Cotton and Chroma baby blanket

i'm making this one up as i go along.  the white is a cotton from a huge cone my mum gave to me.  the coloured yarn is KnitPicks Chroma in Roller Skate.  i only have one ball of the Roller Skate, i'm thinking i may order a second to make the blanket bigger.

yes... it'll probably end up a baby blanket.  yes... more kids of my own may be in the very near future.  so with some luck it might end up being a baby blanket for my own new offspring!  otherwise it will end up on Etsy for sale :)

and: more nails!

thumb and index: OPI The Show Must Go On. middle finger: OPI Let Me Entertain You. ring and pinky: OPI Ali’s Big Break. black dots: Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Black Out. Seche base and top coats.

 i've been wearing it a few days now.  i haven't touched it up at all and it's only started to chip a little at the tips today.  i'm going to let it because i have to remove all polish tomorrow night anyway... i have a medical procedure Wednesday afternoon.  fun. fun.  :\

oooo shiney

my life is full of shiney new things at the moment.  yes, totally and entirely material, but hey, a girl's gotta take what she can get ;)

my super awesome boyfriend surprised me with aquamarine earrings for my birthday:

i treated myself to a new tanzanite ring:

and a better cell phone for texting, cuz that's all i really do on my cell.  the yellow/green edging is my own doing... i didn't like it all pink, it was just too.pink.  so i took some nail polish to it to personalize it.  i think it will need one more coat, when the first three are completely dry:

oh, and i've been knitting a wee little bit.  that brightly coloured background is a shawlette in Fleece Artist Trail sock, i believe the colourway is called Sangria.  i'm not sure i'm going to have enough to make it a shawlette sized shawlette though.  i guess i'll keep knitting until i'm out of yarn and then decide if it will block out big enough.  bummer if it doesn't, but not the end of the world.  not really sure what else i could use this colourway for other than socks though... it just doesn't "go" with the lacey shawlettes i see on Ravelry, know what i mean?  :)

Holden Shawlette

she's done!  and she's beautiful, if i may say so myself.  the combination of the yarn and the pattern... perfection!

i altered the cast off and i finished her with yarn left over.

well... i'll be damned...

i ran out of yarn while casting off on my Holden Shawlette.  i was so close!  i'm slowly unravelling it.  slowly because every stitch i unravel is dropping and i have to pick it up with a handy dandy crochet hook.  i'm hoping that i can do the picot cast off again (because it really looks so cute!), but next time around i'm going to knit more stitches between each picot.  hopefully that will save me some yarn and i'll have enough to get all the way across.

witness the sadness:

but, in better news, i did get this in the mail:

my new fuzzy wallet.  it is so adorable!  lots of room for my stuff too.  i'm happy :)  i got it from this seller on Etsy:  BearMojo.

Holden Shawlette

i am so in love with the Malabrigo sock yarn.  it is so soft, so springy, the colours are beyond amazing!  try as i might i could not capture the colours (i'm knitting with the colourway Archangel) exactly as they are with my camera.  in real life it is darker, with more burgundy.  it's like knitting the colours of a sunset.  beautiful!

Riverside Yarns

so, the man was kind enough to leave a little early to pick up his kids this weekend... which meant i had time to (finally!) stop in to check out Riverside Yarns in Owen Sound, Ontario. 

okay... i admit it... they almost kicked me out for drooling on their yarns.  you have to understand that i've been doing all my yarn shopping online for the past two years.  so being in an actual yarn store, with yarn i could fondle... oh.my.gawd.

i must also say that Colleen was incredible.  what a sweetheart.  she was very pleasant, and not in that fake-nice way, you know what i mean?  she seems very genuine. 

i walked out of there with Knitting Lace Triangles by Evelyn A. Clark, two skeins of Malabrigo sock (one in Indiecita, pictured, the other is in Archangel, not pictured... yet) and a skein of Fleece Artist Trail Socks in the most fabulous reds, purples and oranges.

this is my first experience with Malabrigo sock.  and i am in love.  i proposed to it, but it (oh so softly) turned me down and suggested we commit to each other in a different way... she would be willing to live with me for a long time in the form of a Holden Shawlette.  i agreed.

now... on to the quick and flash-ridden yarn pr0n.  hey... pr0n is pr0n, right?  ;)

this is my new friend...

...Elizabeth.  she's rather tall and skinny (two things i am not), but i like her all the same  ;)

i got her on eBay.  i've been wanting to get a mannequin for a while... it's so hard to take pictures of things like scarfs without one for selling things on Etsy.  she arrived early last week but i was too sick to even look at her in the box.  John took her out of the box this past weekend and assembled her for me.  he's the one who christened her Elizabeth.  not only does he put things together, he names them.  this is a sign of a keeper for me... i name everything.  for example, my laptop's name is Jezebel. 

i haven't really managed much in the way of knitting this past week.  yes, i was that sick.  if i'm not knitting or if i turn down a glass of milk you know there is something seriously wrong with me.  i finished one Chroma sock and started the second  (i totally admit to manipulating the yarn so that the second sock would start at purple and be "opposite" the first sock):

and i started another Chroma (in worsted weight) striped scarf.  the black is Knit Picks' Wool of the Andes:

Chroma Scarf

i am in love with this scarf.  the yarn is soooo soft. 

the finished scarf ended up being 64" long and 6.5" wide.  i used exactly two balls of Chroma.

i love this scarf so much i want to make another one.  :)