Broken camera...

For anyone who doubted my camera's brokenness, here's the proof. The one on the left it how it looks if i just take a picture. The right is myself and my roomie/cousin holding the cover thingy open with our fingers (that's my eyebrow you see). Hrumph. The guy I chatted with on HP.com was 0 help.

Floppy box

Since my camera is still not functioning (and the guy on the website what about zero help) I'm pulling a pic out of the archives. This sucker was the first (and last) of what was supposed to be a set of boxes. It flopped (pun intended). Oh well.

If anyone has any ideas on how to resuscitate it, lemme know. If not,it'll be destined to a life at the bottom of my knitting bag.

The Strand is not knit friendly

The Strand doesn't have any knitting books. What's up with that?! They have about 1000 craft books...needle point, furniture painting, etc. And no knitting books. Lamo.

Almost done...

I've finished the kitchen twine part of my table runner. 46 rows of 154 single crochets. 59 if you include the 13 I frogged due to the fact that I was skipping 2 stitches instead of one at the start of each row for a portion of the project. I'm doing the boarder in Frog Tree pima cotton/silk blend purple, grey green, green, and pale green. Quite exciting. Although anything not natural colored kitchen twine would be exciting at this point.

Building my Stash in DC

Lots of photos, I know. But it was a busy weekend with a fellow knitter (my sister)!! Not only is she a fellow knitter, but she has a camera that works. I was afraid to fix my gloves by myself incase I just made things worse, so I brought them along on the trip. Although she's only been knitting since Christmas '04, she's a much better knitter than me and therefore I tend to make her do all the hard stuff that I'm afraid of. But I ended up fixing the gloves without her help, and we took a photo (bottom right).

We also did lots of shopping. We went to a farm about an hour from DC and bought some yarn fresh from the sheep standing right outside the shop. I then wound the yarn with my sister's new winder thingy, quite exciting. My yarn is the three wound balls in the top left photo (blue tweed, blue and red, and teal) and hers is the unwound. She also got some for her secret pal who likes bright colors (hence the pink and green). The next day we went to an eco-friendly store, Future Green, which had everything from paint to tie-dyed baby diapers. And they also had yarn. I bought 2 mini skeins of blue and blue tweed to make a mini stuffed elephant (my sister gave me a normal sized one for my birthday and my friend gave me a finger puppet for Christmas, so I thought I'd make one and have a collection). After all, there's not much you can do with mini skeins. She got some sock yarn and some stuff for her secret pal. We also went to a fabric store to get ribbon and lining for my purse. I can finally give Lisa her present...2 months late.

All in all, a good trip for knitting. I also worked on my Valentine's Day hat on the bus (as you can tell, I'm not very good at making presents on time) and I've started decreasing. I've never knit a hat before, and I'm not following a pattern, so this could get interesting. After that I only have to finish the table runner I'm crocheting for my mom for Mother's Day from Simple Crochet and I'll be done with all my projects. I may have to start a small project to thrown in my purse as a huge cream colored table runner would get quite gross on the subway.

Unfinished Projects

Due to camera malfunction none of my projects can be posted. Although this is quite upsetting, I've found pictures of some of them online.

Here's my gloves. Mine are slightly different in color, and as soon as I have a working camera I'll post them. It was a very easy pattern to follow. It was my first attempt at gloves, and I think mine are almost perfect. The left one's thumb is a bit far inward making it feel weird when I have my hands in normal position. But if I keep my thumb crossed across my palm, they work great.

Now I'm working on a purse kind of like this:

My cousin sews and I knit, so we promised eachother bags for Christmas. Her's was made on time. Mine is still in the process, but almost done.

Other than that, most of my projects are in some form of incompleteness. I'm going to make an effort to finish most of them, which shouldn't be too hard since there's only a few. The purse (which I'm actively finishing), a crocheted table runner, the fingers of above stated gloves that have unraveled (only 2 of them!), and a hat with the most lovely cashmere that was 50% off.