Precious Pumpkin Beret

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I love this pattern! Its called Precious Pumpkin Beret and I got it on ETSY.

Definately have to knit it again in other colors.

~W

Candy Corn Mittens

Woot! Created my first Ravelry free download at the following link.

Candy Corn Mittens

Of course I goofed it up and double listed it, so they are working on merging it all together for me. ::blush::

So very excited! Yes, I know you are asking why I need mittens in Florida... we all do I say!!!

~W

I'm Still Here!

I have been sewing up a storm, reading a ton of books, and even had a friend come to the area and stay for two weeks. It has been a crazy June. I also turned '40'.... ::cough::

Oh well, time marches on and I have much to do!

Will try to be more thoughtful and write more! So sorry! Booklist coming up in the next day or so.

Take care!

~Wierdlings

I have been sucked in!

Goodness, I swore I would never ever do it.. but I did... ::groan::

I fail!

I have joing the league of Facebook people. ::le sigh::

Granted I have found a few High School friends, can keep up with some of my favorite artists (Jasmine Becket-Griffith) and their upcoming works, and even enable a few people with my hangups, habits, and adictions like yarn, plushies, and fairies. ::yes, I am evil::!

Now I have a few more places I have to visit daily on the web. Why can't there be more hours in the day Lord?! You created the world in seven days, can't they be just a little longer I ask you?!

~Wierdlings

Such a BAD BLOGGER!

Okies, I tried to return each and every day to post something on my blog. Not that I don't have a lot to talk about, but its trying to find the time. I go to work, go home, knit a bit, raid in World of Warcraft and the next thing I know its 1:30 am and I have to get up for work. Over the weekends I read like 4-5 books and then the cycle continues. ::blush::

There is SO MUCH MORE TO LIFE!!! I know this, I really really do. ::nod nod::

I plan on moving a lot of stuff from the storage unit to the house, I want to organize my yarn stash more effectively, I want to bathe the cats more often now that they are going outside ::ewww possible fleas:: and finally, I want to spend more time with the hubby, though that should honestly be the first thing on my list.

I have LOTS and LOTS of books to post for my reading list this year and I have joined yet another Knit-A-Long (KAL). Spring Mystery Shawl 09 by Goddess Knits. We shall see if I am able to stay up with everyone once it starts, I always fall behind. This is very exciting and I can't wait to start.

Lots more later!

~W

New Look!

Yeah, totally updated for Spring! I have been so very busy the past few weeks. Work has been hella-crazy and its only going to get worse this week, though I will make it through! Knitting has been so and lazy... I just can't seem to finish what I have going and don't want to start another project without completing something. Its driving me nuts! Finally, I have let my blog fall to the side while raiding in World of Warcraft. Having hit 80, I am raiding with my guild and not finding time to do anything else, but studying the fights and trying to get my DPS (damage per second) up to make it to the raids.

Anyway, I have a new look thanks to Strangeling and CLIM artware. I will work harder to keep all my juggling balls in the air!

Talk again soon!

~Wierdlings

PS Speaking of Strangeling! I went to Megacon and had a great awesome time! Running into Jasmine aka Strangeling and her husband, Matt, it was like visiting with old friends again. She will be appearing at a local art festival in Celebration, Florida where they live and will be able to see them again soon. She had/has wonderful artwork for sale and on the final day had them marked down so low, I was able to buy a few more limited edition prints!

Pillarwork Cowl

My latest knitting has proven to be a work in progress.  Many times I have had to double check myself, as the pattern is so easy I would forget to stay in rhythm and not remember where I was.  ::blush::

I really need to make notes as well!  At one time I forgot how many stitches I cast on and had to recount them a few times.  ::double blush::  How am I to tell you how I did it, if I don't take notes???  

I have written to Ravelry and requested a 'designer' sort of account.  It's nothing super special really, mainly a way for me to post free patterns to the database.  ::nod::  Or at least I am telling myself its not too overly special, because I see such intricate and inspired designs out there and I am no where near their calibur... YET!  ::wink::  

So I will chug away and keep creating easy and fun patterns.

~Wierdlings

Distrato Irish Hiking Wrist Warmers

I know, I know I have done these sooo many times, but they are super easy, fast and feel great!  This pair happens to be two different colorways in pink and green.  They are also a cotton blend too, so they are not too hot and can be worn in hot or cool weather.  HERE is the pattern for them.  Off to finish my next cowl, so I better hurry.

~Wierdlings

Cheertini Cowl

Christmas Cheertini

This cowl was so much fun to do!  Using Yarntini's gorgeous and super soft chunky merino, the knitting went so very fast.

Materials:

CC - 1 Ball of Trendsetter Coconut – White

MC - 1 Skein of Christmas Cheertini by Yarntini – Merino Chunky (115 yds) or Worsted Chunky

Stitch Marker

Cable Needle

Tapestry Needle

US #10.5 – 16” circulars

Abbreviations:

K = Knit P = Purl

CC = Contrasting Color MC = Main Color

SM = Stitch Marker

C4F = Slip next 2 sts onto cable needle and hold in front of work, knit next 2 sts from left-hand needle, then knit sts from cable needle.

Using CC, Cast on 84 stitches.

Place stitch marker and join in the round.

Fluffy Trim (beginning):

Row 1: *K2, P2* to SM.  Slide SM to right needle.

Row 2-4: Repeat Row 1.

Row 5: Repeat Row 1.  At the end, cut yarn and leave a 7” tail.

Body of the Cowl:

Change to MC. 

Row 1: *K4, P2* to SM.  Slide SM to right needle.

Row 2-4: Repeat Row 1.

Row 5: *C4F, P2* to SM.  Slide SM to right needle.

Repeat rows 1-5, six more times.

After the sixth repeat, Knit 4 rows of K4, P2.  At the end, cut yarn and leave a 7” tail.

Fluffy Trim (ending):

Change to CC.

Row 1-4: *K2, P2* to SM.  Slide SM to right needle.

Row 5: Cast off in K2, P2 pattern until you reach the end.

Weave in tails and have a very Merry Cheertini Cowl!!!

Errors: Please email me Wierdlings AT gmail DOT com

Cheertini Cowl © Wierdlings – All rights reserved.                                       

Radioactive Irish Hiking Wrist Warmers

Love love love these colorways!!!!  They are from Stormmoon Knits and they are just as eye-popping gorgeous as they appear in the pictures.  Very sad to say though that SMK's recently took a new job and her dying has had to take back seat to her RL stuff. Completely understandable, but I hate that I found her so late and could not order more of her gorgeous stuff.  ::sniff and le sigh::

Her yardage was also great on these worsted weight skeins!  More than 300 yards for only $20.00.  Yep, I said $20.00!  I was not only able to knit a pair of wrist warmers, but also a Cowl from the same skein and still had a tiny bit to spare.

YEAH! Pictures have returned!!!

Goodness its so hard to describe the feeling of wanting to post stuff and not being able to because of being technically hindered...  aka as -loosing-the-camera-cable-to-download-pictures.  Yes, its unforgiveable, but I am still trying to blame the hubby.. (somehow) for the loss.

Regardless, I can now post pictures of my recent and New Year's knitting!  ::cheers::  They will be seperate posts, as I want to log each individually for my 'knitting goal' of 50 items.  A friend wanted to do 50 Book Challenge, but I actually did that challenge last year and BLEW it away!!!  Totally decimated that count.  So I thought I would try it on knitted items.  ::flexes imaginary toned bicep muscles::

Featured in my upcoming knitwear features will be 'nametobedecided'.  Hopefully she will have all sorts of interesting looks and haircuts.  Currently NTBD is looking like this and hasn't scared the cats too badly.  ::grin::  Okies, off to edit and start posting knits!

~Wierdlings

Books, Books, and More Books!

I have been having a Reading Fest the past few days!  Granted getting a $5.00 coupon plus 30% off at Borders helps a whole lot!!!  So for $17.00 I was able to nab three books

• Ecstasy by Jacquelyn Frank
  
• Veil of Midnight by Lara Adrian
  
• Any Given Doomsday by Lori Handeland
  

Granted that did not include the books I had already read before this date...

• At Graves End by Jeaniene Frost
• Zen and the Art of Vampires by Katie MacAlister
• Midnight's Daughter by Karen Chance
• Dark Magic by Cheyenne McCray
• Primal Needs by Susan Sizemore
• One Foot In the Grave by Jeaniene Frost (Reread)

And of course my audiobooks while I drive!

• Naked in Death by JD Robb
• Glory in Death by JD Robb
• From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris

Before this I was reading a few other books during my Christmas knitting frenzy, some of which were the Mona Lisa series by Sunny.  Mona Lisa Awakening, Blossoming, and Craving.  I also read another new author Lilith Saintcrow's series Working for the Devil, Dead Man Rising, The Devil's Right Hand, Saint City Sinners, and To Hell and Back.  Both have strong female leads and some complicated storylines which I really like.

Tomorrow I am heading to Tampa, FL with my hubby and sis.  Together we are going to meet Janet Evanovich at the Barnes and Noble and have a great time!  I can not wait.

Have an awesome evening.

~Wierdlings

KnitMeter FTW

Yeah.. was surfing this morning and found a Knitting Meter! Go grab your very own. Instructions are simple and its nothing but copying and pasting into your blog code.

HUGS!
~W

ACK! Time has flown!!!

So sorry for the lapse in writing. I have been camera-less for the past few weeks, because I can not find the cord to download pictures onto my computer. Worse, I have to have the hubby dl them, put them on a thumb drive and then load them... le sigh!

I did not want my posts to be pictureless.. so I waited and waited and waited and waited! Finally I said to myself, "To heck with this!" and as of tonight will start to post again. Filling in later with pictures of stuff which has already happened and stuff I want to do. ::grin::

Let's see... what has happened?

LETTERBOXING!!!

I have not started it persay.... but I did find the materials needed to make a stamp, purchased the carving tools and rubber medium, and also purchased some E6000 glue along with plain wooden blocks to glue the stamps to.

In this endeavor, I took the hubby to a local privately owned coffee shop here in Orlando which was supposed to sport a hidden letterbox, alas everywhere we looked we could not find the bugger! Not to say its not there, BUT we could not locate it. So I will have to go back again when I have our stamps made and really tear the place apart. ::hehe::

2008 BOOKLIST!

I need to enter the books read/listened to for the months of September and October. I really did not read much in October to tell the truth because I was horrible sick and nothing was coming out at all!!!! Granted that did not stop me from finding a few new authors... but really knitting was my focus!

KNITTING!!!

Gosh.... for the very first time... Christmas knitting has reared its ugly head in my stash, time, and pattern collecting. Three cowls down, one more on the needles... two bounce hats, one on the needles... I have some gorgeous yarn from YarnPirate, Duet Yarns, and some sweeeeet knitting bags from GoodtobeGirl! (Again... pics are a hassle because of the missing cord, but I hope to post them very soon!

Lastly for this blog! The newest pattern from MochiMochiland.com ..... ELVES!!! Anna is so awesome, she even created Christmas Gift Tags that can be downloaded and printed for holiday giving... and when I get paid next week her ELVES pattern shall be mine mine mine!

~Wierdlings

Knitting Project Bag Club!

Remember when I told you that I joined GoodtobeGirl's Project Bag Summer/Winter Bag sale? Well, I finally was able to download the pictures I have taken of most of my knitting projects as well as the first bag, which arrived in September!

The stitch markers were so very very cute! A tiny pumpkin and donut in a tiny metal tin. BUT that is not all... you see I had also been/am a member of the Loopy Ewe Sock Club and in one of my previous kits, GoodToBeGirl had made markers for them too... in the same pumpkin/donut way!!!

Yep! I have a full 4 piece set of matching stitch markers!!!

I have already started to use them. I love love love them so very much.

Oh I almost forgot to tell you, on Ravelry is a GoodToBeGirl group. I actually posted recently how I have a full set with the bag and SM'ers... that Amy wrote to me and wanted to send me a second set of SM'ers because she totally forgot about the Loopy Ewe kit. How awesome is she to make an offer like this?! I know... really really awesome, but I could not do it. I love my set and do not want to have her feeling like she upset or disappointed me. So I wrote back and let her know it wasn't necessary. She is so sweet.

Okies.. lots more to write about and post! Talk a bunch more later!

~W

Knitting Galore!!!

I have been working on soooo many projects its not even funny.  I need to post pics of my Hemlockring Throw, a few cowls I  have been knitting up between projects, and my most favorite thing recently... BOO!  From Anne of MochiMochiland.com... he is so incredibly cute that I need to make him as big as possible!!!  So I went out and got the chunkiest yarn I could in some great colors and will be knitting him fast and furious as possible.  

I will post pics as soon as I can.

Until later... 

~W

Halloween Sock Kit Swap 2008

Its that time of year when the scariest socks come out to play!!!  Okay well maybe not the socks themselves, but fun and wacky sock knitters who happen to love Halloween.  Friends over at the Lime & Violet boards as well as new friends from Ravelry are joining up to befriend, bemuse, and scare the beejeebies outta each other for this swap.  We are going to have an awesome awesome time!!!

Join us if you like... six more days to go, before partners are assigned!

~Wierdlings

YARN P*RN!

Lookie what I just brought and it has arrived! Its from Jennifer Schermerhorn of ~Whirled Yarn~ and is called 'Charmed I'm Sure'. It is so totally drool worthy! I can not wait to find the PERFECT project for it. Its Wool/Plush Hearts 60yds/180ft. So enough to be dangerous, but not enough to do a whole long scarf, so it has to be something special. Jennifer even included a card that has a gorgeous print of the yarn on the top, so you can give it as part of a gift if I was going to give it away. Which I'm not! ::hehe:: Cause I am greedy like that!

~W

Black Cherry Peekaboo Mittens

YEAH! I finished my second pair of Peekaboo mittens as well as designed the double stitch cherries on top! I also had to edit the Peekaboo Mittens pattern from MagKnits.com to better fit my hand and silly artificial nails. Using the regular pattern to follow, I simply increased a few rows in the Base of the Hand as well as the Mitten top. So to abbreviate it a bit.

Base of hand:
Work even for 12 rows to about 0.5" [1 cm] below top of palm. On last rnd, place finger markers as follows: K 24 (27), pm, k12 (16), pm, k to end.

Work the finger opening the same as the pattern.

Mitten top:
Work 10 rows removing finger markers in process. Distribute sts evenly on 4 needles.
Then start the decreasing for the mitten top.

Using Cascade 220 Black for the mitten, I then graphed the cherries I wanted to double stitch onto the fabric. With a white piece of yarn I ran a guideline to help me coorodinate the placement of the design. Wallah! Black Cherry Peekaboo Mittens!

Irish Hiking Wrist Warmers 2

I just love love love this pattern, that I can't stop making them. I worked and completed a pair for my mother who is a postal carrier. They are in navy and a light grey and are so cute! Going to wait to seam them up so that I can make sure they are a perfect fit for her, when I go home this weekend to visit.

You have got to make a pair! http://www.wineandneedles.blogspost.com/

~W