Tour de Fleece part 1

Horray, a post!

Well, I've decided what my challenge for the Tour de Fleece will be:

1. Spin every single day.
2. Get a yardage of at least 150yd. at least twice.
3. Work on processing a bag of fiber I got.

Doesn't seem too big, though I know I'll be a bit lacking. So most likely I'll be a lantern rouge. . .:P

In the meantime, school has been out and I've been having a good time with a new game(well, watching a new game) and with knitting and WIP Wrestling(sponsered by Ravelympics :P), so lots of things have been going on. So I better go so I can work on it all!
SylverX

I'm so so sorry!

I know, I keep jumping off the face of the earth. . .please forgive me! I've been really busy lately with school, then I went on vacation, so. . .I'm sorry I've disappeared!
But, enough with that! I want to tell you that I have decided to enter the Tour de Fleece! It starts really soon, like July 4th soon, so I can't wait to get up and spin! As for what I'm going to do. . .I have yet to think on that. I'm thinking trying to get a plied yardage of at least 150yds or more. . .is that at bit too big? I also think I want to spin a bit each day. . . it's summer vacation, so I have the time to do that.
Other than that, I have nothing else to say other than my new first GIRL cousin Karen is the cutest baby in the world!!!! I'm sitting next to her now. She is so cute, but I expect her to start crying any moment now. She's been filling her diaper, so she'll probably be crying soon. I LOVE HER! She's just about destroyed my right eardrum by screaming in it, but she can get away with it because she is so cute!!!!
I have to go on baby-patrol now, so excuse me. . .I promise to be back later!
SylverX

I'm back Babay!

Can you dig it?

I apologize for my long absense; school has been really busy, not to mention my new cousins arriving. . .and I'll be going up to Canada again! I am so happy about that.

Yesterday I spent the day getting crippled arms. Why? Because of something I like to call toys.

I was testing these little fellas for a friend of mine; aren't they the cutest?? I made them for my two new cousins.This was my first little guy/test. . .. . .and this was the second little test!This was put for scale. It kinda looks like they're being arrested for cuteness!See, they have their own mug shots!This was sorta what the stitches look like; I was using Peaches/Sugar and Creme/Cream. It's so cute! <3
Here are more tests of the macro function!

Pretty good, right?
And, of course, they're famous before they were born. . .
Sorry Harry Potter! You may be the Boy who Lived, but you aren't allowed a red carpet entrance!
. . .
. . .you can tell what I've been reading, huh?
Yep, some Harry Potter! They're so talented, they can read from when they were born.
I'm making another one of these cuties for myself right now; but first, I need to let my arms heal. Making stuff for babies is harder than it looks!
SylverX

Things I want to make before I get old. . .

(um, yeah.)

* President Obama Finger Puppet because how cool would it be to have Obama with me! :P

* Pi Shawl I know that it's in a book, but still. . . I'd like to buy the book too, actually!

* Miittens because I have 2 cousins on the way, and anybody who says that isn't cute is simply kidding themselves. Here's the link to the pattern, if you aren't a ravelry user: http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEwinter08/PATTmiittens.php

* Little Ninja because that is awesome.

* YES YOU CAN Market Bag because I told the designer I would, plus it is so AWESOME!!!

* Cherie Amour since it looks so cool in that yarn, that I want one exactly like it. :P

* Arch Shaped Socks if you're my mother, you'll know why.

* Lala Scarf because dude, this would be PERFECT for handspun!

* Tempest it's something I can WEAR!

* Felted Spinning Wheel Bag since it'd be useful

* Bowtie scarf because after Jennifer did it, now I need to as well. :P

* Ten-Stitch blanket because if you don't think that's awesome, then you are a non-knitter!

In other news: I'm designing a TON, so I may have a design or two to post here. BUT one is being kept under wraps. . .you know, it's privete stuff. But the pattern I can tell you about is about a pair of baby booties. It's nothing real complicated; just a simple pattern. But I'm having a ton of fun with it!!! I can't wait to show you my prototypes, once I get a hand on the camera!
SylverX

O Knitty

O Dear Knitty,
why must you torture me so?
Whenever I get to your glorious webpage,
I will for it to glow,

With a new pattern! A new article,
To be blessed u-pon me,
I pray for so long,
that it will show a tree

A tree to signify,
the brand new group of things,
The spring issue to bloom upon me,
Anything with figs. (does that rhyme? I don't know. . .)

But why can't I have it?
This new issue??
If I don't have my Knitty soon,
I'm going to need a tissue.

By Tamera Janneff
(yes, I know I can't write poetry, get off my back.)
http://www.knitty.com/ is the website I'm talking about.

Lots of stuff under wraps.

But for now, I'll share with you stuff that I can.

First off, it is COLD!!! cold, cold, cold, cold, COLD!!! So cold, that the temp outside is 12 degrees. Even the computer agrees that it is bitterly COLD!(I bet the word cold sounds funny now. Ha ha! :P) Actually, the cold caused me to get a virus. YAY! So I spent half the school day blowing my nose and hacking up a lung. Yummy! Not.

I also have accumulated more spinning mojo, for which I plan on getting pics of soon. That may have to wait though, because. . .huh? Oh, never mind that. I was busy looking for the camera for about an hour(plus eating and stuff I need to do to live), but I DID find it, and I gotez teh pics! Here we go for some pictorama!
What's this? Is it. . .it is!! Spinning mojo!!!!!!
OK, well, about. When was my last spinning post. . .here!
Oh god, that was about 4 months ago! I'm sorry, I PROMISE that I have been spinning. Man, I am WAY behind on the updates. . . But anyway, I have been working on the spinning. These are some rolags I plan on spinning soon, so you'll get to see that ASAP!

And another picture of my wheel. Because you all know how much I love it!!
I am finding that cramming yardage on it is difficult. . .and suggestions, anybody?
That's about it. I'm sorry I can't say much more. . .I have some stuff going on that I can't really talk about until they get done or even later! I'll have to explain later.
Have a good weekend!
SylverX

Made my Day!

I've been dealing with a bunch of problems at school lately. Oh, I'm getting good grades, and all that. But the main thing is that I'm a BIG procrastinator. I've been hit with a LOT of big projects in a short amount of time, and getting that all done with HW and other issues. . .it's just enough to wear somebody out.

You noticed I said something made my day, though?? Why yes, something did! Not that I was having a horribly bad day today; I mean, I was tired, and I had homework, and there's an essay due tomorrow that I still have to work on, but I can't because I left my pencil sharpener at school along with all my good pencils. . .and I had computer keyboarding, in which I firmly believe that my teacher is a sadist. No kidding! She makes us keep our feet on the floor, and even when she well knows that my wrists hurt, she makes me do extra work because she knows I'm a fast typer and my wrists get sore very easily! I think she video tapes us and then watches the tape at the end of the day, so she can laugh at our pain. . .and then, in this fantasy, I come out of nowhere with a sword, and she takes out a lance, and we do this epic battle of wits and strength, where my sword is knocked away. BUT just before she's about to kill me, this hot guy(I won't say who, since if I did, I would never be able to live it down. . .just trust me when I say he is EXTREMELY HOT.) comes out of nowhere and just BLINKS, causing my teacher to explode into ashes. Then me and this hot guy make out and then run off into the sunset.

Yes, I do have a HUGE imagination. Why do you ask?

Anyway, the thing that made my day(I mentioned it, remember? Before I got into the big fantasy.) was when I was walking home. I am a fast walker; actually, a fast person in general(NO, NOT IN THAT WAY!!!!). I mean I tend to get things done quickly(and accuratly, if we were talking about math class), which also means that I walk quickly. So I was walking along, passing people on the way home, when suddenly two of these guys pass me and one of them yells," It's the Daytona 500! YEA!!!"

I had to bite my lip to keep from laughing.

I passed them again, and they passed me once more. I whack one of them with my jacket, and they kept at it. When they finally walk off the sidewalk, I made a comment about them going to a pit stop.
"Why do you say that?" one of the boys asked.
"Simple. You're going off the track."

It was kind of cool, seeing as they turned a boring part of the day into a fun part. Strangly, I have had no luck with learning to do that(yes, I know; how strange), and it was cool. That ONE thing made my day. Wow.
SylverX