A few more inches on ES 2.0 and I am humming along as best I can given my long work days and monthly women woes.

So to cheer myself up I created and purcahsed my MS&W shwag. I wanted to print screen it myself but I am having problems getting the image to look good in black and white for the way I do the screen printing. So I went to Cafepress and got some color love. I think it looks great, and it all cost under $35!

The front says "Pixie Purls, Knitting & Spinning" in small writting above the pixie.

The back says "Pixie Purls .com Blog & Podcast" in bigger writting below the pixie.

I got 20 of these to give away for fun:

I hope someone actually wants one, hah! Or I will just pin them to things all over our house, maybe even to the DOGS!! MUHAHAH!!

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Well I am having trouble re-designing my website so it's probably going to be a little while before I can get a new design up. I have decided to premier my new "blog branding" to you now!

Meet Pixie Purls, she doesn't look exactly like me but that's okay because I change my hair far to often to try hah! I think she's adorable. Aimee Ray of dreamfollow.com is the artist and she is fantastic.

So last night after our long meeting I went out with a co-worker from Dallas, we went to dinner and she humored me by going to the bookstore for some knitting literature. I got home at 10:15pm but I had a lot of fun.

Tonight we have a required dinner after today's long meeting and I am sooo tired! I didn't knit at all last night but that is probably best becase my left index finger is still a bit sore still. I totally kicked butt in the gym after work yesterday and I'm very proud. I have a hair apt for the saturday after next with my super special amazing hair cut dude I havn't seen in a year because he's in the city and I can't wait for him to save my hair! I am just not happy with it.

Whats up with the internets? Hardly any emails or forum/blog posts this week, people must be out enjoying life or something!

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I love a sunny sunday! I also love having people over because it means I will buy flowers.

I am pms-ish this weekend so I have been moody and tired. Despite all that it's been a very lovely weekend.

The sweater seems to fit well. The instructions say to knit until the diagnal measures 10" but I compared it to my existing Essential Stripe and it matched, so I stopped knitting. Measuring it says its 9". I think I suck at measuring, but well the other sweater fits so this should be good.

It seems good to me, hopefully tonight I can make a good dent in the length and try it on again.

I love my doggys! Here I sit on the couch watching Top Gun, willow curled up to my right on the couch and toby on the floor at my feet. Life is good.

I wanted to photograph some cute stuff I got in the mail Saturday but my camera batteries died and I have no more. GRR!!

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NE GA & Atl Bloggers Represent!

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Knitty is supposed to come out monday, that's kinda crappy isn't it!! They should have it come out on fridays so we can spend all weekend drooling and dreaming!

There is a Knitty Tubey KAL going on over at craftster.org. There is one solid purple/pink one that I just love on there.

I just love solid colored sweaters. I can knit this up in my Karaoke, or in my Silky Wool. Both are slightly off gauge and I can probably make it work better in the Silky Wool because I can go down a needle size, and I tend to like to go down a needle size for most yarns. So it's nice to see a sweater, want to knit it, and decide to use stash for it!

Essential Stripe 2.0 Progress Photo

It may not look like much but it is progress! I am through the neck increases, so all that is left is to keep increasing and knitting the sleeves until the increase line measures 10 or so inches. Hopefully this weekend I can get to the join and work in the round all next week and get the body finished.

Note for self:
What is really weird is, by the math that sweater is 34". But when I measure it with a measuring tape its 30" (15" wide) and I checked the gauge, it's correct at 5st per inch as when I swatched it before I made it. I can't figure out why the math and the finished measurments do not match!

I am knitting this next sweater with a 5.5 st per inch gauge, but knitting I believe the same size as the other one, BECAUSE the math says it's going to be 30" wide!! So I have no idea what the heck I am doing wrong, but hopefully this fits. So far it looks only a smidge smaller then the other one in the neck which is fine by me, besides its a top down raglen so I can just do more increases before I remove the sleeve stitches.

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