Friday, August 15, 2008

Party over here!

Poor, poor neglected blog. I blame ravelry, only because I want to deflect the blame off of myself. Yes, bad, bad ravelry indeed. I haven't been on Ravelry much lately either....well then I'll blame laziness, yup, thats who dunnit!

I kid, I kid but I have been keeping my crafty self busy but first lets start with the big shindig Sahara and I hosted this past weekend. I'm speaking of our 3rd annual Sistah Friends Knitta-que. We got booted out of our regular spot on St Nicholas Ave so we scooted the party down a block or so. We still had a grand ole time and I think everybody left there a couple of pound heavier ( I know I did).
Sahara & Kim scoping out the location.....
Kimmie & her Frickie gearing up for some impromtu lessons
Veronica maxin' & relaxin'Grill shotMy little one playing with his Transformer waiting for the other kids to arrive
The two kewlest dudes I know!Sherrin showing off her remixed Juliet (fabulous!)
Shameka icing up some sinfully delicious red velvet cupcakes (yum) Tawana, her mini me & SherrinThe littlest (and cutest by far) barbequerXenobia catching a bite

Last but not least, Sahara, the brainchild behind this entire event. If she hadn't of dreamt this idea up 3 years ago, then we wouldn't have had a chance to connect and celebrate with our knitting cyber 'friends in our heads'. I thank you for that and all the energy and resources you put into making this event happen. Big ups!

I thought I had a picture of Veronica but I guess I was too busy talking her ear off to pull out my camera. I appreciate all the sistahfriends that came out to represent, thank you for trekking all the way to Harlem in the name of Sistahhood. I must say that I am disappointed in all the no shows. I'm not gonna rant but the lack of consideration did get to me a bit. Anyhoo, thats about it as far as the event went. We're already brainstorming for next years event!

Now on the the WIP's & FO's, Knitting & Crocheting, Spinning & Sewing. Actually there hasn't been any sewing, I was just trying to go with the flow. I'm working on two project right now, a stay at home project and a travel project. I've been working on my home project for a while now [goes to check ravelry], since June! Its a shrug I'm planning on rocking this fall called Primavera. The pattern is by the very talented (and friend in my head) Rosi G. When I first saw this pattern, I knew I had to have it. I casted on immediately and knit on it with a passion until it got to big to travel with. Hopefully I'll have it done by September. Here's my progress so far.

My travel project is of course a pair of socks. I've gotten comfortable with doing them one at time. The trick to beating second sock syndrome is to cast on for the second sock immediately after finishing the first. I mean you can't even delay for a minute, believe me it works. The pattern is the Riverbed master pattern from Cat Bordhi's sock book. The leaf stitch pattern is #169 from the Japanese book Knitting Pattern Book 300. I'm love the pattern, love the yarn, love this sock. I should be done soon and on to the next thing.

In between working on the shrug and starting these socks, I got a little obsessed with making .....washcloths. When I say obsessed, I mean, I made 4 in 4 days. Here's they all are but they may look a little beat up because my family and I have already started using them. I'm planning on making some more soon.

This post is pretty long already so I'll save the spinning & crocheting for the next time I post. Hopefully that will be sooner rather than later. Till then, be breezy!

9 comments:

Sherrin said...

I had a marvelous time as well. And I will continue to attend our annual picnics.

Jeanine said...

Looks like you guys had a good time. When did Kimmie get a Frickie??? I'm scared to go down that road. Your Primavera is coming along quite nicely. I like that stitch pattern you are using for your sock. Very pretty.

Anonymous said...

HEY! put out a pattern for that sock dude!!

Primavera is looking great! I can't wait to see it finished!

I'm so sorry I couldn't make it, not apologizing so much as that I'm literally SORRY I wasn't there. Wish I would've been. :(((

Debbie said...

Ah! You're right, I think that is the same yarn as my socks! Now I'll know what it is - before it's been the unidentified but probably superwash merino hand painted :O) Juliet is kicking my but, but only b/c I have to pay attention now with the lace.

Anonymous said...

now i can say this to you

Im mad at you too. for not telling me about the picnic i want to see you and tawana and i would have like to met shameka. but anyway we are having a NP picnic sunday at the 103rd entrance cpw at 1pm hope to see you both there i yelled at her already

MOE

Scheherazaad said...

I am so sorry that I couldn't go to to the Knittaque this year. I had such a good time last year. It looks like it was just as much fun again.

Nancy Wetmore-Mathews said...

The shrug is coming along beautifully. It's going to look great on you.

Great sock and washcloths too. You have been busy!

Anonymous said...

I am so sorry I couldn't make it to the knitaque this year but it looks like a good time was had by all. See y'all next year.

Anonymous said...

Hello there!! I am new to the crocheting world. I wanted to ask wear can I find this particular purse pattern. I means it just have just the particular hooks but it dosen't say anything in details about the overall pattern. Do you know where can I find the entire pattern? I am a member in the Ravalry crochet world:)