A New Post!

I was thinking about this blog and how I totally neglect it when I shouldn't, if for no other reason than it is called Knitmare On Elm Street which I think is the best blog name ever, knitting or otherwise.

Part of the reason I don't post here is that I got into Ravelry and so that became where all the knitting stuff went.

Another reason is that I haven't been knitting too much lately. I am currently working on another Brooklyn Tweed Noro Scarf which is turning out great and my plan is to enter it in the fair and win a ribbon. Which isn't hard since they seem to give everyone a ribbon. But I plan on my ribbon to be blue. HA! I need to get one more skein of Noro Kureyon to continue with the scarf, and my favorite LYS just closed forever and now I am forced to go elsewhere and their hours aren't as good so I am not getting there. Maybe this weekend.

I am reorganizing my office and I just put away all my yarn, the dishcloth cotton outnumbers the yarn 2 to 1. I really should get cracking on some dishcloths! Like about 100.

I also have been sporadically working on my Babette Blanket, which is crochet. But my heart is not in it for long periods of crocheting.

Anyway, if anyone still reads this, now you know what's what. Happy knitting, people!

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You are Dishcloth Cotton.You are a very hard worker, most at home when you're at home. You are thrifty and seemingly born to clean. You are considered to be a Plain Jane, but you are too practical to notice.
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First of all, this is funny because I happen to be on a cotton dishcloth knitting spree lately, as you can tell by these recent pictures:




Secondly, Hard Worker? Thrifty?? Born To Clean?!? YEAH, RIGHT!!

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RAVELRY, BABY!!

ok here are some pictures

I Am The World's Worst Knitblogger

Is knitblogger even a word? Well, I am anyway. Since my last post I knit a pink baby hat, a washcloth and I am working on a burp cloth for a baby, or as I affectionately called them when my kids were little, barf rags. This one is too pretty to be called a barf rag, and if I wasn't too tired to take pictures, you could see it. Here are the other things I need to post pictures of.:

1) Finished pink baby hat with the funky top that is too long and will probably not have the nerve to give as a gift.
2) Purple-ish absorba bathmat that I finished and don't want to put on my bathroom floor because it will get dirty and hairy even though I can wash it.
3) Beginning of my Chevron scarf that I was so excited to make and now sits untouched because I'm not that wild about the color combo even though it's nice and I really liked it on the internet.
4) And let's not even talk about the Babette blanket that sits in a tote in my living room. I know I will get back to that eventually. But eventually is a long time.

And here are the projects I want to start, notice I said start, not finish.

1) Slippers for Max.
2) A hat for my niece Kristina
3) Ballband dishcloths for christmas gifts for my whole family.

But first I must do these things:

1-4) Another washcloth, another barf rag, and 2 bibs for friends who are having babies in August and October.

I look at it this way--knitting should be fun. Therefore, if you get burnt out on a project and want to work on a different one for a while, you should. I hate slogging. And this baby stuff is starting to feel like slogging. So my friends may get other gifts that aren't of the knitted variety, and that will have to be ok.

So now you are caught up. I'll put up pictures soon. Or not.

Lots of News Here

1) I finished another hat! This is going to be a gift for my friends upcoming baby, I found this yarn by Lion Brand called Landscape. It is a bulky yarn that's very soft. Jo-Ann's was having a clearance sale and the $6 ball was $2 so of course I bought 4 of them. Not knowing what to make because the colorway is kind of unappealing. Lion calls it Spring Desert but I call it Pastel Diarrhea. Anyway, I'm giving this hat to a certain baby because that baby's parents are the kind of wonderful people that if they get a gift that they don't like or doesn't go with their decor, they will hang on to it and display it if the gift giver comes over, because they don't want the crappy gift giver to think that they did not appreciate the crappy gift. That's how sweet these people are. And I am going to totally exploit that by giving their baby this hat:



In homage to all the artistic knitting pictures out there, the hat is on my cat Dolly's back while she drinks from the faucet in my bathroom.
So now I'm thinking of knitting a matching hat for the mom, then I will come visit and they will have to wear the hats! I am evil I know.

2) In the car today during my lunch hour, I finished knitting Absorba the bathmat! When I am done weaving in the ends I will post a photo. She is beautiful. I determined that my bathmat is a she because Absorba ends with an A. If my bathmat were a boy his name would be Absorbo, duh!

3) Here is another sign that I am becoming an obsessed knittomaniac--I joined a KAL! That means knit-a-long! Basically someone starts a blog for a certain project and everyone who is doing that project can blog about it so they all are doing the same project together. This one is for the Chevron Scarf. I am waiting for my yarn to come in the mail so I can get started, I ordered 4 colorways of Socks That Rock because I couldn't decide on which color combo I wanted. When the yarn arrives I will take pics and post.

So that is all the news from NO! WAIT! I just thought of a new name for this blog, I am changing it to KNITMARE ON ELM STREET because I live on Elm Street!! I am brilliant.