I've really blown it this time...

my husband stumbled across my latest acquisitions. He was trying to make a payment on my now MAXED credit card and noticed the yarn and knitting store purchases. 15 dollars at cropcircles(2 pairs of chiao goos which are heavenly!!!), 50 dollars at needles in the hay (that one was the worst, but so worth it!) and the 15 dollars paypal to fabulous yarns in New York for my lackluster "nickel" needles, and painfully un-victorian victorian Surina wood needles.
Needless to say he's mad. REALLY MAD, tonight I'm selling some of my cds to try and pay off the wopping 400 dollars I spent in a month on a credit card with no means to pay back.
So now, having been stripped of all finances including debit cards (which are completely empty so what's the point?) I have now made the vow of no more yarn, no more needles, no more unnecessary  supplies! I will not do this ever again... I also have to find a way to ditch the gym membership that I know my husband won't pay for... hopefully before he finds out...

I've got blisters on me fingers!!!!

HAHA!!!! It's finally done! I finished the blanket sometime around 3 am this morning and now its ready to go to my friend as soon as I figure out how to get it to her. I broke down and bought my chiao goos so that I can start on my lacy leg warmers in the lovely indigodragonfly colour hootinany. Its going to be gorgious! I've also taken an interest in the knitting patterns of the earlier half of the 20th century and have found a few gatsby era patterns that look worth a try.

confessions of a shopaholic

Hello, my name is Berlynn and I'm a shopaholic. I`ve gotten so bad with buying knitting stuff that its starting to get ugly. First i was buying crazy amounts of random yarns just for the love of the colour of it, even going so far as picking up a 28 dollar ball of Indigo Dragonfly with no clue what to do with it. I swore off yarn for awhile and then transferred my obsessive compulsive shopping habits to needles. When I came out of the knitting closet in November I owned 4 sets of needles; 5mm metal, 8mm plastic, 12mm plastic and a 5mm pair of 60`` circs. also plastic. Then it grew to 2 pairs of metal circs, then a pair of 6mm bamboo, now I`ve raided the good ol`second hand store up the road of 3 pairs of metal needles and a bag to keep them all in. And then I knew the habit was getting out of control when I bought a pair of Surina wood needles and some nickel/brass speed circs on my credit card on line and considered buying some Harmony wood circs just because they are pretty to look at.
EEK! I`ve got to slow down! Okay, no more knitting merch until I finish the 4 projects I have on the go... well maybe at least 2 of them.
The blanket is coming along steadily and I know I have to finish the shawl, which the yolk is about half way, so maybe after that when I go to toronto I`ll get my Brittany Birch and Russian Hand painted Peacefleece needles... and then my Chiao goos from cropcircles in various sizes!!!
Oh my god I have a problem.... okay 1 pair of chiao goos... really small ones. then I`ll retire the credit card for awhile.....

ACK! creeping deadlines!

Hmm, just found out my friend that I've been making the baby blanket for is due in 50 days! Jeez that's soon! I guess I better put the dress patches on the back burner and just have the blanket and chemo hats on the go. I also will have to try making the really small baby beanies again, but I had to frog that project. Besides I have a sewing project that is due before the end of may too for my husband. SHIT!!!!! all of this plus impending school projects of doom!!! Ok, gotta breathe... just 2 things at a time... school is important, work on Chemo hats in lectures and whenever I can, blanket at home and will get to the sewing project whenever. GAAAAHH!!!!

like a cat in a catnip patch

Yarn sales have struck again, and in turn so have I. I was running to get a video game for my husband and found myself encountered with the big M. That's right, the mecca of the crafting world. I went in telling myself that I would be good, maybe a cheap pair of needles... I certainly didn't need anymore yarn!
I walked out with 4 skeins.
2 cotton, some beautiful lion brand wool mix and a skein of baby clouds, which I needed to finish the baby blanket for my friend Fe.
The other 3 balls I haven't figured out what to do yet, possibly more chemo hats, maybe work on a junk afghan. who knows?

Welcome!

Hi!
I'm a first time blogger, and I figured that I would blog about my adventures in knitting on the go and the various projects I'm working on. So, here's a bit about me. I'm 23, and have been knitting irregularly since I was 14. My Gran taught me on an old and slightly bent pair of aero needles (5mm) and leftover yarn from an old afghan. I made a scarf... then another scarf... and so on and so on for almost 9 years before I figured out why I couldn't figure out purling was that I was knitting completely backwards. So now here I am knitting the right way and even knitting in the round to boot! So this blog is about the learning experience, patterns I`m trying and other useful tips.
Cheers
Berlynn