I make black eyes look good

Last friday, I did something stupid, even for me. If you don't know already, I'm klutzy. Very dopic. A Walking disaster really. I was balancing my laptop on my knee and holding a piece of chicken in one hand. My laptop started to fall and I quickly moved my hand to catch it. I slammed my right hand on the edge of a table so hard. It got swollen, turned blue and on sunday I went to er. The x-rays showed no breaks, it was just VERY badly bruised. Which means I can't knit or spin or crochet without a shooting pain after a few minutes. So all last week I read. And read. And read. One of the books I read was The Guernsey literary and potato peel society, which was amazing. Had to be in the top 5 best books I've read this year. If you haven't read it yet, you must. It's so good. Anyway, then Saturday night, I opened the freezer to get some ice cream (cherry Garcia in case you were wondering) and a bucket that was on top of the fridge fell and hit my nose. I woke up Sunday (When the bucket fell, I had been up for almost 24 hours and was tired and it just hurt, I didn't think it was broken) with a lovely swollen nose and black eyes.

I've never had a black eye before and I thought it was cool, but they really didn't look like black eyes. More like I just put some eyeshadow on. It was still pretty neat. Yesterday, I went to my ear, nose and throat doctor and have to get a cat scan to see if it is broken. If you remember, I broke my nose last may too. I'm starting to think I should call this summer "The summer of klutziness".

Distractions

On Friday, I sprained my ankle. So I spent Saturday bumming around and knitting mostly. Then Sunday night, my mom came home from the grocery store and asked me to put the cold stuff away. I went out the kitchen and was going to put the bag on the stove to unpack it, went to move a muffin tin (which had held pineapple upside down muffins) and knocked a bowl over. It fell, shattered and slashed my foot. Blood started gushing (ok, maybe not gushing but it was a lot of blood) and I was bleeding everywhere all over the kitchen. The stove was a nice bright red. I thought I was going to have to ER but thankfully, after a while it stopped bleeding. Now (over 2 day later) it's mostly stopped (just a tad on the band-aid every once in a while) unless I do something stupid like get up to pee and then it bleeds a bit more. It also hurts like hell. Only I could do something so klutzy. In case you have a morbid curiousity about what it looks like, you can click here and be grossed out. And this all means that, unfortunately, I can't make it to MSW. I'm so upset but I know if I did go, I would be in so much pain.
To keep my mind off of my sprained and gashed foot ( also not going to msw, swine flu (someone in the completely pointless and arbitrary group on rav that it's really a cover-up for zombies, which amuses me so much) getting everything planted in time, and a ton of other things) I've been knitting on 2 main things. The first one is a handspun (the big top I spun) Shawl. It's dead easy and totally mindless.

I've knit 2 skeins and have one more to go. Of course, it's 90 degrees so I really don't have much need for a wool shawl. This is why snow beats heat anytime in my book. The other thing is an entrelac scarf.
The yarn is an Easter gift and it's Zauberball, which is very nice. I can't wait to make socks out of it sometime.

this is first venture into entrelac and it won't be the last. It's addicting. You keep saying to yourself "just one more square one more, this is the last" and before you know it, you've done 2 rows of squares. Which may or may not be a good thing.

Revenge is sweet

Every year, my mother bites the ears off of the chocolate bunny she gets me for Easter. So I decided to get some revenge and knit a chocolate bunny. Without the ears. I was looking thru patterns on Ravelry and stumbled across the Chocolate bunny pattern and I thought it would be perfect. And I believe it is


(notice the egg with my name on it. It was filled with this yummy butter cream type of stuff. I got another one that said happy Easter. Peanut butter. Nom)
Pattern: Chocolate Bunny (here's my project page on it)
Yarn: Patons Classic in brown. I used some of what I had left-over from knitting my dad's birthday hat. Barely used any yarn.
Needles: US 4's. It produced a very firm fabric.
Mods: Nothing to the pattern itself, other then the non-ears. I think I knit the ears for maybe 3 rounds and then grafted. I took the yarn and went in and out a few times to make an eye.
The real chocolate bunny it's kissing/talking to is a solid milk chocolate 12 ounce bunny.

W.C. Fields

Yesterday, we had a tornado. Well, not here, but around this area. Roofs were ripped off, trees plucked out of the ground. the sky was green, there was hail. It was awesome. While most sane people (which we all know I am not) would be inside, I was outside (under the pavilion, I'm not THAT insane) watching the lighting and rain. After the storm was over, I took this photo. It's all the hail.


Last Saturday was my mother's birthday. I decided to spin and knit her something
W.C. Fields


Pattern: Chickadee cowl
Mods: Not much. I just knit about 5 inches instead of the 6 that were called for
Needles: 10 1/2.
Yarn: Twilight Purple my handspun. I bought the fiber here and then spun it up hoping for a bulky malabrigo softness kind of yarn. Which I think I got. I double plied it so it wouldn't pill as much. I only used 2 ounces of fiber, so I still have another 2 to spun up.

I'm rather bad at keeping secrets, but I somehow managed to keep this from her. I loved this patten and will definitely be making it again. It only took a few hours and was pretty mindless.

Better late then never

I finally finished Mom's socks that were supposed to be for christmas, but they got sidetracked.


Pattern: Basic sock pattern in a k2p2 rib from the book Sensational Knitted socks. 80 stitches around
Needles: 0's 2mm
Yarn: Opal rainforest in Lilly.

I also read Twilight (honestly, do I really need to link it?) yesterday. I heard that people either loved it or they hated it. I loved it. It was a cheesy vampire book. What's not to love? I know you can't help but love this

This post is full of awesomeness

I finished my stripey pink socks!

Pattern: Wendy's toe up, but I fudged it a lot. 36 stitches around, and then I started increasing 2 stitched every 4 rounds 9 times.
Needles: size 7 knitpicks options, I magic looped it
Yarn: Cascade 220. I forget the name of the colors. I just call it light pink and dark pink.


I knit the toe and heel in the dark pink and the ribbing in the light pink. The stripes are 2 rows each. They are so warm. I had to take them off my feet were so hot.

I had a few people tell me that toe-ups are evil and horrid. THEY LIED!!!! I loved making them. In fact, I'm planning on making another pair using my handspun. This handspun


I'm calling it Winter's End. I took this (in Northern Lights)and spun singles

Which I plied to this



It's around a thick fingering. It took me a little bit to get used to the Targhee. I might have insulted it's mother quite a few times getting used to it. Compared to other wools, it has a lot more sproingyness is the only word I can think of. I adored spinning it and will definitely spin targhee again.

My birthday was grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeat!! (I'm sorry, it had to be done) I spent all day at home in my pajamas, Mom taught me how to make cheesecake and my first cheesecake turned out amazing. Dinner was Pesto chicken with mashed potatoes and garlic bread. I also made baked potatoes but we were too full to eat them. Carbs. I luvs them.
I got gifts too! A bottle of Chambord, Some books (3 knitting, one fluffy romance novel that I finished) Some dvds (2 old movies, Dr. Horrible, Life after death and the BBC's Planet earth) yarn, of course (DIC Smooshy, Cotton Kureyon, Lorna's Laces, some sock yarn I've never heard of before, some galway to make felted clogs and some Panda Silk print for socks), a bag with bob on it, Ravelry mug and a spindle!
But the cheesecake was incredible. I'm so proud of me! It was a Chocolate Sin Cheesecake. A chocolate graham cracker crust and then a chocolate filling. Sooooooo good.