Winter Break!!

Hey Guys
Its been awhile. I have been knitting like crazy!! lolz. Im only a few days away from going to Nicaragua for my mission trip and im soo excited!! Ive been knitting cup cozy, in different animal shapes. Im sorry i don't have any pictures to show you, but take my word for it they are really cute XD
-This semester was both long and short. I dint do as well as i hoped to do, my GPA dropped .1 point 0_o i know!!! but i did get a few A's and nothing worse than a B- so i guess i shouldn't complain. I did get a B Japanese XD! i could have done much better but i was really nervous and kept making dumb mistakes, but its all good. Im already planning my study abroad for next summer. Hopefully me and my friend can both go together.
Well I'm off to the Lion Brand Store in NYC, need to pick up some yarn for a few last minute gifts =) Happy Holidays!!!!

New Group Formation

I am the secretary for the knitting club on my campus called Knit-Wits. And I recently created a Ravelry group for us XD. Hopefully I can get the members to sign up and start using Ravelry!! I took some pictures of them
On a different note i finished a few projects i had on the needles. But i only got around to taking pictures of one of them o_0 i know, i know but college life is hectic, between sleep, knitting and eating i haven't any time to do anything (maybe i should include classes hmmmmm......nope overrated lolz jk jk). The pattern is called One Day Beret by Kristen Kapur on Ravelry.

Loving What Fall Brings

I love the fall. The changing of the leaves and the beautiful color they form. My school is situated on a huge hill over lookign a valley and all around it are even more hills. Walking through campus you can see all the shades of yellow, orange, red, brown and green on the hills. Its absolutely amazing.


On thursday i made apple cider! It was awesome! The entire Hays Hall Staff went to the Outing Club's Director. His home was amazing, complete with a barn, lake and 8 acres of land o_0. I was in awe it felt like heaven! The cider making machine was in his barn so we all headed on up there and gathered around this contraption.










The machine looked like something out of the 18th century lolz but it got the job done. We had about 100 apples and 4 different kinds to make the cider. Ive never made cider before so this was an entirely new experience for me. First we set up the machine and feed the apples through the razor thing lolz. Then you turn the wheel and Voila out comes crushed apples and cider!!







Yesterday i went rollerblading at the local skating rink. It was so much fun. My school hosted the event and we they provided free food for us XD (College kids love free food!!). The only time i fell the entire time was in the last 5 minutes of the program!. I was heading for the edge of the rink were my friends were taking off their skates and as i braced for impact my arms grabed the wall but my feet kept going rite past me lmaoo. It was straight out of a comedy i fell in slow motion!! i couldn't stop laughing.

Things Ive Been Working On

It has been a few days since my last post but i promise you i have been knitting like crazy lolz. I recently taught two of my friends how to knit and now their boyfriends are accusing me of starting some sort of knitting cult (hmmmm doesnt sound to bad lolz). Well i borrowed some knitting books from the library (im on a college budget here) and they are amazing, i absolutly love them.
I borrowed Great Knitted Gifts by Andrea Shackleton and Gayle Shackleton and Socks à la Carte

by SWTC Design Team In great knitted gifts i already made a mitten XD. But the pattern in the book called for a pattern of small flowers and i dint have all the colors to make the flowers so i imporvised and designed my mitten with stripes :D

I only finished one of the mittens because i noticed that its just a bit to big for my hand =( I know it sucks because i love how it came out. But no worries im going to take my darling mitten to my mother and she in all her sewing genius will find a solution to my dilemma.

Kitty Madness

Hello everyone it feels like forever since i last posted. So much has happend since the start of the semester a few weeks ago. I love my RA position and my residents are great (so far lolz). Ive been really busy with classes and work but of course i am still hardcore knitting. It was my friends birthday last week and i wanted to give her a hand knitted gift, so of course i turne to ravelry for my pattern needs and was greatly rewarded. I stumbled upon a pattern called Stuffies by Ysolda Teague and thought it was the cutest thing ever. So i casted on the kitty pattern in black yarn. Since it has been along time since i used dpns it was a rough start but i kept going. Once i had all the pieces knitted and ready for stuffing, i used a little DIY ingenious and instead of buying a bag of stuffing i went to my local thrift store and bought an old pillow and took the stuffing from there XD ingenious i kno lolz. Well i stuffed the kitty and sewed on all the paws and such, but then i noticed that you could see the stuffing through the knitting.







Hmmm so of course i tried to sew a few strand of yarn in between the stitching so that the stuffing could be hidden, but that dint work and now my kitten had a bunch of C sections every were 0_o.

But my friend loved him all the same and she was very happy with it.

Well I still dint feel like ive done the pattern justice after my first try so i went back to the needles and casted on for a second kitty!!

His name is Yuki meaning snow in Japanese !!!XD!!!

Dying To Knit lolz

I have about 6 days untill i return to school and am once again reunited with my needles n yarn. I don't know what possed me to leave them behind for the summer break but luckily it will be over soon. I've been looking at different knitting blogs and i found one i really like its called Two Swallows. I like her style and her pieces are gorgeous! lolz. It will be awhile before i can pull off any of those pieces but im getting there, ive come a long way from knitting strange shapes and trying to pass them of for scarves..lmao Another thing i discovered was that someone actually reads my blog!! which is amazing and might hint to me being totally hopeless because of how happy I am about that but i dont care!! lol Thank you very much for who ever is reading this and please continue to do so =)

Back In Bussines

Wow it has been such a long time since i last posted, due to a broken hand sometime around may then add in finals and summer break to that equation and you get a blank blog lolz. Well i broke my hand in karate and so was out of comission for the better part of a month and a half. I was really devastated when it happend, not so much b/c of the pain but unfinished projects i left behind. But now thats all said and done i am fully healed and dying to start knitting again!!!

I even bought a brand new book called The Knitters Bible: Knitted Accessories by Claire Crompton. It is a really nice book with about 30 projects ranging from scarves to hodies. I really like her explenations about the diffrent yarns and how to mix them. She uses alot of colors and diffrent yarns to make her projects which i just love.

I cant wait to start school again. I got the RA job meaning Resident Advisor and so i get my own room!! which is great but i also get alot of experience in dealing with college kids which helps me alot in my major. Well im out, about to watch a movie to pass the time.