Progress before the big trip!

On Tuesday, we're leaving for South Carolina to attend a wedding for a close friend of my boyfriends. We all went to HS together, and he's in the wedding party. I knew I wanted to use my scarf to kill time while we drove, but I couldn't find the motivation to get working on it to the point I could learn to change colors. Well I finally did it! How you ask?

Well, maybe motivated isn't the right word, but I found myself getting bored while knitting because I couldn't look up so most TV was right out, and I don't get many channels to being with having an antenna instead of cable. So I'd do maybe a row or two and just feel blah about the whole thing and not want to continue. But that was all solved when I came across PODCASTS! Woot!

I have a few I listen to regularly, such as a few from NPR and the knitpicks when it looks interesting. Gives me at least an hour to work on this scarf, and I know have the confidence to do another for Becky (and the money :P) and a pair of socks for my grandmother. That will be interesting. Plan to do them in that order since I want to get Becky's to her ASAP since she's in Alaska and it's already getting cold. And grandma's been whining about good wool socks for winter on and off since she found out I'm learning to knit...so subtle :P

So since I have the money and don't have to pay my gas bill until next month, I'll be ordering the yarn along with a row counter, a set of #2 DPNs, and a hank of natural fingering yarn to dye myself, which I think will be exciting. I was so happy to see knitpicks was reasonable with shipping charges. I won't be using Elann because they wanted $10 shipping on 2 balls of yarn, yuck!

Plus I have to figure out what yarn I'll be using for the super secret christmas present for the boyfriend...the seamless willie warmer LMAO!! I'll have to learn a few more tricks for that one, too, but it doesn't look too complicated. I hope! I'm thinking either cotton or acrylic since I don't want to use 'good' yarn on something that won't be used.

He doesn't understand how I can have a ton of projects queued up that I want to work on. I think after Christmas I'll drag him back to the LYS, which is not quite local, and talk to the owner again and see how many she has queued up, or on needles. I know it's rather common for knitters to do this, so I'm not way outta my gourd. I'm just catching on rather quickly ;)

Knitting disaster

On advise from my psychiatrist about my lack of motivation to do just about anything, I've been doing 15 minutes of something that needs done when I physically feel up to it. Like the dishes (I have 1/3 done now!) and my knitting. I got another 10 rows done on my paw print cloth the other day. Just went to pick it up and noticed that somehow I'd gotten it backwards! I had to frog it all!!

Then when I got it all back on the needles, I realized I needed to frog another row. Well I said to heck with this! Frogged the whole thing :( I think I'm going to move onto my huge scarf since I'd like to have it done before winter hits and this is just for pretty. And the scarf is knitting only and in the round so hopefully I won't get that backwards *sighs* Plus my boy cat keeps trying to get up on my dresser to get the bag it's in to chew on. Stupid cat! Just when he's feeling better he wants to force himself to get sick again...I think he's secretly bulimic heh.

In other knitting news, I bought a hard pink pencil case at Walmart yesterday for under a buck to hold my instruments of knitting destruction (like my needles, stitch gauge, stitch markers, etc.) So now I have a pink case for my misc. stuff, pink cords and case on my Denise set, pink stripped yarn for 1/2 of the scarf, a pink knitting blog...I think I see a pattern here, don't you? :P

And my wonderful boyfriend has almost finished ripping out the small tree/shrub from in front of my house, where I plan to plant some naturally colored cotton in copper/brown. The flowers look beautiful, and hopefully I can find a spinner that'll show me how it's done and let me use their wheel haha. It won't be much but it'll be mine!