Sweating to the Oldies!

Sweating to the Oldies!
Needles: US 9,US 10, and US 10.5
Yarn: Cascade yarns 220
Yardage: (sorry not sure exactly, I just used some scrap)
Time: aprox. 30 minutes or so.
Size: Medium. You can go up or down a size just by adding or subtracting multiples of 2
Model: Josh

My friend Josh wanted me to make him a sweatband and I couldn't find a pattern so I just improvised. I decided to write it down since I still have time to enter it for the Ravolympics :)

CO: 78 with size 10 needles.
Switch to size 9 needles for the knitting part. Join round and being careful not to twist your yarn on the needles. You might want to place a marker to know where your round starts too but that is your call.Start knitting in the round K1P1 for about an inch or so, this can also be increased or decreased if you want. I went for about 8 rows for mine.
Switch to the size 10.5 needles to bind off in pattern. I bind off really tight so I went up 2 needle sizes if you don't, don't sweat it (pun intended) you can bind off with the size 9 needles or the size 10.
This is just a fun silly project and stress shouldn't be involved.

HAPPY KNITTING! :)

Squish-Slip Scarf

I made this scarf in about 3 hours. It was super easy and fast.





Materials:
size 50 needles (25mm)
2 Skeins of Lion Brand Thick and Quick (any super bulky yarn you like works of course) :)

Note* 2 strands of Thick and Quick held together throughout the pattern.

Pattern:
CO 10 Sts
All odd rows: Knit
All Even Rows: *Slip one (as if to knit) Knit one* Repeat to end

Bind off when you either run out of yarn or the scarf is long enough for you.
You can always CO more stitches if you want a wider scarf you just won't have as long as a scarf as mine turned out unless you add more yarn of course.

It's squishy and soft I love it! one side looks loopy and the other looks bumpy. Neither side really looks like a wrong side but I like the loopy side more.

I hope you like your scarf as much as I like mine, it's easy and fast and is a great quick knit gift.

Birthday weekend

So this weekend was my birthday. Sunday to be exact. Well Saturday I want out to dinner with my 2 best guy friends and one of my best girl friends (Fez, Tony, and Kesia) we ate at Pokez; a Mexican food place in Downtown that has vegan options. Then I went to a local dive bar that was so much fun my drinks were taken care of all night because we know the owner. I got drunk and had a lot of fun since I am usually the D.D.

Then on Sunday I went to eat at The Mission a really great breakfast place. After that I was off to my tattoo appointment. I got a Dr. Seuss sleeve and I am in so much pain today. lol. The actual tattoo didn't hurt as much as I was expecting. It took about 3 hours so far and we got 95% of the lines done. We skipped the inside of my upper arm because it was already 3 hours and took a lot out of us both (my tattooist and me). I have gotten a lot of good response and the only one that was negative really is my mom is upset I got such a large tattoo. here are the pictures of them, if you click on them they get bigger.

Vindication, well a little taste of it...

I got my wireless Internet to work at 3 in the morning finally!!! oh man i feel so dumb it was such an easy fix too. Oh well.

I am so happy to have a day off. And you know what, the first thing today someone tries to get me to cover their shift, hmm 9 days working in a row, again, no thanks.

I went and bought an i pod Shuffle (I can't believe I gave in and bought an i pod) but it's only for the gym, mine is kind of large and I don't want to buy an arm band that it only kind of fits in. Besides if I loose all my music I would be so sad and the shuffle was the best bang for the buck of what I was looking for.

I need to finish the pair to wrist warmer/fingerless gloves I'm working on. I have so many things I "have" to make and I am trying to knock them out because I want to make a sweater for me, and start making scarfs and hats that I can sell. I'm going to start making knitting cell charms. So far we have about 5 or 6 balls of crimson red "yarn" balls. I'm just waiting on the nylon little cords to come and then I'll post a picture.

Here we go

I've decided to start a blog as a way to get some of these things out of my head.
My name is Julie I'm 3 days to 24 and I'm so very tired of the blah-ness of it all.
I work at Chili's, I work a lot. 6 days a week almost every week.
I knit and I love it so much, I try to do it everyday but that doesn't happen as often as I would like.
I am single but never have time to meet anyone because I'm always working and way too tired to go out. Besides I so don't want to meet someone at a bar.
I joined the gym about 3 weeks ago and I am going but not as often as I would like to, once again work = too tired to live.
I have a pug that is my baby she is so funny and weird it's great. I used to take her to dog park but she is scared of all the other dogs.


So today:
I'm tired my manager's are treating me like shit, well really only one. Like just because one freaking table says that I was rude it negates that like almost every other table says that I am such a nice girl and a wonderful server etc.. ugh! I could spit! Apparently I'm the only person at work that can't call in sick because I'm the only person that can call in at 11:30 in the morning say I'm sick and still have to come in and close that night.

My car is crap. Money is coming in and so I hope I can get out of debt. I want to buy a new car so bad. I think I want the Nissan Rouge (I might go test drive one tomorrow).

I washed one of my Nintendo DS games. It still works but man that sucked!

I can't get my wireless Internet to work and I am super pissed about that.

I really wish I had time to find a new job; but all I know is the food service industry, that is what I went to school for, that is what all of my jobs have been for the past 6 years.

My birthday is Sunday and I am going to start my half sleeve (oh yeah I have 9 tattoos so far and this will be the start of my largest). I am so excited but nervous. I think my mom is going to flip out on me. Oh well it's my life and my body.

I think I might go to the gym right now. It's 1 in the morning but I don't know I'm not tired but I don't think it's safe to go at this time of day alone... maybe I'll just go in the morning for a long time. I just want to be able to shop at the majority of stores so bad!!! I don't want to be restricted to like 4 stores and the smallest section of the other stores with the worst selection!!!!!!!

I'm going to go knit want watch tv...