zombies munched my brain

Eh....I'm in this odd sort of limbo waiting for the shawl yarn to come in (STILL!!!!) and I can't seem to get inspired by anything. Sigh..... I'm working on the cabled mitts again which is kinda hard seeing as they've lost me one of my favorite needles, and both of my small cable needles. Also I'm having trouble getting them to fit my skinny writs snugly, but not cut off the circulation in my fingers.

I've also just lost my large crochet hook, while working on a bag made of scrap yarn....this is inspired my my reluctance to return to my bag'o'bags. This is a bag, made up of other bags cut to ribbons and then knit together into a new creation. It just takes a bleeding long time to cut up each bag, and then knit each bit of ribbon and weave in the ends. gah.

So mostly I've been spinning, and thats going well. However I really want a tiny lace weight spindle, and the only place I know to get one is Shuttles, Spindles, and Skeins in Boulder. And thats a three hour round trip that I just don't feel like taking in this heat. grr....

I've begun watching Deadwood on DVD, it's all right, although Calamity Jane is portrayed as the village idiot which is off-putting, and all of the other women are drug addicts and/or prostitutes so thats not very encouraging. for contrast I picked up BSG again, and I'm listening to the podcasts. Katee Shackhoff and Edward James Olmos just never get boring.

Who hoots?

Hoot, hoot! Wow, it's been a super busy week. I finished off this super fun owl, last night for the Fancy Tiger KAO(knit along on). On Tuesday, Emma and I went to Fancy Tiger, She worked on her purse, and I untangled a massive ball of yarn, grrr. On Wednesday, I picked up my comics, (Y: the last man! yay!) and I went to a double craft night at City 'o' City. Jamie from Fancy Tiger, always has a minor craft night there on Wednesdays, and the Denver chapter of Stitch 'n' Bitch just happened to meet there too. I managed to finish the insole and calf of my sock. unfortunately, I bound off the heal-hole way too tight, so I ended up pulling it out last night, and reworking it.
I also made a yarn-ball bag on Edna. It has a draw string, and a rope-clip, and everything. It works great for dragging around socks. Speaking of, I wanted my heal and toe to be red, so I dyed the leftover blue with kool-aid yesterday morning, and I'm realy happy with it.
Scince I've been spinning so much yarn lately, I've pulled a few skins together, and created my own line of hand spun yarn. I call it Soko is loco and it has a Kangaroo for a mascot.

It came form the Vastly Deep....

Well, I am detail cleaning my room today- opening all the little boxes and dumping every thing on the floor, and so I keep finding missing, and abandoned projects. First off was the yoga socks from my sock drawer. The pattern can also be used to create afterthought heals and toes. That means I can go back and put them in afterward witch is good, because when the heal and toe where out, I can put in new ones and still keep the body of the sock.
Next up we have Clair's penuin. I satarted this last year or possibly the year before...? anyway I had only crocheted the body, and wings, but I couldn't figure out what to do with the face. I also ran out of yarn and couldn't sew on the tail. It was a disaster, not to mention the whole thing was stuffed with socks that had lost their mates. The socks were actually the reason this got finished to day, I was looking for this purple cat-sock and it was driving me nuts, so on a whim, I riped out the top of the bird looking for it, (no luck) and ended up restuffing the thing with polly-fill. Then I forgot about the missing socks and continued finishing the bird. My inspiration came partly from the fact that I now have a better idea of what I'm doing, and partly from watching Happy Feet for the first time, so penguins were on the mind.
I think that the next WIP that I want to finish will be my painted Converses. One side down, three to go....oy vey.

No more tiny rows!

Hazah! I finished seaming the rainbow sweater last night, at Chris & Jerry's house, while we were playing Yahtzee and I sewed the buttons on first thing this morning. I hope to sell this one at the craft fair my mother and her friend are planing for November.Now I'm makeing another doomed foray into crochet with the left over yarn. I can usually make a circle, that gets bigger and smaller, so this will be some sort of ball creature like the parrot.... I'm not really sure what exactly.