I’m so excited to have finished the entrelac hat and added a pom pom to the top! :) At one point, I was in total despair, but I figured it out and now I’m very happy to call it done! :) It makes me think of a song from My Fair Lady:

You did it!
You did it! You did it! You said that you would do it,
And indeed you did. I thought that you would rue it;
I doubted you’d do it. But now I must admit it
That succeed you did. You should get a medal
Or be even made a countess.
It was nothing. Really nothing.
All alone you hurdled
Ev’ry obstacle in sight.
Now, wait! Now, wait!
Give credit where it’s due, A lot of the glory goes to you.
But you’re the one who did it,
Who did it, who did it! As sturdy as Gibraltar,
Not a second did you falter. There’s no doubt about it,
You did it! I must have aged a year tonight.
At times I thought I’d die of fright.
Never was there a momentary lull
Shortly after we came in I saw at once we’d easily win;
And after that I found it deadly dull.
You should have heard the ooh’s and ah’s;
Ev’ry one wondering what it was.
You’d think they’d never seen a baby hat before.
And when the people on Facebook
Asked to see it,
And left the comments on the page…!
I said to me:
You did it! You did it! You did it!
They thought it was ecstatic
And so damned aristocratic,
And they never knew
That you
Did it!
Thank Heavens for Google.
If it weren’t for it I would have died of frustration.
It was there, all right. And up to its old help.

Congratulations,
Katherine, For your glorious victory
Congratulations, Katherine
You’ll be mentioned in history!
Sing hail and hallelujah!
Ev’ry bit of credit For it all belongs to you!
That evening, self, you did it! You did it! You did it!
You said that you would do it And indeed you did.
That evening, sir, you did it! You did it! You did it!
We know that we have said it,
But-you did it and the credit
For it all belongs to you!

Ok, that’s probably a bit much, but the pattern was intermediate and so now, I can officially consider myself an intermediate knitter. I’ve learned entrelac and the three needle bind off as well as how to make a pom pom. :)

In the next few days, it will be mailed off to its forever home and once it has been received, I’ll add a pic of the masterpiece. :)

(3/22/2010 9:13 am)

I decided to try to knit a quick baby hat to take a break from the WoW blanket.
I was sick all last week, so I made no progress.
Over the weekend, I picked up this hat again and was hoping to get the rectangles going and maybe finish the hat.
http://www.straw.com/cpy/patterns/baby-child/pandacotton-baby-hat.html

Alas! I cannot seem to figure out what I’m supposed to be doing!
I see the directions. I’ve read them a million times. I think I might have them memorized.
Pick up 15 stitches then knit 14 and k2tog(one from picked up and one from the sts next to the ones you’re working). I totally get this in theory, but once I pick up the sts, the working yarn never seems to be in the right place!
From one end, I think I should be purling and from the other end, I’d be k2tog at the beginning….NOT the end. Now, I realize only a couple of people seem to have tried this pattern, but I just have NO IDEA what is going on? I feel VERY dense right now and since I’m just getting over being sick, my self esteem cannot handle this blow right now. I’m posting pictures and I’m going to appeal to the knitting goddesses of the Internet. If you have ANY idea what kind of crack I’m on, I’d LOVE to hear from you! :)
(my ravelry id is Kat1e).


(3/15/2010 8:14 pm)

Hockey Ramblings

Went to another hockey game Friday night. Stars won 4-3 in OT. I was THRILLED! :) I felt like the IceHogs were outskating them, but I think the Stars wanted the win more. There were several fights. The captain was on his way to a possible hat trick when one of the hogs started a fight and it looked like TC (the captain) ended up with a loose tooth! :(
After the star spangled banner was finished, I heard the little boy behind me (circa 4 years old) say, “was that the America song?” to which his father simply said, “yes” :)
Also of note, is the fact that the Ice Hogs have a player named Cullen (mark). I would think if he wasn’t on the Ice HOGS, his jersey would be popular among Twilighters.
The Ice Hogs are giving out cereal bowls at their next games. This seems like the most useful swag ever and I hope the Stars marketing folks are paying attention. :)

Babbling about Knitting

I should have worked on the WoW blanket this weekend, but distractions are so much fun!
I started a baby hat for a friend’s little girl so that I would have a portable project and have a project to use entrelac on and totally got sucked in. My goal friday was to finish the hat by tomorrow, but I have also gotten distracted from that.
The house is cleaner.
A picture has been framed.
The lint trap outside has been cleaned out (this required the use of the gorilla ladder and some creative footwork so I didn’t break the gutters off the house. At one point, when I was feeling particularly smooth, I compared myself to Katherine Z. J. in Entrapment in my head). :)
A good time was had last night that included dinner with a friend and music with two friends. :)
Syd has new food that has less grains.
TH’s birthday plans have been fleshed out.
I have blogged, so NOW, I can get back to my knitting. :)

One last thing

A friend (L) and I are racing to finish our monster projects. She is halfway through The Carp sweater and I am 46.4% through the WoW blanket! Who will win!?!?! Probably her……as you can see, I distract easily! :)

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

(3/7/2010 7:21 pm)