Pain, Pain, and more Pain

Wouldn’t you know it, now that I have time to do massive amounts of knitting I can’t. Last week I knit about 5 hours a day or more every day, and now between my back pain and the pain in my arms from tendonitis I can’t knit for more than a few minutes at a time before the pain is unbearable. I have been stretching an awful lot, but that only helps a little bit. So needless to say I haven’t gotten much further on Tomato, but I am only 3 rows away from starting the ribbing at the bottom. I did make one small little mistake on the color work, but I don’t think anyone will ever notice it because it is right at the side seam. I did notice it the next row down, but unless you really know the pattern and you look really closely you won’t be able to tell where the mistake is. If all goes well I hope to have a finished sweater by the end of the weekend.

Here are some progress pictures, although these were taken at the beginning of the week. Hope everyone has a great weekend.

Unemployed and looking for income

I know this is my knitting blog, but in an effort to survive while I am only bringing in unemployment income I have decided to set up an Etsy shop to sell some of my hand-made, rubber stamped, greeting cards. If all goes well I will be posting many more cards in the weeks to come. Here are just a few of the cards I posted today.

Visit me over at Etsy.

Wicked

As I mentioned last week, Wicked is completed and here is the proof.

On Tuesday last week, I spent the day with my knitting friend Janis. We had a great time knitting until our fingers ached, and I started this project, which at the moment is about 75% complete. Pictures to be posted soon.

So far I am in love with this yarn, which is Knit Picks Main Line. I know I will be using this yarn for more projects, I just hope they come out with a lot more colors. Currently Knit Picks only has 10 colors, and most of them are more on the conservative side. I would love to see some bright colors in this yarn, maybe even some hand-dyed or variegated.

Other than my knitting news, there isn’t much else to tell you. I am currently leading an incredibly boring life.  I am unemployed so no interesting work stories to tell you. I barely leave the house since I have no extra money to spend so no interesting encounters to share with you, and job hunting is the most incredibly boring part of my life right now, so I won’t even think of sharing that with you.

Hope everyone has a great week with lots of knitting. I just hope my tendonitis doesn’t come back with all the knitting I will be doing while I am off work. I guess there will be lots of stretching in my future.

Out of Touch

I know I have been out of touch for more than a week now. I have been knitting and I finished Wicked, but I have been actively looking for a new job along with a million projects around the house that I have been putting off for far too long. Anyway, I hope to post pictures next week of what I am now working on along with the finished Wicked. For now check out these cupcakes at Vegan Yum Yum’s Blog. I wish I had the patients to make them.