Let the Holiday Knitting Begin!

With the colder weather, the change of the leaves, comes something else. Holiday knitting.
Last week, I ordered the yarn for some gifts from Webs, and I already started on one gift

It's a shawl for my mother. All total, I have 6 projects to knit, two due before Christmas.
You would think I would be knitting like the wind, yes? And not looking at ALL the lizard ridge blankets. Because the other day I decided to make one. I also decided to start a sweater soon. Clearly, I have gone totally bonkers.
As for your holiday knitting?

Why yes, I am a nerd!

Sandy

Over a week later, and people are still dealing with the effects of Hurricane Sandy. We managed rather well, our power didn't even go out, which shocked me. We had lots of downed trees, flooded roads, and such high winds I thought the house was going to be picked up!
I watched Walking dead and Miss Marple on netflix, and I knit this during the hurricane

I found two skeins of Lion brand wool ease thick and quick in color citron at AC Moore the other week. It was on clearance for $4 a skein, so I grabbed them up. This color is weird, I don't know how to describe it. It's just this bright mustard yellow with a tinge of lime green. I love it tho.

the pattern, Marian, calls for 45 stitches on 19's. I read quite a few project notes on rav, and many people said it came out small. So what I did was this. I casted on 70 stitches on 17's bound off loosely and it came out amazing!

It's super warm, and I can easily double it. It's going to be a much loved thing this winter I believe.

Ravelry link!
As for now, I'm knitting a christmas gift(more on those soon! and when it did get to be holiday knitting time?!) and listening to this

Calm before the storm

Apparently, there is some storm heading towards the east coast. And I happen to live in the path. Tomorrow, I will be baking all the things, making sure nothing can blow away, and of course, getting my knitting in order.

It's hard to believe that In less the 24 hours, there will be a hurricane here. It was lovely today, a perfect fall day. I finished a calorimetry, and Asta and I sat outside for a bit.

If you live in the path of Sandy, stay safe!

Monday Monday

This is what some of my Monday looked like.
I woke up, and this was my view off my porch.

I did my nails, Sinful colors in Memorize.

This is the SO TOTALLY AWESOME shirt I was wearing today

I went to ac moore, and bought yarn. and needles, and a thing to learn hairpin lace on. Also, socks.
(the maroon yarn is for a shawl, mustard yarn is for cowl, grey for a hat, and the cotton for washcloths)

To end the day, my two new kittens sleeping on top of each other. Watson on the bottom, Mycroft on the top.

How to stay warm

By Asta
Step one, take you human's quilt off her bed.
Step two, get in the middle of it and dig and wiggle around until you have formed yourself a cave that covers you so well, that your human can't see you until she calls your name and you pop your head out. you will get lots of pets and scratches for that.
Step three, snore lightly and force your human to find another blanket

Oh the shame

OHAI THERE!! Guess what? I'm all moved in. And when I say moved in, I mean now live here, but all my stuff is still packed away and I somehow wound up buying two potato mashers and then found mine, so now I have three potato mashers. In the meantime, I am forcing my poor little Asta to model for me. She has such shame.

(pattern is simple things, on rav here)

#ravelympics

If you are on ravelry, then you know probably what the ravelympics are. It's basically this. During the Olympics, you watch athletes push themselves to do their best. And you push yourself to do your best in knitting/crocheting. You do something you never did before. You are cheered on by thousands of people also doing the best they can to make something amazing. To create something that you can look at years from then and say that you were in the ravelympics and made that! You learned from that project, you grew as a fiber artist, and because of joining all these other people who cheered with you, consoled you when you crossed your cables wrong, you are the knitter/crocheter you are now. It's more then a sense of community, it was friends helping each other out and having so much fun doing it.
The us olympic committee believes that you "denigrate" the olympics. you can read more about that here, but this is what pisses me off.
"We believe using the name "Ravelympics" for a competition that involves an afghan marathon, scarf hockey and sweater triathlon, among others, tends to denigrate the true nature of the Olympic Games. In a sense, it is disrespectful to our country's finest athletes and fails to recognize or appreciate their hard work"
BITE ME. I've been trying to think of a better response, something that sounds more eloquent, but really, that's all I can do. I knit this for the last games



I had barely done any fair isle, and I was going to knit this HUGE fair isle bag. I did it, while watching the Olympics, caring about them for the first time EVER. It was fun. I was, and am, very proud of myself. In no way did I "denigrate" the Olympics. Not a single person in the ravelympics did. To say something that harsh and insulting to people who carry pointy sticks? BAD IDEA.
i was going to join the ravelympics again this year, and I was going to gather up all my old ufo's and finish them. But now? Now I'm going to watch buffy and angel instead of mens swimming. I will be boycotting the Olympics this year. Will you?