Thanksgiving

I hope that all that read this are able to celebrate with family and friends for Thanksgiving. I love spending time with all of my family and I look forward to this time of year more than any other.
I know that this has nothing to do with knitting, but all of my knitting is "covert" because I don't want any sneaky relatives to read it and see their presents!!!
However if you are reading this and you are trying to think of a present that I would like.....you can't go wrong with Malabrigo Worsted Weight yarn in any blue or green color!! (It's my new favorite!!)
Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

Christmas!!!

It's the best time of the year!!! Starbucks has red cups again!! I am currently enjoying a Peppermint Mocha (Grande - 2 pumps mocha, 2 pumps white chocolate mocha, 3 pumps peppermint - the perfect combination!).

I am desparately trying to complete all of my knitting projects for this year. Everyone in the family is getting knitted gifts! I will post on here after Christmas day, but if you are on the beta version of Ravelry, you can see my creations under the screen name "swtktgrl." I figure I am about 36% done with knitting for Christmas. *gulp* I thought I was farther along than that. Hmm. I guess I will be knitting nonstop for the next 42 days. Yikes!

Happy knitting!

Ravelry!!!

I am finally on Ravelry!! I hope to have some pictures up today. If you want to find me on there, my user name is: swtktgrl.

FO! (For you non-knitters, that means "finished object")

Here is the sweater I finished knitting on July 4th. It only took me 8 days to knit - I am sooo obsessive!!! I love it, but it is knit using Cascade Indulgence which is Alpaca/Angora - so it is a little warm in July to be wearing it in SC.

I am currently working on a garter stitch teddy bear from Simply Baby for two of my friends who are pregnant.

Also, on the knitting front, my dad is in Peru for two weeks, so I have given him strict orders to come back with no less than 2o or so skiens of Peruvian Alpaca! (Lets just hope that his lack of fashion sense doesn't bring me yarn in various tacky colors.)

Ninja out.

Knitty.com sweater

I just finished knitting the Leaf - tie cardigan from Knitty.com (I think it was the June issue). I am wearing it today and do not have pictures yet, but I WILL post them! I am also working on a camisole and short set from Suss Cousin's "Wedding Knits." I will probably finish the set by next week. I'm so excited!
I need a new project though........

Ninja out

BAD

Ok, so judging from the hate posts that i get one here - i'm not too good at keeping up with my blog. i will make myself an april resolution to start posting on here. i mean REAL posts, not just apologetic ones....
i am starting to design some knitted clutches, but we'll see how long that actually takes me. i want to sell them at a little coffee shop called brew n' ewe, here in greenville. so cute.

ninja, out.

Done!

The blanket is finished!!! (Pictures to come) But my friend Courtney, who I am making it for, has already left on maternity leave (oops!), so I guess that I will have to get it to her before she has that baby girl. :-)

The Baby Blanket

I am currently knitting a baby blanket for my friend, Courtney, from work. She is having a little girl, so I am sure this is not the first knitted creation she will be receiving from me! I was going to do a simple basketweave pattern, but that got boring very quickly. So I am now doing a lacy heart pattern that I got out of the Vogue Knitting Stitchionary 1. I don't know if this counts as a new creation of my own, since I am using a stitch from a book - but I'd like to think so!!!
I will have pictures when I am through. I started about three weeks ago.


Oh yeah, and it's PINK

The Famed Sweater!!!

This is the sweater that I was slaving on for soooo long during our vacation and I even got help for short rows from a very nice lady named Nancy, who was with her knitting group at the Barnes & Noble in Orlando, FL and I interrupted with my knitting question. I was able to do the short rows with her help and this was the second version of my sweater.
It was given to my mother as a Christmas present and she wears it all the time!! (Although I did learn my lesson about lot #s - in certain lights it looks like I used two different color yarns!) Oh well. I'm going to start knitting swatches to check my guage too......

Amazing Quote

The young women in our church (myself included) are trying to start ministering and counseling our high school girls. I was on the website for the Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood and I came across this amazing quote from Elisabeth Eliot that I just had to share. This is what we should be telling our daughters about the virginity they have been given.

The gift of virginity, given to every one to offer back to God for His use, is a priceless and irreplaceable gift. It can be offered in the pure sacrifice of marriage, or it can be offered in the sacrifice of a life's celibacy. Does this sound just too, too high and holy? But think for a moment - because the virgin has never known a man, she is free to concern herself wholly with the Lord's affairs, as Paul said in I Corinthians 7, "and her aim in life is to make herself holy, in body and spirit." She keeps her heart as the Bride of Christ in a very special sense, and offers to the Heavenly Bridegroom alone all that she is and has. When she gives herself willingly to Him in love she has no need to justify herself to the world or to Christians who plague her with questions and suggestions. In a way not open to the married woman her daily "living sacrifice" is a powerful and humble witness, radiating love. I believe she may enter into the "mystery" more deeply than the rest of us. (Elisabeth Elliot, "Virginity," Elisabeth Elliot Newsletter, March/April 1990 [Ann Arbor: Servant Publications]: 2-3)