I finally got my heel done…I went back to the only short-row method that has ever (kind of) worked for me, which is this one.
I hate putting all the pins in, but it’s the only method where I can actually tell where the damn gap is!
The only thing cooler than mac’s dashboard is the fact that I can now post from it, due to WordPressDash!
No pictures (other than links) from what I can tell, but still awesome!
Apparently I am completely and totally incapable of making a proper short-row heel.
I am working on socks for my mom’s birthday at the moment (which, by the way, is the second of next month, and I just started today. Don’t be shocked if I forget your birthday too.) and I tried, once again, to make a short-row heel. And once again, I failed miserably. I have tried every freaking method of short rows and I just. don’t. get. it. I am hereby a complete knitting failure. I just had a rip-my-hair-out, scream-at-the-poor-significant-other type moment when I was trying to close up the sides of the heel. I had a severely uneven number of open stitches on each side, which should have been a sign, but I trudged on…until I dropped one of those stitches and it ran as fast as its little bastard stitch ass could run and hid inside all the other closed-up stitches.
That was the last straw. In a string of awesomely colorful and choice words, I ripped the whole heel out in one big tangled mess. Obviously that didn’t help me because I’m on here, pissed off as a wet cat, screaming about it to all you guys. I give up!!!! What the hell am I doing wrong? I have a feeling my problem lies in the fact that I can never tell where the damn gap is…OH and to top it all off…I knocked over a can of root beer all over the floor and all over my new Vogue Knitting. And I also found out that wordpress just plain hates Safari, and that I’m going to have to start using Firefox (yuck) to edit/publish all my posts now, unless I’m partial to posts that are one big annoying block instead of separate paragraphs >:O
*rips all her hair out*
So although the Alpaca Convention wasn’t as awesome as we expected today, we did manage to score some Suri top! It’s pretty much the softest thing ever…
So I got straight to work spinning Dani some laceweight!
I managed to make myself work on Chris’s socks for a little while today…they’re about a month overdue now, and still not done. And I’m really regretting doing a flap heel - not looking forward to doing this second one.
I balled the finally-dry Knitpicks yarn I dyed the other day, and I’m trying to decide what to make with it - any ideas? I love the colors!
Dani insists that I have a blog, so here I am. Let’s see, what’s new? I learned to Navajo ply at 2am the other morning…the result of which is this:
More things I’ve spun lately…
And I dyed this today (I didn’t spin it though, it’s Knit Picks Bare Worsted that Dani gave me because she’s awesome).
Anyway! I met Dani not that long ago and now we’re BFFs…and she insists that life is not worth living without a blog. We shall see. She was right about Knit Night, so I’m giving her crazy ideas some thought.
I can’t quit making these! They’re so freaking tiny and adorable…I have a horrible addiction to miniature cute things :X
I’m (kinda) using Dani’s pattern, except I’m doing a figure-8 increase toe instead of a short-row toe (I avoid as many short rows as possible).
So this was my first pair…
Georgia Rule dvdrip
And these ones I made today, in the most AWESOME sock yarn ever…which Dani practically threw at me when I expressed the slightest interest. I believe her words where “It’s the ugliest freaking yarn ever.” :P
I haven’t posted for a while…I’ve been pretty down lately, and have been spending most of my time in bed knitting/watching Miyazaki films/playing Warcraft.
So I’ve been growing my hair out for a while, and it’s been driving me insane. The other night I was so upset that I was *thisclose* to cutting it back into my faux hawk that I had a while back. But I put the scissors down and did something else to keep my mind off of it, and the weirdest thing happened…I looked in the mirror later that night and realized that it IS long enough to start styling it into my Amelie bob! I hadn’t put any real product in it for a while because I was so frustrated, but as soon at I fluffed it up with some hairspray, I realized that it’s almost long enough (and definitely long enough to fake it until it’s really long enough)!
So yeah, it’s kind of weird that something that dumb would make me feel better, but hey!
I dyed this a few nights ago - it’s Knit Picks Bare Peruvian Wool, worsted weight.
Jarhead film
I dyed over some tan Knit Picks wool that Dani gave me…
I also, with the help of my new swift that just came tonight, finally wound my orangey sock yarn I spun a while back:
And last but not least, I finished knitting my mom’s socks so I can take them with me when I go visit…her birthday was the 2nd, but hey she’s getting hand-knit socks, so I’m sure the lateness won’t matter 
