Know what I hate?

Answer: going to a store, seeing all the pretty sweaters, thinking "I can make that!", then realizing... no, I can't. At least, not yet. Once I actually knit a sweater or two, I'll have a much better grasp of sweater construction. Plus, once I have a job, I won't feel quite so bad about buying 10+ skeins of yarn at once. (Look how pretty.) So, I'm not trying to doubt myself. I'll make a sweater like that eventually. Goal: have one at least started by Christmas.

Another goal: one of these days, I'm going to sit down with some leftover yarn and play around with different stitch patterns. I'm a self-taught kind of gal. Who knows when I'll get that day, though...

Today, I was bad and bought yarn. The bf and I are getting kittens soon, and as I was perusing the pet aisles of Walmart (shush, they're open later than Petco), I noticed the pet beds and almost bought one or two. Then I remembered: Stitch'n'Bitch had a pattern for a cat bed! Insert a quick run back to the craft department for one of the rare occasions you will see me purchase fun fur (not to mention one of the only times you'll ever see me buy yarn from Walmart).

The pattern calls for one strand worsted weight something-or-another to be held together with one strand fun fur. I remembered I still had a tooooon of blue yarn sitting around that was a hand-me-down via the bf's stepdad's crocheting late wife. I appreciate the gift, don't get me wrong, but it's one of those shades that you can't really do much with. I normally love blue, but for some reason, I can't stand this shade. Think Red Heart's Amethyst for the time being, since I can't get on Caron's website. And I finally thought of something - at least one thing - to do with it! Anyway, I grabbed a skein of Red Heart (probably Amethyst, heh), did some color comparing, and settled on making one bed with Citrus and the other with Fiji (color samples are here). Fiji actually looks pretty decent so far... I'll update later on how the Citrus looks. It also seems to be a pretty sturdy-slash-squishy surface, so yay. (Oh, and I'm knitting this on size 9 needles, instead of the 10.5's the pattern calls for. Kittens are small like that.) I'll probably end up needing another skein of each color, but oh well, that's what Michaels 40% Off coupons are for.

And then I remembered that Knitty has a pattern for making adorable cat toys out of scraps. Rock on. I want to make some eggrolls for the kittens, because I like watching kittens wrestle with toys just as big as they are. (I'll be nice and make some wontons too, don't worry.)

Add two more projects to the sidebar list, then. I really need to finish something.

Updates may be relatively sparse coming up, as we may be moving as early as next weekend (!), but I'll try my best, yo.