Bank holiday

I'm looking forward to the long weekend to hopefully get some serious knitting and video game time in.

My Trillian is almost back to where it was when I frogged it, I should be done tonight which would be great news, I plan to take it to knit-n-natter on Saturday as it will take much less concentration than my Firebolt did.

Speaking of the Firebolt, I need to frog it again. The pattern increases are 7 stitches from 1 stitch which can be quite tricky to do. I'll crack the pattern I just need time to think about it so I'm thinking this is my Easter Sunday/Monday project.

I'm actually quite excited for the yarn winder I ordered to arrive, I'm hoping it'll speed up my current knitting projects so I can get onto new patterns and learn some new skills. I love my Trillian for it's mindless knitting but I'm learning nothing from it and I'm not really learning much from my Firebolt. The last time I learnt new techniques was in the Mandy Cowl I made (shown above) that was such a fun knit and took less than a week as I blasted my way through it.

When to frog and when to accept the defect?

We all know the pain, you're so far in to the pattern and something happens.

This weekend I have restarted a Firebolt using Malabrigo sock 4 times and I've also had to frog my Trillian as I dropped a stitch in the lace section and to me it threw the who pattern out.

Normally I'm not such a perfectionist, there are at least 3 yarn overs in my Hitchhiker and I know I made some mistakes in my Shade Loving Shawl. I think I'd just like a pattern to go right for once.

When do you restart versus accepting its not quite perfect?

I've popped a picture in of the yarn I'm using for my Firebolt. It's gorgeous yarn and even better my LYS stocks it.

Knitters block

There are certain things I know I don't enjoy and that's definitely stalling at least one project.

The first is the shawl lace rows of (k1,YO) they slow me right down and cramp my hands and just plain frustrate me so as my Light and Up has come to this section it has stalled.

My other blocks include terror of thumbs in mitts (explains why I have two stalled sets of mitts now) and the fear of having to stitch together a cowl done on flat needles.

What blocks do you have?

Current knitting projects

So I guess the first place to start is what I'm currently working on:

Trillian in Crazy Zauberball (blue/purple/green) this project is shown in the photo.

Light and Up in BlueToothToaster Sparkle Sock Yarn (pale blue with purple flecks)

Marywarmers in Nerd Girl Yarns Bored Now (black and green)

Multicolour armwarmers in RICO self striping yarn (blue, pink and white flecks)

Yes this is many projects. I also have a couple of others on needles too that I really need to finish. I'll start posting photos as I progress.

Resurrection of an old blog, however do I do these things.

Things have changed a little since that last post, I did in fact build the PC, it's my pride and joy. I've also rebuild my boyfriends PC since that time and I've spent many a good hour playing League of Legends, Starcraft 2 and Guild Wars 2.

One of the main changes in my life is that I had to quit WoW due to starting work full time and being unable to commit the time to it and I have since picked up knitting as a hobby.

I'd quite like to turn this into a record of my knitting and ideas and problems I discover along the way.

I learned to knit a very long time ago but had long since forgotten how and when I picked up needles again in October 2012 it was amazing how quickly things came back.

So look for me trying to keep this place updated, with pictures and struggles along the way as I try to learn new techniques.

Achievement Unlocked: PC Building

The past few weeks I've been planning a computer build, my laptop is dying and now tech wise very old.It wasn't top spec when I bought it so you can imagine it struggles with newer games like Space Marine.

So here is the specs I'm looking at:

• Intel i5 2500K 3.3Ghz (looking at all the current Sandybridge chips this seems to get the best reviews for value)
• Intel Z68, GA-Z68A-D3-B3 Gigabyte motherboard (I've lookedat a few and I'm still undecided but this is the region I want to be)
• Coolmaster Hyper 212 aftermarket heatsink
• 1Gb MSI GTX 560Ti Twin FrozrII (omnomnom 560Ti Nvidia card mmmmmmm)
• 4Gb Corsair DDR3 ram
• 650W Corsair PSU

I've already bought a 120Gb SSD to house Windows and WoW and maybe LoL because fast loads times = win. and I'm looking at 1 or 2 1Tb hard drives for all other things and storage. This seems to be the region I want to be in just need to get the money together and the time and I'll be good to go. I'm excited to build the thing and of course I'll take pictures, maybe not video you don't want to hear me swearing :P

Patch 4.0.1

According to MMOchamp the patch is due to drop this week, honestly it's taken long enough! I've been in the beta for over a month and I've pretty much stopped playing both live and beta due to burn out, instead concentrating on other games like ZvP, Minecraft and Starcraft2 amongst others.
The changes will be enough to get me back online though. Having fun playing with the new talent trees. Getting used to my Mage and pally again in wintergrasp. I really want to go fire again, so hopefully I'll be able to reforge enough hit to make it happen.
Word from the PTR is that paladin healing has been hit hard which is a shame but I'm hoping that I should still be able to do battlegrounds ok as I hadn't aimed on healing properly with Tam until cataclysm.

Here's hoping that the patch bring the spark back for many people. Bring on Deathwing!