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 ;)