Divine Knittervention

Well, I cast on for Coachella for the 3rd time. Attempts 1 & 2 were frogged. I don't normally knit large items and I have been having problems with my gauge going WAY off as the piece gets heavier. THe last attempt had my gauge going from 20 st over 4" to 28 st over 4". I think this is partly due to me allowing the weight of the piece to pull as I knit. I also think it has to do with the fact that I am using yarn that has *much* more give than the yarn the pattern calls for so I am ending up with less structure in the finished product. Anyway, so much for using stash yarn. I got some lovely Katia Idea which is a product I love anyway and have begun her yet again. Hopefully Dij will get it for her birthday although I wish I had been about to get it to her while it was still hot, icky and sticky outside.

Other than that, I have been working on Jaywalkers which turned out to be the perfect pattern for my lovely green sock yarn. They are soooo pretty! I am trying to finish the pair (I have 3/4 of one sock done) so I mentioned to Becky on her blog that if she wasn't finished with hers then I wanted to have a race. I know she had ONE Jaywalker complete, but I'm not sure about the pair. I wanted to see who could finish the pair by next Tuesdays meeting. Winner gets a cookie or something from the cafe. What do you say Becky?

Most likely Becky says she has already finished her pair and I should suck it up and do mine. :-P

Oh and gross... we for some strange reason are attracting grass spiders in our house. So far we have killed 4 in the last month. These things are HUGE. Of course it doesn't help that I am petrified of spiders. Personally I think we should just move. *shudder*