Failures

So, I've had many failures over the "years" of writing this blog. Mostly, I just haven't updated it. I have always found it very hard to believe that anything I have to say is important enough to make people flock to my blog to read my words. I think I need to get over that.

So, I promised a Ravelympics post, and I didn't follow through with that. The reason? I am lazy. I knit so many darn things in the Ravelympics this past February (yes, its July now), that I just got too lazy to edit that all into a post, so I apologize. Any knitters that are read this are generally already friends, so check out my Ravelry page for pictures, but I will list what I completed for Ravelympics, for anyone who really wants to know:

House Hippo out of sock yarn my dear friend Jess (jessnyc) dyed

Meret hat out of Malabrigo worsted in Huertas

House Hippo out of Wollmeise 80/20 in Jung Maus. This actually won me a prize in the WM ravelry group! :D

a chunky hat (I called it Chunky Monkey, no pattern, just made it up as I went along) out of Malabrigo Chunky in green sapphire

Forest Canopy shawl out of Wollmeise 100% in Die Auster

plain stockinette socks out of my own self striping hand dyed yarn!

Bella's Mittens for my neice Julia, a Christmas present for this upcoming year (at least I'm ahead now, right?) in Purple Mystery malabrigo worsted

Jaywalker socks out of Wollmeise 80/20 in Zenzi

During the Ravelympics I also knit the Pomotamus socks (see last post) mostly during the Ravelympics but didn't finish within the time limit, despite trying really hard. I finished them the next day though. Phew, that was a lot of projects!

So, my sock of the month club? Also a failure. I complete socks in March, which I'll include a photo of right here. The pattern was made up by me, and is just a shifting rib, which actually worked out pretty cool. The yarn is Yarn Nerd 1200 mHz Merino in "Buttered Popcorn" and is damn gorgeous! Since then, I've been a knitting FREAK. Seriously. I am so busy knitting (and working, sad!) and swapping!

Yes, swapping. Well, some of you know I run a major yarn swap group on Ravelry that was passed down to me, but recently I've fallen back in love with mail art. I've been on sendsoemthing.net for a while and now I've become a member of Swap-Bot recently and I'm an addict. I love getting mail: letters, stationery, fun lists, etc. I love learning about different cultures and different places to live and meeting new friends to correspond with. I have several penpals, and love hearing about their lives, its so interesting. People don't value letters like they used to. Email is so impersonal and lame these days. I get emails from spam companies and crap I do online. From friends, I want words. I want ink and paper and respect for communication as an artform! Sure, maybe I'm cheesy, but so what?

I've also been creating a lot of things for my etsy shop including these cool letter booklets. They are hand bound with waxed Irish linen, and hand sewn. I used to really enjoy book binding, but I only remember the basics, so I'm trying to get back into it a little bit. Thing is, it all costs money... and thats money that I don't have (so pleaes, go to my etsy shop and buy something, haha!)

Oh, speaking of my etsy shop, as I write this, I have 3 spots left in my Non Club. Normally I don't pimp out too much on my blog here, but if you read ths and there are spots left, GET ONE. I have serious goodness planned for this club, and also, $10 from every club sale is being donated to a good cause - theres a girl named Robyn who has Crohn's disease. She is a friend of a friend and has been screwed over by jobs/insurance, is stuck in the hospital with insanley increasing hospital bills, and she needs help! Please, please, PLEASE help if you can by purchasing one of those Non Club spots!

So, thats what I've been doing. I'm writing this post in an attempt to resurrect my blog (though I'm not sure why, ha!), so we'll see what happens! Posts will be random and sporadic, but I'm going to actually try to post more!