Kosta's Jaywalkers are 65% done
Your Princess Is In Another Castle...indefinitely, it would seem.
I was going to do a pair of Jaywalkers for myself, but was distracted by a new technique!
While listening to the Knit Knit Cafe podcast, Ben mentioned picking up the stitches on an afterthought heel before picking out the waste yarn. BRILLIANT.
I have been dying to try this method, but the only video tutorial I could find showed the demonstrator just picking out the waste yarn, THEN picking up the stitches.
I'm sorry, but there is nothing that would make me intentionally pick out the waste yarn and risk dropping all those stitches.
Clearly, a more skilled knitter has no qualms to this.
I have been mulling over taking the "afterthought heel" plunge and the only thing that was holding me back was the freed stitches.
Thanks to Ben, I successfully knit my first afterthought heel.
*Finished Objects -
Not a darn thing. The Jaywalkers are going soooo sloooow, because they are done in BLACK yarn. Plain, old manly black yarn. Boo.
*In My Queue -
I can't believe I didn't add this segment before!
Babies are a-foot! There are lots of new babies expected this year and I want to knit a little something for each of them. So, I have several things in the works for that.
I would like to knit myself a pair of socks. Since the first few pair I knit for myself are wearing out due to shoddy, hasty construction I think it's time that I knit socks for myself as if I was gifting them to someone else. (meaning: no rush to close that toe! I have had so many socks with short cuffs and short feet because I wanted to hurry up and finish.)
Word of the Day - Bakanovacation!
We're taking to the skies and spending a long weekend in Denver, CO this April!
A great friend of ours, who was also the best man in our wedding, lives in Denver and is always asking "When are you guys coming to Denver??" and last week Kosta answered!
Thanks to teh interwebz, Kosta found an amazing deal on a package for the flight, hotel & rental car and it's booked! All I need now is for April to get here faster!
Colorado, here we come!
*Rambly Ramblington -
I am so proud of myself! Today, I went on a brisk 30 minute walk during my lunch. I honestly don't know why I didn't do this before.
I dread working out. I can never find the time, there is no way I am getting up early to do it - tried that, then hit the snooze and said "I'll work out when I get home from work!"
Yeah, then I get home - at 10 pm, mind you, and am so beat from the day that I say "I will do it on the weekend..." and you know how that goes. Working out 1 day a week for 45 minutes doesn't really make a dent (or any less of me, for that matter.)
After my walk today, I felt quite invigorated - are these those "work out endorphins" people keep talking about?
Anyhoo, I hope I can keep this up.
*Things I am digging -
OMG, Podcasts.
Specifically, knitting podcasts & Stuff You Should Know/ Stuff Mom Never Told You.
I used to be a very devout podcast listener, back when I first got my iPod shuffle (which my mom has since absconded with)
I think around that time was the height of the knitting podcast era, there were so many to choose from. As time went on, a lot of the podcasts stopped being updated so they fell off my radar.
Then my iPod Nano died (so sad!) for no reason! Just died!
But then, as mentioned in a previous post My Most Amazing and Awesome Hubby got me an iTouch for Christmas, and it was on!
Podcasts, video casts & apps. It's all about the apps.
As a matter of fact, I just downloaded a pedometer app so I can see how far I work. I *really* want the Nike+iPod sensor, since the iTouch has the app for it built in and I wouldn't need the dongle as a receiver as I would have on the iPod Nano I had before.
Something to add to the Amazon wishlist!
