I am a complete moron!

I love to learn.

I hate having to learn things the hard way.

I have no other way to say this other then, I am a complete moron. I've been working on the sleeves for rogue, I have already frogged them once due to two noticeable errors. This time I've been careful, the cables are looking great. However, it did come to my attention more then once that I don't seem to be increasing enough stitches for the number I am decreasing. Did I stop the first time this thought occurred to me and check the pattern? NO! Did I stop the second time? NO!

So today, I am nicely minding my own business during lunch, knitting away merrily I realized I'm almost finished with chart for the sleeve cable, so I pull the rest of the pattern out to read the sleeve portion again. That's when it hits me. I had only been increasing at each end every 6 rows that's 2 stitches. I was suppose to be increasing 4 2 on the ends one before the 1st marker and 1 after the second. DOH!

What can I say other then I am a moron. I hate learning lessons like this. Always triple read the pattern and always trust your gut instinct, if it feels wrong when your knitting: IT PROBABLY IS!

Blogger ate the post

On Thursday I posted a nice little post recapping my week and it's gone. I want to say blogger ate it because I remember checking to see if it was there and it was, but now it's not. Oh Great, now I'm rambling. It's 11pm and I'm wide awake and I'm rambling.

Okay a recap. This was not a great week. I started off sick. Not cough, cough, hack sick but ewwww gross stomach bug and fever sick. I was out of work on Tuesday and Wednesday. You would have thought I'd get a lot of knitting done, but not really. I still haven't rectified the yarn situation to finish charlotte's web, so I started working on Rogue Wednesday afternoon. I casted on for both sleeves worked about 4 inches went to bed and the next morning to my horror I found..... *gasp, could it be* .... Two mistakes. One was a whole where I twisted a picked up stitch wrong, the other was some funky thing going on with the cable. (NOTE: funky thing is what happens when I try to use a dpn instead of cable needle and I twist the stitches 180 degrees on the needle before I knit them off) (2nd Note: Yes my knitting is THAT spastic!)

Anyhoo, I ripped back the sleeves to the hem and restarted yesterday. The cabling is coming VERY nice, here is a picture of one of the sleeves, the picture does no justice to that cable pattern:



In other news the work front has just gotten interesting. One of my bosses was laid off (I'm not going into it here). It will be very interesting to see how the next few months shape up. I'm both very excited and extremely nervous, you never can tell if these things are as good or bad as they appear.

I almost forgot, my SP e-mailed me the other day to tell me a package is on it's way. I'm so excited, that was a highlight of the week.

Well I should try to go to bed. I have a feeling I'm in for a rough week at work. I already worked on some stuff for a few hours tonight; it's never a good sign when you take work home over the weekend.

I lost a post!

I know I posted yesterday, but now my post is gone. Am I imagining things? This is weird.. If it doesn't come back, i'll have to repost.

PSA

My R.E.M. tickets are in the mail.

This Public Service Announcement has been brought to you by me.

Look Ma I Caught A Fraggle!

After a particularly horrible day at work, I went to the mall with one of my friends tonight. This is what I found in Suncoast Video...



Gobo and Boober from "Fraggle Rock" ! It's the small things that make me smile.

A Charlotte's Web Update

The update is this. I have to put Charlotte officially on hold. Now, you may ask why? Well the answer is quite simple, I , Heather have made a grave tactically error: I do not have enough yarn. I finally made it to where you start to add in the fifth color, and realized, I'm not sure I have enough of the forth to do the remaining 8 rows of alternating left, so I definitely do not have enough of the fifth color to make it to the end & fringe. I bought exactly 1 skein each of the 5 colors I chose. I told myself to buy a 2nd skein of the last color, but I did not listen. I thought this might become a problem and last week when I stopped over very quickly by Knit NY, I didn't see the color on display, but alas that is what I get for not being extra careful.

Where does that leave me now? In search of either a 2nd skein of the color I have here, or picking up two skeins of something that goes with what is already done. It's a busy week of appointments looking for a wedding DJ so I will not make it to any stores to shop. I may just find the yarn online and wait it out.

In any case, you live and learn, and boy did I learn. Here a partially picture of my shawl with the remaining balls of yarn.

Blah!

I"m sitting here debating whether I should even update or not, I guess since i'm logged in I will. I'm feeling under the weather, I have a slight cold nothing a little sleep and hot tea won't cure. I'm also depressed, but i'm not going to get into that. The two combined have left me with very little energy and the desire to absolutely nothing. Thus, no knitting updates.

There has been a highlight to the last few days. I found the bridesmaid dresses I want for the wedding and my sisters have been fitted and the order is in. That's one less thing to worry about.

R.E.M. ALBUM DAY!

R.E.M.'s new album "Around the Sun" came out today. It's 9:15 in the morning, I have no way of getting it until lunch time. Darling Fiance called me at 7:52 to let me know he picked it up a copy for himself at a store in Grand Central Station on his way to the office.

I've been in a horrible mood since yesterday. I think it's the change in weather, I don't want to be near people. I'm cranky, and would just like a good cry. There is one positive spin to not wanting to socialize, I'm getting knitting done. The booga bag is done, it just needs to be thrown in the wash & felted up. I've got 42 rows left on Charlotte and I started the scarf from "Knitting on the edge." Now if I could only work up the balls to cast on for "Rogue" we'd be in business.

Knit Out NY

Yesterday was Knit Out NY in NYC, Union Square to be exact. What a beautiful day for a knit out, too bad it wasn’t slightly colder. It was suppose to run from 12-5, I arrived in Union Square at around 11:20 and after a quick look around Barnes & Noble hoping to run into some Knitters Review members I decided to walk around and see who was setting up. At 11:30, Red heart, Lion Brand & Clover were already handing stuff out and there were a good deal of people there already. There were a lot of free Red heart & Lion patterns, clover was giving out some needles, and they were setting up for the fashion shows. Debbie Stoller, Lily Chin and Nicky Epstein were there among others.

At 12, I sat in on two demos that Nicky Epstein was doing. The first was on edging techniques. This woman is fabulous. What a great personality, nice, and patient. Her techniques are simple, straightforward, and the results are nice looking. The second demo she did was on using flowers as embellishments. Using some of her Edging techniques, she created the great flowers for bags, hats, scarves, anything you can think of. It was great. After the hour with Nicky Epstein, I wondered off a bit looking around again, I went to the NY knitter’s guild booth to say hello to Helen (of Troy) from KR. By that time (a little after 1pm) it was crazy there too many people, Union Square is a busy place to begin with and this was horrible, you’d walk to a table and people would push you out of the way for a pattern you can get on most websites. Oh well. The sun was shining and there was little shade, I was by myself so I decided not to stay around for the fashion shows I went shopping instead. Stop one was back to Barnes and Noble to pick up “Knitting on the Edge”, I did walk back to the author table to see if Nicky was still around to sign it, but she was getting ready to judge one of the events. On my way back out, I walked past the learn to knit/crochet tables, the line was wrapped around the corner. It made me think about volunteering to teach for next year’s.

From Union Square I walked down to the knit café, it was a madhouse in there so I just kept going to downtown yarns. I didn’t find anything, so keep walking, and remember it was a gorgeous day. I took a stroll down to Purl Soho, I came out with three skeins of Koigu, I am going to do a variation on a box stitch scarf in “Knitting on the Edge”. I also found a copy of “Socks Soar on Circular Needles” discounted 40%. I was very excited about that. I was looking for something for my secret pal, but I’m still hesitating on what kind of yarn I want to send her. I better get my creative juices flowing.

Saturday at last!

First off I'd like to thank my Secret Pal for the e-mail she sent yesterday. It was a pleasant surprise and really made my day. Alas, that was the most exciting event of the day. I'm looking forward to a relaxing weekend. Darling Sister has asked me to look at wedding dresses with her today. Tomorrow is Knit-Out NY I'm hoping that will be a lot of fun. I may schlep over to Purl Soho if there's time when I'm done.. We'll see.