Well my car is fixed that is good at least...for less then originally quoted that is also goood. But still it was dang expensive! Weather went from good to ill which sucked to drive home at 5 miles an hour or less most of the way home from the shop. But on the other hand the greasy snow was not something to want to drive fast on anyway.

Knitting is coming along well I will probably take pictures here somewhat soon I want at least another 8 inches on it before I do so so there will be some 'sizable' length in its own right. The tweak of the pattern is coming along well which I am happy with :) so test knitting will be soooon!

Well I finally finished my test knit! I'm relatively happy with the way that it came out honestly. It is quite different seeing it in silver/grey and white then its intended red and white. Well I must say that I do have a bit of tweaking to do (which is nearly finished I might add) but on a whole I am happy with it.




I realized that I need to slim down the lead in and lead out line as well as shorten the main point tip. Some minor adjustments will be to the overall width of the monitor blip but other then that I think it is good to go.

I actually will be finishing this off with a two inch border in grey/silver and it will turn into a blanket for the plushlings. They have already had part of their antics with this test knit and I haven't even been able to weave in the ends!

Well I'm about 1/4th into the test knit and it is looking good so far, hopefully I will have it done buy about sunday or monday. That way if it works out well I will be able to start back up on the afghan itself. If not it will be back to the drawing board so to speak and tinker till it's right. This is what testing is for ^^

I actually like this monochromatic look so far it's almost ghost-like!

I have started the test knit which I will post the picture here once I have it done which hopefully it will be in the next few days. It will look interesting since its being knit in a monochromatic format but it should be fun none the less.

Got the start of the pattern for another Afghan. I will post the test knits up of that pattern as well as I work on it. Wish me luck!

Well today I will start the test knit for the Afghan I think I have fussed with it enough that I can give it a go with "scrap yarn" and see how it turns out. I can do all my adjustments from there. Started graphing out another afghan design for one of the two afghans I want to make for myself. Should probably have that done today so that can be test knit as well.

Not sure if I will find the colors that I need for said pattern though I will have to do some hunting. May make this second afghan reversible but I'm not sure yet since I have to figure out the pattern for the other side since there are similarities and differences that I would want to include.

I think I'm going to like excel for working on patterns. The only thing I have to figure out is if I can get a picture to lay under the cells that way I can map out patterns from pictures too or if I am going to have to figure out a way to do it some art program that I don't have at the moment. Thinking of trying out GIMP but I'm still uncertain about that yet.

Well I have tried and I will try again, the pattern is starting to shape up. The good thing is that I have figured out how to work the pattern in an excel document so I can edit and change without having to erase a hole through my paper. Though it has not been a fun transfer from paper to computer I can tell you that much. I finally got it settled the way it is written out so far. Now time to make copies and tweak the crap out of it to get it to the point of liking.

Hopefully it won't take too much to do but this does give me the option to graph out more patterns for other afghans among other things. Kind of neat actually.

The quest for a pencil tin for my purse has been completed! *cue heroic music* And not just any pencil tin oh no, it is a Darth Vader Pencil tin for the win! Now it will be time to load it up with all the stuffies I bought so that I can have my traveling sketch kit since I always have ideas for stuff at work and never have the resources to work on it. Heck the rough proportions diagram for the afghan is actually on the back of an Arnie's Restaurant place mat.

Besides the pencil tin I got a new game called Laser Game: Khet 2.0 it looks really neat it is a strategy game. I shall have to see about giving it a try this week and I will let people know what I think.e

I also picked up a new transformer today, figured I might as well grab him why I can still find him. Got Warpath. Pretty fun design out of the Generations line. Man some places charge an arm and a leg for that particular line. Thankfully where I picked this one up the price was not to bad. I want thew new waves to come out *pout* Must have Soundwave! *slinks away pathetically*

Watched the new Fright Night with the roomie fuzziekit the one with David Tennant. Not too bad of a movie, not the greatest either but it was fun. I have to watch the original now to see how they compare. Should be fun when I get a chance to get around to it. Good way to cap off an evening before a two day 'weekend' since I have the next two days off. My next set of Mini Quests:

~Buy a fan for my laptop so I can install and wail on Old Republic without remorse.
~Finish the pattern for the Afghan so that I can do a test knit.

That about sums up the day beyond work not to shabby of one either if I do say so myself. Oh and here is a fun little blog-ish thing I have going on for those who have seen my antics with Plushies Plushling Antics I should hopefully be updating this little bloggy thing several times a week. Well that's all for now! Bye!

How frustrating can a simple design be? Apparently very frustrating! I am sure it doesn't help that I don't have much in the line of knitters graph paper since well that file was on the desktop when it blew up. I have spent two days tweaking and trying to get this silly thing to look right so I can do a test knit. I really hope I can have some semblance of it done here shortly. I think it will be a smart thing to try knitting to see where it's going to cause me problems.

I have put the design up for the night and I will tackle it again tomorrow. It is so close I can just taste it...yet so far away ;_; I will get this pattern right dang it! I will I will! Okay I think I'm done with wanting to stomp my feet. Back to the drawing board.. tomorrow.

I really need to get myself a knitting pattern program it might make things a little easier. I think I just need something cute...

( Follow me I'm cute! )

Well I figured I would add some pictures here of the progress of my Afghan. I have progressed roughly 7 inches so far. I'm really liking how it looks. I'm at a slow point at the moment because I have to finish writing the pattern. But here we are!

( Follow that yarn! )

Oh happy to say that my Beast of a Laptop is working well so far!

My luck with computers has not been going well, the laptop that started its ration of crashing so far after an hour and a half of talking to tech support at HP seems to be fixed so far. We'll see how it goes over the next few days. But on the down note, my desktop of 8 years young has crashed and burned...it has basically blown up given the fact that the motherboard or CPU has died. What a way to end the year right? Hopefully I will be able to start building a new PC in March or so.

On a positive note I am about 6 inches into the Afghan and I am LOVING the way that it looks so far. Hope to upload a pictures here soon!

Hope that everyone has an awesome new year! I will chat with all you lovelies in 2012!