Weekend Recap… February 23, 2009

I worked hard to finish the back of the CPH this weekend, and I was successful!! I need to buy a board, which I saw at Joann the other day, to block it. It’s for sewing, but I’m guessing it will work great. I need to print off a coupon though. I’ll take a picture once I have it pinned for blocking!

I went and saw Taken, definitely worth seeing. It was so good, I might buy it. I’d have to put it in the top 10 for action movies.

I watched a couple other movies this weekend too,
Gone Baby Gone:

A thriller about a little girl being kidnapped, and the aunt-in-law hiring private detectives to find the little girl. I never expected the outcome, really makes you consider how far you will go to obey the law.

Stop-Loss

A man has served his country, and wants to get out, but he is being forced to do another tour in Iraq.

Mad Money

I expected this to be a corny silly movie, and it definitely had it’s corny parts, but I surprisingly enjoyed it. Would definitely watch again.

Other than that, it was a pretty quiet weekend. The snow wasn’t as bad as expected, but still made me want to sit at home and do nothing!

Well…well…well February 20, 2009

Another weekend is upon us, and another winter storm watch. What is the difference between a watch and a warning? Anyway, we are supposed to get some inches of snow tonight. So guess what I’ll be going, watching Stop Loss, which I got from Netflix, and working on my CPH. I am ready to start the armhole of the back, and I’ve finished my first skein, very good progress for me. I’m guessing I should have the back complete this weekend and one of the fronts started. I contemplated doing the fronts at the same time, but I don’t think I want to complicate my first sweater just yet. I guess it wouldn’t be all that complicated, but I could see me getting confused, or on autopilot, and following the right front pattern when I should be following the left front. So, I’ll just do one at a time. It will be fine!

The CPH will probably be the cheapest hoodie a person could ever make, La bought me two skeins, and I had coupons, so I bought two more skeins for about ten dollars. I may need one more in the end, even if I have to pay full price (which I won’t because I ALWAYS have a JoAnn coupon somewhere), I will have paid 17 dollars total, for a hoodie, can’t beat that!

WIPs February 17, 2009

Start-itis is a bad thing. But in the words of Ludacris, why does everything that’s bad for me feels so good. Ok, maybe that’s a little extra, but anyway, here’s what I have going right now:

The Entrelac Scarf:

Now when I first touched Noro, I did not think I would like it. It seemed rough, and itchy. But when La made her mom an Entrelac scarf with it, I changed my mind, real quick.

Shifting Sands Scarf:

With one of my favorite yarns, Dream In Color. It’s so soft and squishy. This scarf is for a woman that I work with that is so sweet. She made me a really pretty knitting needle holder, that I still need to take a picture of.

Purple Berries Scarf:

Manos may become one of my favorite yarns as well. I think this pattern is perfect for this yarn, shows off the variegation very well!!

And last but definitely not least, the CPH:

This is my first sweater. I thought I would be able to finish it in a month, but it’s not looking like that will be possible. Anywho, my progress of the back.

I don’t feel overwhelmed, yet, but all of these are fairly new projects, so we’ll see how I do!