Exciting news! In 5 days Mike and I are going to a 3 day country music festival in Indio, California called Stagecoach! We are very excited considering we bought our tickets in October and have been waiting for this ever since! We are excited to be getting out of Flag for a weekend and into some nice Southern California weather! It is going to be in the 90's and 100's so most likely I am going to fry to death, but we are going to see Jason Aldean, Eric Church, Luke Bryan and so many more. Isn't that awesome! I am most excited for Luke Bryan. He is a great singer and performer. It doesn't hurt that he is incredibly sexy! Mike laughs at me because I have a fan girl crush on Luke Bryan, but it's okay, he isn't threatened by my love for Luke. We are very excited. We get to go from crazy weather (see pictures above) to warm sun. It is going to be a weekend of hot weather, country music, bikinis and boots! What's better than that? I am very excited, and as usual, pictures to come after.
Update on my quilting project: At my house back home (500 miles away) I have a bag with my charm packs, thread, in between fabric and everything just sitting in my closet. Waiting for me to get home from college and spend my summer being an old lady and quilting. I feel like most people my age are out doing things and causing trouble during the summer. All I want to do is work, then come home and quilt. Guys, I knit, I sew, and I am learning how to quilt. At age 18 I have become an old lady, but you know what? Thats awesome. Why? Because a lot of people my age are dumb and I would rather be my old lady self than be them, going out and being dumb just so they can say YOLO. (Or is that really un-cool to say now...). But yes, back to quilting, I cannot wait for that project, and in the meantime, I have my knitting.
I have been getting what I call an "itchy project finger". It is like what people who like guns call an "itchy trigger finger" but for knitting! As I near the end of my first sock, and begin to mentally prepare for the next sock, I have also decided to start a new project because I want to have 2 projects going at once so I can switch back and forth when I get tired of one or the other. Also, I am going on a family vacation right after school gets out (beginning of May) to New York! I am very excited, but that also means that I will have 2 long plane flights as well as car drives once we are there. So, having 2 projects will be awesome.
I went to go troll ravelry patterns to figure out what I wanted to make, and I decided I wanted a little bit bigger of a project. So I originally wanted a pullover sweater to knit, but after browsing my closet and realizing I already have a bunch of pullovers, I decided a cozy cardigan was exactly what I need. After searching for awhile, I found the perfect pattern. I saw it and I was sold.
Rocky Coast Cardigan by Hannah Fettig is a beautiful cardigan made up of intricate cables and soft plushy yarn that combines to make an elegant and chic cardigan. Once I saw the pattern, I was hooked.
Pictures courtesy of Coastal Knits.
Isn't it gorgeous? After searching online yarn shops and realizing that sadly nobody carries The Fibre Company's Organik in the color way Arctic Tundra which the pattern recommends, and then realizing it would be about 120 dollars just for yarn costs (ouch!) I started looking into the yarn that they suggest as an alternative. Malabgrigo Worsted. After seeing many projects made with it, as well as talking to knitters and reading their comments, I was sold on the Malabrigo yarn. Even better, it is 50 dollars cheaper than the Organik would have been! The best comment (and the one that sold me) was one person that said, "This is my first 'luxury' yarn, I just want to roll around naked in it" I plan on making it in the color way Natural. (It is a white color similar to the one in the pictures), that way you can see the beautiful cable work as well as it being a neutral color. My only fear is that people say that this particular yarn pills after being made, hope it all works out okay.
I took the plunge and made my purchase. 5 skeins of the Malabrigo Worsted in the color way Natural from the Websters in Ashland, Oregon. I used their online store because I found that was the best price and shipping! Now I have to wait for my beautiful yarn. Then it is cast on time! I already have needles thanks to my amazing mother's Christmas gift from this past year. The Addi-Click interchangeable circular set. She said she heard it was the "Caddilac of knitting needles" and I could not be more thrilled to get to use them on this project!
Before casting on I will have to learn how to cable without a cable needle... a foreign concept to me. But it should be fun to learn new things and be able to advance my knitting with each new project. Now, someone I know needs to get pregnant, because baby things are so fun to knit, and I just want to shower a little baby with love and presents. So my dear family, take note. Have babies, because my selfish knitter side wants to shower you with handmade adorable gifts.
I hope you enjoyed listening to my ramblings. Maybe my life is pretty boring, but I hope my (semi) clever titles keep you entertained.
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