I've been bad

I haven't really worked on my sweater at all. I blame...well...mostly myself, but I've had help. Monday was fiber guild night, so I mostly spun. I considered working on my sweater, but I feel rude when I use yarn I didn't buy in her store. It is one thing if she doesn't carry something suitable, but I'm sure I could have found a worsted weight yarn that I liked there. I just didn't want to put a lot of money into my first sweater. Just in case it sucked hardcore. I am cheap. I admit it. My next sweater will be a thing of amazing luxury. Does Misti alpaca come in worsted weight? If it does, I might be in trouble.

And as I said before, I just got Brisinger. Haven't read much into it because I've been doing other stuff.

I figured out a pattern for the Malabrigo. My so-called scarf. I think it will show off the color of the yarn pretty well, while still getting maximum length from the yardage I have. And remaining smooshy. But I only have like 4 rows of it done.

And I got all the stuff to make the beagle. As a crafter I am appalled that I did not have pipecleaners in my craft stash. I mean really. I don't know if I can even call myself a crafter anymore. But I only got part of the body on that done yesterday.

The real time suck. The thing that has kept me away from craftiness ( haven't even baked the beads I made is how bad I've been) is Lego Batman. I love the Lego videogame series. I was hooked when we got Star Wars. Zach and I play the game together and we work really well together. Although we both got a bit cranky last night, I think we were both too tired. But we did play for about 4 hours straight. The really fun part is after we have cleared the game in story mode and we get to go back and do the free play. We blow each other up a lot and we have more fun cause it isn't so important and we know what we are doing the second time around.

I have SnB tonight and I am on the stockinette portion of my sweater. No complicated stitch patterns to mess up while I am talking so it is a great project for SnB.

P.S. Haley's Cornbread Pie recipe is fantastic. It is the tex-mex version of those homestyle bakes (which are so easy to make with two cans of soup and some bisquick, I refuse to buy the kits)

Been a while

A little something extra to add to the growing pile of crafts for God's Tiny Angels. Found the sweater pattern at Bev's country crafts. And had enough left over to make a matching hat. I used left over cream yarn from Angela's baby's blanket set along with a pastel skein of eyelash yarn I got from Big Lots for one dollar. The other hat (I got three total from the skein) was made with 1 strand of another Big Lots dollar skein and 1 strand of some random worsted weight white yarn I had left over.

Speaking of one dollar a skein yarn and adding to my never shrinking but always growing stash, the AC Moore here has placed all their discontinued and previously 1/2 priced yarn on sale for 1 dollar. I went in with my coupon, intending to be good and just pick up one skein of Christmas yarn to make more baby hats for my donation box and walked out with $20 worth of yarn. And considering they were all $1...well let's just say I have a lot more yarn now. And Michael's yarn even is coming up this Saturday. So even more yarn on sale. Oh Noes!


Besides using yarn and other craftiness, I love to bake. Seeing as how it is apple season, our Wal-mart (I know, why go to walmart to get apples, well I never carry cash to stop at the one roadside stand we have that might carry apples) had lots of apples very cheap. So we got a bunch, and I made a pie. I think I have enough left over for one more apple pie and then a pumpkin pie. I was inspired by watching Paula's Party on the Food Network. She had a lady on there who made pies that weighed 6 pounds and were almost a foot tall. Mine wasn't quite that big, but it did turn out pretty.

I have started keeping track of all my ideas. Normally they end up getting scribbled on a small scrap of paper and lost. Now they have a notebook to be written in. If I remember to date my entries, it will be interesting to look back. This way I won't have to rush to start designing a pattern when I first think of it. I can enter it in the book and come back to it when I have more time. Example: I just thought of a way to do gloves on a loom. But with all the Christmas/Baby/Swap stuff I have going right now, I don't have time to start them. So they are safely tucked away in the book (instead of on a post-it not I will lose) until I have more time for them. Three cheers for organization. And speaking of organization. I saw a method you can use to rewind balls of yarn into center pull skeins. There is a nice turn the handle version (but it is 30-40 dollars) but for this all you need is a smooth wooden dowel about 1 inch in diameter. I found a miniature rolling pin at AC Moore I am going to try. I will post my results. It does take longer than just winding it into a ball, but it looks so much nicer and it won't bounce around all over the place while I'm using it.