I haven’t been blogging, but I’ve been crafting.

I’ve finished baby’s first tattoo, and I’m giving it to my teacher tomorrow:

I’ve also cast on a beautiful shrug

and I’ve made some stitch markers with turquoises and glass beads:

I haven’t been writing here much since our internet connection doesn’t seem to work on my laptop, and my mum’s laptop is a pre-war machine that takes 10minutes to process writing a letter on wordpad.

But I’ve finished knitting Baby’s first tattoo, pictures coming soon, I just need to take myself by the hand and go to a net café to upload everything.

I’ve also ordered a LadyB,  in the Pacifica pattern. I can’t wait to recieve it

Oh and some yarn to make myself a bolero. I always thought knitting was more expensive than buying sweaters from shops, but my bolero will cost me only 20$ to make, shipping included (and I also bought a wooden crochet hook for dropped stitches when I travel) and I’m planning to knit myself a gorgeous sweater with lace that will only cost around 30$ which is less than half of what I’d pay for it in a store (and it will boost my self-esteem!).

Sweater with lace border and hood

Here is a fun test to find out

I got this result:

You scored only 34%. Either you are a beginning knitter, or you just don’t have an addictive personality.  If your family accuses you of addiction they are insane.  In fact, you are so non-addicted, I’m surprised you took this test!

I agree 100% on one point, my family is insane. On the rest mmm maybe!

1. You ask strangers to feel their sweaters, or get uncomfortably close to them to see the stitch pattern.
2. You can’t do ANY work on the computer until you’ve read the Yarn Harolet Blog, and the knitting pattern of the day (or gone through Ravelry’s forums 10 times)
3. You don’t go ANYWHERE without your knitting bag, even if it’s the grocery store.
4. You literally dream about knitting.
5. You can somehow manage to include the words, “yarn,” “needles,” or “knitting” into EVERY conversation.
6. The family no longer freaks out when you bring your knitting out in public because their just so used to it that it’s not strange any more.
7. The people you work with buy you yarn on the way home from a “business” lunch, because they think they’re being funny.
8. you see a thread titled “Alpaca vs. water” and your first thought is whether you’d give up water for more alpaca.
9. You have unfinished projects next to every chair that you might come in contact with during any given day so your knitting is always waiting for you.
10. You know you’re really sick with the flu when you just can’t knit.
11. your bathroom reading material is nothing but a stack of knitting magazines and books.
12. When while getting ready for a trip, the first thing you think about is knitting projects to take along.
13. When sitting at the doctor’s office and they FINALLY call your name, you ask them to wait a sec until you finish that row.
14. You know you’re a knitting dork when you WANT to be kept waiting for doctor, dentist, business so you can get some extra knitting time in.
15. You know you’re a knitting dork when you read every post in this thread, smiling and chuckling all the way!
16. When you refer to “snow days” as “knitting days”.
17. When 14 sock books are not enough to supply you with your next sock project so you buy 3 more.
18. When in a pinch you realize the bamboo skewers in your barbecue supplies are a perfect size 3 set of needles.
19. When you realize you can make CABLE needles with them too!
20. When you get a ‘hormonal surge’ looking at the guy’s sweater not at him.
21. You know you are a knitting dork when you show up for all meetings 15-30 minutes early on purpose so you can knit.
22. when ravelry goes down for two minutes and you enter full blown panic mode! (refresh…refresh…refresh…)
23. The second thing you think about when you wake up is knitting (the first is always “i want to go back to sleep!”)
24. whenever you see anyone in knitted clothing I wonder how it was made.
25. You visit ravelry before facebook (shock! horror!)
26. You can’t change handbags because the one you’re currently using is the perfect size for your knitting.
27. You’re pretty much always thinking ”i’d rather be knitting”.
28. You could open two yarn shops with your stash.
29. When “stash” is used to refer to yarn, and not pot.
30. You believe you have a gift which you have to share with the world in order to maintain good knitting karma.
31. When meeting new people after a few drinks, you try and convert them to knitting with a zeal usually only found in religious converts.
32. When your DH is deployed and gets on web cam and your excited to show him the new yarn that you ordered that arrived today. And his only response is to yawn but you continue talking about it anyways.
33. You know you’re a knitting dork when you’re known for your mantra of, “just one more row…” (usually repeated over five or six more rows).
34. When you and your husband are discussing what coud happen if there was a severe economic depression and the first words out of your mouth are, “Well, I think I’ll be okay on yarn.”
35. When you’re sorting laundry and automatically turn a sock right side out because your brain says not “the sock is inside out” but “the PURL side is showing.”
36. You know you’re a knitting dork when you start most of your sentences with “There’s this post on Ravelry where they were talking about this exact thing …!”
37. When you actually get withdrawal symptoms when you go without knitting for a few days.
38. You started an Amazon wish list and all it has is knitting books, yarn, patterns, cute tape measures that look like sheep, bags you could use for knitting, knitting kits… And you keep finding and thinking of new things to add to the list.
39. When you’re actually still reading that list and are still chuckling.
40. When you decided the best use of your time right now was making a blog post of that Ravelry thread.