Out with the old, in with the new

Thanks to everyone for their kind wishes on my surgery yesterday. Everything went very well and I feel better than I have in several weeks. March was a crappy month for me. Not only with these issues going on but earlier in the month someone at work I thought was a friend sent me an email that was destined for someone else. Needless to say it was not very nice and she said some pretty nasty things about me. However, March is almost over and I am ready to move on to April! However, this also means that we are done with the first color triad of Project Spectrum. I could not let the day go by without creating this mosaic of my PS pictures from the first triad.


I really enjoyed working with blue, white and gray. Now we are onto pink, yellow and green. This should be interesting! Look for a picture of my stash in these colors soon.

Tomorrow I will be heading to Ann Arbor with some of the girls from the Detroit Area Knitters to see the Yarn Harlot. I missed her last summer when she came through town (I was on vacation up north) so I am very excited. I will be the one with the Louis Vuitton bag holding my knitting. Hope to see some of you there. Until next time ....

Just a quick note ....

To let you all know that I will be having surgery tomorrow morning. At 10:15am I will be sitting in the pre-op room at Beaumont waiting patiently (haha) to start. Hopefully this D&C will fix all of the problems I have had the last month. Wish me luck! Until next time ....

Scares can be good sometimes

So I had a bit of a health scare earlier this week. I will spare everyone the gory details but I am fine and will continue to be fine. However, I was off work until Thursday and under doctor's orders to take it easy so I had a lot of time to think. This is where the good part comes in. I have always been a worrier. It is in my genes. My mother was somewhat of a worry wart but it was her father who took the cake. I am definitely a grandpa's girl and have continued his legacy of being paralyzed by fear. Now that I am almost 31 (I HATE saying that!) I have decided to let this fear and worrying go. It was a pretty easy revelation but putting it into action is different. However, I am proud of the way I have handled my biggest source of worry - my job. When I got to work on Thursday I realized that no one did anything while I was gone and my desk looked like a bomb blew up on it. However, I did not worry. I just sorted everything into piles and got as much done as I could. It took me until Friday afternoon but I got it done and did not stress myself out over it. When my boss went into her martyr act by telling me that she had to work late and come in early because I was not there I just let it roll off my back when I would normally get myself worked up over it. I am proud of myself and even though I know I will have some set backs it feels good to finally feel like I am in control of my life. I will no longer allow other people's thoughts, feelings and reactions to control me. Whew now onto the knitting!

So in the stressed out state I have been in for the last several months I have not done much knitting. I have been so exhausted when I get home that I only want to veg out in front of the TV. Well that is going to be no more. I will knit some every day and not allow my job to suck my enjoyment from my life. So I am knitting and reading a lot more in the last week because that is what I enjoy doing. Right now I am reading The Historian and loving it. I have also been knitting. I finished the March Mid Month KAL


The basket weave pattern is very cute. I love the theme of this cloth with the bunny from the March KAL. Get it - the bunny and the basket!? Too cute. I have to work on my projects that have been languishing in my bag for way to long. The two I am going to be concentrating on the next week or so are my Irish Hiking Scarf and the Fuzzy Foot. Of course it is warming up now so I will not have much use for a wool scarf and slippers but I want to finish them already!

Now I will leave you with my PS 2.0 picture for this post.


This cherry picture hangs next to our shower and I love it. It is a nice pick me to the winter doldrums. However, spring is on it's way and I am so happy. I have had the windows open all weekend when it wasn't raining and it is nice to get the fresh air in here finally. Until next time ....

Some more projects (and the weekend) bite the dust

So another weekend has come and gone. I even took the day off on Friday and this weekend went by in a flash. On Friday I had to go to have an ultrasound done (no I am not pregnant!) and tomorrow on my way to work I have to have blood drawn (a nightmare because of my horrible veins). However, it was a nice weekend overall. Yesterday I hung out at Amanda's with her and Amby. I have some pictures of the occasion but I do not want to be killed by those two so I will not post them here. Although I will say that they suit both of them very well!

I do have a couple of finished objects to show off.


This is a simple 2x2 ribbed afghan square. It is made from Red Crap Heart but it was an easy PS 2.0 project. This will go to Warm Up America at the end of PS with the others I plan to make.






This is the March KAL for the dishcloth group. I love the little bunny butt! Details of all the FOs are here as always.






Finally, for PS 2.0 here are my favorite blue shoes. I love these shoes. They were $10 at Payless but they are the most comfortable shoes I own.





So now I am off to knit some more and relax before my Sunday slips away from me. Have a great week everyone. Until next time ....

Spring Knitty

So the spring edition of Knitty has sprung. There are actually a couple of things I would consider making.


Tahoe - I love this simple sweater. I can actually see myself wearing this thing to death.










Ribena - I love this simple tee. I think it would be great made out of cotton for a summer top.









Isabella - this is such a beautiful and feminine tank. I love it even though I do not wear tanks very often.









Palette -even though I do not spin I love this scarf. I would love to make this out of someone else's hand spun if anyone want to send me some!








Bauble
- the idea of knitting jewelry is something that has interested me for a while. This could be an interesting way to get started.




Queen of Cups - why haven't I pressed this sock knitting thing when I am so drawn to sock patterns. I love the lace detail on this one.









Clessidra - I think this one will have to wait a while. I am very well endowed in the calf area and my calf is 17 inches. The pattern is for 14.5 inch calves so I need to do some of the dreaded math with these.







Now one for the WTF files. I love Space Invaders too but these are ridiculous.

Coming up a post with two FOs - maybe tomorrow. Until next time ....

My new addiction

So this week JoAnn's had Paton's Classic Wool on sale so I decided it was time to try my hand at dyeing some yarn. I grabbed two skeins and some other supplies and got started.


I decided to go with the blue to make this a Project Spectrum dye job. I bought some Berry Blue Jell-o and wound my yarn into skeins.






Here is the yarn in the dye bath. It wanted to float until it was saturated. I just made sure to keep stirring it gently to make sure the color was as even as possible.





Here is the end result hanging to dry in the bathroom. I keep going in there to look at it and smell it. I know that I will be doing more of this because it is highly addicting. The next Project Spectrum triad (green, yellow and pink) is a dyeing dream. I still have a box of the Berry Blue Jell-o and a skein of the Classic Wool. Maybe next weekend I will do some hand painting to make a blue and white variegated. Until next time ....