Archive for March, 2008

Yaaarrrrrn

{ March 30, 2008 @ 8:02 pm } · { Knitting/Yarn }
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So, I’ve finally gotten around to ordering yarn from KnitPicks

The List:

  1. 2 skeins of Essential Sock in black for the boyfriend’s Boyfriend Socks;
  2. 12 skeins of Main Line in blueberry for my Mrs. Darcy; and
  3. 2 skeins of Swish DK, 1 in eggplant and 1 in white for my NU colored Mini-Argyle Beret

I do still need to finish my cross stitch and restart mom’s fingerless gloves. I’m going to restart the gloves tonight so that when my yarn gets here I can start asap knitting the socks since they were a Valentine’s Day gift… oops!  It took him forever to pick a pattern, though, so it’s ok!

More later,
Mini

SQUEEEEEEAL!!!

{ March 27, 2008 @ 8:16 pm } · { College }
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Short Post:

I got accepted to Northwestern!!

Oh, Lord.

{ March 27, 2008 @ 5:02 pm } · { College, Life, cross-stitch }
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Mr. Director is keeping WAY more than we want him to in terms of clothes. Everything has sentimental value. ugh.

He is getting better, though. With each rack he gets rid of a little more. I’m taking my camera to school tomorrow so that I can get some pictures of the messiness that we go through trying to dig for costumes and hopefully what it will look like.

As for knitting, there hasn’t been much. I’ve been told to finish my started projects before I begin another, so as of right now, it’s cross-stitching a Christmas stocking for me!

kit cover This is the kit that I’m currently working on, the one that the friend got me for my birthday. Her family’s got a tradition of having cross-stitched stockings for everyone, so she sucked me into it as well. Love her so much for this!

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my work so far

And that’s how much work I’ve got finished so far.

I’m really enjoying getting back into cross-stitching. It’s providing endless amounts of fun. That is, except when I realize that I’ve completely screwed up a section and have to go back and rip it all out. Let me tell you, ripping out cross-stitch thread is worse than frogging chenille.

Ok, maybe not that bad, but pretty close. Especially if the thread is under other colors. It’s extremely difficult to get it untangled from the mess that is the reverse side. Blargh.

Anyway, Life is good and things are going well. College? Got denied from Barnard, but still have two applications out and need to send off another one. Ugh. Why in the world would a school make their application due on April 1? That’s when everyone else is sending out responses, you dumb buckets!!

Must run. Have a project meeting at a the ice cream shop. We got tired of going to coffee to study.

Mini

Diving for Fabric

{ March 24, 2008 @ 5:37 pm } · { Sewing/Fabric }
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Well, the time has come in my stage management/technical theatre class again! Yes, that’s right: time for Mini to clean out the school costume closet!

Last year, I organized the men’s costumes. All the suits are organized by color and all the jackets/coats/etc. are grouped together. Shoes (both men and women) are bundled in their pairs and stored in big plastic tubs. It took me about a month to get all this done.

This year, I get to skip scene painting since I did it last year and instead get to organize the women’s side. Oy. It’s a mess. We’ve already filled up one rolling rack from just one six-foot wide section. Mr. Director has said we can use our best judgment as to what should be kept and what should be sold at a dollar sale. So far, there have been some great fabrics!

Well, usable fabrics. There’s one flow-y dress that has been cinched at the bottom for reasons unknown. It’s got some weird coloration to it as well. I’d love to see if it fits and if it does, take it, remove the cinch and overdye it in a really cool color.

There’s also an Asian-inspired floor-length dress-ish thing that I’d love to steal and crop off to make a top.

And of course, there’s lots of Medieval and Renaissance garb with tons of boning and corseting, but I’d never take that. I’d never use it and the fabric is way to heavy for me to use.

Some of the random finds:

  • a black lacy bodysuit….
  • a blue spandex top with really long fringe. flapper-esque, but kinda skanky without a leotard under it
  • multiple short silver dresses
  • wedding dresses from various time periods

Overall, we’ve got quite a lot of good finds, depending on who’s looking. If there’s enough interest, we should be able to make a good bit of money on the sale.

I’ll post with pictures later.
Mini

Wow. Just. Wow.

{ March 21, 2008 @ 11:04 pm } · { Amazement }
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So I just discovered the “import” option and I’ve got to say, WordPress has thoroughly impressed me. I was trying to decide how best to transfer all of my stuff from Blogger over to here when I came across this and, whoosh!, all my Blogger posts are here now!

Yay for Magic Buttons

And for a little knitting update, I still haven’t felted my French Market Bag yet. I’m such a bad fearless knitter. ::hangs head in shame::

Mini

Woo!

{ March 19, 2008 @ 7:21 pm } · { Knitting/Yarn }
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Well, at the recommendations of others, I have made the jump from Blogger to WordPress. I’m quite impressed with all the options of layouts and will probably be having a lot of fun with them. For now, though, I’ll stick with this one.

Let’s see… What is Mini up to? Well right now, I’m cross-stitching a Christmas stocking from a kit that a Cheesy friend got me for my birthday. Apparently she was tired of me stealing her stitching in Drama to get a fix. So now I’ve got my own and am loving my return to the x-stitching fold.

In the knitting realm, I’ve got some fingerless gloves to knit for mom’s birthday… which was over a month ago. Maybe I’ll count one as a birthday gift and the other as a Mothers Day gift? Yes, I like it.

The boyfriend wants a pair of socks. He’s picked these as the pattern he wants.

I also want to knit up Mrs. Darcy as my first major clothing piece, but alas, I must get all my other projects done before.

I’ll try to be back later with pictures and such.

So long!
Mini