Blargh...

So, The Big Project was halted temporarily. Only due to my incessant stupidity and inability to count stitches or pay attention to them. I had to rip all of it out after I dropped a stitch and then realized that I had completely miscounted everything. So yeah, I'm totally an idiot. :) I re-cast on the project Friday and thanks to the 3.5+ hour UW-Milwaukee graduation on Sunday, I'm more than caught up with what I lost. I am liking it so far but I am getting more and more nervous that I will not finish in time.
I also was in Milwaukee this past week (in case you didn't figure that out by the mention of the UW-Milwaukee graduation, which, surprisingly enough, took place in Milwaukee). I stopped at Loop Yarn Shop on the east side on Saturday and while I found many many tempting yarns/patterns/books, I refrained from buying anything because I rule...err....because I have yarn on the way from Peaches & Creme that I ordered last week. I bought some stuff I really wanted: the Lattice Texture Tablescape Kit in Combination #2 (with light blue as the main color), Baby Texture Plaid Ensemble Kit in the neutral shower kit color combination (once again, not pregnant myself!! but another one of my friends just said she's preggers), the Passion Special because I just love that color combination, as well as a couple single skeins: delft blue, rainbow, and mar-di-gras. As usual, I have too much yarn on the way. :)
Errr, anyway, back to Loop Yarn Shop....awesome shop. I almost bought some yarn and a pattern for a cropped cardigan that I really want to make. Here's the pattern: Cropped Cardigan by Amy O'Neill Houck by Blue Sky Alpaca yarn. Unfortunately (or fortunately for my bank account), Loop was out of the pattern so I opted not to buy it. However, according to the Blue Sky website, both Iris Fine Yarns in Appleton and Yarns by Design in Neenah carry Blue Sky Alpaca yarn and patterns....and yours truly just happens to have a gift certificate to Iris Fine Yarns that may need to be used up relatively soon (I'm gonna keep mum on that one). :)
Tomorrow I have to go to Howards Grove for a rental meeting, so I am hoping that I will get some much-needed knitting done on the way!