the vanilla is done.

I won't bore you with pictures (read, I don't like any of the pictures taken.) but it's done, it's nice and it's perfect for the skirt.

So now I am back to this:


It's going well. I ripped out the front that I'd begun because they had a fake seam in it and the more I looked at it the more I didn't like it. I envision this with a smooth front, so a smooth front it will have.

and speaking of ripping this one really wasn't working for me and so it's been ripped and is now in the process of becomming this:




Yeah, I'm digging that much better.

I won't bore you with the details of the vanilla wrap, especially since it didn't grow last night. First, we had an ice cream social in my community and I found out that the new community aid's husband is studying Paleontology-- my second love after Egypt. Not only that, but he's going to be part of the next Russian trip with the Discovery special covering the whooly mamouth finds. I could talk to him forever, and almots did.

Plus I was two stitches shy on my increses according to the row counter and while I've been known to fudge and pretend that the mistake is my one planned mistake (as per the Persian and Amish tradition the holds that only God is perfect) I decided I was close enought to the beginning to rip and restart. So I am back to where I was with two more stitches now.

However, I did think if fitting that I show you the skirt that I am sacraficing my sanity for.

I also thought it would be nice to hop on the summer of stash band wagon. Since I want to take an extravagent vacation this fall to Chicago (meaning no budget, I want all the bells and whistles), I will simply save the money I'd like to spend on yarn. I have enough to keep me busy at home, I just have to decide how to utilize it. So while I'm boring myself with valillianess, I will document with photos how I will mate stash and pattern.

This is SWTCs Bamboo, the skeins are heavy and I can imagine the drape will be awesome. I bought them 3 weeks ago, so while they aren't stash yet, the did sneak in before my resolution.

The good, the bad, and the reality check

I've been working on my mother's day present to me. I love Olympic yarn from Artful and if I'm not careful, I will own a sweater in each of the colors.

It's a beautiful sweater isn't it? I love the wrap sweaters, I thought that they are flattering on every body type. I already used this color for a long sleeved tunic a couple of months ago, so I chose Rome this time.








Stunning, isn't it. And imagine it layered with a lavender tank-- it it truly stunning. I had to try it on, I had to admire my mother's day present...............................

Damn! Yep, that really is me. I guess me and Billy Blanks will become very close friends in the near future because I am repulsed by this image. How could I do this to such a beautiful sweater?

Moving on..........................................
This is going to be occupying my every waking moment until complete:

Not because I am in desperate need to knit mindless simplicity with bland vanilla yarn, but because I have a desperate need for the finished project. You see, at Christmas time my boss gave me a gift certificate for my favorite of all favorite stores, Urban Outfiters, and as luck would have it I'd been eyeing a skirt there. I snapped up that skirt like no ones business, not thinking for a moment that I wouldn't have anything in my closet that would really make this amazing skirt pop. After all, what woman doesn't have an over abundance of black or white?

I forgot the main rule of fashion, not only does it have to be the right color, but it has to be the prefect style too-- leading me to dismiss every item in my closet as just not quite right.

So bland vanilla mindless knitting I am resolved to, until I am a hair shy of clinically insane or until I can wear my skirt.