Hey Man...My Work's Down the Drain

Actually, work is not down the drain, it is completely out of control. Summer is busy season for the construction industry, and that includes product reps. I think I've been on three road trips since my last post. I also have gotten pathetically little knitting done. The Shapely Tank at White Lies Designs is going pretty well. I am using the Shinano that was being worked into the Chevron Tank (damnit I will get a tank out of this summer!)I've got the front done and the back part way through the armholes. (armscythes?) It is a GREAT pattern. Makes me wish her stuf was more my style- I'm a jeans n' T shirts kind of girl but maybe the lingere? (Did I spell that right? I am obviously killing too many brain cells with alcohol poisoning...) Anyway, underwear. :)

Picture coming when the tank's done...

A Finshed Object!!!

OK, you already knew Dibs on Ribs was finished, but here's the pictures to prove it!




The entire sweater here. I changed a few things. The obvious- this is Silk Garden, not Kureyon. I cast on enough stitches for the bottom "tube" to make the largest size, in hope of getting a slightly longer sweater (that part is knit from side-to-side.) It partially worked, but the sweater is still slightly shorter than I would like. I also only made 3/4 length sleeves.




Here's the end of the sleeve. The knitted inserts here & at the bottom of the body were also changed- the pattern specified how many stitches to pick up but I just picked up as many as I felt necessary to prevent gapping or puckering. I'm glad, too, because I was not even close to the number they suggested. Bottom front here.




The neckline had a crochet edging which I did as written, 1 row single crochet, and one row reverse single crochet. I like the edging- I'd never done reverse single crochet, but I think it came out ok.

I now have one of these...



It is loud and good.

That is all.

It is NOT my fault

I took pictures of Dibs on Ribs. I even made my husband bring the good camera home from work so the pictures did not cause a permanent headache. He has not downloaded them & emailed them to me. I am almost finished with another project by now!!! Marnie MacLean, who has the absolute coolest patterns ever, has this dragon hoodie for a little kid here. It is too cute. I am done with all the pieces (although I think if I make this again I will do it top-down seamless except for the hood) but I still have to put in the 2nd arm, sew the hood together, and make & attach the spine & ears. I am making it for the plant manager at my office who has been trying to get pregnant forever. She rules & I am so happy for them!

Anyway. I have also pulled the Shinano out again, and given up on the Chevron tank. I still don't have the needles after the people in wherever I was at the time decided they were deadly weapons. So I am starting the shapely tank from White Lies Designs which I have wanted to do for a while. I got gauge, so off I go. I love her designs, even if most are a bit too girly for me- they are really well put together. I have just about used up 1 skein & am into the waist shaping.

And, I need to bitch for a moment. Our bathroom sink is clogged. Hard water & 60+ year old pipes- when we got the toilet plunger out, this black CRUD came out. I need to go to the store & buy some Draino or something, and I don't really feel like doing it. Our landlord is basically of the "I-don't-care-what-you-so-just-don't-burn-the-house-down" variety. Which is nice when I want to hang pictures, but difficult when something needs to be fixed. And I will not whine about things I know how to do, so I have to fix the stupid thing myself.

At least it's not the toilet in a 1 bathroom apartment, right?