What I've been doing

So folks,I haven't posted in over 2 months but I have been knitting. I've started to knit a baby blanket for a friend of mines that's in my book club. I've knit up this really cute bag with bamboo handles(just waiting for a friend to sew in the lining), I've cast on for another bag and I'm making a pillow with my name in it. I really want to felt the pillow but I found out the yarn that I'm using isn't wool so I'm kinda stuck with that one. I've recently decided to make a few things for this craft bazaar that's coming up in December. I gotta figure what I'll sell. I got a few skeins of yarn from knit picks and I think i'll make a scarf and fingerless gloves with it. Unfortunately, my stupid camera is not working so I can't take any pics right now but I'm working on that LOL.
I have two other people to knit blankets for so I'll be pretty busy. I'll probably end up knitting a few coin purses to take to the bazaar along with some jewelery that I'm making, like some bracelets or some earrings.
Even though I'm making all of these things I still feel so unproductive. I wonder why though....
Recently, I started back up doing a little cross-stitch since I saw one of the members of my SnB group doing and all her work is sooo beautiful. There are some WIP that I just have to complete and then I'll either give them away or keep in my house. I'm in desperate need of more yarn(even though my fiances says no more). I guess I'll just have to check out knitpicks.
oh yeah, on to that whole engaged thing. Yeah,I'm engaged ad hopefully I can take a pic of the ring because i love showing it off. Hopefully, I can get that stupid camera to work. We'll see. Until happy knitting!!!!
~~Jackie

Finally finished!

I finally finished the purse that I was knitting and thought I would never finish. It took me a few weeks to put it together and felt it but I did it. I actually felted it yesterday in my friends washer and at first I thought that it would felt because I didn't put the washer setting on hot, but she fixed it and it finally felted. It was pretty big before I felted it too and what I've noticed is that the longer that I keep it in the washer, the smaller it becomes. Duh!!! That's pretty obvious once you think about it though. I also felted the other purse and it's pretty cute also even though it's smaller than I wanted it to. So I've putting up a few pics of the purse. I hope you enjoy.

I'm tired of this project!

I want to officially say take this project and shove it! I've decided not to finish the pattern and just go straight stockinette with a solid color. I haven't been working on it at all in the last few weeks and I know if I had been working on it diligently that it would be finished by now. That is so frustrating because the other purse could be finished if I would have just put it together and then put it in the washer by now. I started on that like in October. I could have either sold it or had it to wear by now. Why or why must I procrastinate so much? I fear that with the new promotion at work to Supervisor on the night shift, I won't be able to do any kind of anything. I might not even be able to go to SnB on Tuesdays because I don't know when I'll have an off day. Well, today is Mother's day and it has been pretty awesome if I do say so myself. My mother treated my sisters and I(who were mothers) to a nice dinner of steak, shrimp, salad and baked potatoes. Wasn't that nice? Well, I'm off to attempt to start working on the rest of this project.

Updates and Pics

I finally have my pics from the project that I'm working on. It's a purse that will be felted. I'm so addicted to felting and the process, it's one of my favorite things to do when I knit because it hides some of my mistakes. I got the pattern off of the Lion Brand website. I'll add the link if I can later but when I was searching for something to start, I thought of something easy and quick. Actually, it hasn't been very quick and that's probably because I really haven't been knitting as much as much as I really want to or should. Because the purse is stripped, it seems so monotonous at times. I've been working on at it at SnB on Tuesday's at Bela Dubby. I'm seriously thinking of just not following the pattern and adding some bamboo handles to it and calling it a day because it seems like it's so much. I think I might start blogging a little bit more. My camera is a piece of crap and I should be getting a replacement soon enough. Here's few pics of the purse and of it's progress.

I'm baaaaaack!!

It's been close to 5 months since my last post and boy has a lot changed. Of course I managed to survive the holidays...Ugghhhh! It's a new year and maybe a new me. I don't have any pictures of some of the things I've been working on but they are coming shortly. I do have a new digital camera so I can take pictures of all of my work and my finished projects and my works in progress. I guess I am getting "better" at knitting I don't make anymore mistakes and I'm attempting to work with double pointed needles and work on harder projects.

I haven't been going to Stitch Bitch onMondays on a regular basis anymore because they're either always meeting someplace far away or I'm just too tired when I get off work on Mondays. I've been going to SNB at Bela Dubbyon Tuesdays lately. That's a more laid back better meeting because it's later on in the day and it's always at the same place. I do have pics of Bela Dubby in another camera. I definitely need to get the camera developed. I am posting a picture of my crazy cat Miau-Miau, who we call Kitty because that's exactly what he is a wild and crazy kitty!

I'm jealous!!!!

It's been way too long since I've posted. I'm so angry because I have all these picks of some of my finished projects and I can't even post them. I went to other knitting Blogs and I'm JEALOUS! All of their blogs have really cool projects and I just knit small projects. I wonder when do these people have time. They probably all have regular 9 to 5 jobs and I don't so that's the reason. I recently started on my own creation. It's going to be a felt book cover or journal. It's my own design but so far, it looks pretty lame. I knit mostly on my way to work and coming back home.

Some of my ideas

I sat at work last night and wrote in my paper journal about how I really wanted to open my own yarn shop. I noticed that there aren't any "local" shops in the Cleveland area. I thought about myself as a non-driver at this point and said There needs to be a shop that is accessible by the bus that is on a main street that has long hours that will appeal to everyone. I saw a shop open on West 25th that had closed down after many years of being open, then I thought about businesses that open and close in a year. That really made me nervous about a business venture. I would totally do it if I could. I just need a small business loan or win the lottery which ever one comes first..LOL. That's my goal to look into that.

My next idea was to start maybe a small business like Etsy and make purses, scarfs and little things that people have around the house that's fast and easy since I hate really long projects and get bored easily with them. I also told someone in my Teaswap on Paperbackswap.com that I would knit them a tea cozy. Darn! Another project to do plus I want to cast on to make a purse, a book cover and I still have to knit my co-worker his hat. I have way too much stuff to do and not enough time to do it in.