Hey all you. So I meant to post in April again but my computer was being slow so I forgot to finish it and I guess I didn't say anything too important in that post. I just talked about how I wanted to see Kate get kicked off
DWTS already and thank goodness that did happen since then! Her complaining just annoys me. I was also trying to share pics of a month-by-month crocheted afghan I was working on. But you can always visit me on Ravelry -
sydOsyd is my username - to see my WIPs.
So anyways, I started watching the TV show
10 Things I Hate About You and I really like it. Takes me back. Except Heath Ledger was a way hotter Patrick Verona in the movie. I like the episodes because they load so fast on Hulu. I just watched episode 13 last night about Kat's first date with Patrick and Bianca's first date with Joey. Cute show.
K so I know you are dying to hear about the title of this post. Wrenna, the finished sweater that I knitted. Well on my trip to Yarnover with the Knit Wits, we all started a sweater together, the
Wrenna(rav pattern link), a pattern from the book
French Girl Knits. When I first saw the sweater, I didn't really care for it, I think because the neckline wasn't quite my style. But the chunky yarn and the big needles intrigued me, that and the peer pressure of course. So it is a good thing I did it because I am very happy with it. It was fun. Girls just wanna have fu-un. Like the song I requested to be on our girls weekend playlist mix! And that's why it is named
Girls Just Wanna Have Wrenna (Fun)! Here is the FO!
It was pretty easy! I started it Saturday April 17, that night I had to go buy cheap junk needles from Michael's by our hotel just to get it started, and the next day I bought awesome
Addis at the
Yarn Garage, then I returned the junky wooden needles at a Micheal's nearby. I am just so smart. I had it finished by the next Friday night, in 6 days, and I worked all week! Ya I rule!
Yarn Garage in Rosemount, MN.
A really useful tool that we used to find yarn stores is the
KnitMap. Just type in your location and it gives ratings, and shows a nice map.
The yarn, Misti Alpaca Chunky, was found at the
Yarnery in St. Paul. I enjoyed that store. The Knit Wits will tell you that I only liked that store because everything was 20% off that day. That is not true. I liked the store a LOT reGaRdLess because it was cute and homey and the yarn swift they had was the easiest to use. Speaking of swifts: what is up with Twin Cities yarn shops not winding your purchased skeins into balls? I mean do I have to ask? Why can't you offer? Bad customer service IMO.
Me and Gen using the swifts and ball winders in Depth of Field Yarn.
Man we had a blast up there though. Stayed at the Sofitel, I highly recommend, of course, we got a deal through PricePoint, so that always helps. We enjoyed other stores like the
Depth of Field Yarn (aka: Field of Dreams LOL),
Needlework Unlimited,
NU Outlet,
Borealis Yarns,
3 Kittens Needle Arts, and I super duper
absolutley LoVeD the
Knitter's Palette in Lakeville, MN. That store was the most organized and the owner so helpful. She was nice enough to wind 6 skeins of Blue Sky Alpaca 100% baby alpaca sportweight that I bought at the Yarnover market. I only bought like a $8.00 Borocco pattern book so I didn't expect her to say yes but it was very nice of her to do that. Also, she was the only yarn shop we visited to have an electric ball winder. So it didn't take her too long.
Knit wits! Michelle, Jill, Gen and me.
Wow I didn't want to go home. But I came home a very happy camper. The best (and totally impulsive) thing I came home with was a Namaste kntting bag. I fell in love with it at first sight so what do you do. It was out of my budget but hey I made up for it these past few weeks and hubby paid for a lot of my other stuff. That's what hubbies are for. Hehe he was happy that I splurged on myself "for once" as he says.
Me with my loot in the hotel. =)
Yarnover 2010 was so much fun. Next year we will be taking classes at the school it is held in instead of just the morning keynote speech and shopping. The classes sounded so cool but I still think we had a great time. And I learned a thing or two from the speaker, Cat Bordhi, including that I have it pretty good with my knitting. One lady Cat Bordhi taught in a knitting class told Cat the story of how she learned to knit. She had little money so she could only afford to buy one pair of needles and one skein of yarn (prob Red Heart x_x) so she knitted with that one skein of yarn until it was all used up and then she would unravel everything she made and reknit with the same yarn again and again. One day she could afford a new skein of yarn and so she chose a different color. She has come very far since then I guess but wow what a poor lady I would die using the same Red Heart over and over, and this story still makes me cry every time I think about it.
I have been getting so many new inspirations lately for things to knit and its hard to tug along on my on-goings like the purple February Lady Sweater, and my year-and-a-half socks (another inch of leg and I'll be ready to turn that heel LOL). I love little things to start and complete, like last weekend, I made my lil sister Sierra a Webkinz dress. Hope she likes it.
Speaking of family, I have a ton of those h.s. graduations to hit up. Including my sister Josie, who just got accepted as an ISU cheerleader (yay, Josie! as a freshman BTW!) and my hubby just graduated from college (yay, Brandon!), with an Associates in Criminal Justice and his ceremony is in June. Yay now I get to go back to school !! Thinking Buena Vista and/or Waldorf in Forest City.
Well thanks for hanging in there, I know it was a long one! God is doing great things right now and it is GOOD. =)
