We call them teenagers

Today was back to school shopping. N8 and I spent the entire day shopping for clothes, shoes and school supplies. I remember when all he needed was his Dragon ball Z lunch box to be happy to go back to school. Now he wants things and has preferences that I don't even know about. When did he stop wearing jeans or only write with black pens? He also doesn't wear things with skulls on them unless they are ironic and doesn't mind have purple folders.

Here is a hat I made for him from Berroco Ultra Alpaca Light in a green and orange. These skulls are cool because it looks like a Norwegian fisherman's hat and is not in goth colors. Oh my baby I remember when he went off to first grade in his explorer shorts and dinosaur backpack. Back to school is weird to me this year. It is the first time since 2004 that I am not taking a class. Oh I guess that leaves me more time to knit hats that have ironic skulls on them.

September Scarves or do I even have enough needles?

Ok so I have a nutty idea.
I am having trouble deciding what to knit next. I knit like crazy to finish my Ravelympics but still didn’t finish my Big Ivy which is depressing. Yesterday I started a very simple eyelet lace scarf using the sari yarn I bought at the XPN music festival which I knocked out today on the bus.
Scarf knitting is super easy to start and you see progress right away. That got me thinking about scarves. I love to knit scarves at least half a scarf. I usually get bored half way through and put it down for a week, month or year. So I got this great idea to start a new scarf every day. I will try to start a new scarf every day and work on it all day then snap it, blog it, label it and put it away till the weekend. Whatever doesn’t get finished in September gets picked back up in October on the day it was started.
Thirty one scarves in two months that should stave off boredom. That should get me a lot of presents for the holidays.
To start off this experiment I will begin with something from Knitting New Scarves! On Septemeber 1 I will start my September Scarf Project by knitting Striped Illusions with my super precious Shi Bui Knits Merino Kid in teal and orange I bought with my graduation gift cart at Rosies last month!

Heres the unoffical rules
Cast on a new scarf every day
Knit it all day long
Blog about it
Put it away
Pick it up again in October
Rinse and Repeat, repeat, repeat

So this weekend I will plot a rough plan, pull out some yarn and figure out if I have enough needles for the project. Off to ravelry to queue up some scarves! Wish me luck.

Ravelympics Gold Metal!

Go Team RedHeart!

Here is my Ravelympic project for 2008. It is the Nordic Lights Caplet from Wrap Style. Knit in RHSS using scraps from many finished blankies. I wanted something small that matched all my winter clothes for work. It also needed to be washable and something tha t could be stuffed in my tote bag. This is a quick and fun knit but it does have tons of ends to weave in. Enjoy!

Bus transfers indicate adultness

When people talk about their children they always say I can tell they are growing up so fast. How can they tell? Recently I realized (I may have been the last to notice) that my boy is growing up. No it wasn't the shaving or the first job or even the fact that he is getting his driving permit it was his bus transfer. When he was little and we would take the bus into town he was so afraid of losing his tranfer he wanted me to hold it. Last week he came into town to go to the comic book store and to meet me for lunch. So he come in town on the bus and el alone, comes to work gets called mister by a temp receptionist, decides he wants sushi for lunch and disappears until closing time. When he comes back to commute home together he gets his transfer and puts it in his pocket. I have my hand out and he says oh come on I'm like sixteen. Fine remember that when you win the pulitzer and I tell everyone how you refused to get dressed unless you had your spiderman undies on.

Photo is some christmas knitting I am getting a jump on. All three items from Kristen Knits. For the ladies.

White Winter Hymnal

I am totally in love with the new Fleet Foxes album. The one song is called White Winter Hymnal and it mentions red scarves. I want to knit a red scarf but I can't since I am scorching the earth with my lightening fast speed knitting for the Ravelympics. I am working on two projects.

The first is 90 percent finished and is the Nordic Lights wraps slash poncho slash caplet slash who knows from Wrap style. We will have to wait and see on that one. The second is driving me bonkers because it is so simple yet I can't get the hang of it. It is the Big Ivy Scarf from the cover of Knitscene. Why are you tormenting me? Did I not spend 40 bucks on Cascade 220 to knit you instead of cheap ole acrylic?

To continue with my staycation FO marathon I present three new scarves. The Quivit Scarf from IK, The Elven Scarf from my brain and a rainbow triangle scarf knit with my recycled sari yarn from the XPN festival!

The Quivit Scarf is a nice lace scarf I made with a merino lace weight from Knitpicks, it was fun but got boring in the middle. Blocking really brings out the snazzy ness of the border.

The Elven scarf is knit using the Elven Lace stitch in the awesome citrus inspired Jackie hand dye! Love it and in a weird way it is almost like we did a project together. The triangle is a simple garter triangle with YO increases. I like this yarn Sister says it looks hippie-ish so that means I love it.

Enjoy!

Things fall apart it's scientific

Well things have been crazy at the classy people house. Some personal things have been going on and I really haven’t felt like blogging. I am even ashamed to admit that I haven’t even been that excited about Ravelry. How terrible is that? I have been knitting. I finished a laundry list of mini project and one awesome sweater.

I finished blocking and sewing my Frontier Blues Sweater! This was such a nice and easy knit. I was also my first sweater knit in the round and I love it. How easy is it when you’re finishing is two small seams under the arms? I did the sleeves on my 16 inch circs so the thing whipped along so fast. I plan on doing a toggle button on the front but need to sew it on.
This yarn is the mill end yarn I bought a few weeks ago at AC Moore. It is actually Paton’s Classic Wool in Harvest. I got a whole pound of it for 5 bucks. How cool is that? It looks like it has a gap in the dye saturation. You can see small areas of white or light colors but it doesn’t bother me at all. I had some leftover. I made some felted mittens and have enough for a hat for a going a way present for someone at work. I still have a full ball left. I’m thinking felted Iphone holder for a friend who totally got a G3 and is working it.