I am in and done

Well I got onto ravelry today YEAH and finished my husband sweater sort of. I HATE the way it turned out after he sees it I think I am going to frog it. I use to cry when ever I had to rip something out but know it's almost at peace with the whole frogging thing. Know I realize that it is all just a part of the knitting experience.

On Sunday we went out and bought two new rats. We set out to get just one more but when we got to the pet store they had only two left and we didn't want to leave just one of them behind. Truth be told my husband was the one who mentioned that the one we were going to leave would be lonely. So we picked up both of them. This morning I got up and one of the rats was missing I searched their cage and the house and I could not find her. A few hours later my husband got up and looked in the second cage we keep to but the rats in when we clean there cage and she was hiding in the towel on the bottom of the cage.

Progress

I have both the sleeves done for my husbands sweater and one is connected to the body all I have left to do is the raglan top. With any luck I will meet the goal

Ravelry

* You signed up on December 5, 2007
* You are #66787 on the list.
* 1349 people are ahead of you in line.
* 5153 people are behind you in line.
* 90% of the list has been invited so far

My week

Since I wrote last I have been really working hard to get my husbands sweater done . I have almost finished one sleeve started the other one and as soon as they are done the body is waiting for them to be joined. I have also resisted the erg to cast n something else I keep seeing the My So Called Scarf on line and I really would like to knit one for my daughter. She decided to like scarfs but only wants to wear this awful scarf that I made out of scrap yarn on my Knifty Knitter. It is old and UGLY. So I would like to knit her a nicer one in a fun kind of pattern with softer yarn and try to talk her into wearing it instead. I have also wanted to knit a sock/cozy for my I=pod and Camera. The other thing I want to knit is a new hammock for my rats. They have one in there cage that came with the bigger cage I got for them but I think they miss there old wool one. My hairless rat (Sunny ) loved to snuggle in the wool hammock with our hairy girl (Violet) But since they got there new hammock They have never used it. I don't blame them it looks to be made out of polyester and does not look like something I would want to sleep in.

I bought my camera its a Sony Cyber-shot. I was trying to figure out how to use it and decided to start to get some thing on flickr for when I get my invite to ravelry.
Here are my ravelry stats
* You signed up on December 5, 2007
* You are #66787 on the list.
* 3503 people are ahead of you in line.
* 3702 people are behind you in line.
* 89% of the list has been invited so far
I feel real bad being so inpatient I know that a lot of people had to wait a lot longer then a week or two to get in. I am sure it would be easer if everyone wasn't talking about how awesome it is. Every time I here it on a pod cast I get all excited to get home and check my spot in line.

A night without knitting (sort of)

Last night I was not in a knitting mood. I am sure that if anyone was reading they just closed the page but if you are still here I just could not bring my self to knit. I knitted for a hour while watching a movie with my daughters then I could not convince myself to pick it back up after they went to sleep. This was a good thing though because in the time period that I would of spent knitting I was able to finely go through the last of my yarn mess that I called a stash and clean out all the ugly yarn that I bought when I was a new knitter. I through away a ton of yarn that had managed to knot it self up during our move this summer. I also finely was able to but together a bag of yarn that I know that I either hate because it's from my fancy yarn faze or that I just know I will never get to knitting up. Hopefully it finds a new home where it will be worked on and loved. It always made me feel sad to see the bags of yarn just sitting there. Now I will be able to buy yarn again and not feel bad.
I was also able to pull out my wheel and spin up some of the super wash that I have wanted to spin into sock yarn since I bought it 2 years ago this thanksgiving. It is spinning up nicely I already have half a spool full. I think I will use it to knit my daughters each a pair of socks.

Yeah Me!!

I have the best husband in the whole world. Today after he picked me up from work we were talking and he said that we should buy a new camera. The pictures I have been taking lately have been with the cell phone or disposable cameras. I have been putting off buying a new camera in hopes that I find the cord to our old one, but today in the car we decided that ours is getting old(we bought it in 2001) and the new ones are so much cheaper and better then what they had to offer back then.

So soon I will be posting lots more pictures.

Today at work I was able to knit 2 more inches on my husbands sweater, and i plan on knitting more after dinner.

Last night I signed up to Ravelry here are my states for today

• You signed up on Yesterday
• You are #66787 on the list.
• 7191 people are ahead of you in line.
• 393 people are behind you in line.
• 88% of the list has been invited so far

I am so excited to get on I. If you have not been there you should check it out. It looks like its a lot of fun. I heard that they are letting in roughly 700 people a day so I should be allowed to enter within the next 2 weeks.

A Brief Intro

I have recently bought an i-Pod and started to listen to pod casts and they reminded me that I have always wanted to start a blog. So here goes nothing!

Let me start be introducing myself. I am a 27 year old mother of 2, well 6 if you count my rats husband and my cousin that lives up-stairs from us. As I post about them you can decide if they count or not! I live in Minnesota and boy has if been snowy and cold I think we will have a white Christmas this year.
Some of the things I like to do with my time are, spinning, starting knitting projects, dyeing wool, looking up podcasts to download, listening to books on tape, baking, making candy, raising my family, and convincing myself to not buy more knitting stuff. I also know how to embroider, sew, crochet, and have dabbled with lots of other crafts.

I plan to use this blog as incentive to not only start projects but actually finish them.

So lets get started.

The project that I have decided to finish is a sweater that I am knitting for my husband. This is going to be really hard because it is an all Grey stockinette sweater. My plan is to have it done before Christmas. I am knitting it in the round and have about a quarter of the body knit already.

Oh yeah I almost forgot I need your help yesterday I got my first tattoo she's the fairy in the picture and I want help naming her so if anyone has any ideas they would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you for reading my ramblings if you have any comments feel free to post them.