I started a 2-week diet Monday and have lost 5 lbs in the past 4 days. I went on this diet to cleanse my system and give me a “fresh” start to eating healthier. This diet is not based on calorie count. It is designed to burn off body fat by chemical action (of the foods you can eat while on the diet).
After this 2-week diet is done, I’ll start back up with my Slim in 6 workouts. One way or another I am going to get my body back into shape for the Renaissance Faire so I can wear most of my garb. lol Which reminds me… I have several skirts and tops cut out and waiting for me to just sew them together. I better get on that before July 10th.
Slim in 6 Workouts
I had stopped my previous attempt at the workouts because I got really sick (bad bad cold) and then went on vacation to visit my family and such.
Knitting
I have designed 2 new knitting patterns for mittens. Several people have offered to test knit them for me. Once the test knitting is all done, I’ll submit them to Knit Picks IDP (Independent Designers Program) to sell them online. Can’t wait to find out if they accept them into their program or not. Sooo exciting!
New Phone
I got myself a new phone – the iPhone – and I am sooo happy with it. I can have my knitting videos on it to reference at any time and it has a pdf reader on it so I can now scan my patterns in and save them as pdf to read on my phone too. Now I just have one iPhone to carry around instead of a phone, ipod, patterns, and be near a TV or computer to watch my knitting videos.
Me write knitting patterns for selling on the web? Someone might actually want to make my ‘doodles’?
Apparently so…
In a recent KAL (knit-a-long) online for mittens I ‘doodled’ 2 different ones. Several of the other knitters showed an interest of where I got the patterns. I told them I made them up and they offered to test knit them if I were to write up patterns for them.
If the test knitting goes good, then I can submit them to Knit Picks to sell online in their IDP (independent designers program). This is getting exciting. I completed one of them (the Creamsicle Mitts) and am almost done with the other one (Emotional Waves cable design).
If this works out good, then maybe I’ll write up patterns for my other ‘doodles’ and see if I can find test knitters for them too. This is going to be a lot of fun. And it is doing something that I love to do – Knit!
I have been working on several projects, among them is the Spiral Yoke Sweater which I finally finished this past weekend – took me 2 months to knit it. It was fun! My first with no seams.
I have also been working on Mittens in the KAL and have a second pair that I’m making for a LYS Contest. I have them done except for the afterthought thumb.
I am also experimenting on making a Roving Holder. Got the idea from some of the ladies in the Mittens KAL talking about what Kelley described in her Spindle video. I’ll post a pic when I’m done with it.
Here is what I have been working on lately, busy, busy, busy
Meg Swansen’s Spiral Yoke Sweater is coming along:
Close up of the Spiral Yoke:
Working on the Mittens KAL and finished one of the Thumb Gussets:
And last Saturday I went to a new to me LYS in Oak Creek, WI called Just 4 Ewe Yarn & Fiber shop. The ladies there were so very nice and helpful. They had roving that I couldn’t resist buying.
Posted by KnitterGirl39 on Nov 24, 2009 in Knitting
I was “doodle knitting” a while back and made these fingerless mits. I liked how they turned out so I wrote up a pattern for it. Would anyone be interested in “testing” out my pattern? Also, I used Lion Brand Wool-Ease Thick & Quick yarn, could someone suggest a KP yarn to substitute for it?
Posted by KnitterGirl39 on Mar 14, 2009 in Knitting
I am almost all moved in. Just mainly the big stuff that will most likely need a moving truck to move. I can’t wait to me completely moved. Tired of running back and forth between the two places. lol
Once I’m done moving in, I need to go through my stash and figure out what yarn I already have to use in the next projects I want to do.
Works in progress (WIP)…
I am working on an afghan knit-a-long that will be done by December. We are doing one block a month through September. October we will stitch it together and in November we will add the edging around it.
I am also working on a second pair of socks (toe-up with magic loop method).
I still have another afghan I have been working on at times that has 4 different types of patterns and 4 different colors for a total of 16 squares. I am only about 1/4 done though.
I am in another knit-a-long for the Sweater Sampler in Jacqueline Fee’s book Sweater Workshop. I am about 1/2 way done with it.
