And we have MITTENS!

Oh yeah!  Check those bad boys out!  My first attempt at double point knitting is finally complete!  Putting on the thumbs was a little challenging just because of the awkward angle.  They are made out of Three Irish Girls Irish Sea in their bulky weight.

Budget + Improving my knitting skills + Finding Raverly = BUDGET BLOWN

A couple weeks ago I posted this post about being up to my eyeballs in debt and what I my plan was to get my numbers down.  Well, I was well on my way to not breaking my budget for this pay period when I decided to take my sister-in-law and my friend Michelle to our town's yarn store.  Oh, we're not talking your Red Heart yarn here ladies and gent's...we're talking handspun/handpainted/dyed and more expensive than Red Heart yarn yarn's.  Which is apparently why I like it so much.

Well let's just put it this way...I spent a considerable chunk of money that day as well as learned some new skills.  In addition to my new skills I found the webpage Ravelry where knitters and crocheters can post their projects and find patterns and buy yarn and just have ton's of knitting and crocheting fun. If your on Ravelry you can find me as Sheeplesinthecity.

And this is were I went wrong.

Now that I've found this site and found TONS of patterns that I want to make...I've blown my budget all to hell on needle's and yarn.  I'm not making excuses...I'm just stating a fact.  Oh sure there's still money in the account but not as much as I would have liked to have had left over.  So much for being good with my first paycheck after paying off my car. :(

I'll do better next week that's for sure.

Double Pointed Knitting!

Yesterday my friend/co-worker Michelle, my sister-in-law Jeanie and myself went up to our local yarn shop because we're knitters and crocheters.  And I gave Michelle a gift certificate to the store for Christmas and she wanted to use it.  While there we all spent a small fortune on yarn, kitting needles and patterns.

While in the store one of the owners was talking to me about how knitting on Double Pointed Needles just looked intimidating and how easy it was to learn.  So there I was talked into learning Double Points and now I'm in the process of knitting mittens out of Three Irish Girls Irish Sea yarn.

That's the stuff right there...I'm really excited that I learned all these new skills yesterday.  I can hardly wait to show y'all the pictures of my mittens!

Banana Silk Yarn

Yesterday when I was visiting The Cat and The Crow I found a rather interesting kind of yarn...Banana Silk Yarn.  It's a little bit on the pricey side ($12 a skein) but so far I have been having great success with it.  I'm making a scarf out of it and it's coming out really nicely.  I'm using the "Downpour" color and I really like it alot.