Ok, so I’m 37 minutes late for my 1-post-per-day trial system. But it’s Yannick’s fault, I swear! We went out for dinner, and then watched CSI:NY and then he went on and on about possessed stuffed animals…it was all I could do to break away and come send this message. Besides, I could have changed the message time and lied, and then no one would ever know. But I didn’t. I’m honest. Honest!

But I’m not coming empty handed…I’ve got THIS:

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this is Piggy Progress! Tomorrow I work on the cute little scarf to keep this piggy’s bacon warm, and its all ready to be gifted! Woo hoo!

Ok, so I’m 37 minutes late for my 1-post-per-day trial system. But it’s Yannick’s fault, I swear! We went out for dinner, and then watched CSI:NY and then he went on and on about possessed stuffed animals…it was all I could do to break away and come send this message. Besides, I could have changed the message time and lied, and then no one would ever know. But I didn’t. I’m honest. Honest!

But I’m not coming empty handed…I’ve got THIS:

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this is Piggy Progress! Tomorrow I work on the cute little scarf to keep this piggy’s bacon warm, and its all ready to be gifted! Woo hoo!

or maybe needing to be committed? Or how about making mittens? I have two pairs of those to do… (ok, I’ll stop now)

I don’t have any knitting updates as I’ve been crocheting like mad on Piggy so I can get back to my knitting. So what can I talk about in a knitting blog if I don’t have knitting progress? Oh come on, I’m sure I can make something up!

I hereby make 2 commitments to my knitting blog-world.

1) I will post every day. Since my lovely non-knitting, non-blogging friend Jackie commented that I don’t update my blog enough, I’ve decided that I would like to New Year’s Resolute myself to blog on a daily basis. Of course, those who know me know that I prefer to try something before jumping right in (there are still those who speak of the time I asked for a sample of each of the 6 salad dressings offered at Baton Rouge so I wouldn’t order one by name and then hate the taste. Obnoxious? Maybe. Time-Consuming? Sure. Foolish? Absolutely not! I saved my salad from being drenched in the yummy-sounding but horrid tasting “balsamic-lime vinaigrette” and proved that I actually do like blue cheese, all in one fell swoop) so to further amuse those people I am attempting this commitment before I commit to it. Ahem. This means I am PRACTICING writing in this blog every day until Jan 1, so I’ll know at that time if it’s a doable thing to commit to. Make sense? Good. Moving on.

commitment 2 coming tomorrow…

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The other night Yannick and I were doing a crossword puzzle together. The clue was “wool”, and the word was 8 letters, starting with a “c”. After 1/2 an hour Yannick finally came up with “cashmere”. The word never once occurred to me, the knitter/crocheter/crafter/artsy-fartsy person. I’m not fit to hold needles. 😦

1 body, head, ears and snout done, 4 legs and 1 tail to go! (Although I might re-do the snout. I made the head/body larger than the actual pattern, but forgot and did the snout the original size. I think it’ll be cuter oversize so I’ll make it up and see at the end.)

Currently on the needles:

1) Justin’s Hooded Sweater- stalled waiting for Monday so I can work out the button band at my LYS.

2) Entrelac Throw- stalled ‘cus it’s my “when there’s nothing better to knit” project

3) Booga bag- stalled until Monday so I can pick up an addi turbo to knit it on, ‘cus the kureyon is sticking too much to my Denise interchangable needles.

4) Yannick’s Fair Isle Sock- stalled ‘cus it’s my “take along” project so it languishes in my purse until I’m stuck somewhere without any other knitting.

5) Birthday Suit swatch- stalled

Everything is temporarily stalled because I have a special gift to make. I’ve made the crocheted children for work, and a family member has asked me to make a custom piggy for his grand daughter. So I’m putting that first for now, and I really want to do a good job. I’m still bringing some knitting to work for when I get a break, but I won’t bring the pig ‘cus my dad smokes at work and I don’t want the pig to smell roasted.

I just started knitting my first-ever booga bag, and it’s also the first time I’m using Noro Kureyon. I’m using color

124 which is an incredibly yummy mix of shades ranging from plum through berries of all kinds, all the way to cherries and back. The yarn doesn’t actually smell…and if I hold it to my nose it just kinda smells like hands. But I SWEAR that as I’m knitting I can’t stop smelling the scent of raspberries. When I stop to smell the yarn it obviously isn’t fruit-scented, but then the minute I start knitting again I guess the visual of the color overpowers my senses and I start imagining I smell fresh raspberries.

I’m getting hungry.

I can’t post any pics of latest progress, because this really hasn’t been much of a knitting week. I did get the ribbing done on Justin’s hood, but only managed to get through picking up 50 of the 90 sts for the button band when felled by yet ANOTHER migraine. I swear it’s been like 2 a week for a month now. So instead I amused myself by taking pictures of my stash.

These 2 FULL skeins are left-over from my To Dye For Sweater. I don’t know what I’ll make from them, although Yannick thinks the softness is incredible, so maybe I’ll make him a pair of socks. “Mohair” socks anyone?

I bought this cotton dk stuff over the summer to make the Shapely Tank/Tee available for free at White Lies Designs. I don’t know if I’ll like the slubbiness of the yarn, hence the hesitation to begin.

This is the 1/2 skein or so of mohair left over from my grandmother’s scarf. I don’t know what I’ll do with it yet, maybe cuffs on a pair of koigu gloves?

This abundance of yarn is the 22 skeins of Sisu Yannick bought me to make my birthday suit. The lonely little ball of Eros Herwool on top is to make a scarf to go with it to add a bit of color to the all-black suit.

The pink Patons Canadiana I bought yesterday ‘cus I might be hired to make a stuffed pig. I’ll know today if I get the go-ahead, and I’ll be ready to start tonight.

All I need to make the Velvet Oblivion eye mask from Knitty (pattern here). Maybe with all these migraines I should get a move-on on this!

More wonderful Regia self-patterning sock yarn, this time in blues to make myself a striped pair.

A bunch of Patons Aran Fisherman Style to make my DKNY Landscape Cardigan.

3 extremely yummy skeins of Noro Kuryeon to make myself a booga bag.

1 skein of Koigu that I’ll admit I didn’t think through before purchasing. I wanted to order some to see what all the fuss was about. I now know what the fuss was about…except that I don’t have enough to fully enjoy it! I don’t even have enough for a pair of socks or gloves. I might just need to order more. 🙂

The 3 skeins of Sirdar Snuggly DK are to make the pink baby onesie and booties for the girl twin of Yannick’s cousin. The creamy yellow and soft pink Sirdar Snuggly 4ply are to make the sundress and hat for the other baby girl from his other cousin.

The 2 brown skeins of Bernat Soft Boucle were gifted by my cousin Robyn. I already had the cream skein, so I’m using the 2 together to make the messy blob in the middle- my entrelac throw.

Last but not least Robyn also gifted me these 3 skeins of Red Heart Light & Lofty, which I’d like to find a v-neck pullover pattern and make a top for myself, ‘cus I like blue shirts against my blue eyes. I heard it pills though, so we’ll see.

I gave my first secret project to the recipient, so I can talk about it now. It was a scarf for my grandmother ‘cus she bought me the great “Knitting-Pattern-A-Day” 2005 calendar for my bday. One day she came into the store and told me about a yarn she saw someone knitting with and that it was really pretty. By the description I knew right away it was the railroad yarn, so I picked up some Eros Herwool and mixed it with a black mohair to make a really elegant scarf. Happy birthday Bubbie!