Swallowtail Update

I’ve been making some good progress on my swallowtail shawl. It’s been an interesting adventure so far. From Aug 8 though Aug 21, I was able to get the 14 repeats of the Budding Lace pattern completed. Not too shabby considering I was so exhausted all the frakking time from our little leibchen. I was at the Pocono Plateau with the youth group from church and was able to work on more of the shawl. However, I was having a difficult time of doing the 3rd row of the Lily of the Valley Border. I had ripped it out several times and then yesterday I had just about had it.

On ravelry, I found several groups doing this. So Droelma got back to me pretty quick to tell me that she was working on a presentation for work (due yesterday!), but she’d be willing to help me when she had more time later in the day or morning (today). I felt so thankful because it really meant a lot to me! Then I had another knitter, jsknitter, who told me she had done the nupps (a k1,yo,k1,yo,k1 all in one stitch) 9 times on either side of the center markers. This has made me realize that I had been doing the nupp into three stitches instead of just one. So I fixed that up quite nicely and now I’m onto row 7. I have 104 rows done out of 139. I am hoping to get it done by this Friday or Saturday for my fleetwide power battle (Go CYLONS!).

I also have Leslie’s Christmas tote to get done. :::Hangs head in shame::: I’ve just been putting it off longer and longer and longer. Ugh! And I still need to get her a birthday present. Crap! I can’t drive anywhere, maybe I’ll be able to pick something up soon. Grr!!!! Stupid me. I feel like a horrible friend!!!

It's Been A While!

I’ve been away for a while and I figured it was about damn time I updated again! We went to Myrtle Beach the last week of July, so I brought some yarn and knitted up quick this Collared Helmet by Sirdar with their Snuggly Kisses DK weight yarn in the Speckle colorway. I made it for my personal trainer’s baby boy. She worked with me up to the week of her pregnancy! She was so excited about the hat that she stopped almost everyone who passed her to show it off! I thought that was cute!


During the month of July, I also finished Mr. Bear’s Camo Hoodie. It’s a bit small on him so I think I might make him another one later. This one was made with KnitPicks Imagination yarn in the Woodsman (no longer made). Mr. Bear is a huge fan of this hoodie!

I also made another one of the helmets by sirdar. This one was made for my friend Jackie’s new born baby, Liah Marie. Jackie complained that she had WAY too many pink clothes so I decided to make this in a multi pastel colorway. I’m still finishing it up and will have a photo up soon!

Now, I’m working on finally finishing up Leslie’s Christmas tote. Whoops, and I still need to put her birthday gift inside it. Gotta get that done quick! I don’t even know what to get her for her birthday! Uh oh.

I’m also working on the Swallowtail Shawl that I’ve been dying to make. I’m finally using my Shimmer Lace weight KnitPicks yarn in the Spice colorway. I LOVE the way it’s coming out. It’s so pretty!

Look at the pretty colors up close! So perfect for Autumn!


Too bad I’ve been too tired to knit this week. Not that I’m complaining. I just wasn’t aware that I’d be so exhausted only 4 weeks into my pregnancy! Yup, that’s right, we’re expecting! This will be our first child, and we’re expecting him or her in mid to late April! We were shooting for a May baby as the DH and I are both May babies, but we’ll take this one! We are so thrilled. I haven’t a clue what to knit first!!!!

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!!!

BSG Games

Okay, back to knitting again! Well, I finished the Madeira pattern for the Shipwrecked Shawl and have put that on hold. First because I was up at our cabin without any way to string the beads and I didn’t have any of my larger needles to put on the shawl. So I worked on the Collared Baby Boy Cardigan for the following couple of days until we got home. So I’m about half way done with that.

When I got home on Monday, I read my ravelry site. I joined the BSG FPB (Fleet Power Battle). Yup, I'm a dork/geek/nerd/whatever. It’s basically a game to see which team (Pegasus, Galactica, or Cylon) can knit the most stuff in each ‘term’. The term lasts 3 months. Each month, you can do an option of 1-6 briefings that must be started AND completed within that month. You get a certain number of points for starting a project, and a number of points for completing it. You can do one or all of them per month. Then there is Viper or Raider training. VT/RT is a difficult project that will take you the full term to complete. You get more points for that.

So I started on the Baby’s First DNA Model. I’m making it for my friend’s baby, but she doesn’t know it yet. Hopefully, I can get it done by the baby shower in a week from tomorrow. That just means I have to bust my butt. It’s not big, as I’m almost done the first cord of it and I’ve only worked on it for a few hours. Then I’m going to finish designing my first shawl with the BSG logo down the back and vipers and raiders coming down the sides. I’m excited!

A Week Off Shipwrecked

I went into The Knitter's Edge in Bethlehem again to pick up a pair of size 3 needles. While I was there, I also purchased some Sirdar's Snuggly Kisses DK weight yarn. I saw the cutest boy's cardigan, and I want to make it. Too bad no one I know is having a boy! Well, now my friend Danelle is pregnant and she'll find out tomorrow if it's a boy or girl. I'm hoping for boy so I can give this to her. I casted on so to knit the front AND back at the same time. I got to the arms, so I'm holding off and switching back to my Shipwrecked Shawl.

I stopped working on that because I originally didn't like how the second half of the Madeira looked. I took the week off to think about it. I really didn't want to rip out almost 15 rounds of stitches, so I decided I could live with it. I picked it up briefly this past weekend, but I couldn't get into it. I was exhausted. I had to take some meds that apparently didn't agree with my mood and I didn't feel like doing anything. I'm still feeling repercussions from them... I'm not happy about that, literally! But I'm finally getting back into my knitting.

Leslie will be over tonight to watch some BSG, I think, and I will get the rest of this pattern done tonight. Then I'll need to string beads!