hey look at me...i'm being "domestic" and "crafty"!!!

So after we got here, my mil was knitting, something i've not done but always wanted to learn...so she taught me...i can do the simple knit stich and purl stitch...but it, like crocheting hurts my hands...not as bad, but it still does

so one day while running errands i went to joann's w/ mil because she wanted to get some yarn, right across the isle from the yarn she was looking at was "the sweater machine"

http://www.bond-america.com/products/usm.html

let's just say i was intrigued

it had no price so i toted it up to the front for a price check...$150 BUT i was given a coupon for 50% off one regular priced item 10-7 through 10-9, that would make it only $75...much easier price to swallow imo

so i carried around my coupon for over a week and thought about it, showed it to rich, who thinks i'm silly but we all know that i am, so on the 9th i went and bought said item from joann's!!!

they have a 90 day return policy so long as you have the receipt so i bought a skein of yarn and came home to try it out w/o using the exhaustable resources in the kit.

i watched the dvd

set up the machine

started in w/ my yarn

i got very frustrated at first because i accidentally had too small of a plate in place for the yarn that i was using (which i figured out the next day when i tried the next size up in plates) so the machine kept jamming....driving me bonkers in the process...i was hating the stupid thing...then i decided to screw the cable stitch that i was trying to do and just do the straight stitch...when i did that i very quickly made aj a small, very non-fancy, afgan...pretty much just her size LOL

the next morning i tried the larger plate and was able to VERY easily do the cable stitch i was trying the night before and had almost no problems doing it at all...i was starting to love the machine...later that day i got some unworsted yarn (wool yarn that's not been shrunk) and tried my hand at making a purse that i would then shrink upon completion (called felting)

i made said purse and did a beautiful cable pattern in it and everything...mil was super impressed and starting to think she needs to buy a sweater machien too LOL...so we shrunk/felted the purse...it turned out really cute, like an evening bag size...sadly the cable felted so much that you can't see it very well...in the future if i do it again i'll do the cable in a different color i think...but i'm seriously in great like nay dare i say i borderline love my knitting machine!!!!

just call me the domestic/crafty diva LOL