Craft Monkey

- the monkey is a lazy blogger

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A few weeks back Betz posted about a felt camera case she found on etsy.

 

I kept randomly checking Hine's etsy shop for several days, and snatched this up when it appeared.

These pics are hers; although my camera is supercute nestled in its case, I'm still borrowing other people's computers, and haven't been unable to unload any of the images off it. Which is a shame since its crammed with pics from the beach camping trip last week.

I ended up ripping back the front of the sunrise circle... I couldn't figure out a better way to fix it; the extra rows were at the top of the armhole shaping, so it wasn't like I could just fold up the extra length at the cuffs... I haven't had much enthusiasm for reknitting it since I frogged and rewound 3 skeins worth the other night. 

stat spike

+had a ginormous spike in page views on june 25-- does anyone know why? did this page get linked somewhere?

- was offline when it happened, so its a total mystery...

+my camera takes awesome pics

-yet another computer died, so i can't do anything with said pics

+being offline means i've got a backlog of things to tell ya' about. which will be in no particular order, and scattered across the next couple of posts

+finished the tank top months ago, i think its pretty cute. one day, i'll be able to show it to you...

+am almost all the way through the 2nd front/sleeve piece of the sunrise circle jacket, thanks to hours of plane and car knitting time. i really like the curved striping action

- this sleeve is an inch-and-a-half longer than the first one, so i screwed up somewhere. because the sleeve flows into the front, and i'd have to rip out the entire front to find the mistake. double.ick.boo.

-it's now been shoved into a ziplock and under the bed to be ignored for awhile

+i did not pitch a temper tantrum about any of that

+started a felted bag on the trip to VA, and knit on it straight through bonnaroo. it was the perfect festival project, since it could get completely filthy and gross and it won't matter : i'm just going to shove it into the washing machine once its done

+met up with knitadelphia from ravelry during bonnaroo

+knit in public alot, including on WorldWide Knit-In-Public Day

+found another vendor-knitter the last day

- ran out of yarn before bonnaroo was over

+lots of good music

-not as many sales as hoped for

+got more yarn on the way to a party, and proceeded to learn that i can knit drunk (at least, stockinette in the round)

+apparently i can also knit in my sleep. finished the bag on the ride home from the party, curled up with my eyes closed hands still moving

+got up the next day to discover that i had bound off too

-need to fix breakfast, so i'll finish this later. no, really.