hooray

i found a sock calculator good luck!

get all the help you need on socks from knitter's review

aright, we've all established

that i'm a knitting cheapo, but hey, this crap is expensive... so i was shopping at urbn and i had this BRILLIANT idea. if you are hard up for yarn like me and can't afford hundreds of dollars just to make a sweater or leg warmers, then go to your local thrift store, pick out a sweater in good condition and frog it and use the yarn for your next project. as long as you find something that's in good condition (minimal shedding), the color you like, the yarn is bulky or chunky weight, and of hi quality natural fibers, you should be good.

online i found something that said to wrap a newspaper around one handheld mixer prong, tape it, and then tape the beggining of the sweater frog to the magazine and hit go on the mixer and you have an automatic frogger. hee hee sounds fun, i'm going to try it.

sorry peeps

i can't show you a picture of trisha's scarf yet, cuz i submitted the pattern to knitty. please oh please oh please pick up my pattern, knitty, i wanna be a knitwear designer and have my name in lights. hee hee

keep coming back to see whether or not they took it.

someone please stop me. i've gone completely mad. o.k. this is the last project i'm picking up this week



it's phildar aurore sweater so very lovely. can't wait!

here's the beginning of my sock. after one false start on size 4 circulars (see coco wearing it below) which made it too big, it's going pretty good. i'm knitting the ribbing on size 3 dpns because i'm not rich and i didn't have size 3 circulars and i wasn't ABOUT to go spending any more money on these $62 dollar socks. so after i get done with the ribbing, i'm going to switch to soaring circulars.







i'd like to take this moment to encourage any of you out there in cyber land to take up sock knitting if not just once. i'm a COMPLETE beginner and if i can do it then anyone can. it just LOOKS complicated, but so far so good. there, that's my motivational speech for today.

tip

the cutest online yarn store

luv that little lamb and they have GREAT pictures of yarn.

tip

el cheapo stitch markers: cut colored straws into little rings and use dem. wow! i'm such a cheapo, i love it.

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here's how to make a bracelet that counts rows:

if you're not loaded
cuz needles are expensive here's something i found on about.com

by Clarissa Pardon
Make Your Own Needles

I found a great way to get the size needles I want with out shelling out big bucks. I buy the miniature dowel rods, in an assortment of sizes (for about a buck a bag) and take them home and sharpen in my electric pencil sharpener. Why pay up to 50 bucks on needles that I could get a whole set and range of sizes for only five?

also: don't forget to rub your dowels with beeswax (you can use part of an old candle sitting around) and rub it in with a cloth. this will make your new knitting needles slick like bamboo ones. also you can put a rubber band at the end to keep the yarn on or sharpen both sides for double pointed needles.

cubbie bubbie
here's my petit bebe. iwubba him. his name is coco



that color in the background is what i was hoping my yarn would be. (not)

ribbit for her pleasure.
just tested a swatch for my pippi longstocking socks. it came out perfect 6.5 stitches/inch just like the recipe called for. that was my first ever try at a swatch. i'm using size 4 addi turbo circulars (2 pairs), the book "socks soar on two circulars" and reynolds lite lopi and cascade yarn #220. the lite lopi looked fuschia when i bought it but when i got it home it was red (darn, i hate red.) here's a pic:

i may take it back today and exchange it for fuschia. i frogged the swatch because i'm conservative (cheap). well, i mean come on, $62 for socks and hell ya i'm gonna frog the swatch.