Baby Blankey & SOCKS!

So my OSD is having a baby and due in August. We are both excited to see the little one this summer. I started a new project for baby. A baby blanket. I found the pattern on e-patternscentral.com. The pattern cost about $4 but the yarn was wow. I looked high and low for the right yarn. I found one that I liked that wasn't too girly or boyish since we do not know yet which my stepdaughter is having. I went with a hobby lobby brand yarn that was so soft with flecks of pastel colors in it. Very subtle. It is coming along pretty quick now that I have the pattern down and it's going to be SO CUTE when I am done.

While at Hobby Lobby, I saw some great sock yarn. I have wanted to try to make socks but the whole knitting in the round with dpns kinda scared me. BUT I picked up some fun sock yarn to try it. If it works out then I am going to be a sock maniac! :D Here is the yarn I picked up. Isn't it fun?

Pissed off

So I had a membership with a gaming site. Silly little games that I like to play when I want to just veg. Well a couple months ago, I noticed it wouldn't reup and it was saying that my account was on hold. I finally was able to sit down and talk to customer service trying to figure out why it wouldn't reup. Ended up with me calling my bank to find out what the deal was. Turns out they were told by VISA to BLOCK users from purchasing from gaming sites like the one I was on. So I am unable to purchase games on this or any gaming site with my card. WTF is that?!?! We were not even notified of this major change. How lame. Just totally ticks me off. Something about too many fraud cases and I am thinking, if I want to purchase something with my money, I should be able to. If there is fraud that is what the protection is FOR... and we can deal with it if it happens. However, this is a site I have been a member with for YEARS. UGH!

*UPDATE* Used PayPal to work around it. A-holes.

Entrelac

So I started another project. I know. I have five million others in the works but I love it! This is a scarf I am working on for my mom. I wanted something different for her and so I found this post on a forum I belong to about Entrelac. I researched it and thought, "PERFECT!" So thus I began the process of learning how. It is surprisingly easy once I got the hang of it. And it is coming along beautifully. I am sure she will like it. :D

I completed a small project for a change of pace. It was a quick project. A coffee cup cozy. It only took me about an hour to finish, with interruptions. I am pretty pleased with it. Need to find a good button to use to finish it up. I think I screwed up a little on the buttonhole portion but there is one there and it will work. I, of course, chose Steelers colors cause this for my hubby to use. :)

Happy Winter

I have been so busy working on a few different projects after taking a nice little break for the holidays. I am currently working on three scarves at once. One is the multicolor child scarf using the K1, P1 rib. A red child's scarf which is just straight knit in Ranch Red and my first try at a lace like scarf in hot pink.

We finally got some snow yesterday. It's beautiful.