Off Topic...

This has nothing to do with knitting, but if you like Harry Potter, check out this trailer for the musical that my friends and I made!
The Bellatrix Lestrange Musical!

$1 yarn!!

So, today was a wonderful day. Mostly because on the way home from a story I was reporting on, I stopped at Michael's to buy a new yarn needle (I lost mine sometime in the last week). I hadn't been there in a while (my yarn diet and all...) so I was amazed when I found all this sale yarn. I thought I would buy some Fancy Fur because that knits up quickly into a scarf (a friend's birthday passed and I'm still knitting her present. So I found a ball of that. And then...there was Moda Dea Sassy Stripes. I was going to just buy 2 balls because I thought they were $3. But then I looked at the tag, and it said $1 per skein!!!

I went kind of delirious and bought 4, but I guess I'll make socks out of them (hopefully the socks won't be too thick...). They are all the same color (supposedly the same dye lot, but probably not. I've grown not to care too much about that with socks anymore. You'll understand when you see my 2nd jaywalker) so I figure that I'll make matching socks for me and my mom or a friend or something.
I'm usually a bit snooty when it comes to sock yarn but this was ONE DOLLAR YARN!!! Hopefully it won't deteriorate when I start to knit it.

Since I can't have a post without a picture, my friend Sam just came back from England and here's the vest I made her:

I love it with the tie. She sat all day in this on the 21st and read the HP book while people walked by and looked at her like she was crazy. I think it looks great and it fits her perfectly! She looks like such a Slytherin. Maybe they will hire me to make vests for the next movie!

Over the weekend my friends and I were watching a special about the new HP movie, which I didn't like that much except for all the knitted sweaters and stuff. So now I'm going to try to find more screencaps of the costumes so I can attempt to make them (they will probably be finished by the time the 7th movie comes out).

Anyway, I must get back to work.

Love always,

A.Co

Short Post with Pics

I finally got onto Ravelry! It turns out that I got the email in June but my spam filter ate it. So now I'm on, and my name there is knitwitted.
I'm supposed to be working, but of course I couldn't resist posting when I had NEW JAYWALKER PICS!!!
So here they are! I'm almost up to the toe on the first one (I think the 2nd one will go faster because I plan to do it on a road trip out to the Hamptons and then on the beach)!!!

Sexy Socks!

So...I haven't posted in a bit (doing a whole lot of nothing tires me out). But here are some lovely pictues for you!




I finished my first Sidewinder! And in a moment of weakness, I told my mom about the secret Sidewinders and gave her the first one:








That's my foot modeling it, not hers.


Then I did some work on MS3. I'm not a slow knitter, but I still haven't finished Clue 1. I did start a week late, but I'm just being lazy about it and not doing it (plus I am one stitch off so I'm figuring out how to add it back in without ripping anything out. I think I'll just skip 1 decrease)



Me being all giggly and holding up my knitting



My progress so far (yeah, you can laugh at how crappy it looks in this lighting)

And finally, my multicolored Jaywalker!







You know how they say to do toe-up socks because then you can try it on? Well I keep trying this one on anyway and it's cuff-down. So haha toe-uppers (even though I think I'll do my next pair toe-up so I can try it on for real).

After knitting it through 6 movies (in Transformers every time it got really loud and scary I just concentrated on my knitting!), I finally took my Lelah off the needles to try it on (I don't remember if I got gauge or not and I followed the pattern for a large) and it fit! I still need to lose a few pounds though to make it look better. It will be cute anyway, so I'm excited.

Maybe by my next post I will have finished Clue 1 (I only have 1 row left) and my Jaywalker and possibly started the 2nd Sidewinder. Or I could have nothing done. Who knows!

Love, A.Co

FOs and the end of my sanity

So...this past Friday was my birthday. And my parents got me the Twinkle Big City Knits book that I asked for!

So here's what I'm currently knitting:
Nona's Sidewinders (have 1 ready to be grafted but I forgot to take pictures)
Jaywalkers for my friend who lives in Korea

Another one of these in blue (this one was given to my friend as a graduation gift but modeled by my mom before I wove in the ends)

I know it looks horrendous over yellow. It's the Anthropologie inspired capelet. The one I'm making in blue is the same size (I made a few mods to this to fit better) but longer in the back and sleeves because it's for my mom. Then I'm making another one for a friend (I told her she was helping me destash). They're pretty easy to make so I don't mind making several.

I'm not too far off from finishing my Lelah in blue Simply Soft either. I bring it to the movies because I'm on the boring stockinette part now.

I'm also doing MS3. If you didn't sign up, it officially sucks to be you! Just kidding! It's my first real foray into lace and I'm loving it!

Here's a vest I made for my friend in Slytherin colors out of Woolease about a month ago. She's in England now and hopefully she will wear it when the book/movie comes out and will take lots of action shots. (excuse my messy bed in the post-blocking pics)

I'm biting my nails waiting to get on Ravelry. I think I signed up in May, but I still haven't gotten an invite yet!

Next on my agenda:

I looooooove this. I'm not sure what I will make it out of (like I said, I'm destashing to get ready for college) but I know it will be gorgeous.

My mom emailed me these footies. I think they're cute and I have some sock yarn I want to get rid of.
Maybe about a hundred Isabeaus (or is is Isabeaux? I did take AP French, you think I would know the difference) out of stash yarn.

And I don't know any young children but I think that this sweater is the cutest thing ever, but I might do it in different colors.

First Post!!!!

Yay! My first post!
I'll admit, I have done the whole blogging thing before (ok, like 3 entries) but I'd like to give it another shot. I think this one has a fighting chance
1. because I take pictures of every single thing I knit multiple times
and 2. because I recently got a new laptop

So here's a bit about me:
My name is Allison. I'm 17 years old (I'll be 18 next Friday!!!!). I just graduated from high school and I'm going to Vassar College in Poughkeepsie. I'm called A.Co because people in my high school thought it would be cool if they gave me a name like J.Lo (Co are the first two letters of my last name). I love TV, books, and of course KNITTING!!!!!!!
And my mom crochets ugly things, but I'm the only one that's allowed to make fun of her.

I'm also doing this to keep my mind off my boring summer job at my local newspaper where they don't let me write real articles because I just got out of high school. So maybe this will do the trick!

Love always,
A.Co