Adieu...adieu...parting is such sweet sorrow

I'm quitting blogging. I will be deleting my blog and site in about a week. I had a nice long post written about why I was quitting, but blogger acted up when I tried to post it so it is all lost. I will still visit the blogs I like and chat with people over there. My e-mail is tifffany(at)gmail(dot)com if anyone has any future questions for me (not the 3 f's). See y'all over at your blogs.

New Fo's to report over here. First up, a fair isle hat I made to practice some. I checked the book "Hats On!" out of the library...and I love it! I tried to find it at Joann's but no luck, so I may have to order it. Cause I MUST have this book. Here is the hat, knitted from woolease in green and white:



I really like it and it fits me but kinda tightly (stretches out the design), so I may have to make a size medium (that one was a small) eventually.

Next up is another hat, made from the scraps of my mom's wrap (which I forgot to take a picture of and she is not keeping hostage at work. Here is the hat:



Third up is a booga-like bag I made from some wool I dyed. I followed the general instructions but changed all the numbers and did stripeys. Here it is in its prefelted state:



The picture came out really bad due to the fact that it's red colors, but I think it will be nice once finished (which won't be for awhile as I think I am going to add a liner and I don't have a good place to sew). I had enough leftovers from this to almost make a Sophie Bag. Coupled with some leftovers from my Market Squares Bag (of which there was a lot), I was able to make a cute lil sophie. I will be having a felting party soon, it seems!

Last but not least, lookie what I scored today:



That's TONS of black chenille yarn up there, that is. It is obviously made for weaving as it is thin, but I bought 2 cones so I can use 2 strands together. How much is there, you ask? I put them on the not so accurate bathroom scale and they registered approximately 2 pounds each. That's a LOT of yarn. And how much did I pay for these babies? Would you believe they were 2 for a dollar? No? Because they weren't! They were 2 for 98 cents! Perhaps I should have snatched up more (altho all they had right now was black chenille...last time I was there they had some other stuff but I didn't even bother to buy it). I don't really have the storage room for it though and I do think that 4 pounds of black chenille yarn is enough. What shall I use this on? Maybe a blanket...but I really don't know.

Tuesday I went down to Tennessee (and back) to pick up some dogs for my grandma. After 23 hours of travel we had 2 lil practically hairless cuties, so I better get going on some dog sweaters!

Thanks for all compliments on my novelty bedspread! I really love it. It's hard getting used to sleeping with so much weight on me, but it IS warm. And I like to run my hands over it, hehehe.

I don't have any new FO pics to show, because I don't have any new FO's. Well, except for one little hat, but I didn't want to go through the ordeal of taking/transferring/uploading pics for just a hat. I have started a few other projects tho: a pair of socks in Bernat HotSox and a booga-like bag with some wool I had dyed awhile ago in order to make the french market bag from Knitty. But since I was only planning to make this in order to help someone else read the pattern (and they never started) and I heard bad things about the bag, I decided not to make it. So now it is becoming a stripey booga bag. I've also kinda started preparing for a scrappy project, but I'm not sure how it is going to look so no news on that yet.

I have been doing small projects tho. I found some cute notecards so I cut mats for them and framed them. I am also working on a memoboard out of the cork part of a bulletin board (the frame became a frame for my giant foamboard James Dean stamp). Yesterday I found the base of a birdbath set out for trash so I snatched it up and am planning on turning it upside down, building it up (with plaster?), painting it, and setting my bust of Julius Caesar on it. That thing is HEAVY so it should hold him well, plus it has all this fun scrollwork detail that matches him much more than the skinny plantstand he is currently on.

Now off to work on some projects so I hopefully have a more pictureful (is that a word?) post next time.

I've finally got some pics, albeit crappy ones, to show! First up, a homespun cabled hat I whipped up for myself yesterday. I don't think this pic shows off the cables well though...



My novelty bedspread is just about done...enough to take a FO pic of it. I am probably going to add some more border so it hangs down more tho. Here it is in its current state:



I really am in love with the way it turned out. I used lots of different novelty yarns in shades of pink, red, and purple. Then I either started with 10, 20, or 30 stitches in single crochet. I changed yarns whenever I wanted and sometimes did multiple colors per row to make more randomly sized rectangles. Each strip was worked to about 80" then they were sewn together and a border was added. If I add some more border and then was it it should grow some and hang down a little lower.

Finally, a mini project. I found an old plant stand and with the addition of a few baskets it became a yarn stand, see:



The top and bottom baskets hold my novelty yarns and the middle holds my sock yarns. Not only is it pretty but it was free AND it frees up more room on my yarn shelves for more yarn...ALWAYS a good thing!

So much for pictures; my computer is NOT working (I'm on a different one now). When I plugged it all up and tried to resurrect it, the moniter refused to show anything useful. It did recognize when it was plugged into the computer and it displayed settings, so the diagnosis is that it may be the video card. Hopefully it's just lose and can be easily fixed...

The shawl for my mom is almost done! It will be done when I run out of yarn and I don't have much left so yay for that. I haven't decided yet how it will be worn...that will depend on the finished size after it's washed. Have I mentioned that I love scrap projects?

Send good computer vibes my way and I may be able to show pics soon :)