7 posts tagged “baby blanket”

I've been working on squares for a baby blanket.  

ashley 001

I've also about had it with these wireless hotspots in my neighborhood, i last for about 15 minutes per connection and i'm on the third available network...argh.  anyway, battery is dying. more tomorrow.

So I've finished my first hat.  I am probably going to give it to one of my co-workers once i get back from going home this weekend.  It's about an inch too short - I want it to cover my ears a little better (cursed by my huge head).  I bought more Manos del Uruguay in colorway 114: bramble to knit a scarf (my so called scarf) and hat combo for my mom.  Hopefully I'll get the hat done while I'm at the airport/flying home/driving home tonight.  It took me about 4 hours for the first one and probably less for this one.  I'm really enjoying knitting continental style - things just go a bajillion times faster which makes me happy of course, because I can get through more projects.

Summarized knit list:

4 baby blankets.
2 hats
fetching for MEEEE
2 my so called scarves
1 scarf left from my xmas knit list (I finished everything except this ONE item).

This really doesn't seem too bad.  The baby blankets are the worst part of the list, 2 will be done in the usual way, but the one that is for my friend's daughter's baby is going to be done in individual squares, 6"x6", so 36 of these to do (eep!) but with my new knitting skillz it shouldn't be that big of a drag. 

right now I'm praying that the consulting class ends soon so I can grab lunch with my friend Josie before running home to wind up some yarn and get on the airport shuttle bus so I can get my behind home.

I'm concerned about JC getting home because I-78 has been closed due to the snow and that is one of the major roads that we take to get to Congers.  Hopefully he knows an alternate :/

I will have some pictures to post on Monday.  Have a great weekend everyone :D

I got two boxes from Barnes & Noble today:

The Bridesmaid Guide

Kate Chynoweth

I got 6 copies of this, so yes, New Age Amazon and castingon, you will be getting copies! Hehe. It's cute.

Also in the box:

Continuum

John Mayer

I just really like john mayer. I don't know.  I kinda feel weird admitting to that?

And!

The thing I forgot about:

Naughty Needles: Sexy, Saucy Knits for the Bedroom and Beyond (Potter Craft)

Nikol Lohr

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We found this book at Kards Unlimited and I just sat there and giggled at it the entire time I was reading.  There is a pattern for knitting pasties. Hahahahaha. I love it. Oh well, I was just informed that the baby blanket I had 3 weeks to do, may be due a little earlier.  So I've started another baby blanket. It wil be travelling home with me this weekend and hopefully, I'll be able to get two skeins done (read: half). Fun. I guess I have to knit lots because castingon can't?

THE BABY BLANKET IS DONE!!!

I'm free FREE i tell you!

Hopefully she likes it! *giggles*

These addi turbos are making all the difference in the world.  I have one row to go before i switch back to pink and will be almost 1/2 done.

This weekend started with Friday which was the annual light up night celebration in downtown pittsburgh.  New Age Amazon and I met downtown at one of the many starbucks stores and wandered around the city stupidly trying to find a restaurant that wasn't packed before deciding to just check out the tree at PPG place and then head back to shadyside to grab dinner.

Here are some shots of the tree, the ice skating rink around the tree, and me with the walking heinz ketchup bottle:

Considering the ketchup bottle for a moment longer, there was a woman standing near us while Ash took the pic.  She was wearing this crazy fur coat and one of those glow necklaces that you force your mom to buy you when you are little at like the 4th of july celebration.  Anyway, she comes over to us and screams for us to take her pic, saying, i don't care what you do with it, send it in to the papers or the news, just please please please take my pic with the ketchup.  I did.  It was my good deed for the millienium!  I sadly, however, deleted the pic. See a later post for more information about me and my encounters with the homeless and mentally handicapped of Pittsburgh.  The woman had a wrangler with her, and was then whisked away as Ash and I ran off in another direction. 

After a delicious dinner we just chilled out and worked on our knitting projects.  I managed to finish the first of a set of fetchings for a friend:

I did one of the gloves in 3.5 hours and finished the second in about the same time.  What a thrill to get another thing crossed off of the knit list for december. 

I am 1/3 of the way done the baby blanket too!  Yay.

Last night, I hosted a girls' only dinner party.  It was great.  I made some pico de gallo using ●ßoηi†a.in.Ρink●'s recipe.  FANTASTIC! I also made ricotta based gnocchi, and a peanut butter fudge cheesecake (which there is still half of the cake left!)  We drank two bottles of wine, some Fat Bastard, and some Gala Rouge.  Delicious!