Damn that Skirt

My tears have finally dried. I finished the knitting on the Booty Skirt - Intolerable Cruelty. It *is* cruel!! My decreases look more like bat wings on the side of my thighs. I am not sure what went wrong -- well, first of all I knitted a size Medium and I shoulda went with an XS. My guage was dead on, so not sure what happened. :( I need to talk to my mom, a recovering obsessed knitter. She might know if I can steek it. It is balled up in the corner of the living room, tear stained and full of dog hair. It is enough to make a girl wanna quit. But I won't the obsession must move forward. At least it is 99% complete. I only had to knit the loops for the ribbon and place the elastic. I will finish it, even if it isn't perfect

Progress made on skirt

I've been knitting as much as I can. I sat in the Hearings office for the City of Minneapolis, hoping to argue my speeding ticket--the result was a lot of progress on my skirt.

My "Look at My Booty" Skirt

I just buttoned up my work project and can actually start working on my Intolerable Cruelty Skirt again. I can't wait!! :)

Cruel cruel skirt

Hand cramps. Today is 9 knit rows, 1/2 purl row later. A bajillion more to go. If I wasn't so in love with this skirt, I would've quit a long time ago. After casting on (220) and starting my first knit row, I realized that I had twisted it and I had to rip back to the beginning of the knit row. URGH! Then I c.a.r.e.f.u.l.l.y knit the row. It looks great now.

Too Cruel to be Kewl Skirt

I cast on for the Intolerable Cruelty skirt last night after whipping out a mean gauge. All of this while I sat in the waiting room for one of life's greatest joys: routine mammogram. One of the questions on the multitude of forms was:

Has your weight changed since your last mammogram?

__x__ Yes

_____ No

If so, how much? ___+30___ pounds.

Do you really think you should be casting on for an ultra sexy skirt until you lose those 30 pounds? _x_No

Just kidding.

Yikes.

Yes, it was almost 20 years ago and I was scarecrow thin then, but to see it in actual print was shocking.

It is odd changing from size 17 needle to size 4. It feels like this skirt may take awhile.

Here's to throwing caution to the wind, embracing all of my lovely curves, and shaking what my mama gave me! Cheers! (diet Coke, please)