Look what i got at the Op-Shop!

So i had a fantastic time trawling the op shops today! I went looking for a new soup pot (which i didn't find) but I got some great yarn scores.

This was all in a big zip lock bag. The colour doesn't show up very well, its a lovely dark reddy brown 100% nz wool $5 for the lot yay!














A whole bunch of novelty yarns, including silver and gold YAY more tinsel for the tree $1 for the lot.














I'm not sure what this one is meant to be for storing. Socks or toys maybe? Anyhoo its huge and perfect for storing most of my yarn oin so its not living in plastic bags next to my side of the bed anymore 50 cents.


















And some pretty yellow lace, about 3 metres of it for 20cents.



















Now i know i am supposed to be saving, and i was meant to be shopping for a soup pot, but this finishes off the last of the yarn i need for knitting up the christmas pressies (aside from my little brother, still no idea there)I also got 4 xxl t shirts for a dollar each which will get turned into tarn for my dads rug, and i went to the $2 shop and bought a ball of caramel coloured acryllic for lana's doughnut's and cupcakes.

79 day till christmas, 178 days till the wedding

ugh another night with no sleep! between stressing out about christmas and trying like all hell to try and figure out a honeymoon that we can afford, and madly trying to get my christmas knitting all done in time there is just not enough hours in a day.

Godfuckingdamnit why does everything have to be so bloody expensive? So This morning i have a few things sorted.

1 I can afford the wedding, but i can't afford a honeymoon that eveyone is happy with.

2 I reallly really really need to get a job or two. Someone who can work around Dale (my man) shifts cause we cant afford a babysitter, not when they charge what we earn an hour.

3 i was hopeing to have a little money for christmas as Dale doesn't like anything knitted (I'm hopeing the wedding present is the exception to the rule)so i could buy him a present, but if i want to get married in april thats not a possibility. Now i have no idea what to give him.

4 the present list... well mostly anyway.

* My sister garter stitch scarf 100% done














* My step-dad's red yarn vomit scarf 60% done














Pattern can be found here Yarn Vomit Sarf

* Lana assorted knitted foods for her dolls to have picnics with. Not started yet. I also have some dvd read along books i got on special for $3 that i have stashed away. Would really like to get her a bike from santa, but i just don't think its feasable. Maybe ii could ask the grandparents to be santa this year?

* My step mother Party lace scarf Not started yet, not sure if i can afford new yarn for it, it needs lace weight and i dont have anything close to thin enough.
Pattern can be found here Party lace scarf

* My dad rug made from t-shirt yarn. Not started yet.

* My little brother I would love to make him a doctor who scarf, but once again i dont think i can afford the yarn

* littlest step brother NO IDEA!!!

* Mum i cant deecide between a mobius scarf and a chunky braided scarf. I'll probable leave it till last and llet time dictate which one i choose

And thats the list!

Christmas decorations done so far:

knitted tinsel.



Pattern is very easy one ball of eyelash yarn, size 10 1/2 us dpn's.

CO 3 stitches, (5 for thicker tinsel) and knit i-cord until tinsel is the desired length. weave in the ends. TADA! i think it would look extra christmasy in metalic eyelash yarn (if such a thing exsists, but i have yet to find any.)


And Bows for the presents upcycled from old magazine pages.



Instuctions can be found here Gift Bows(warning can become addictive)

A knitted christmas

so christmas this year is going to be really tough financially.

Not that i have ever had oodles of money for christmas but this one is looking pretty dire. As in we cant even afford to buy decorations. (I'm not even going to go into what happened to my box of decorations *darn kitten* But there was no survivors)

Now i have bags and bags of yarn sitting around the house and i thought, why not knit the decorations??? It was discussed by the family, (where lana and i were going yeah yeah!!! and i got disinterested grunts and no lights we cant afford them out of the fiancee)and it was decided.

How ever now i have realised that i have christmas decorations for the apartment to knit, presents for the family, as we cant afford to buy any this year and not much time to do it. Also no idea of what decorations to make. I have one pattern found on the net for little knitted stockings and i have an idea for making some tinsel but other than that nada, zip and zilch.

Why oh why did i ever decide that knitting hristmas would be a good idea????

Peace out
Tai

my dull, hectic, scattered life

so i havent written in AGES, life just got so hectic there for a bit.

My daughter has moved back home, (one month early yay!)
I moved in with my boyfriend (now fiance, *dances around a little*!!!)
quit my job..... which felt fucking amazing at the time but in hindsight Really Bad Move!

so i havent been doing much knitting at all up untill the last fornight really, where i had a little knitting explosion!

Explosion one



My daughter decided her doll piggaro needed a blankie, very basic just small garter stitch squares with larger blocks of garter stitch surrounding them and a single crochet border

explosion two




then she decided that her 'my little pony' millkie needed one too. ok no problems i have been wanting to try mitered sqares for a while, great little trial project, turned out pretty good and inspired the wedding present of doom. (but more about that another day)

explosion three




In which i decided that since our apartment is waaaaayyyyyyy W.A.Y. to small for a christmas tree this year i would knit stockings for the pressies......... a nice introduction to short rowing yes, but other than that complete fail! i dont know where i went wrong but its all lumpy and gross. i thought i followed the pattern exactly???

my other explosion, very nice and easy, something to get me back into the swing of knitting, a simple garter stitch scarf... knit on 4.5 mm dpns... in furry fun yarn... still not too much of a problem long and boring yes, but problematic no. Untill i run out of yarn and i can. not. find. a matching ball of yarn anywhere!!!!! so now i am left with a way too short scarf, but i refuse to frog it after the time put into it. so i suppose it will sit in the bottom of my wip pile for all of eternity, or untill i decide not to be so stubborn, frog it and make something else with the pretty pretty yarn.

(ok so eternity it is)