FO! Yay!

Well, both the projects I made for the FPB are finished. I don’t want to start another project before the term stops, because I already have ten WIPs at the moment. I’d like to get the Sirdar Collared Boy Sweater done before I leave for Creation next Wednesday. Hopefully I can! I also have my RT project to do. It’s pretty sweet and I have a fellow Cylon helping me by ‘proofing’ it. I just have to figure out the cast on method and how to do the increases.

I finished Rob’s Cabled Hat (below).




And I finished my DNA model (below).



I’d like to get the Sirdar Collared Boy Sweater done before I leave for Creation next Wednesday. Hopefully I can! I also have my RT project to do. It’s pretty sweet and I have a fellow Cylon helping me by ‘proofing’ it. I just have to figure out the cast on method and how to do the increases.

It’s all good. I’ve been a bit stressed lately. Yesterday would have been mom’s 52nd birthday. So I was a bit off. Plus, I’m trying to find time to play around with music for the band. It’s hard to find the time and energy to work on knitting all the time. Besides, I’ve been on a roll with Trina’s Story (pronounced Tr-in-ah, since its short for Trinity). I’m already halfway done with the fourth chapter. I’m up to 70 pages! Trust me, after about five months of nothing, the past month has been awesome. It’s coming along quite nicely.

Anyway, it’s been brief, but that’s all that’s going on!

Flight Plan Update

I have not finished the DNA model yet for the baby shower. I probably will finish it this weekend. As usual, I’m bored now! I have the sides both done. I began doing the first base pair as written in the instructions. Since I am such a tight knitter, mine looked so miniscule compared to the tubes. So I looked at other peoples projects on rav and found one girl who casted on 12 stitches instead of 9. I did a second one and it looks was cooler. I just don’t like the switching back and forth between the two yarns. I might just do a straight color change for the rest. But as I said, I’m bored.

So instead, I worked on stringing beads for the Shipwrecked shawl. I have two full skeins strew and the remainder of the one I was using when I finished the Madeira pattern. I’ll be placing a bead every 6th stitch. So 580 stitches per round equates out to be about 96 beads per round and about 56 rounds of beads so that’s roughly 4800 beads!

On other news, I’m going to have to get the rest of the scrapbooking stuff for my friend’s baby at some point tonight. Fun fun fun.

Also, I’m getting further with my idea for the BSG inspired pattern. It was originally called So Say We All Shawl, but I’d like to change it. Either to “Islanded in a Stream of Stars Shawl” or “Daybreak Shawl.” I’m leaning towards the former. Any suggestions? I’ve decided to split it up into 7 sections. The center will have the logo down and the 2 on each side will have the fight among the stars. I’m excited. I also ordered my yarn from KnitPicks and loads of Beads from Beadoholic. EEeeee, I can’t wait!!!