No FO, shameless Kitty photo instead

Rocco playing dead
Originally uploaded by jennylewinsky.

Joe cleaned yesterday. This means I will not find my camera for at least 2 days. So, no new FO to show. I am one square away from being finished with my mitred square baby blanket (that I totally ripped off from Paula). If I have enough yarn left over, I might make the little one a matching pillow. Still pondering that one, though. If the camera surfaces, pics tomorrow. Until then, here's Rocco playing "if you don't feed me soon, I will die. I mean it. Look at how weak I am already. Pleeeeeeeeezzzzzzzeeeee feeeeeeeed meeeeeee. I love you. Mommy? Are you listening? Ok, see, I died. Look at what you did." Crazy cat.

Odessa!

Odessa
Originally uploaded by jennylewinsky.

This hat is really red, not coral. My bedroom is apparently quite sunny at 7 AM. Who knew? Odessa was really easy to knit even though it looks really complicated. There's just alot of counting involved. And beads. Alot of beads. All of the beads ended up on the purl side of my stitches, so I had to force them to the front to sit on the knit stitches. (My trusty makeup mirror is modeling for me.)

Blog vacation

Cupcake Hat
Originally uploaded by jennylewinsky.

I haven't posted in so long, i forgot my password! Oops! So, this week, the plan is to post at least one FO each day so I can catch up. Man, coming back from vacation is a bitch! Anyway, this is my neice, Mackenzie and the cupcake hat I made her for Christmas. Her dad (my brother) is a big loser and hasn't seen her in over a year. She lives with her mom in Virginia & my idiot brother moved to Florida to "hide" from his ex & the evil child support collector. Asshole! Why have a baby if you don't want to support it? Why? Luckily, my parents have taken it upon themselves to help the ex out & they take her for the weekend here and there to give the mom a break. Still doesn't replace having a Dad, but hopefully my mom's guilt trips will make the boy come to his senses.

Buncha savages in this town.......

The worst possible thing happened over Christmas at my mom's house. We were sitting around knitting and I realized I needed another needle to do a three needle bind off. I went out to my car to get my knitting bag, but just grabbed the one needle I needed instead. I went back inside, finished my mom's vest, and went to bed. I then realized I didn't lock the car back up, and went downstairs to lock it with "the button." The next morning, we found that in that hour and 15 minutes, some (very disappointed, i'm sure) theif stole my knitting bag out of my car, probably thinking it was a purse. I would have LOVED to see their face when they went digging for a wallet and found 12 sets of double pointed's. Ha Ha! I apparently visited their very peaceful little town during a "crime spree." Mom is scouring all the pawn shops today to see if they tried to pawn anything. Good luck, Mom!

Birthday Yarn from Mom & Dad

Birthday Yarn from Mom & Dad
Originally uploaded by jennylewinsky.

I do realize my birthday was over 2 weeks ago, but I keep forgetting to post about it. I'm so busy knitting gifts, I have no time for anything else. And those damn people at work keep expecting me to actually DO WORK! WTF? Anyway, this is Princess by Classic Elite, my future sweater. After Christmas presents and Anniversary Sweater.

Scarf for Monica

Scarf for Monica
Originally uploaded by jennylewinsky.

One more present done! This is for my niece, Monica. I crocheted it with Microspun scraps.

fuzzies are done!

fuzzies after felting
Originally uploaded by jennylewinsky.

Well, here they are. I wish I could block these on his feet while he sleeps, but he's such a light sleeper, I don't think I'll be able to get away with it. So, grocery bags will have to do for now. I can always get them wet again after Christmas and mold them to his feet.

Joe's fuzzy feet (pre-felting)

Joe's slipper (pre-felting)
Originally uploaded by jennylewinsky.

It has taken a whole week of lunch break knitting as well as one SnB meeting, but I finally got fuzzy foot #1 complete. It is really hard to knit someone's Christmas gift in secret when you are around them all the time. Hopefully #2 won't take another week! I totally intended to knit the heel and toe orange, but completely forgot until it was too late. Oh well.

Llama hat

Llama hat
Originally uploaded by jennylewinsky.

I finished this like a week ago, but the weather has been too crappy for taking pictures outside. I think it came out pretty good. I used my Rhinebeck handspun llama and a free crochet pattern.

Stitch N Bitch!!

So, last night was my first trip to abc in Newington for SnB, and it was awesome. I finally met people my age that knit. I knew all along they were out there, but had never actually seen any of them in person. Only 3 of us were there, but it was fun nonetheless. We stitched, we bitched, and a good time was had by all. Thanks for telling me about it, Eklectika!

Rhinebeck Purchases

Rhinebeck Purchases
Originally uploaded by jennylewinsky.

So, I had major self control at Rhinebeck on Sunday. This teeny little ball of yarn was it! Well, that and this awesome Brittany crochet hook. Isn't it cool? Don't worry though, I came home and bought a buttload of Noro to make some Christmas presents out of.

Purse for my little niece, Maggie

So, this is my 2nd felted project-another purse (1st was sophie). I made it out of elektra and lamb's pride. Here she is before felting:

After felting:

Had some leftover yarn, so..................

Here I go

Ok, after lurking at other knit blogs for ages, I finally decided to start my own. I have nothing knitting related to post, but everyone loves the shameless "show off your cat photo." So, here's a picture of my kitty, Rocco. He's such a ham. A demanding, bossy, high-maintenance ham.