Finished knitting my pair of stripy socks this last weekend. Nothing to fancy, just a two by two stripe. These were mainly just seeing how the toe up construction works. I have to say that I LIKE the way the toe is shaped, but the heal was all sorts of baggy at first & required me to rip it out 3 times. Hmmm so there will be future modifications to toe up socks. But frankly, they were super easy and I’m sure I will be doing more.

I started my rusted root last night. Course I had to rip it out on the second row because I had screwed something up. But now I’m past the 10 row screw ups & am on my way. The lace section is pretty easy which is nice as I’m not a real big fan of lace in the first place & things are going well. Course I hate when they are like “even rows are increase rows & odd rows are not. Continute until you hit row 73.” People. Am I really going to count 73 rows? They don’t even give you a stitch count you are supposed to end up with which is how I usually deal with this bs. So yeah. Counting rows. Woooo.

What did you say? You want some random cat pictures? Why of course!

                                                                 Sue shows us how he relaxes

                                                                   And a nice big stretch before getting some kibble

I’m slowly but surely moving over here. Easier with the pictures & all. But if you see this are are more intrested in random parts of the life of a Credit Card Processing Employee (OMG) then you can still find all that here  http://preitas.livejournal.com/

Well, I doubt that very much. But yeah, had to pull a pun out of somewhere & well…um it kinda fit right? *shuffles feet*

 ANYWHO! yes, More finished objects. This week has been so incredibly slow knit whise because I had to rip out a sweater sleeve *sob* because obviously I used my yarn unwisely (or could it be that the pattern obliterated that 5 random balls of yarn from it’s memory?)  so after exhuastive searching & also calling in European reinforcements I had to conceed that this particular yarn in my particular dye lot was obviously stowed in a rocket at the time I bought it & blasted off the face of the earth to make cute red marian sweaters.  So I ordered up some lions brand organic cotton and hopefully that will do me for sleeves. I still would have rather had it be all the same *sad face*

                                                                    OK! So yes. Socks!

Grumperina’s jaywalkers to be exact.  In crazy ass hand dyed yarn bought from etsy in a drunken stuper. Well I was mostly drunk. & Matt was away on business…so I bought a bunch of skiens that night.

Second pair of socks so not all that bad. This pattern is wonderfully lovely for sell striping yarn. LOVE this pattern. So eay and I will probably do it again I don’t like continuing the pattern on the bottom though so I might leave that out next time.

                                                                    More yarn? Seriously?

These babies are about 1/2 way done into a pair of socks. I was totally going to make the endpaper mitts but then we heard that we might be moving back to California & I KNEW I would never get to use this lucious yarn then. So into socks they went. Striping & should be done by the weekend.

No she’s not exactly a coupe. But we do love her. Matt and I bought a new car this weekend. It was sorely needed as the van was off & on leaking coolant from some where & the window motor was going, the windsheild wipers only worked on full speed, a back window was completely missing (we used plexi glass to fill the gap) and the steering was completely sloopy.  First off I’d like to say that we had diffrent thoughts about what car we would finally come home with.

I thought we would be coming home with a Jeep. Matt ulimately thought that we would be coming home with a Honda Element. Both of these failed us. Though we both fit int he jeaps it was competely uncomfortable. The  Jeep seats are not made high enough to allow you to sit comfortablely with your knees at a 90* angle. When both of us have knee problems in the first place I hate that. The Handling was sloppy and the ride was rough. Deffinately off the list. We tried a Toyota Scion but I couldn’t get over how small the the features were. The steering wheel & the center council & everything was way to small for the car. It just looked like a cartoon. Then it was to Honda. Not only did we have the worst sales person ever but Matt barely fit his knees behind the dash.

So off to Dodge we went. We thought we were intrested in the Nitro but came out with the same problems of Matt not fitting behind the dash with his long legs.  What we found was surprising.  The Dodge Caliber was perfect. Right size, great leg room, really fast & zippy with the pick up. AND it’s a hatch back. God I love this car. LOVE LOVE LOVE.

                                                                 isn’t she just the cutest ever?!

Ramdom hat that I knit up because I dig this yarn.

So here are some of the random finished objects that I have done over the last few weeks/ months.

Sweater completed for Matt. No the ends aren’t woven in yet. & I still need to block it pretty bad as you can see. Bt the basics are there & it fits him.

Donna sweater from Magknits.com God I love this sweater. I can’t wait till it’s done. Love the yarn love the drape, love the stretch & it knits up so fast. I HATE that I am about 5 balls short on yarn. That’s rediculous to me. Thats what the pattern called for & that’s what I got. So now I have to go looking for more yarn in my dye lot. Great.  Can’t wait to wear it though. I’m thinking this will become a favorite sweater.

So I’ve been really knitting but not taking pictures of what I knit. Shame. So next post I promise will be filled with knitting type goodness.