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I've been working on my green cardigan like a madwoman these days despite the fact that I picked up recently not one, not two, but four skeins of Nashua Creative Focus Worsted yarn in this blueish Juniper color. The cardigan itself is so yummy in Cascade 220 yarn in a greenish tweed color to wear with my little black dress with teeny white polka-dots for the boyfriend's cousin's wedding in two weeks. I've got the front two panels and the back but I still am missing sleeves and I need to sew up all the pieces together and pick up stitches for the collar and the ribbing for the buttons. I did pick up the buttons for the cardigan too so I should be set! Um...right...maybe? Lordy I suck at deadlines. >_<;

The new skeins that I picked up are just gorgeous in this fuzzy warm wool/alpaca blend. I picked them up from this yarn shop in town but I made the poor choice of bringing my male friend along. I mistakenly thought that because the yarn shop had a bakery and a coffee shop inside that he'd be kept occupied with that while I took a peek for some yarn. Instead I got one very surly man-friend breathing down my neck for taking too long looking at one yarn or another so in a bit of a rushed, impulsive moment I picked up the four skeins of the Nashua and to be honest I don't regret it the fact I picked it up so much as why I didn't pick up more. I'm thinking about knitting up a lacey throw blanket or shawl with it to keep me warm in the autumn since the yarn's fuzz is haloing out of the skein a bit too much already as is that I wouldn't want to a wear it as a cardigan or sweater. It's now only a matter of time to pick the appropriate pattern for this yarn to take shape but thankfully I still have a cardigan and my Juno Regina shawl/stole to knit through before I need to make any decisions on these skeins. I so need to get my camera up and running for more pictures!!

Here's to my first entry.

Well, this is my first entry into doing knitting blogging. Break out the rum runners and quite possibly a glass of wine or two for this one, folks. I am but one simple, humble video gaming nerd with one too many obsessions that I wonder if I should just pluralize my blog's title?

Oh well.

In any case, I've the obsession with all things knitting. I'm a process knitter who enjoys starting projects as much as I enjoy shopping for yarns but I alas have to juggle that with my other loves of gaming, sci-fi movies/television, and all things relating to Bath and Body fragrance (a recent edition since I started working there part-time in between getting teacher certified through night classes and doing daytime tutoring). Sadness is when you realize your favorite fragance, Chocolate Amber, is being discontinued because you're on in perhaps a million women that it actually smells good on.

I'm currently in between several knitting projects...there's a knee-high sock stuffed at the bottom of my knitting bag, a lacey stole/scarf in the middle of it, and at the top is a green cardigan that I've grown increasingly more and more worried about the size and length of the project never the less if the damn thing will fit me once it's all put together. Let's see, I've this curse with knitting sweaters and/or cardigans in which it clearly accents every wrong curve of my body while flattening out the few sexy curves I do possess. My first knitted sweater was done in the Kyoto pattern outlined by one of many of my favorite knitting sites that I knit up in all acrylic yarn (yes, I laugh on that choice now). I'd post a picture of what it looked like on me but it brings back horrible images that I occasionally need to beat back with a stick. Strangely enough it fits my 15 year old brother's scrawny frame. If only the color suited him then I might have been able to guilt-gift it to him for his birthday. Curses, I guess I'll have to think up something this year after all.

My latest finished project was a lacy beauty, the Muir Shawl. I blocked it up and sent it away to my mother as her Mother's Day present weeks ago. I wished I managed to nab a picture of it after it was blocked but it slipped my mind in the time crunch between giving it and moving to this summer's sublet. Well, here's a picture of the delight that is the shawl up above.

I totally <3 the yarn I used for it. It was a lace Kid Mohair yarn in a delightful green. I'm going to have to take a better picture of it eventually. More pictures to come are of my current pictures in progress and also this cute little handmade Japanese teapot and mug that the man in my life gave me yesterday. Mind you, Scott and I met partially through a dating site in which what caught his eye was the fact I knit a Linux penguin (among other things) ages ago. Going on four months now all coupled up he's sorta been egging to actually knit him a Linux penguin doll. I've got a penguin knitted up that's missing wings and feet but so far not only is the bf begging for the dolly but also our mutual friend Billy who sorta set us both up to date from the beginning has showed immense interest in the penguin. He was the grand matchmaker who nudged Scott to ask me out when Billy found that the other had seen my profile one day.

Billy is a funny sort of guy. He's the sort of guy who's all up for matchmaking for his friends and co-workers for one goal and one goal only: to be invited to the wedding because single chicks at weddings are easy. Now, while this may not be the most honorable intention this does make him a very, very motivated matchmaker seeing as he has immensely long-term one-night stand goals. With that said, judging from his track record he is by far the best matchmaking friend I've had in years. Considering how awesome my relationship is with Scott though I think I can sleep well knowing that I've pretty much sold out either one of mine or even Scott's female friends or relatives to our devilish matchmaker's appetite. This fact alone almost makes me morally worse than Billy in this respect however I've been able to distract myself from this moral quandary with knitting and snuggle time with the bf. Clearly I've got my priorities straightened out.