Azura's Vices

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Glove Love!

It's been a while since I've posted, and in that time I've managed to finish two things. One was my shrug (picture to follow when I get someone to take a picture of me wearing it), and the other was a glove!

The story of the glove begins on a train to Montreal...

Itty bitty thumb hat!

(incidentally, this is probably my most well documented knitting project *ever*)

By the end of the first train ride, I had an interesting knitting needles/yarn/fingers sculpture

While staying at Dee's aunt and uncle's place, I managed to knit a tiny bit more...

*quack*

On the train ride back to Toronto, I got all the fingers done!

Then started to work on the hand of the glove...

By the end of the train ride, I had enough of knitting... and staying awake

But I perservered and kept knitting, and today I finished the glove! *applause*

One down, one to go. And then (if I have enough yarn), a matching beret! *squee!*

Saturday, February 28, 2009

Happy Birthday To Me...

After a fun day yesterday of pre-birthday celebrations, today is my actual 29th birthday!

What pre-birthday celebrations, you ask? Well, Heather and I went to get our hair cut and styled all prettily. Heather is totally rockin' her rocker-chic look! I look the same as I always do, just more styled ;)

So after the beautification, we decided on some pre-shopping (since today is the actual shopping day) and I ended up with nice brown heels (on sale!), a beautiful pink suede jacket (on sale!) and a nice bar shirt (not on sale), all of which (except the heels) will be displayed at today's festivities!

Then I picked up my sister (who made me a cake!) and we drove to Brampton for my birthday dinner with my family. We ate at an Italian restaurant that had such HUGE portions that my leftovers looked like take-out. Seriously, I barely dented the massive quantities of spaghetti! So now I don't have to cook until probably Wednesday :D

TODAY...

Well, I'll let you know about today tomorrow, once I have some fabulous photos to share. Needless to say, I am UBER EXCITED about today (and not just because of the shopping) :D

Monday, February 16, 2009

The Friday Night Knitting Club

By all rights, I shouldn't have even read this book. It's definitely not the kind of book I usually pick up. I tend to avoid the adult reality type books, preferring to enjoy my escapism with books about fantasy and vampires.

But, the book is about knitting (which I enjoy) and I had just finished reading a fantasy book about politics and assassins ("The Way of the Shadows" by Brent Weeks - very good!), so I figured what the heck.

I was blown away by the readability of this book. Maybe I'm getting soft in my old age, but I found all the characters to be extremely likeable. Their lives were beautifully displayed and each one was a unique and interesting person. The main character, Georgia, reminded me of the type of person I wanted to be. It was funny, heart warming, moving, and cathartic.

Whether you knit or not, you should read this book... okay, maybe not so much for guys, but everyone else should.

Guys, go pick up "The Way of the Shadows" instead. ;)

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Busy fingers

I'm working away on Thorpe (the hat from the previous post) and I'm down to the ridgey part at the bottom.

I was hoping to have this hat done by Saturday so I can wear it skiing. Somehow, I doubt that will happen though :) I have to figure out how to crochet before it's done... and make ears. This hat is screaming for some ears.

Stay tuned for more hat updates!

(oh, and happy February!)

Friday, January 30, 2009

Neglecting the ol' blog

I have stuff to blog about, really, I just don't have any pictures. I am a lazy photographer in this digital age. I mean, I don't even have to leave my apartment anymore! Still, excuses, excuses :)

What have I been knitting?

Let's see ... I'm almost done a shrug. I think it's called the Retro Redux Shrug from Lace Style. Dee had knit one up and I borrowed it when we saw Avenue Q (the theatre was *cold*) and loved how it fit, so I decided to make one for myself.

someone else's shrug
see previous comment about too lazy to take my own pictures

What else? Well, one of my co-workers is pregnant, so I'm working on a surprise project for her (I don't know if she reads this blog or not) and a not-so surprise present which will hopefully end up looking like this:

The pattern is for free here

Only mine will be a solid colour (orangey) with dark dark blue trim.

I'm also going to start on my very own ski hat ... with ear flap and probably ears :) It'll be dark brown with a pale blue trim to match my new ski jacket. The pattern is called Thorpe (Rav link) and it looks like this:

Still gotta do a gauge swatch for this one. I doubt the hat will be done by my next ski trip in early February. Oh well :)

This concludes the blog post about what I've been up to, knitting-wise.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Winter Blahs

As I was reading my blogs this morning, noticing that a lot of people have updated recently, I realized I hadn't written anything in 2009 yet!

This is due to the fact that 1) Nothing terribly exciting has happened so far in 2009, and 2) I have serious case of the winter blahs and didn't want to depress anyone with a mopey post.

I have, however, managed to go skiing in 2009, so here are some pictures. We were at Blue Mountain on Jan 10th. I bought a new ski outfit (no more purple and green for me!) and had a blast!