Questions and a pattern.

First. I have been invited to join a local group of ladies for a fiber related intro. I would like to introduce them to the LOVELY people that I have met through this medium and would like some assistance in figuring out how to make a "sidebar" that contains links. I have no clue how to go about creating it properly and have at least a dozen people I would like to have easier acess to. Any help would be appreciated.
Now, on to the pattern. (cc)

To introduce you all to "Twisted and Broken" I present this fuzzy image.
It is a fingerless mitt with a broken cable cuff.
I used some lovely wool that was sent to me by my SP. It is 100% wool from Valley Yarns. In my design attempt I used size 10 (us) double pointed needles and an odd circular that floats around my craft stuff. I think it is a size 3, but something to hold the cables and eventually the thumb stitches. One skein is enough to make a pair and I will be trying many other yarns on this pattern, though I will likely bring the needles down a size.
To start, using your favorite method cast on 36. If using circular needles definately put in a marker of some type.
Base row: Knit 2 Purl 2 across row
(counting now)
Row 1: Knit 2 through the back of the stitch and purl 2 through the back of the stitch.
Rows 2,3,4 : repeat row 1
Row 5: hold the first 2 stitches to the front, knit the next two. Return the held stitches to the needle and purl them. Repeat this to the end of the round.
This completes the first set of broken cables. Repeat rows 1 through 5 twice more and the cuff portion is complete.( to count, rows 6 through 15)
Row 16: knit through the back.
Rows 17,18,19 : repeat row 16
Row 20: Knit 17 through the back, make 1 by knitting through the front then the back. Make 1 again then knit 17 through the back. This is where the thumb increases begin.
Row 21: ktb 17 make 1 ktb 2 make 1 ktb 17
Row 22: ktb 17 make 1 ktb 4 make 1 ktb 17
Row 23: ktb 17 make 1 ktb 6 make 1 ktb 17
Row 24: ktb 17 make 1 ktb 8 make 1 ktb 17
Row 25: ktb 17 make 1 ktb 10 make 1 ktb 17
Row 26: ktb 17 make 1 ktb 12 make 1 ktb 17
Row 27: ktb 48
rows 28 through 36, ktb
Row 37: ktb 18, set aside 12 in keeper or spare circular, ktb 18
Row 38: ktb 36
Rows 39, 40, 41: repeat row 38
Row 42: ktb 1 ptb (through the back) 1 36
Rows 43, 44, 45: repeat row 42
Row 46: Loosely bind off 36
Thumb: Pick ip your held back 12 stitches and tie in your yarn. (I suggest holding a tail of at least 6 inches so you can tie up the small gap when you are weaving in the tails at the end.)
Row 1 thumb: ktb
Rows 2,3,4: ktb
Row 5: ktb 1, ptb 1.
Row 6: repeat row 5
Row 7: LOOSELY bind off thumb stitches.
Weave in your tails and begin again.
They are made in such a way that you wear in the different hands. I suggest making them on a size 8 if you have petite hands and 9 for medium size and 10 for larger. Mine are done on a 10 so I am going to try to felt them a mite to make them fit more snugly.
This pattern is my own design and I would love to see pictures of things made form it but please, no commercial distribution and I might want to make some money off it someday.
Any comments, corrections and links to FO's are welcome.

Stuff and trubble.

A mixed bag of posting bits.
First, Reading material. Spider Robinson is an awesome writer. I started and finished Time Pressure today. I have read anything I could get my hands on by him and somehow had missed this one. Definately worth the reading.
Second, Crafty stuff was put on short hiatus due to a leak that occurred between the bathroom wall and the craft room/Hunny's hidey hole. Some things were rescued, others were not. I should not have collected so much paper stuff without proper storage (tupperware).
Third, I now have camera capability and will be posting pictures to both this and to my ravelry account... Mystarfalling... In conjunction I will be looking for people to help me test a pattern for knit fingerless mitts. Anyone reading this is welcome to comment and get me more motivated to type it up.
Thank you and that will be all for the time being.

Weekend update. Pictures

My pal sent me an awesome package. In this package were all the fixins for an obsession start up. A BOOK....A crochet book about SOCKS!!! So now I can join in all the reindeer games and wrap my noggin around socks with the rest of the fiber world.

Booooooook. Loves me some books. I collect vintage needlecraft books and have recently gotten some new crochet and knitting books but this is awesome. I might even be able to make a few of these patterns. Now, if I can just manage to make a pair...2 that look alike. A minor miracle.

Yarn stuffs. She sent me a skein of some luscious Opal in a color called petticoat. Yes, there is some of the dreaded pink in it but I think I might be able to live with it. The colors combine to make a mighty morphin power sock! Truely, a lovely color. I think my daughter would love socks form this. Left to my own devices it might have been turned into a bunch of little wallets.

She also sent a nifty set of stitch markers that my creature took off with before the borrowed camera could be used and a lovely bamboo hook in a size F. Now I have a back-up just incase I loose the first one. And I could even carry it with me to the store and such. Never too many hooks, I say.
I have some other new pictures to put up, btu that will have to wait just a bit. I had to acknowledge my pal and her truly thoughtful gift.

Bizzare week.

I have spent the last week doing things backwards. I Was trying to make an outfit to go out in and did the hard part first. Then I decided to not to use that... Made a skirt and bodice, wore the skirt but left the bodice at home. I haven't gotten my but to the post office yet and Ireeeeeealy want to send this box out sooner rather than later. I will definately send it out tomorrow. After I have a night with more than 3 hours of sleep. Dancing was fun and I didn't hurt myself much. My entire abdominal area hurts just a little but that is to be expected. I got to see some old friends and some new ones and meet a few entertaining charachters. The guy that looked like a short Fabio was entertaining, The guy in the Bowler was funny and Main Guy on stage was sweet(even gave me a hug). I have finished the nonagon and won't be doing another for a while. I have ripped out the scarf for hunny and haven't gotten any more done on his hat. My Mom's scarf is languishing in my desk and I can't seem to focus on anything for more than a minute. Sleep deprivation can do that I hear.
No, I haven't gotten my camera's software loaded in part because it seems the cd drives in this "new" tower do not like me. No workie without headache and multiple head smackins.
((off topic, Has anyone else come to think of ravelry as a fiber artist vampire?))
When I do get it all together I *WILL* put up some more recent pictures both here and there. I am computer slacking right now but I have many excuses, I mean reasons.
On the 5 things I am thankful for this lovely Friday.
1. Hunny has started making me laugh again.
2. My small one is too smart (yes, trouble brewing, but I would rather have her be too smart than not able to question things.)
3. Corsets. (don't ask unless you actually want to know)
4. Places where my sense of humor is considered "normal"
5. Halloween is coming soon. The day after will mark the 6th solid year that hunny has survived my every attempt at driving him to the bin.
Kay. Done for now, I go lie down again.

I'm a bad poster.

So, there are still no pictures for me to put up. I hope you all (5) can bear with me for another few days. I have gotten to some of my music and have been thinking really hard about getting my hooks and needles together for the ravelry organization thing. Really, thinking as hard as I can. I have to get some sewing done this week and there is still the mousie to catch. Because of dear mousie I had to replace 2 of my patterns and I HATE to pay full price for patterns. I know, It supports the people that design them. I would rather pay less at the thrift store for something that has already been loved... That way I help support the local charities that the thrift store donates to. I don't mind fudging a bit on a pattern that has been cut out and sometimes the notes written on the package are amusing or even helpful. Ok, I ramble. I am making a vest and skirt combo and I am trying to decide if I want to make the bodysuit to go under it. I have 4 different patterns for them and it would be *another* experiment. I ahven't finished my morning coffee yet, so I will stop abusing my keyboard for a bit an dcome back when I am more cohesively choerent. Uh, understandable and stuff.

Ahem.

That thing came today. The one that I can't take full advantage of due to my inability to post pictures....I can't exactly list all of my projects and stash and needle/hooks without pictures now can I... Thats right all, Ravelry. I be the Mommastormy forever and ever without end. No, not a link but my excitement. And now I have some other lovely news. Went to the Doctor today. Explained the litany of owies. So I probably do not have bursitis in my hip, knee and ankle... I did however have to go get dosed with x-rays. 3 shots of my ankle and 5 of my neck. I may have to begin physical therapy and many other lovely things. I was also offered anti-depressants and anti-anxiety medication along with optional mood "stabilizers" to give me some help with the ADD/HD symptoms that I have been medicating with coffee and Mt. Dew for years. Another subject... My poor Puter. It has been replaced and I will have to spend some serious time replacing and transferring information that is vital to my mental health. Music... Pictures... More music. (=
As always, I look forward to reading the trials and tribulations of my friends the craft world. Wishing you the muse and the time to craft.

Short but worth it. Contest Content.

http://alicejean.blogspot.com/2007/10/yarn-contest.html
Love to send out the word for other fiber artists. Lady does wonderful color work, Now If I win the contest I may be able to rave about her yarn too. (= Just a hope.

Oh, before I forget....

I will be starting an Etsy store. Attempting to feed my fiber addiction by selling off my random crafty bits... The objects not the parts I use. (=

I am Alive.

Really. My computer may need to have it's innards yanked out and replaced with shiny new bits. I can live with that. My yarn however, has been attacking me. The list of UFO's is growing. I seem to be unable to not start something new every time I feel a little down. I have a list... Wanna see?
The Hunny Hat (Knit)
Scarf for Mom (Crochet
Grey Triangle (Crochet)
Variegated blue Triangle (Knit)
Nonagon (Crochet)
Bear hat and bag set (Crochet)
Fingerless mitts/ Twisted and Broken (Knit)
FOUR PURSES (Sewing)
A sewn book for my SP
Mending and other stichery
On top of the lovely housework that I let myself in for almost 6 years ago and the chasing around of the small creature that calls me mommy. No this is not a complete list because my brain is melting and I have only had one cup of coffee today.
I will be getting back into posting more frequently and attempt to get some things finished before the world stops rotating. Someday I might even get medicated... What a happy thought.

Issues.

I have limited time to post today as Mycomputer is toasted and I had to wrestle control of an operating one from my child seeing as it is hers... Yes My 5 year old has her own computer. Kay, so my problems are such. My bad ankle has been causing me to overcompensate and mess up the rest of the leg. I havd pulled or tweaked a nerve in my right shoulder which means I am unable to sleep on my right, thus causing me to sleep like dog poo. I have been avoiding venting onto the keyboard due to the fact that unless one of my readers happens to be a physician and in the area there is not much I could ask help with. I am also trying to quit that nasty habit that I have to go outside for... I am a crabby person. I hope to be able to work on a few things soon but for now I have to settle for snuggling my yarn. I might even get stubborn enough to go to the doctor here soon. Thank you for your support. (= And the reminder that there are actually people out there that read my drivel. Everybody have a better day than me, to at least justify my self-pity. =P

The newest contest...

List your favorite:
Actor - James Marsters
Actress - My Daughter, Crocodile tears and all. Jodie Foster
Animal - Owl
Band - Styx
Book - Ones with pictures. But seriously, Stranger In A Strange Land
Bubble Bath - With what time? Ok, Epsom Salts and vanilla oil.
Candy - Caramel or birch mints, the pink ones.
Color - Hmm, Neutral right now. Black and dark browns.
Flower - Iris or morning glory
Food - Rice with butter and salt.
Lip Balm - Berry Blistex
Lotion -Coaco Butter
Movie - Hehe, Breakfast club, Labyrinth, Legend, Others that would be a bit too telling if you haven't met me.
Song - Spam,spam, spam and eggs.
TV Show - Farscape right now
Vacation Spot - Anywhere but my house?