Surprisingly, I'm not the middle finger!

So Rachel posted this one, and I'm surprised I didn't get the same result as her!

You Are a Ring Finger

You are romantic, expressive, and hopeful. You see the best in everything. You are very artistic, and you see the world as your canvas. You are also drawn to the written word. Inventive and unique, you are often away in your own inner world. You get along well with: The Pinky Stay away from: The Index Finger

What Finger Are You?

Hello, my name is Teenuh and I am a lemming

Ok so I am totally not wanting to work today so I am going to jump off the cliff and do the knitting meme thingy that most of my knitting blogger buddies have done.

Bold for stuff I've done, Italics for stuff I plan on doing, normal for stuff I'm not planning on doing:

American/English knitting (as opposed to continental)
Bobbles
Button holes
Cable stitch patterns (incl. Aran)
Continental knitting
Domino knitting (modular knitting)
Drop stitch patterns
Entrelac (though I need to do more of it besides what I learned in the free class I took)
Fair Isle knitting
Freeform knitting (Nona makes this look so awesome in her swatches)
Fulling/felting
Garter stitch
I-cord
Intarsia
Kitchener BO
Knitting with circular needles
Knitting with DPNs
Knitting and purling backwards
Knitting smocking (I agree with the OCK that I have done this one, on the dishcloth and socks even!)
Knitting small tubular items on two circulars
Knitting a circular item using the Magic Loop
Lace patterns
Long Tail CO
Moebius band knitting
Norwegian knitting
Provisional CO
Short rows
Slip stitch patterns
Steeks
Stockinette stitch
Swatching
Textured knitting
Swiss Darning
Thrummed knitting (This looks neat to do but honestly, when am I going to use it? I suppose I could do it for my Minnesota relatives but wow, so much effort!)
Tubular CO
Twisted stitch patterns
Two end knitting

Knitting with alpaca
Knitting with bamboo yarn
Knitting with banana fiber yarn
Knitting with beads
Knitting with camel yarn
Knitting with cashmere
Knitting with cotton
Knitting with dog/cat hair (with 2 cats I can't not knit with cat hair!)
Knitting with linen
Knitting with metal wire
Knitting with soy yarn
Knitting with your own handspun yarn
Knitting with someone else’s handspun yarn
Knitting with self-patterning/self-striping/variegating yarn
Knitting with silk
Knitting with synthetic yarn
Knitting with recycled/secondhand yarn
Knitting with wool

Afghan/Blanket
Baby items
Cuffs/fingerless mitts/arm warmers
Gloves
Hat
Hair accessories
Household items (dishcloths, washcloths, tea cozies…)
Jewelry
Mittens: Cuff-up
Mittens: Tip-down
Pillows
Purses/bags
Rug
Shawl
Scarf
Shrug/bolero/poncho
Slippers
Socks: top-down
Socks: toe-up
Stuffed toys
Sweater
Toy/doll clothing

Charity knitting
Graffiti knitting (knitting items on, or to be left on the street)
Knitting art
Knitting for pets
Knitting for preemies
Knitting items for a wedding
Knitting a gift
Holiday related knitting
Designing knitted garments
Dyeing yarn with plant colors
Dyeing yarn with acid dyes
Participating in a KAL
Publishing a knitting book

Knitting to make money
Knitting for a living (god I wish)
Knitting a pattern from an online knitting magazine
Knitting on a loom
Machine knitting
Olympic knitting
Resizing patterns
Spinning on a drop spindle
Spinning with a spinning wheel (I have no doubt that by continuing hanging out with the OCK that this will happen someday)
Teaching a male how to knit (I swear I will get my hubby to knit something!!)
Teaching knitting classes (Well, for friends at least. My boss wants me to teach her to knit!)
Writing a pattern
Knitting in public (I do this with Boba twice a week!)

I clearly have a long way to go still, but I'll get there. It hasn't been a year yet that I have been knitting again!

Knit Knit Knit

I just realized that I so totally did not blog my finished Regia socks. Here they are in all their scratchy glory (pre-washing):

I really love this stitch pattern, the double weave. It was totally easy to grind out and I like how it looks:

This will also probably get reused at some point in the future. Maybe once I forget how much I hated my Regia yarn that I knit these socks with..

Two Knitting Posts IN A ROW

So this is a first in quite some time. I have two whole posts in a row that are knitting only with no yarn buying involved! (I didn't even have any stealth cotton dishcloth yarn purchasing going on in the background. I so don't blog my Sugar 'n Cream or Peaches 'n Creme purchases. Y'all would so seriously think I am nuts.)

Anyhoo, I have finished the first sock out of the OnLine Yarn I purchased at Muse in St Helena on the Calistoga Boba retreat weekend. I had such fun knitting this and it totally flew off the needles. I cast on the sock before work on Thursday morning (yeah, so I'm not exactly the crack of dawn employee type..) and then Thursday afternoon we had a department outing to play bocce ball in Los Gatos at Campo di Bocce so while I was waiting for it to be my turn, I knit! I was just knitting in the round with no stitch pattern whatsoever so I flew through the sock. I was just a couple of rows away from turning the heel by the end of the day (I also knit through cocktails before dinner!). I started the heel during my brief appearance at BobaKnit that night and then I finished turning the heel before bed after I had dessert with friends at Flames. I started the feather and fan late on Friday and by the end of a couple of hours of knitting on Saturday, I finished the sock! Here's the result of my endeavors:


I used my basic sock recipe for the foot and heel and then for the leg I used Wendy's write up of the Feather and Fan pattern to get the chart and increases into my sock. I am so thrilled with the pattern as well as the yarn colors.

Since I had so much fun with sock #1, I cast on #2 at Boba on Sunday afternoon (I finished my sewn bind off first there). I tried my best to cast on in the same spot as I did with sock #1. And I'll be damned if I didn't do just that:

It's not exact but it's pretty damn close. I've finished turning the heel and I've done a couple repeats of the feather and fan pattern. I really love this pattern, I'm sure it's one I'll be doing again in the future.

Q2 2007 Dishcloth Exchange

So this quarter again I participated in my Monthly Dishcloth KAL's dishcloth exchange. I really enjoyed doing this last quarter so I was happy to participate again.

I made my exchange recipient the watermelon slice dishcloth from Blossom Knit Wear:


I went a little bonkers with the goodies in the bag, but it was a fun opportunity to do some stamping as well:

We were given the deadline of mailing our packages by the 20th, and being the procrastinator extraordinaire that I am I sent mine out on the 19th! And, through some miraculous feat my recipient got her package on MONDAY. I nearly fell out of my chair. I sent it standard mail too.

This is in contrast to my poor package. It was mailed out on the 14th or so of this month... but I didn't get it until TODAY. My poor dishcloth sender was pretty stressed out about the package not getting here after sending it out so many days ago. But thankfully it arrived safe and sound today.

This was our monthly dishcloth for the beginning of October 2006, but I never sat down and knit it so now I have one! Hooray.

These exchanges have been lots of fun, I'm looking forward to participating in the next one!

The killer tortoise

So hilarious! (at 1:15 is the best part.. "GOMP GOMP")

(And seriously, could this have taken longer for YouTube to post on my blog? I requested this video to be posted sometime early Saturday morning! And it posted Tuesday afternoon!)

I hate the Regia a little less

Alright, so while I did hate the process of knitting with yarn that felt like complete ass (and a nasty hairy one at that), I am happy to report that after a full wash cycle with regular laundry detergent and fabric softener, the Regia socks now feel quite nice.

All I can say in the end is at least I didn't waste my time making socks I will never wear!