if you give a mouse a cookie

or if you give an AM ravelry...she will wants lots more knitting stuff.

Bored. wtih a capital B. just discovered this...JMN! :) my initials....



and now that's the background photo on the crackberry.

----interruption for a nice little lunch at COI with Michelle-----

Mmmmmmm....food.

Gonna work on the tie for Tyler tonight. Maybe I'll get close to finishing it so he can wear it tomorrow! That would be awesome.

I love that typing and blogging sounds exactly like typing and emailing!

Why I should not estimate measurements

so....my squares are actually 7" by 7". Hahahaha! This is great news.

which means my quilt needs to be 7x10...only 70 squares at 2.5 squares per shirt...28 shirts. and yes, i had to go to the calculator for that adventure.

I finished up Terrell's hat last night. It makes me happy to have given him something to remember us by and hopefully enjoy back in Detroit.

Goal for tonight is four to five more squares and have a few more balls ready in time for the knitting group tomorrow.

Tyler's patchwork t-shirt quilt

SO! the adventure truly begins. I began cutting up t-shirts yesterday for Ty's Christmas present. I'm hoping it will be ginormous and fantastical. The only foreseeable problem is the fact that most of his shirts are the same color, and when cut into strips, it's going to take some very creative knitting to make them identifiable. So far I've cut up three of his shirts and one of mine. I'm thinking it's going to be 9 squares across, and 15 squares long. Each square is about 5"...so that makes a good size quilt. Shit. I just did the math and realized that takes 135 squares. at 2 squares per shirt...I'd need 68 shirts. I guess it's not going to be that big. Damn. Well I've got about 20 shirts, 40 squares, 8x5...at 5" each (can you tell that I am not a math major, sitting here and talking it out to myself) 25" wide and 40" long equals 2 feet wide and 3.5 feet long. That's a pretty weak quilt. Shit. Looks like I'm going to have to raid his shirts for this thing! At least I know I've got another 5 or so that I can donate, which gets me up to 50" long.

List: Things I Should Have Thought About Before I Started Ty's Quilt.

getting craft happy

tis the season...to start thinking about projects for Christmas! OH YEAH!

Dad- slippers for real this year...Lopi phd boots. Just gotta learn to knit with two circulars.
Mom- cubbies blanket that I've already started
Krisitie- blanket for real this year...the wicked challenging world afghan
Hanks- John Deere fleece blanket
Michelle- sweater...just gotta find a good pattern
Lloyd- sweater with a delicious bass on it.
Rilo- dog sweater
Tom- ef if i know.
Suzi- Pretty in punk blanket found here.
Lucas- Animal blankie...the uber project thanks to KnitPro.