Has it been a year?

my last post was Sept 15, 2009. i haven't blogged since for depressing reasons. My favorite knitter and inspiration passed away the morning after my last posting. it had been unexpected.
In response to it i shut down and could not bring myself to talk to anymore for a month except my husband and kids. i finished 1 knitted garment then and stuck it away, started a sock and never touched it after reality hit and i no long had a mom i could call and cry about knitting issues to. i lost everything then. i frogged the sock 6 months later since i felt it was attached to my sadness.
Since then i have finished a pair of socks and returned to the visible world of knitting with friends. I feared i would get the pity looks from the same people who knew my mom but they let me talk about her and we had laughs its just me who still cries when i think of her and miss her dearly.
Sept 16, 2010 marks the first anniversary of her passing

i will not be defeated

I've been plugging away at my garment.. Mariposa a tank top and as of last night I'm down to a bare few inches left to be completed.
the most pain in the ass part is doing bust darts when you haven't done them before. perhaps not the best thing for a beginner but its done and over with fugly or not i fucking finished.
once i get the top ends done i will take new pics and do the weaving in of the ends and be done damn it.

so dear turquoise microspun how you tormented me for the past 3 years go screw yourself i won dammit.


and i'll be using you again soon enough

Popping the garment cherry

i'm making my first real wearable. right now its probably 20% done, i have 5 inches of the front made, 5 inches on a back panel and the straps are already completed.
its taken me 3 years to make something for me that i can wear not just use...i made the 8ft scarf, winter set to go with it and all of the pieces were lost/destroyed, a knit shawl that i dont have a lot of use for. then i did a 10 square swap(the 11th person bailed so she gets nothing from me) eventually i will add on square of my own or just really big effin strips of stuff that i can seam togehter.
so now i've managed to learn to do left leaning decreases(obviously i know what and how to do right leaning lol) i know i hate seed stitch with a blood fucking passion first run of it on the tanktop i'm doing and it almost was ribbing cause i cant keep remembering k,p,k,p and p,k,p,k fubared it a few times. and definetly dont attempt that in the dark again or after a beer lol.
in a week i'll be knitting with my mom again for a 9 day vacation i'm so ready for it
on that note my lil man is up and i need to change him

focus people focus i haz it

ok my blog here has been lacking i wasnt focused enough to concentrate on knitting anything for friends or myself. i bo'd my last swap related project which still hasnt made it to the post office yet.
since then i have made 2 barbie dresses, cast on for a pair of yoga socks and started the straps for a shirt by the name of mariposa
as of currently my sock is 1/2 done and with another one to go and i'm only a few inches into the strap but its better than going oh i want to make this and i have the yarn but i've got to finish something else first
now i suffer from omgiwannamakethat- itis its prolly an incurable disease but treated by being broke and not able to afford the yarns lol.

in that said back to Knitty.com and the instructions for mariposa

1 word

Where is your mobile phone?
cabinet

Where is your significant other?
chair

Your hair colour?
dull

Your mother?
home

Your father?
pipefitter

Your favorite thing?
knitting

Your dream last night?
none

Your dream goal?
designer

The room you’re in?
livingroom

Your hobby?
knitting

Your fear?
sickness

Where do you want to be in 6 years?
virginia

Where were you last night?
home

What you’re not?
drunk

One of your wish-list items?
vacation

Where you grew up?
city

The last thing you did?
knit

What are you wearing?
clothes

Your TV?
old

Your pets?
children

Your computer?
toshiba

Your mood?
tired

Missing someone?
mommy

Your car?
lumina

Something you’re not wearing?
bra

Favourite shop?
beadaholique

Your summer?
tiring

Love someone?
yes

Your favorite color?
red

When is the last time you laughed?
tonight

When was the last time you cried?
friday

mia

1 size 9 siulver aluminum straight needle last seen with 2 small children

knitting,yarn and oww my aching back

knitting, yarn and a sore back what a bitch
im on a knitting spree its been going on for a week between frogging the same piece over and over until i found a happy little cheating medium and finally completing it today(its to be mailed to one of my KG friends in a swap) and i have started onto the next piece and combined or something with the past week of fevered knitting and last nights wild fun my back hurts like an SOB but i seem to be seeing a problem

the yarn i'm using for this newer project it appears i do not have enough to make a 12x12" square by friday(i wanted it done and packed as well by then but i cannot for the life of me remember if its lion brand, caron or bernat must find label to match and purchase more if needed if i can get it in same shade or perhaps a purple. must buy more vodka once this week is over learning lace stitches are making me drink nightly.

must finish this last line and drag my sleepy sore self off to bed to pick up at line 21 in the morning.
so tired i said 30 on my myspace blog