Can you see that??? It's my finger, traumatized by my yarn tornado style knitting. I don't know if other knitters develop calluses and whatnot on their middle fingers, but damn it hurts! I got a callus a couple weeks ago, but I think the super dry air is what made it crack. It started hurting last night but I just kept knitting, thinking that it would be fine this morning, but no, this morning it hurts like a fucker instead of just hurting like a bitch! I wonder if I just knit weird since I've never heard other knitters complain about this sort of thing... I do hold my pencil and my chopsticks weird...

I'll put the knitting stuff at the end so people don't have to read it if they don't want to.

So the lovely tenjostyle has put up a bunch of pics of the Arashi Tokyo Dome concert... I'm not sure if Jun changing on stage, <3<3
♥♥

quite makes up for this.


I think someone is a big JYP fan...
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But what may worry me more is how much I want this outfit.


I mean I really want it. Bad. Like I would try to wear it everyday. It would be my new defalt outfit. I'm going to start looking for material to make it...



As for knitting. I've had a cyst in my left wrist since I was a sophomore in high school and for many doctor-type reasons it can't be removed. Ever since I realized that x mas comes, not at the end of December, but in the middle, I have been knitting like a mad woman. A crazy yarn tornado, yep, that's me. So of course my cyst is acting WAY up. I can't decide if it's the knitting or the weather... I'm going to choose weather because knitting would never do something mean to me... right?

I ran out of yarn for Satan's Wimple... Why is this thing giving me so much fucking trouble?!?!?!?

So I cast on this hat for my little cousin, he's two.



how cute is that?? I'm especially loving the wrong side, which looks like a stack of froot loops or gummies! I've already knitted three inches tonight! I'm getting so good at beanies!




I also realized that there was no way I was going to get the besotted scarf done in time, so I modded the crap out of it. I can't tell you how many times I ripped it back to the cables before I settled on a simple seed stitch border and a 2x2 rib for the body. I'll cable the other end as well. It's going so much faster now. Seriously it's ridiculous.



I also cast on a learning sock in order to preserve my sanity. Look it's a heel!!!!!



I also, also finished part 2 of 3 for farfums's project! I took at least two naps today (I think I have a cold) but I got a surprising amount done today. I just hope I can get at least 75% done for x mas!

I know that I knit this, I know I messed up and frogged this pattern enough that I truly understand the pattern and I can tell you, in detail, exactly why it looks the way it looks, but I still look at this and feel, deep in my bones, that this could only happen through magic.



This is the scarf for farfums's mom. I am loving it. Even though it takes more concentration than I'm used to and I can't quite watch tv and knit it at the same time(I can, however, read and knit it at the same time, does this make sense to anyone??). I picked out the yarn for her before I had a pattern because it was simple and classy and shiny. And once I started knitting it in this pattern (it's called Besotted, by the way) I wasn't sure about the color anymore. But the further along I get the happier I am with it. I think it's going to be a truly lovely scarf when it's finished. And tomorrow I get to go buy more yarn!! I just hope the weather stays good long enough for me to run some errands, when I took Petey out tonight I really wished I could squeeze in some personal knitting time, I really needed some gloves!!

( I would like to introduce Satan's Yarn! )

So while I'm not knitting Satan's Wimple, I cast on a scarf for the other friend's mother on my x-mas list this year. I'm using this pattern. I know I said I wanted to take a break from cables, but what the fuck, I like cables and I think they are classic and classy and I don't know what else to knit for friends mothers except for cabled scarfs apparently.

I have a notebook that I write down whatever pattern I'm working on because I don't have a printer and it helps me to remember and understand the pattern better if I write it out before I start on it. I got about 3 inches into this pattern when I realize it looked like a row of whale's tails... It was pretty cool, but not what I wanted. I was following my instruction correctly but I had transposed some of the pattern instructions... fucking dyslexia! So I had to frog it and start over... I'm also not to sure about the color of the yarn I choose but I'll give it some more time before I decide to frog it or not.

*deep breath in, deep breath out* I'm getting pretty frustrated with my knitting right now, but it's already December and I left all the scarfs 'till last. I hope I get everything done in time.

Today is the anniversary of the birth of Three of my favorite people! I'm cooking dinner and cake for my Mom tonight. But I want my other peeps to know that I'm thinking of them and that they will be getting calls as soon as I'm up properly. Does my Jenna want me to do anything special? I made a little something for Christina but I can't give it to her yet... I feel like it should be super party day, but all my Sagittarians have expressed a wish to not really do anything, and while this is a sentiment I can't understand, I can try to respect that. ♥ ♥