Armed with Pointy Sticks

Why are Skulls so Cool?

Now I suddenly need to knit a gansey.  This gansey.  Hello Yarn is such a great site.  Innovative patterns (the skull hat is on my list too) and free.  And you can buy a Louet there!  What is naught to like?

I'm itching for the Olympics to start.  I want to tear that shawl up.  I may not learn steeking with it (which is my next goal) but I'll do steam blocking, and however simple that is, I haven't done it before.

Knit a little, Moved a little, no Sudoku

So yesterday we packed up a bit of the office, and a bit of the bedroom, and some of the living room.  We have solid objectives for today.

But I knit.

I got a repeat done on the Mary Jane cardigan. And I picked up my Rockstar scarf.  There's a bit of a history to my rockstar scarf.  It was my first project ever.  I finished it, loved it, and then the stitches that I dropped in the Apart reared their ugly heads.  Yes, plural, not by much, but by enough to be plural.  I diced that I'd make the scarf again someday, and I am.  It's living in a basket under my coffee table, and I pick it up from time to time.  By next winter I should be a rockstar again.

That is all, time to go fill a box or two.

Moving...

Moving kind of sucks.  I haven't been knitting for the last two days.  Not one stitch.  Poor training for the Knitting Olympics, I know.

I think I and Chris have localized our yarn to the chest.  With the exception of some red heart that I don't want to mingle with my good yarn.  Red Heart has its place, but I don't want it getting the wrong idea and getting uppity.  My needles I think will move in a wine gift-box that we appropriated this Christmas (filled with... you guessed it!  A coffee urn!)  Well, most of the needles, anyway.  I may be able to tuck them in the chest once they're safely in the box.

I can also blame John Murphy's book of Stupid Creatures.  This book has led to realize that I don't own nearly interesting enough socks.  I have plenty of socks I'd be very willing to cut up, but not many that would make good creatures.  Creatures inspired by Mr. Murphy may be my gimmick for this year's MS walk.  Donate to the NMSS and adopt your very own creature! It's a thought, at least.  More fun than just asking for the money...

And another reason I haven't knit... sudoku.  I don't really want to talk about that...

And the last reason :)  Chris proposed last night!  I mean, I knew it was coming, we had the ring picked out, but last night we finished paying for it, and he proposed!

I'll knit today, I promise.  Or maybe I'll finish a creature to show off.  We'll see.  Maybe I'll pack some more stuff.  Perhaps I'll do them all!! 

and some sudoku. 

Welcome to my Knitting Blog!

I have been toying around with the idea of getting a blog for my knitting for some time.  You know what finally did it?

The Yarn Harlot.

When Miss Harlot made buttons for the Knitting Olympics I immediately edited my blog in order to put it up, display it proudly, show it off, all that.

Funny.  LJ doesn't lend itself very well to the wall of buttons I hope to amass.  So here I am, at my new home. Well, maybe not a new home, as I'm going to keep the LJ.  I'll think of it as the cyber equivalent of an in-law apartment that I've turned into my craft room.   We'll see how this goes.  Let me go get that button... it's around here somewhere...

Oh anyway, its ErickaJo, my first home is http://www.livejournal.com/users/erickajo  If you've seen an ErickaJo on line, its probably me, unless she was a horrific bitch, then it... may still have been me, but I'll blame it on someone else.