Freaky Knitters Unite

Holy Bloody Knitting

Well this is going to be a short post since I'm just not into it today.  For some reason I've been in a horrible funk lately. 

My sweet little "vanilla" friends that don't knit and don't understand me being a little bit unusual (OK that is most people and I'm ok with that) tend to make fun of me about me using my needles as weapons!  I think they see me running around town with bloody needles in hand and stabbing people.   Ha, like I would ever think about doing anything like that, but it is still a little funny!

So when I saw a new ad from Katia Wool called Kill Time, Kill Stress with knitting I almost fell out of my chair!  This has to be the coolest ad ever for knitting! 

So here ya go...

"Kill the stress, Knit"

"Kill the time, Knit"

via adpunch

Come to the dark side... we have dead bunnies

For the few of you that has never seen a 200 foot knitted pink dead bunny, you need to check out my new Fugly blog post!  Come one come all....

What the Fugly Weblog

Nothing to Something

This has been one freakin hot and stressful week.  I'm having such a hard time keeping my temper under control it ain't any funny!  So while at lunch today I decided to just sit in my office, eat a good salad, listen to some music and surf the web. 

The first thing I found on my wondering was the Lego yarn winder,  After that I was on a mission to find the coolest or oddest DIY knitting gadgets I could find.  So here is what I found in that hour of surfing. 

Presenting: DIY and the Knitting stuff?

Lego my ball!

Ball-winder made out of Legos?

http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=21252.msg201750#msg201750

Just Go Stick it!

Go Make your own needles!

http://www.3gcs.com/adcock/free%20patterns/handmade_knitting_needles.htm

Music on a Stick?

Yarn spindle out of a CD

http://www.interweave.com/spin/projects/cdspindles.pdf

Round and Round you go, where you stop no one knows.....

Knitting Loom

http://craftypod.com/?p=156

You really need to cover up that thing!

DPN Covers 1

http://knittingjuju.wordpress.com/2007/07/05/make-your-own-dpn-point-protectors-deux/

I really mean it this time, COVER IT UP!  OH great, I just threw up a little...

DPN Covers 2

http://smallthingsam.blogspot.com/2007/07/holy-point-protectors-its-tutorial.html

I'm stuck on you!

Sewing onto Knitting

http://www.purlbee.com/sewing-knitting-tutorial/

Wow, what beautiful knitting you have?

Help for taking pictures of FO

http://wikiknitting.com/wiki/How_to_Take_Detailed_Photos_of_your_Knitting

I Love the world

Knit A Rug out of your Plastic Bags

http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf517076.tip.html

Making Circles around you!

Make you own Circular Needles

http://stringthings.blogspot.com/2005/04/circular-needles.html

After Rolling the mean girl down the street you can now reuse the cardboard!

How to wind a center pull ball with a toilet tissue roll

http://www.flickr.com/groups/knitting/discuss/72157594364884186/

Stripes are the new plaid

Make your own Self-Striping Yarn

http://www.eunnyjang.com/knit/2005/12/techniques_selfstriping_yarn.html

Spin me round and round!

Spin you own yarn:

http://stoneleafmoon.com/tutorial_fancydirt.htm

I hope you enjoyed this... I had fun finding this stuff.  I'm not as mad now.  Knitting makes me a happy girl!

Finished Booties

Well I just got home from ATL and wanted to post the finished booties... Wendy was so happy!

Here is a great band I was just introduced to... they are awesome!!! Enjoy

The Ettes - reputation.mp3

Baby Fever!!!

So as my week in ATL is coming to an end I'm feeling a little sad.  It has been so cool to hang out with my best friend and the new baby Dylan all week.  Well except for today which was "hang out with parents" day.  It seems that the older I get the easier it gets, it does help that they spoil me when I come up to see them.

So here are some pictures of my new God-son Dylon Elliot (8lb 11oz 21")...

Here is Dylon with his beautiful mommy:

Well of course sitting around the hospital for 3 days and her loft yesterday I've been busy working on my first pair of baby booties... I'm going to go to Hobby Lobby tomorrow (which is a treat for me because we don't have one in good old Savannah) and pick up some pretty ribbon for ties.  I also need to find some size 0 DPN and I know they are hard to find so I hope they have them...

Well here are my booties....

I used the pattern from Fabulous Yarns... http://www.fabulousyarn.com/babybootypattern.htm     I love this pattern because she referenced a bunch of patterns and just came up with an easy fast pattern.

So now Wendy wants me to make some "Better Than Booties Baby Socks" at http://www.interweaveknits.com/freepatterns/pdf/Better_Than_Bootie.pdf . That is what I need the tiny 0 DPNs for and then the yarn that is used Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock is so beautiful I'm getting excited. I found some good prices on EBay. She likes these which are the chevron lace pattern.  Of course they aren't going to be pink... he is all boy!!

Well I'm off to call Ash and head to bed.  Gotta get up early, well 9am which is early on vacation, to go have coffee with a old friend from my alternative High School... yeah I was a trouble child, go figure!

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.  Socrates