Car Accident Frustrations

My life has rather sucked recently. On July 19th I was in a car accident. My son and my best friend were in the car with me. I was taking him to his fathers house, then my friend and I were going to go to the yarn store. I was rear-ended by some jerk who never even bothered to hit his brakes. We were at a complete stop and he just wasn't paying attention during rush hour traffic. We were so lucky that my car was totaled but everyone was fine. It had a long life being a 95' and all. I was going to start looking in to new cars next year anyhow. I feel like a child again needing to get rides from my parents.

CHP seemed to have lost all of the information about the accident. I was sent to the emergency room to be checked for spinal injuries right after the accident. Which means I wasn't able to get any of the other drives information. CHP was on site and they got it. I was not given the info when they came to question me at the hospital, nor was I even given the officer in charge of the reports name. It took me 9 days to get that info from them. Nine fucking days!

I found out that 13 days after the accident the person who hit me still hadn't reported it to their insurance. If he had the 9 days with CHP wouldn't have been a big deal since he had my info and his insurance would have contacted mine. It didn't work out that way at all. I guess he thought that he could hide from the fact that he was the cause of a 4 car accident. So the ball is finally rolling with our insurance, after I reported the accident to his representative.

I am still without a car though. It is driving me crazy to lose my independence like this though.

Tempting Cables

I made this sweater for myself which I adore. I wanted to make something really simple since I was my first sweater ever. So I looked around and I found something. It had a simple construction, but I couldn't stand the ribbons and bows up on top. I decided to change it a little. After fooling around with cables a to make the Cabled Wrist Cozies I was in like with that particular cable. It could be adapted into the pattern too. Instead of putting in a ribbon on top I could have glorious cables! So rather than Tempting, I have Tempting Cables.

I followed the instructions for the original pattern until the last 2.5 inches. The only change is that I needed to make sure that my stitch count was divisible by eight. The only size that needs to have stitches added or removed was the large. I ran a life line in the row before starting my cables to make sure they would work out ok. It also marked the end of a round, I found it easier than using a stitch marker. I do know some people love the stitch markers though.

STITCH EXPLANATION:

2LT (left twist) Slip 2 sts to cable needle and hold in front, p1, then k2 from cable needle.
2RT (right twist) Slip 1 st to cable needle and hold in back, k2, then p1 from cable needle.
CL (cross left) Slip 3 sts to cable needle and hold in front, k2, then slip purl st from cable needle to left needle, p1, then k2 from cable needle.

rnd 1: *2LT, p1, k2, p2* repeat to end of round

rnd 2: *p1, k2, p1, k2, p2* repeat to end of round

rnd 3: *p1, CL, p2* repeat to end of round

rnd 4: *p1, k2, p1, k2, p2* repeat to end of round

rnd 5: *2RT, p1, 2LT, p1* repeat to end of round

rnd 6: *k2, p3, k2, p1* repeat to end of round

rnd 7: *k2, p1, YO, p2tog, k2, p1* repeat to end of round

rnds 8&9: *k2, p3, k2, p1* repeat to end of round

rnd 10: *2LT, p1, 2RT, p1* repeat to end of round

rnd 11: *p1, k2, p1, k2, p2* repeat to end of round

rnd 12: *p1, CL, p2* repeat to end of round

rnd 13: *p1, k2, p1, k2, p2* repeat to end of round

rnd 14: *2RT, p1, k2, p2* repeat to end of round

rnd 15&16: 2x2 ribbing in line with original pattern

BO in pattern.

Heres hoping I didn't screw anything up when I wrote it down. Feel free to message me if you have questions. Message me with pictures if you make one, I would love to see them.

Finally...

Well I finally decided to make my own knitting blog. So many people have them, and it is pretty cool to be able to share your patterns. Share your progress on all of your projects. Show how your skills have advanced over time. Write down your thoughts on occasion. Perhaps I will be better about it than I have been in the past.

So, I knit my first object for X-mas 2005. I made a couple hat and scarf sets that didn't turn out too terrible. Then I took a break till it was time to knit X-mas gifts again in 2006. I wanted to create for a couple more people, and decided to do ponchos. The one for my Mom didn't work out, I found out she was allergic to the yarn I had picked out. The others turned out well enough. I learned just enough to get myself hooked on it all.

The time consuming purple poncho for my best friend taught me all about yarn overs. Yarn Harlot may have busted it out in fairly short order because of it's simplicity, but it took me FOREVER!!! It cut into my time so much that I couldn't make my mom a different gift after I found out she was allergic to the one I had nearly finished. I was so disappointed that I could not make my mom a gift. At least I learned something though. Give myself plenty of time for mistakes and the learning curve to learn the basics of the pattern. On the plus side my friend absolutely loved her gift and decided she wanted to learn how to knit too.

Then I made myself something and it was easy and fabulous. I learned how to do a decrease. I made the Nautilus Hat and some matching wrist warmers. The problem is I didn't make them out of quality yarn. Despite how much I love them, since they are the first things I ever made for myself, they just don't feel great against my skin. They look nice though. I love how the swirl turned out. I even got a request from a really good friend for some wrist warmers. So I decided to try my hand at cables and made the Lion Brand Wrist Cozies. They were fun, but also made little sense. I mean why make them flat then sew them together? I did it anyways. I had no idea how to adapt the pattern sadly. Still a bit of a beginner after all.

I don't feel like a beginner any more I have learned how to adapt patterns a little bit. I know more than one kind of increase and decrease. I have developed an insane need for yarn. I am an addict. I even bought a new purse with small KIPs in mind. After all non-zippered sections are good for projects on the go. It holds all of my stuff too!