technique!

so guess what has cheered me up from my wahwah baby funk? knitting! i was working on my february lady sweater last night and i noticed a mistake. i kept it, hoping it would be alright, but alas, that was not the case. this morning the 7 stitch repeat turned into a 5 stitch repeat! i think it was a lack of yarn overs, but can't be sure. so... what did i do? since i suck at taking knitting back two or three rows, i took the five stitches off the needles, ripped it back to the garter stitch yoke, and reworked them back up. this is the second or third time i have done it, and although a couple of the stitches are wonky to begin with, it comes out in the washing/blocking stage. i am proud of me, and feel good about it! yay me!

Ravelympics

i can't tell you how excited i am about the Ravelympics! i am part of team Hopelessly Overcommitted, and i have 10 projects to finish in 17 days! i don't know if i can do it, but it will be fun! plus that... i love the olympics! hooray!

For the love of Ravelry

Have I told you how much I love Ravelry??? Well… I do. It has taken the place of Myspace. It has taken the place of YouTube. Thanks to Ravelry I no longer have to search aimlessly through the internet, looking for the perfect free pattern. I also don’t have to pull out all my yarn holdings to see what I have. I just look up what I got in my notebook, make a couple of clicks, and PRESTO!!! A new project is born! I love ravelry sooooo much! I even won something from them at Stitches West!



And if winning something isn’t just the best thing ever, I won it from my local LYS! I heart Purlescence too. They carry socks that rock, and spinning fiber. And they make me happy. A long time ago, when I still lived in the San Fernando valley, I used to go to Ikea when I was feeling out of sorts. Now I head to the LYS. Same feeling….
But back to Ravelry…
I have already posted at the Bob boosters forums that I am planning to donate some moolah on the 15th of april. Instead of using up all that return for silly things, I thought I would give a bit to Ravelry. If all us Ravelers got together and gave the cost of one skein of yarn… can you imagine?