knit your bit

My friend Joni is co-host of a knit-along (something I'd never heard of until about this week). Knit Your Bit is, quite simply, a bunch of knitters all working on the same project; in this case, patterns that are being sold with 100% of the price going to tsunami relief.

I am not sure yet if I am going to participate, due to a combination of lack of funds and lack of faith in my knitting skills. However, I did make some extremely cute buttons to promote the group.

I know that at least four of my readers (not counting Joni) are knitters. Won't you please consider buying these patterns? They are only $5 and every penny goes to Southeast Asia. And join the Knit-along group too.

The buttons I made are below. I made them using images from World War (I and II) posters for the knitting effort. The middle one is shown twice because there is a transparent version and a version with a white background (for pages with dark backgrounds). It is my hope that one or two of you will borrow a button to promote the knit-along.

            

Er...oops. (knittery post)

I have been wrapping the yarn around my needles incorrectly. As far as I can tell, my purls have been backwards. Except not, because then they'd be knits. Lord only knows what was wrong with those. Oddly, everything looked fine. I only noticed because they were impossible to work with, and even I could not have been pulling the yarn that tight.

Anyway, it's all taken care of now. I will post a picture of my latest project (a super-easy scarf, though I do seem to be fucking up left and right) as soon as I bother taking one.

I am in the market for some single point bamboo needles. Cassie loaned me some double points and I am using them for the scarf because I just like the wood so much. I'm using 9.5s right now, with worsted weight wool, and it looks great. Very stretchy.

But I still have fits when I look at patterns, even though I have translations of all the chicken-scratches.

I did a Grr! (Sort of.)

I was looking at the Crate & Barrel 2 website. Someone had linked to a particular item and while I was there I was browsing the Sales, because if you can't afford to buy anything, the best thing to do is look at stuff that is closer to your price range but still unaffordable and depress yourself even more. Anyway, all of their Christmas items (excuse me, "holiday") were onsale and I was admiring some ornaments and I started thinking about pretty little snowflake decorations. The ones that are like doilies. And I thought, "I can crochet that!" And I did. I'm making them up (no two alike) and I don't know very many stitches, so I haven't quite gotten any to come out just how I want, but I think they're going to be pretty damn awesome when I'm finished. I'm going to go all 50s housewife and starch them. Um, where do I buy starch? Does it have instructions? Who the hell uses starch? Oh my goodness, what have I gotten myself into?