Knitting Meme and Updates

So, recently I have been in finish-whatever-stuff-I-have-lying-around-the-house-unfinished (which is, admittedly, a lot), plus I ended up making a peeps banner for Easter (so cute). So here is what I have finished:

• Perler bead lemmings (for my cube)
• Polymer clay lemmings (also for my cube)
• Peeps banner (to hang around my shelf, with Peeps plushies) for Easter

And here is what I still have to finish:

• Super Mario World magnets (for my cube)
• Ma's shawl
• Narwhal Plushies
• Catan dice box

But in the meantime, since I haven't done any knitting in a while (makes me so sad :( I tried casting on for fingerless gloves for my Ravelympics project, but the pattern ended up being way too big, even with smaller needles, so I had to frog =( ), I found this meme and felt like doing it. ^^

Instructions: Bold for stuff you’ve done, italics for stuff you plan to do one day, and normal for stuff you’re not planning on doing.

•Afghan (on my bed atm...largest needles I have ever used)
•I-cord (strawberry tops)
•Garter stitch
•Knitting with metal wire
•Shawl (my first "big" project was my wedding shawl)
•Stockinette stitch
•Socks: top-down
•Socks: toe-up (I cast on once but got bored...should try again though!)
•Knitting with camel yarn (camel...ew?)
•Mittens: Cuff-up (I don't like mittens)
•Mittens: Tip-down
•Hat (one of my first projects was a red hat with grey snowflakes that I charted)
•Knitting with silk (not finished yet...sigh)
•Moebius band knitting
•Participating in a KAL (Yay! SKC and LNL! And a shawl KAL!)
•Sweater (first sweater was okay, my riding cardi is great, Syd's sweater is almost 2/3 done)
•Drop stitch patterns
•Knitting with recycled/secondhand yarn (first sweater)
•Slip stitch patterns
•Knitting with banana fiber yarn (bananas are yummy)
•Domino knitting (=modular knitting)
•Twisted stitch patterns
•Knitting with bamboo yarn (I love bamboo yarn!!!! Like silk, but...affordable!)
•Two end knitting
•Charity knitting
•Knitting with soy yarn
•Cardigan (NOT a cardi person but I want a "jacket" to wear at work so I have yarn for one...)
•Toy/doll clothing (Little Mermaid doll with clothes almost finished, plus a bunch of baby toys for friends kids)
•Knitting with circular needles (Circular needles == love for shawls!)
•Baby items (does a giraffe toy count? :P)
•Knitting with your own handspun yarn
•Slippers
•Graffitti knitting: knitting items on, or to be left on the street
•Continental knitting
•Designing knitted garments
•Cable stitch patterns (first sweater and gloves)
•Lace patterns (love!)
•Publishing a knitting book
•Scarf (three scarves so far but I'm kind of burnt out)
•Teaching a child to knit
•Knitting to make money
•Button holes
•Knitting with alpaca (mmmmmmmmsoft)
•Fair Isle knitting sometime =)
•Norwegian knitting
•Household items: dishcloths, washcloths, tea cosies… (dishcloths were my first project, and I made one lace doily)
•knitting socks- or other small tubular items- on two circulars
•Dying with plant colours
•Knitting items for a wedding (for MY wedding!)
•Olympic knitting
•Knitting with someone else’s handspun yarn
•Knitting with dpns (nothing to be afraid of)
•Holiday related knitting
•Teaching a male how to knit
•Bobbles
•Knitting for a living
•Knitting with cotton (first fiber I knitted with)
•Knitting smocking
•Dying yarn (little purse and purple gloves)
•Steeks (scary!)
•Knitting art
•Fulling/felting
•Knitting with wool
•Textured knitting
•Kitchener BO
•Purses/bags (little tiny beaded purse)
•Knitting with beads (fun!)
•Swatching (generally useless?)
•Long Tail CO
•Entrelac Knitting and purling backwards (I hate entrelac)
•Machine knitting
•Knitting with self-patterning/self-striping/variegating yarn
•Stuffed toys (yay for elephants giraffes and fish)
•Knitting with cashmere (If I could afford it)
•Darning
•Jewelry knitting with synthetic yarn
•Writing a pattern
•Gloves
•Intarsia
•Knitting with linen
•Knitting for preemies
•Tubular CO
•Freeform knitting
•Short rows
•Cuffs/fingerless mitts/armwarmers
•Pillows
•Knitting a pattern from an online knitting magazine
•Rug
•Knitting on a loom
•Thrummed knitting
•Knitting a gift
•Knitting for pets (um, no.)
•Shrug/bolero/poncho
•Knitting with dog/cat hair (Um. EW!!!!)
•Hair accessories
•Knitting in public (at a bowling alley :P among other places)

Well, that was fun. Now I want to knit, but it is late and I am tired.

The joys of moving!

...no, seriously! I LOVE my new apartment. Absolutely. 100%. Well, except for the bathroom storage. That is lacking. But! Everything else is great. =)

And, now that I have this great place, I get to....decorate it! YAY! Of course, I have to decorate on a budget, sadly. At least until I get a job. Which may not be any time soon. Stupid economy. :'(

But I will eventually get around to posting pictures of the projects that I have done/am planning on doing. Yep. ^_^ Once everything is nice and tidy and put away (okay, most everything IS already put away, but still...the apartment is a *bit* empty. Well, totally empty. Furniture-speaking, at least. The closets are full of junk. I'm not sure why we have all of this stuff. o.0 And yet I'm not sure if there is anything that I want to actually get rid of! Terrible...*sigh* I am such a pack rat. :P

Also, I have determined that Syd and I need kitchen aprons. Syd has ruined at least two shirts now with oil, and I inevitably get something on myself (although I haven't ruined anything....yet). So sometime I will go to Michaels/JoAnn's/HobbyLobby/Crafts2000 and buy two plain aprons. With coupons. Or maybe I will just buy fabric and hijack my Mom's sewing machine. Not sure yet. Then I will airbrush them with pretty pictures! Yay!

I haven't done any projects for two weeks now, nor have I been to a craft store. Having withdrawl, but saving a little bit of money. Moving is, alas, expensive. :'(

Sometime I will get around to finishing my needle-felting. Maybe. And a couple of my knitting projects. And stuff. But for the moment I have been concentrating on a) putting stuff away, b) keeping stuff put away, and c) studying .NET programming skills which will (hopefully) give me the edge I need to get a job.

So maybe I will post some programming fun here once I finish what I am currently working on!

I still want to make a new blog layout. But alas, there are many other things that come first. Like a professional website. And ASP.NET programs. And studying for Microsoft Certification. And learning Flash programming. And working on XNA games. And stuff.

Sometime I should update my 101/1001 list. o.0

Oh! I'm working on a new poi move - behind the back weave. It's actually coming along quite nicely.

Okay, longer post than I was planning. Also, more rambling post than I was planning. :P Go figure. Oh well, you can't have it all, I guess! Yeah I should go finish dinner now.