Fruit Loop Socks

Luckily the DH took pictures of my latest FO!!!! (Yes I finally have a FO!!!!!)



I have nicknamed them the "fruit loop" socks. They were casted on as a pair for Nat and then thought they would be too big. Upon finishing the first one - Nat tried them on and fell in love with them. How could I resist her blue eyes..... staring up at me.....


I know - the toe turned out a bit funky. I am not sure why. The second sock looked a wee bit better.




This is not a SWTC pattern nor is it the Summer Daze pattern - it is Bellatrix from soctopia. I love the pattern and I love how it looks in this yarn.

I believe she is wearing them to school tomorrow.....

I am not attempting to master a sock on two circs - for Rowan. This one is Wild Kat - the June Tofutsies exclusive pattern!

Back to knitting and Dr. Who!

Currently on needles

That is a loaded statement. I have TONS on needles.....

I am currently knitting....

a sock!

It is the August Tofutsies exclusive color.

I am making it
(because I do not have the pattern - sore subject - but I am letting it go)
with this pattern.
I love how it is knitting up.

(insert picture here - oh I can't my PC is dead)

I call it my Fruit loop sock.

The first is done and I am almost ready to turn the heel on my second sock. They started out as socks for Nat - then they looked big - so they were mine.

Then - Nat put them on today - and they look absolutely adorable as knee highs on her!

Needless to say - the red headed curly one
(Rowan)
has claimed the June collection special as hers.

I am going to attempt to knit them on circulars as my friends on the yahoo tofutsies group swear it's a nobrainer and I will take to it with little issues. Deb - directed me to a few www's and I am hoping I can get the hang of it. I would like to do two at a time.......

Do I hear laughter???????

Stitches take home

As promised
- (a while ago) -
my take home from stitches!!!

SWTC was there and with swag handouts of a new yarn - and it has a counterpart....

I JUST LOVE LOVE LOVE THEIR YARN!!!!!!

Then there was the HABU booth that I just couldn't seem to get away from.......

Look at this incredible yarn..........

That I immediately came home and started to knit this.......

I love the look and the feel....

this will go to a special friend for Christmas.....

Someone that can pull of the simple elegance....

hmmmmmmm

THEN I got these lil numbers to make a wrap from this book

(one of my very first books I ever got when I started knitting.... WHO KNEW it had HABU!!!!)

I bought these two HABU slubby yarns that are actually very interesting and intricate when knitted up and I am trying to decide WHAT I am going to make......

Fun yarn to creat with!

THEN

MALABRIGO WAS THERE - handing out SWAG from thier newest LACE yarn........

This might turn me into a LACE knitter!

Upon my return home look what was waiting for me......

OK long story short...

It was our anniversary

-

my hubby went to a foo foo shop on Armitage here in Chicago.....

And got me this......

WHAT A SURPRISE it was!

Isn't it beautiful! I love it!!!!!

AND

He did it all on his own WITHOUT the girls to help him!!!!!

Did you read that Natalie?

WWKIP Day - a little late.....

A little while ago it was WWKIP day. I did attend. 9 June to be exact - and I remember this because this is the day we went live with a new computer system at work and I was at work ALOT. However I did manage to slip out to knit in the park. This week in Chicago has been rainy rainy and more rain. The Cube sgot rain delayed more than I would like to say they needed to. Lucky for the Cardinals - they didn't have to face Zambrano's wrath.

So - as I look out my office window - at the dreary msss - I remember this.......

These are my knit buddies. Not all of them..... Not all could get away. However - these are the core girls to my knit nite.... Are they not the bomb. We did WWKIP day up right. Check out our picnifc.....

Of course - the girls played in the park beside us.....

Donna - the lady in blue - helped to coordinate this outting and we love her for it! She own's this LYS and more. If you are ever in Chicago you have to check it out!

And still our girls played - into the wee hours of dusk as our light was fading with our knitting abilities.......

But we still had the food and my good buddy Tonia had some vino (contraband in the park) to pass around as well. What's a knit day out with out the vino.....

Dreaming of clearer days while looking out the window at work........

Stitches

I haven't forgotten......

That I went that is......

I stuck to my budget (thank you Lorinda) and I am very happy that I did. However, I did spend my budget at Habu. You have to have HABU! Habu Fascinates me. I love their matrix like patterns and I love LOVE their unique yarn.

I hope to have pictures of my purchase up by the weekend.

It's just been hectic around here and all I want to do is sit an chill, sit and knit, sit and scrapbook, sit and read......

It's not looking to promising though......

Nine hours and counting.....

Stitches Midwest.......

I am all packed for my day away with yarn, needles, knitting paraphernalia and oogles of books on knitting.

Unfortunately I have to curb my appetite by NOT buying...... darn budgets you know....

I wish I could take pictures while I am there - but tis is strictly prohibited.

I will return with stories on Sunday - Saturday I have an Advanced Burn Life Support class to knit through. (this is where you go.... ooooooh sounds technical and difficult.... )

36 hours and counting

That's how many hours til STITCHES MIDWEST!!!!!!!

I can hardly wait.....

Ooodles and oooodles of yarn to fondle.....

ooooooze of creativity to soak up..........

tons of people like me.......... (ok maybe not just like me)



And I have one day to take it all in and soak it all up........

Hope to see you there!

Knitting I am

Proof that I am knitting amongst other things....

This is a skirt I started at the beginning of the summer (yes I know it's now August) and I am almost done. Just a few more inches to go.

The pattern is from Knit Two Together. I absolutely love, Love, LOVE that book.

So many things in that book I want to knit.

Christine - if you are reading this - YES I am working on the baby blanket and one day soon it will be on this website as well.

I am making this skirt out of Euroflax linen and love this yarn. SO light weight but easy to knit with. It flows on your needles like butter! I highly recommend this yarn for any sweater or skirt you want to drape but not be to hot.

Well - my muscles ache and my head is swimming - tomorrow is work and I think we are attempting to get up early (to reclaim our youth) and run.

Maybe I shall sabotage the alarm.........

Hard to do when it's your blackberry that is singing "Hello Hello - may I please go Vertigo...."

Hello........ Hello.....

Is there anybody out there? Still? At all??

It has been (gasp, shudder, averting eyes from blog posts to see) several months since I have logged in and blogged on.

I really have no excuse other than I was caught up in my own life (drama) and not living.

It's easy to take a step back and realize that when I sit here at my MAC while my girls are away in Michigan. My husband and I have had time to BREATHE. Not that I couldn't breath with them here. They are my greatest gift from God and I adore them - but they tend to suck all energy and time out of your day.

My husband and I have spent time biking and walking all over - in the double digits for miles. It's been grand. I realized how much living I needed to do and how much of my life was sucked up into just getting to the next day. Praise God for the epiphany!

Now - onto knitting stuff.....

STITCHES MIDWEST

- is a mere five days away -

I am so geeked.

I have one class that I was able to sign up for - and that is it. BUT - I plan on spending more time on the vendor floor. Yarn shops from all around - could it get any better?

One problem.......

My yarn stash hasn't gone down alot.

IF - IF - I were to purchase more yarn (and believe me Socks that Rock...) I would have to do it in small, smuggable, quantities.

Again - we are getting a hotel room - and I am excited to just sit back and relax - knitting, spending time with friends and fondling yarn.

For now - I will curl up with my book on the couch and later - fall asleep dreaming of all the wonderful yarns that will be on display at Stitches.....

The countdown begins.....

Work In Progress

I have been so creatively tapped out when I get home from my job (which - is M - F no weekends or holidays) (insert dancing snoopy) that I have had a hard time SCRAPBOOKING!
(which is my other passion).

So - I have been knitting. Now, I seem to knit on one project and then switch to another - which leads me to believe that this job has enhanced my multi tasking abilities or increased my ADHD. I guess it depends on how you look at it?

Here is my latest project



From this book



















This Pattern:


It is knitted in Chennile in the book - which I don't like. So I found some yarn at my LYS and got to knitting. I love the pattern (but not for when you are going to be distracted) and I think this will make a GREAT wrap.

Now - before ANY assumptions are made.... I have SEVERAL friends who are pregnant so no this is not for me. BUT I LOVE this book.

Okay the rest of the story... It has been frogged a few times since I started on Thursday at Knit nite..... Oopse. BUT I am on a roll now!

My knit night girls

Last week (which I didn't have time to post last week) I went to a "knit nite" party with my knit nite friends. It was a fun, low keyed get together where we sipped some vino, ate some good food and knitted. One of the knitters - the lovely Donna D. - made EVERYONE a wonderful warm gift!
These were mine:



Are they not scrumptiously cozy and gorgeous!


The buttons (which we all got on our hand warmers) were from her dear mother's collection which makes them even more special!!!!



I am so touched to have these girls as my friends and am honored to knit with them!

FINISHED Product

I know I know I know
that these are a few weeks (January) over due, but I made these (and the kimono is also done just needs to be blocked and grafted) as a gift for a friend that invited me to her shower in Michigan!

I love the colors - so unbabish!





I made a baby book, scrap book, as well.


The booties out of Weekend Knits and the hat My Own creation. The yarn - SOY!

SASI KNITTERS Knit Along

My most awesome knit nite group is having a
KNIT ALONG

How most awesome is this???? I am so excited! I casted my (under dog) votw for the Elfin Goth Bride Sweater found in Domiknitrix - but my second choice, of course, is the Eiffel sweater on Knitty.

Stop by the SASI knitters and check it out. All are welcome even if you can't come to knit nite! However, we would LOVE to have you stop by!!!!

I am an ADHD knitter

Hello, my name is Bonnie and I am an ADHD knitter.

I can not stay focused on one project to save my life....

My various WIPs will speak for themselves.

While I have been feveriously knitting for friends and friends with babies... I started to pout (yes I, at my age pout) that I had nothing for myself that I knitted.

Well - that just started me on a selfish knitting frenzy to which four (yes four) projects are on needles in various stages of development. Granted - two will be casted off today - it's just - HELLO!!!!

A little focus would be nice!

One knitter at a time.....

So - not like I have pictures.... but I had to share....


The other night my friend Sesil joined me at Knit Night at SASI! How most awesome was this. Sesil is prego with her THIRD baby and is absolutely radient! She has wanted to knit for EVER - and I finally persuaded to get her to come. I showed her how to CAST ON and knit her first row.... I began my Be Sweet (to die for) magic ball scarf and forgot about her for about ten minutes. Then I looked over and she was about FIVE rows into her first scarf. Now - she is by far - the quickest learner I have come across and she is doing awesome. Why did she finally learn???? She had the THREE hour GLUCOSE test and needed something to do with her hands to take her mind off the nasty taste left in her mouth and not being able to eat or drink..... From what I understand she is half way through her scarf now!!!!! YOU GO SESIL!!!!!!

Tracing back - I have four other friends who have started knitting because I enabled them.

• Emily - pregnant also - picked up the sticks when she was on a trip here during the summer. Nesting has made her a knitter.....
• Kristi - not pregnant but a nurse (like Emily) - picked up the sticks in the late spring. She is now a regular member of Knit Night even though she has to finagle her work and school schedule to do it. You knit on sister!
• Zoey - who is not pregnant, nor a nurse - but Natalie's friend. She picked up sticks in response to her mother (un-beknownst to me) showing up at knit nite. Zoey can over for a play date and we (Nat and I) hooked her up! YOU KNIT ON GIRLFRIEND!
• Christine - who is not pregnant - but is a nurse - and a very dear friend. I roped her into knitting about three weeks after I was hooked and needed a companion to enable me! (As if I need enabling?) Together we are knitting the Braided Vogue scarf - and predict it will be done sometime in the year 2010.
  

I am quite proud of this round up... and even better - they are all still knitting!!!! I can't wait for the next person I invite into the secret (but not so secret) society of KNIT NITE!

New Jobs, UFOs and looking forward

It has been OVER a month since I posted and I have no excuse other than - I was BUSY BUSY BUSY with school, work and work. As my old position wrapped up I doubled with my new position. I wanted to start with my feet firmly planted on the ground. End result - I started on the 6 February - wobbling. But the good news.... Weebles wobble but they don't fall down. So far I have been able to keep my head above water (barely) and prevent drowning on a daily basis.

I LOVE my new position and I love the fact that the last three weekends I have been HOME and happy with my family. My girls - have finally realized - I am home home home home on the weekends. Even better - while I have been pulling 10 and 12 hours days trying to get planted and grounded - I am home in the evenings. Our house just seems calmer since this has happened (granted it has only been two weeks).

What does this have to do with "KNITTING?" ALOT - I actually have time and energy to KNIT! I actually ENJOY it as opposed to sneaking it in between this and that. I still carry it with me every where - but I am sitting and knitting in the evening and sitting and knitting with my girls! YES - GIRLS! Rowan - having attending a book reading at SASI - for this book..... Picked up some knitting needles at the store and with a little direction from Donna, the owner, is not well on her way to her first scarf. I use to have to "start" the row - now I am sitting there watching her to start, knit and start the next row.

I - have placed myself - on a NEW YARN MORATORIUM. Why - while I have a mini yarn pile going - and it's strategically and decoratively placed throughout the house - I HAVE TOO MUCH YARN, UFO's and not enough FINISHED projects. So the next few months - you will be seeing UFO's and hopefully Finished projects posted. Of course - an addict like me might just have to get a yarn fix sooner or later... so stay tuned for my progess.

Looking forward - I am reading THIS... and I am hoping my KNIT NIGHT buddies will join along....

I also have added this....

AND THIS.....


To my library of knitting books... and I am hoping that I can knit a few projects out of here with what yarn sits in my baskets..... Stay tuned for updates....

Well I must get back to my blackberry, paperwork and eventually knitting....

Here is to the 9 - 5, management, salary jobs that I thought I would never EMBRACE!

Praise God for moving forward and making a positve change in my career, family and life!!!!!!

WHERE o Where is the knitting fairy when you need her?

GASP.....

Okay - at the risk of a certain person (who never reads my blog) READING my blog I am still going to post this....

I am heading back to Michigan in a few days (a week) and while this brings me great joy to see old friends, I have no desire to be in Michigan longer than I need to be. However, I am returning for a baby shower.

What a joyous occasion!

Now the rest of the story..... I had intended to create a baby scrapbook (almost done -but not quite), knit an outfit and get a baby bag from Lil Street purse company here in Chicago. Clearly I have nothing.... I will be returning to MI in as little as no time to spare - and no time to get anything done....

I frantically started knitting at knit nite last night and almost got the (shhhhh) hat done. I am planning on starting the booties as soon as I log off. I PLAN on going to the purse shop TODAY on the way into work.... What I really need..... is a knitting fairy god mother!!!!!!

Knitting Santa......

I am off to knit.....

BUT - I wanted to leave you with........

Rowan's coveted IDog that Santa brought her.........


YES I actaully am able to sit and knit..... in my clean organized house...... sipping coffee and watching some downloaded episodes of HEROS, Law and order (CI, SVU and the original).

BTW - Santa was VERY good to me.... I have a little over $100.00 in gift certificates to my two favorite knit stores in Chicago! AWESOME! and my DH got me some Makula yarn.... that is a DREAM to knit with.... Only it's 750+ yards... and I am having a hard time deciding what to use it all for..... right now a hat for a friend's baby..... (shh that is a secret!)

The DH also made me a new collection of stitch markers.... that I am using for this hat..... I am making out of the Makula yarn!

Knit Nite Celeb

What are you doing on the 16 November 2006?

THIS!

Have you seen this new book?

Come on out to SASI Knit Nite and check out this new book, our famous Anne Lenizini who is found in the book and get the pattern SIGNED! In addition, bring your knitting, hang out with all the cool SASI Knitters and knit with us!

Very exciting indeed!!!!

Going with SIX

• Sitting at home - snuggled - knitting this.

• Need help with this yarn conundrum

• Alot of yarn it will take.

• Got this today - can't wait - breathe.

• Working on this - praying - keep up!
• Please God - help me to commit!
  

• Got my girls - they're knitting too.

• Warm blanket covers us three - cozy!

• My favorite knit shop - big surprise!

• Anne - a SASI knitter - is famous!

BACK TO KNITTING - I must go!