they made it snap-able on the legs for ease of diaper change of which all I will do as well. I would like the kid to be able to wear it fairly soon after birth but I don't want it to only fit him for a week! And no I don't know it's a boy, no one does but I tend to refer to unknown things as "he"
So anyway, back to my current dilemma, it is now 11:15, I have to be at work at 3pm, should I or can I go to Michael's in Braintree to buy yarn and get to work on time? Should I try? Because really? I have a ton to do at work tonight so I really won't have time to knit and if I get the yarn I'm going to want to cast on immediately and I shouldn't but.... all the work I have to do will be done tonight and I have to open tomorrow so I would have time to knit then... and if I don't get the yarn today then I can't work on it tomorrow morning... also I have tentative plans with my old roommate tomorrow after work so I wouldn't be able to go get the yarn then... So maybe I should put some clothes on.
PS I'm making it out of Simply Soft. I only make baby things out of acrylic, the new mom has enough shit to deal with without having to think about hand washing my baby gift. As long as it's washable and soft it flies.  I love some acrylics and I'm no where near a yarn snob but even if you are, be nice to your friends, don't give them more work when they just pushed out a baby. :)

My best friend

If you actually know me then you know that I have two best friends, Lily who I've known since 2007 and me in a knitting group and Morrigan who I met sophomore year of high school. I refer to them both as my best friend and shockingly I have never received a 3AM phone call from Morrigan asking who I love more because YES, that is what happened when I was with my ex; 3AM phone call and when I picked up all she said was, "You love me more than him right?!" So the fact that they seem to accept each other as equals is good, they both know that I am there for them if they need me and yes there have been times where I'm on the phone talking to one and texting the other at the same time but I don't mind that, it's what I'm here for and I know that if I need them they'll be there.  Also it's convenient in the hypothetical, if they were both drowning which one would you save? Neither! Neither of them would let me help them and they'd both be so busy trying to save the other one that they'd both die horribly and nothing I do save using a forklift would make any difference whatsoever.
Anyway, bit side tracked, I was reading old Yarn Harlot today and I was back in the beginning days where she talks about getting her friend to knit over years of exposure to knitting and yarn and I was recalling when my girls first started knitting.  The knitting group that I met Lily in was not strictly knitting, it was a needle craft group that, as they tend to do, contained mostly knitters but Lily was a cross stitcher. She had no desire to knit and was quite happy to never learn but she also has the craft bug and so after, not very long at all, there she was making a hat and queuing more patterns than she could make in a lifetime!  Conversion complete! Although I don't think I had much to do with it...
Now Morrigan on the other hand I've known as long as I've been knitting and despite my efforts of look at this sexy yarn... or look at this sexy pattern... have never made a dent.  Once she decided she would try and then picked out a pattern knit on 2s to start with. Yeah, that never happened.  So try as I might she wouldn't go until I stopped trying all together. (Side note; it may seem mean that I would try to make my friends knit but I learned how to knit from a book and didn't know a single other knitter until I had already been knitting for almost 10 years so I really wanted someone to talk to who could appreciate this stuff.) Then Sock Wars came into our lives. Lily and I and a few of our other friends all entered it and got all excited and started talking about it and Morrigan goes, "You kill people with socks! I want to kill people with socks!" So I responded that you need to know how to knit to kill people with socks and within a week we had Mel's first scarf. She went yarn shopping without me and got sucked in by homespun, never a good idea for a beginner. Now the problem is, well it's not really a problem, she won't purl. She flat out refuses to learn anything beyond knit. She knits like the wind but has absolutely no desire to make anything other than garter stitch scarves and has started experimenting with ways to sew a rectangle into a hat or whatever else she wants it to be so... conversion complete? Sure, we'll call it that.

Why I should never be allowed to get bored

So I'm at Lily's and I forgot my knitting. I was pretty annoyed since I'm watching her amazing TV set up and I should be knitting. Anyway I decided to brush her cat, Harry, while I watched and well she has two of those slicker brushes that are very like wool carders and after brushing him a bit I was playing around with them because I don't have carders yet but I do have an alpaca fleece lying around somewhere and I don't want to pay $150 if I don't have to. What if I'm no good at carding? What if I hate it? So anyway I was carding some cat fur and I started rolling it out and twisting it and it wasn't really working, it wasn't staying twisted so I realized I needed a drop spindle. Now naturally someone as crafty as Lily has a drop spindle but she also has yarn on it and I didn't want to screw anything up so I decided to make one. So yes, that is a drop spindle made out of a pencil, a push pin and 4 note cards that I glued together with about 3 feet of 100% Maine Coon yarn. And it only took about 2 hours... send yarn... please...

It's always feast or famine isn't it?

After months of no knitting, even at group, in the past week I have finished two on needle projects and written 3 patterns. Well almost written. Well not so much written, more... knit.  I'm really bad at writing patterns. This is not to be confused with being bad at knitting something with no pattern, because I'm very good at that, it's the writing down part that gets me. Over the years I've discovered that I knit by sight and I do certain things the same way all the time so I tend to want to say things like, "make a toe" or "work the cable for 3 turns then branch off to the sides" and have that make sense to people.  That... is where Lily comes in. The only way I can think to put it is that she knits by row. She is the exact opposite of me, she will take a chart and write it out and then create a spread sheet and work from that where I prefer a chart otherwise I don't get it til after I've knit the first repeat. She is extremely helpful for someone like me who has a notebook full of random words and the occasional picture that for someone like me is a book full of patterns I've written. She will be the one to find order in the chaos. She will be the person to look at my written patterns and say, "No. That is too vague. Write that out clearer." Which happens to be exactly what I need. We are getting together to watch Leverage tonight and I'll run the first drafts by her and maybe I'll have something to post soon! Now if I can just keep up the momentum...

Ok for real this time...

So I finally figured out how to log back in and rig my phone to my blog so I will try to keep up with the posting from now on. I am also going to try and write some patterns and actually make them readable for others so that I can try and sell them on ravelry and such so off I go :)

I'm back! Sort of...

So I haven't seen anyone in like, forever...

So here it is the update on my life.  I've been working like crazy although still only four days a week and I still don't have the keys I need to get to the safe or the stock or anything but hey money is money, I am currently staying at Hyde's place, (the boy I met at Arisia,) but there's nothing going on there, (Thank GOD!) I'm not sure for how long cause I'm just waiting for Morrigan's mum to move from the bedroom to the living room and then I can move in there but I don't know when that is happening and I haven't really knit anything in about a month.  I just about finished my top hat but I don't like the brim so I think I'll frog that part and try again and I'm almost done with my navy blue bowler hat that I haven't really mentioned to anyone yet cept Lily and Morri so I've been crocheting a lot lately.  Just  in case you think I may have gone to the dark side though my uncle's bday is in about a week and I need to speed knit his ass some socks which I already have the yarn for so at least I'm not spending anymore money.  So yeah, still living out of boxes, still not having a life and to top it all off I haven't been to knitting in about a month because I always have to work.  Sweet right?  The hand is a great deal better although not well yet but it is definitely better than it was so I guess that's something.  I'll try to keep up with this anyway since I have access now so at least you all won't think I found the edge of the earth and fell off.  Gotta go to sleep now huzzah!