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2012 s m t w t f s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 dec feb meta create account log in entries feed comments feed wordpress com blogroll wordpress com wordpress org meta create account log in subscribe entries rss comments rss archive for january 2012 puffing along posted by andi on january 28 2012 there seems to have been a radical shift in my hexipuff production as of late over the last two months i only made 10 hexipuffs but since my last update i ve made eight with several more on tap for today why the change first i ve actually had some down time this week something that s been missing from my life for a couple of months second the dvr has been in a state of near saturation recently so i m constantly having to watch something to make room for the recordings coming up hexipuffs are great television projects finally perhaps my motivation has increased with an influx of new yarns i got two yarns from mimi which started off the kick and yesterday i broke into this angela got me a bunch of lorna s laces mini skeins for christmas earlier this week i spent some time winding all of the hanks into little tiny yarn cakes so they would be ready to knit last night i knit the first two top row fifth from the right and bottom row seventh from either side while watching midnight in paris with all of the shows on the dvr coupled with all of the netflix discs of award nominated movies i plan to watch over the next few weeks i anticipate a huge increase in my puffing capacity posted in uncategorized 5 comments that s fast posted by andi on january 27 2012 wednesday morning i didn t see my project bag on the couch and sat on it snap i broke the needle that my sock was on it was a knit picks options harmony needle i wanted to replace the needle fairly quickly because i was planning on going out of town tuesday morning i needed the needle in time to transfer the stitches onto it and pack it by monday evening to travel first thing tuesday morning i considered running to a store and finding the first size 1 needle i could that was long enough for magic loop but you know what i really like my knit picks needle i wanted to replace it not substitute it there are a few stores that carry knit picks needles around here but i haven t been feeling well and wasn t in the mood to run around looking or calling a bunch of stores plus then if i didn t find one there would be no way to get it by monday preferably before so i decided the best option was to order the needle from knit picks and pay for expedited shipping i went with the two day rather than three day shipping i placed the order late wednesday morning expecting to receive my package on friday today imagine my surprise when the package arrived yesterday that s right 24 hours later i had my new needle thanks knit picks of course there was no way i could order just one needle for less than 10 that s no fun i also ordered this awesome skein of sock yarn i love the way it has bright colors and black it s knit picks stroll hand painted in punky how cool is that it s so soft and nice i was planning on using a different sock yarn next but i think i might need to use this right away posted in uncategorized 1 comment sunrise over houston posted by andi on january 23 2012 taken january 18 2012 from my hotel room houston tx the return to chicago s cold weather was a slap in the face last week posted in uncategorized leave a comment fo iphoodie for millicent posted by andi on january 22 2012 pattern iphoodie ipod iphone hoodie by emily vanek yarn bernat super value solids needles us 3 date january 15 2012 i spent all of last weekend preparing my new ipod for use i started on saturday by wrapping the ear bud wires in embroidery floss at first i was going to wrap them differently with much longer color repeats but as i was looking on pinterest i saw wires with more frequent color repeats and i really liked how that looked plus i thought larger sections of the green could be annoyingly bright basically i just made knots switching colors after every knot wrapping the wires was quite time consuming over several hours on saturday i managed to finish the doubled wire that goes from the jack up to where the wires split for the ear buds as well as most of one of the wires that goes from the split up to the ear buds i finished the rest on sunday morning while watching episodes of downton abbey i spent the rest of sunday making the new hoodie it was a tight gauge on worsted weight yarn and i have to admit that i over did it i really wanted it done before my monday morning commute but my arms and hands were really sore that was stupid but it s done i ve had one trip since then i brought some knitting and kept the new ipod in my knitting project bag and what do you know i did not leave it on the plane i hope this week s trip sees me bringing my new ipod home as well posted in uncategorized leave a comment hexipuffing month 5 posted by andi on january 21 2012 all i did the day i posted the month 4 update was knit hexipuffs six in one day so now i m up to 60 this new batch includes hexipuffs made from sock yarn leftovers provided by frances thanks frances posted in uncategorized 2 comments lesson learned must knit on planes posted by andi on january 15 2012 last week i went on a business trip and i didn t bring any knitting with me for two main reasons 1 i was going to be gone for five days with all of the clothes i had to bring and my desire to not check my baggage there was no room in either of my bags for knitting 2 as i mentioned in a previous post i was considering not bringing knitting on trips unless it was absolutely necessary so that if i wasn t asleep or working on the plane i could read for pleasure something i haven t had as much time as i would like of late the decision not to bring any knitting meant i had to alter how i travel normally i keep my cell phones and ipod in my project bag so they are easy to take out and put away at the appropriate times the bag i keep under my seat is big and can be a pain to keep taking out if the flight is crowded with no project bag i did have to take that bag out to deal with my cell phones i made one key mistake though at one point i stuck my ipod in the seat back pocket in front of me while i dealt with other things and promptly forgot about it until the next day when i didn t have it despite calling two airports and putting in a missing item report with the airline my ipod was not turned in i only had it for two months worse i don t use the horrible ear buds it comes with so i had new ear buds and had just purchased new tips for them anyone who knows me at all knows that i cannot get by without my ipod i use it when i travel i use it during my commute to and from the office i use it at work i listen to many podcasts and lots of music going without an ipod for even a short is difficult for me yes i know this is a first work problem and in the grand scheme of the world is not a big deal but flying home friday afternoon would have been a much more pleasant experience if my trusty ipod had been with me yesterday i bought a new ipod her name is millicent since i m starting from scratch with a new device and new ear buds and a new hoodie i decided to wrap the wires of the new ear buds in embroidery floss to make them tangle free i found some old purple acrylic yarn left over from an afghan i made for my dad and stepmother for christmas a few years ago it s less blue than it appears in the photo above i chose the yarn before going to best buy since there is a michael s right next door and i figured i could buy the embroidery floss on the same trip imagine my delight when i found purple ear buds and they have skulls on them clearly those were the ear buds i had to buy then i went to michael s and bought some lime green and purple embroidery floss to wrap the wires the wire wrapping is complete with photos to come in a future post i like how they turned out today i started the hoodie i really hope i can finish it tonight so that the whole package will be complete in time for tomorrow morning s commute chances are that due to this experience i will never forget my ipod on a plane again but there is one key way for me to make sure it never happens again always bring a knitting project bag with me on a flight posted in uncategorized 4 comments hexipuffing month 4 posted by andi on january 7 2012 well as i thought it was a crazy month with gift knitting and many other things in life that kept me from knitting as much as i would have liked so here is the four month progress picture for my beekeeper s quilt guess how many news ones there were four see the column down the middle with just four hexipuffs those are the new ones this picture is three weeks late so expect a new one next weekend i will only have one knitting day and maybe one evening to make more next month s picture won t look too dissimilar to this one posted in uncategorized 1 comment second annual resolution fail posted by andi on january 1 2012 in a post from a year ago i went over what my knitting resolutions for 2011 were 1 finish the blanket from hell i m so close i did that one i hit a bump in the road by having to buy more yarn than i originally ordered for the project but finally the last weekend in february i finished the blanket at a restaurant before meeting the gift recipient for a movie it wasn t the first afghan or blanket i ever made but it was the biggest and certainly took the longest the whole time i vowed that i would never knit another afghan in worsted weight yarn i promptly went out and bought comfort knitting and crochet afghans which features many such patterns but they re gorgeous 2 i m participating in the january hat trick in the puck this group on ravelry the goal is to knit at least three hats in the month of january i have four patterns chosen and the corresponding yarn chosen so if i finish the third one early i can do four but i need to be reasonable the goal is three hats i m not sure i truly accomplished this one because i finished the third hat on 2 1 a day late but i did three hats i wore one of them frequently last winter 3 i m also participating in the sock stash knitdown in the stash and burn group on ravelry most of the people participating are planning to knit down 12 skeins of sock yarn from their stash because of my time constraints and other projects i want to complete my goal is to knit down 10 skeins i made a good attempt but i failed at this one i finished eight projects one skein per project and i m halfway through the ninth but didn t have time to finish it i could have been closer i had finished one sock and was most of the way through a second when i realized i wouldn t have yarn so i frogged them that would have put me at nine projects and halfway through the tenth so i was close i pretty much stuck with using yarns that i already had in my stash for a long time and mostly used patterns i already owned 4 i have yarn for three garments that has been sitting in my stash and i want to knit all three garments this year i bought some recycled yarn at yarn con in 2009 some malabrigo lace to make a cardigan back in the summer and a sweater s worth of dream in color classy at their warehouse sale a few months ago i have projects in mind and i have no excuse i need to get started on those this was a complete failure i made no garments for myself i started making a cardigan with the malabrigo lace but about halfway through knitting it i realized i didn t like how the cardigan was turning out so i frogged it i have chosen another pattern for the yarn but haven t gotten around to starting it i ve made some steps toward using the dream in color yarn by organizing the patterns in my ravelry queue that are appropriate for that yarn in order to narrow them down and choose one i m still no where near using the recycled yarn finally it wasn t a new year s resolution but it was another knitting goal i set for myself make a hat scarf and mittens to go with my winter coat and how have i done on that well i finished the hat i wear it sometimes and i love it i made one mitten but it s not lined yet so i m not even half done with the mittens i started the second one but stopped when i got to the first colorwork row and there it s been sitting for months the scarf is nowhere near finished so even though i keep failing i am setting knitting goals for 2012 1 finish the mittens and scarf yes it s a goal left over from last year but they need to be finished i m no longer enthused with knitting these but i still think they look beautiful and i want to wear them i just don t want to knit them anymore 2 make at least one garment for myself this is a modification of one of last year s goals but instead of wanting to make three sweaters i m being more realistic and am hoping for one i really think i will make something out of the dream in color first 3 make my dining room centerpiece as you may have seen i m collecting cascade 220 to make amigurumi vegetables which i m going to put in a colander and use as the centerpiece of my dining room table 4 read more when i travel this is kind of a non knitting goal knitting on airplanes helped me work down eight skeins of sock yarn last year and clearly i can use that time productively however i feel it s at the expense of something else i want to do with my free time read more i only read three books in 2011 one gone with the wind i started in 2010 when i was in thailand the second was andre agassi s autobiography which i read slowly at home little bits at a time the third was the girl with the dragon tattoo which i read over the two weeks before christmas part of the reason i could finish it in time to see the film with friends on christmas night was because after hurting my shoulder i didn t knit for nearly a week i want to read more which means i will have to knit less that s okay and that s also why my knitting goals for this year are scaled back compared to the past few years expect a similar post next year but hopefully it will have a different title finally i have one regular new year s resolution for myself i m going to cut back on diet soda i will still allow myself to drink it at restaurants or maybe on car trips to indiana but my goal is to not have it every day at work not have it at home at this point we hardly ever have soda in the house anymore anyway and not have it be my go to drink if i m in a convenience store i haven t decided about airplanes airplane coffee is awful so i may allow myself to have diet soda on airplanes given these criteria i should be drinking diet soda once a week or less better than the nearly daily rate i have going right now so there you go i hope everyone had a wonderful 2012 posted in uncategorized leave a comment blog at wordpress com subscribe subscribed knitstant gratification sign me up already have a wordpress com account log in now privacy 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