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Fate Of My Iced Sweater..and developing a laptop/IPad bag pattern (sneak peak)

Is there anyone out there that knits a sweater pattern without drama? Ha, all frustration aside, gauge problems, pattern tweaking etc.ā€¦[ pattern here ] I powered through all of my knitting drama with this pattern, well it did have extended ā€œrestingā€ times, but my biggest hurtle was, (see above photo) this is all of the yarn I have, see little bitty ball at the bottom!  11 skeins later and the arms of the sweater are just to my elbows. I dithered around for a bit, I had spent more money on this yarn than I had planned, and not made it into the pattern I had bought it for (of course *snort*). But I ultimately decided that I do in fact, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE how this is turning out, (it is super bulky thick and thin yarn) and is very warm and soft and squishy, I originally thought, when I realized that I would not have enough yardage to complete it, that I would make it into a vest. Having a raglan sleeve posed a problem with that idea. So I decided to knit as far as my yarn would allow ...

This and that, searching for inspiration and gluebooks

Off today and have a list of "things to do". I've been in a cleaning mood lately, so I'm going with it. Clearing away and decluttering, I have found I can not be creative if my house (especially my sewing room) get too messy. I clean and this room ends up, well a catch all for everything that does not get to its proper place. So, needless to say, no knitting has occurred yet. I am working on a gluebook . Thanks to Paula the Quilter, *take any kind of journal, book whatever. It can be printed or not *take magazines and cut out words or pictures that appeal to you *glue the cut outs to pages in your book *add journaling or not, check some out here.   Flicker group here. Or see Artjunkgirl 's blog and GoMakeSomething here Spring Knitty is out!! Inspiration here. Don't forget KnittySpin . The Yarn Harlot has a new book out! This looks interesting. Highlighted by Knitters Review, A Go Knit Pouch . You can buy here or see more detai...