Look what I found floating around Craigslist (for free, none the less)!

 I think she’s secretly a model!

Her name is Emma, and her interests include licking, fingers, and licking fingers.

Chris is thrilled to have his leg attacked

So I finished the actual bag part of my curbing bag today, and grafted/kitchenered the bottom together. I don’t have any fabric to line it yet, and I am really not looking forward to making icord for the handle. I may wait (although seeing as I have negative money, it could be an extraordinary amount of time) until I can get one of those little round loom things to make it. I also don’t think I have enough of any matching/coordinating color to make a single-colored long icord. I guess I can just keep attaching new colors as I run out and they can just be random and rainbow…

Anyhow, here’s what’s done -

I can’t stop knitting on my curbing bag!  

I keep telling myself  ’just one more row, then I’ll stop’, but I can’t put it down! I’m working on my seventh “row” right now.  I think part of the addiction is that I get to keep switching yarns…not just colors, but fibers, weights, textures…it’s the perfect solution to my two-second yarn attention span! 

Oh and it’s a *great* project for handspun…I have lots of thick-and-thin bits of stuff I’ve spun, in smallish amounts, which looks awesome on this bag!

 

I also dyed this roving last night:

Still sickish. I can swallow normal food now, so I guess that’s a step up. I just feel groggy and stuffy in my sinuses.

I spun this yarn before I went to visit my mom, but I just pulled it off my bobbin today. I haven’t finished/dried/skeined it yet, so it’s just kind of a blob ATM:

Okay, so I’d like to take pause now to rant about something completely unrelated to knitting…Apple’s new MacBook Air. You all know I love Apple. They’re always first on user-friendly, brand-spanking-new technological advances. I have a MacBook and I love it, possibly more than Chris…okay that’s not true, but it’s close.

Now they’ve introduced a laptop as thin as my finger. Sounds great, right? Everyone wants a thinner laptop, the thinner the better. Plus the commercial is super awesome and addictive as always. The only problem? Upon further inspection, I realize this laptop is completely and utterly retarded. And I do mean that literally.

Although not quite apparent in the cute commercial (during which everyone is just oohing and ahhing over the mega-thinness), the Air has…get ready for this…no disc drive. Yeah, you heard me. NO disc drive. Since when has a computer, even a competely shitty computer, not come with a disc drive?? Oh but don’t worry, you can buy a separate disc drive and lug it along with you…kind of negates the thinness, though, right?  There is also only one USB port. So be sure to pack your hub, too!

Don’t worry though, they’ve *totally* made up for these shortcomings with…a larger trackpad? Now I wasn’t aware that I needed a larger trackpad - I thought the normal-sized one on my MacBook was just fine and dandy, but I must have been wrong.

At least they didn’t cripple the ram or the hard drive…however since the computer is so. freaking. thin, I think I’d be afraid to touch it. It has to be more fragile, being so thin…I can just picture the top half of the clamshell just snapping right off…

One last thing (and this is just personal preference, I guess)…they’ve made it of aluminum, like the MacBook Pro. I’m a fan of the nice white plastic my MacBook is made of - I think the aluminum feels cold and somehow shows smudges and fingerprints a lot more easily than the plastic does.

All in all I think I’m just confused. I guess some people will buy this thing…and if all you really need it for is internet access, I guess you might be okay. But for the price, you could get a MacBook and have money left over…

Yeah, I know my site looks a little weird, I haven’t really figured out CSS yet, and I’ve been sick as hell so I haven’t really been doing much of anything besides lying on the couch and dying :/ But I’m excited to figure it out when I don’t feel like complete shit.

I did figure out how to edit my public username/password…so I don’t have to remember a weird long string of letter and random numbers

So on Saturday I went to two of the coolest yarn stores in the world - The Yarn Barn in Lawrence, KS, and The Studio in KC - and I got some awesome yarn! It’s too bad I didn’t have much fun since my stomach/IBS has been acting up pretty badly lately, which pretty much makes going anywhere no fun, but at least I got some awesome yarn!

Sock yarns:

Two big skeins of laceweight, and the other three are stuff my sister picked out (which I will at some point turn into finished objects, hopefully):

Oh and I also finished my sister’s socks (toe up, two at a time on magic loop)…I don’t like the way the heel turned out, I think I’ll stick to my not-as-easy-but-tighter Japanese short-row method:

Look! Look! I have two socks going at once…on one circular!

I don’t think I’ll ever do one sock at a time again…this is awesome!

Excellent tutorial here, in case you want to learn…

Oh and I dyed this yarn (Knit Picks Bare DK weight merino) the other night:

And I spun and dyed this one - it’s a single, about light fingering weight:

Dani, for bringing me groceries so I’d have something to eat! I’m kind of in shock…I can honestly say I’ve never had a friend who cared enough about me starving to death to bring me ramen and spaghetti and…holy crap, Nestle Crunch Hearts!

MmMMMmmmMMmmmmm!!!!!

And as a side note, I feel like a short-row failure! Laura just started knitting socks and her short rows ROCK. To be fair, I guess I haven’t been knitting socks for that long, but damnit I just suck ass at short rows

Okay so I was a little skeptical when I saw that there’s a new, lower-fat version of everyone’s favorite cheap meal, ramen…but I bought a few to try. I’m eating the chicken one right now, and lemme tell you, it’s just as good as the regular, full (and I do mean FULL) fat version, but it only has 2g of fat instead of…I think it’s something like 14g?

The only downfall is that, like most lower-fat foods, it’s not as cheap…two for a dollar instead of 15-20 cents. I really do think there’s a conspiracy to make America fat, seeing as all the fattening foods are cheap as dirt and the lower-fat ones are more expensive.

In other news, I’m working on the MJ Pithy Hat. I noticed, however, that I’ve been knitting my k2tog’s through the front loop, instead of TBL like I’m supposed to. Now that I’m half-done, I’m not sure I want to rip back and start over…and I don’t really know what the resulting difference is in the stitch pattern, it looks good to me…

ETA: All done! What a quick knit! I made it a little shorter than the pattern calls for though - about 7.5 inches.

EATA: I was a retard and I (barely!) blocked the damn thing, and now it’s way too floppy and too much hat for my no-hair. It does look great on Christa though so I gave it to her. I still have half the ball of yarn left, so I’m just going to make another one for myself and NOT block it