Bobbles, Bobbles, Bobbles

My lime green Noni Bobble Bag is completed - I mean I'm done knitting the bag part, and it's off the needles! The pattern said to knit 55 rows... I hate to count rows, just tell me how many inches to knit and I'm happy. Anyway, it ended up being 65 rows and it's 15 inches. Another thing, I picked up the wrong needles to begin the project or maybe I planned to use these circulars... I'm not sure. The pattern says size 11, and I ended up making the bag on size 10 1/2's. Now I'm making bobbles! They are pretty quick to make and I've found that some of them are not exactly the number of rows that they were supposed to be, but they look fine so far. I haven't began the process of cinching them into actual bobbles yet, but they look pretty close. I'm thinking that if this turns out well (no reason it shouldn't - I almost followed the pattern exactly on this one.) I'm going to line it with a fabric of pink with green dots! I still haven't decided on the handles, I'll have to do some looking around. Either lime green or pink or maybe even a light wood set of handles. They will call to me when I see them. Wedding plans are slowly progressing. I got the invitations ordered today and will have them next week. My mom completed my Wedding Jacket-thing! It's awesome. I have to take it in to The Yarn Corner to show it off to my knitting family tomorrow. The sleeves are VERY long, and for me that's a good thing. I'll get pictures posted tomorrow... well by Friday! Oh yes, we got a new camera. It's a Kodak EasyShare P850, 12x, 5.1 MP! I love it, and that's all there is to say about that. I'll have to start taking it with me. Rick bought a larger memory card so it can hold at least 300 pictures... that's a lot of knitting projects!!! I hear the bobbles calling me... gotta run!

Wow, it's been a busy week...

Tuesday night was "Knitting Night" at The Yarn Corner in Aberdeen. By the time I made a couple of quick stops, it was after 9:30pm when I got home. It was soooooo worth it! Not only did I get to meet some wonder ladies, but I learned about the box under the table in the back. I think I had seen the box and didn't know what it was. I know, you're dyeing to know what was in the box! Kids sweaters!! Guideposts' Knit for Kids. The pattern seems to be quite simple (good things for me) this is my first sweater ever. The sweaters are sent to Oxfam Knitting Project. They have been collecting and donating these sweaters since the mid-1990's. It feels good to do something like this. The colors I decided to use are lime green and navy. I can't wait to get done. Wednesday night was another get home late night... very little time for knitting! But I did manage to get about 3 inches done on the sweater. My sweet little Cassie is NOT a night owl. She keeps asking when is it time to go to bed. Thursday - all was calm at home and I used the time to do laundry and knit. Laundry is the perfect "house keeping" thing to do while knitting. It requires little effort and when my sweetie-pie asks "are you just going to knit all night?" I can say "No, I'm doing the laundry too!" At work today I recruited another two people to make French Market Bags (This makes 4 people so far). I can't even tell you how much I love my French Market BagS!! I have made 4 now and each one I love more than the one before it. My first one is red, navy and light denim. It now has a special place in my car (Red Honda Element), it holds my books on CD. By the way this was also my first knitting project - I purchased the yarn on March 15, 2006, a special day now on my calendar. It is from here forward known as my Knitting Anniversary day! The second FMB was a gift for my mom and I made it a little taller and stitched the dark part of the handles together to make them thick like an I-cord. (now my mom is hooked on felting too! Mom is an awesome crocheter. She's even making my Wedding jacket - no, it's not felted! It's called a Lacy Leaf Cacoon.) My mom also made this cute felted coin purse, not only is it felted, it's lined too! I am a special daughter.

This is the coin purse my mom made for me, it goes perfect with the Openwork Triangle Tote I made. Pattern from Two Old Bags.

The third was a retirement gift... Red with Ink Blue bottom and handles. It was hard to part with, but last I heard it is touring with her in Texas right now, and it is very loved. Don't you love it when you make something for someone and you hate to part with it because you love it so much, and then you find out the person you gave it to loves it just as much. (feeling warm and fuzzy now!) Ok- now we are on to the 4th FMB - My favorite to date... I use this one as my knitting bag and I have it filled with everything... books, current projects, my RIO, and other assorted must haves. I knitted it about 17 or 18 inches tall. and added about 5 extra rows to the handles and once again made the I-cord type handle grips.

This is my current knitting bag - #4

For some reason on Friday I found myself with knitting time during the day and I decided to start working on Noni bag again for a few minutes. It's not really very exciting to just knit, knit, knit, knit, knit in a circle - forever! But it is over half way now and I think I'll take a stab at making those cute little bobbles on Sunday. Here it is Saturday... sun was shining and I just had to do laundry and knit in the sunshine! My very favorite thing to do. This is part of the view from where I sit and knit on my back deck.

I finished the front side of the kid sweater! I'll make a good effort tonight to get as much done on side two so that I can be making bobbles tomorrow.

Rick is on duty all night (OSPD) so I say "Knit On!"

I think those warshrags are a calling my name... this is part of my collection so far!

68 Days

As of today we only have 68 days! I'm getting married August 19th. I'm trying to stay organized and not get stressed. Last night we (Rick) picked out our wedding invitations... I narrowed it down from 13 million to about 8 and he poo-poo'd on all of them but one. How lucky for us he picked the most expensive one of the bunch. (I didn't show him any prices just the invites.) I'm happy with the choice and today I placed the order. That's one more thing to check off of my list. I'm starting to think this is a little like that song... 99 bottles of beer on the wall - now only 99 more things to do! At our little gathering "Knit in Public Day" at Morrison Park, I began my Noni Bobble bag. The pattern shows it in black with multi-colored bobbles, but I've decided on a lime green bag with different shades of pink for the bobbles. As soon as we get this stupid camera to work (or I throw it out and we buy a new one) I'll post a picture. It's funny in my knitting bag I have two warshrags going and when I was working on my bag at break today, I could hear them calling to me... "hey, were in here!" "come knit us" it's hard to let go of them, so I'll have to share the love, I really can't wait to get the bobbles, and yet those warshrags keep calling to me. We'll have to work out an arrangement at break tomorrow. Well, The Closer is over (one of my favorite shows) and so I must take the dogs out, put my knitting up and cut off the light (or say good-night). Or as Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson would say it that cute little southern voice "Well, Thank ya, Thank ya very much". (Be sure to check out Brenda's Southern Recipes if you visit the web site for The Closer - You’ll feel your arteries hardening with every delicious word.)

A New Day

And so begins a new day and a new project. I'm going to try this Blog Thing out and see what it's all about. So far, so good. Rick will be out fishing for hours, so I hope I can figure out how to add "Links" before he comes home... oh, and I want to knit on my new bag too!