Tons of Pictures Update

I started a pair of "Hearts and Flowers Socks" from Socks from the Toe Up, by Wendy Johnson. Uhhnnnnn. I realized when I started them that my needle size was 2 when they called for 0. I hit gauge! 8 stitches per inch! Why are these socks so big?!

I have only knit one toe and one pattern chart, so it's not like I'm any where near finishing the socks and just now realizing that they are too big. I would probably finish them and give them to my mom, if that were the case. Unfortunately, I'm broke. So, it's not like I can go out and spend money on two pairs of size 0 circular needles; even though, I totally want to! Plus, the yarn shop closes at 4 p.m.

I never got to talk about my Sunday at the Midwest Fiber Festival or my awesome adventure to Chicago last week Thursday, so I'm going to do that now.

Part Two:

Sunday, my mom and I went to the final fair day. We could have used a lot more time! We did not see everyone's booths, but we did get a peek at the alpacas and pet some awesome skeins of yarn and projects. I bought a drop spindle from Sistermaide and it is pretty. I wasn't going to buy any roving, because I have some from Yarncon last October, but then I did. Unfortunately, I can't remember who I bought the roving from! I won't be getting it until Christmas, along with three other hanks of yarn, and I think the tags are with them. I don't even have pictures, but trust me, they're gorgeous! The roving is full of greens and blues and purples. Very mermaid-chic. Two hanks of yarn are red and are intended for a super duper lace shall. The other hank is of the blue(?) variety and is also intended for a lace shall (for my mom!). I lurve my mum, so she gets lots of knitty things. And it helps that she kind of buys me yarn to feed my addiction. :P

I also bought a fingerless glove kit from Wool, Warp & Wheel. And I knit those last week, but it's too hot to wear them.



Oh, and the other thing I bought was a knitting bag. It's just a cloth bag for small projects, like socks (yeah, like the socks I'm knitting now, but they are too big). The bag was stitched by Lorel. It is so pretty! And I'm kind of toting it around with me everywhere.



We had a fantastic time. I was really glad that my mom was able to go with me on Sunday, not that my boyfriend wasn't fun, but my mom definitely appriciated it more.

Part Three:

I don't really want to make this post too long. I'm just going to talk briefly about my Thursday and then maybe post more details later? I don't know. Thursday, John Green spoke at a library in Chicago and I was there.

Like the Princess Spa mask (for Meg Cabot's Princess Diaries 10 release) I knit something for John, too. Not a spa mask though, because that is way too girly and he needed something nerdtastic. I knit him a scarf instead. It looks a little bit like it could be a slytherin scarf, but it is green and white striped. At each end of the scarf I grafted John and Hank's cartooned faces. It turned out pretty fantastic.



John wore it in this video, which was pretty jokes. I gave it to him when I went up to get my copies of An Abundance of Katherines and Paper Towns autographed. And he asked twice if it was really for him. Of course! Unfortuneately that also meant I distracted him and I only got a best wishes! but no JScribbles in my Paper Towns. Oh well! He'll just have to come back to Chicago, right?