Hello!

Just wanted to pop in & say hi!

The Husband & I live in western NC with our herd of 8 cats, my yarn, his CD collection and our books.

I started knitting just over a year ago. One of my former co-workers taught me. We'd often sit and knit together in the staff lunchroom. I'm not particularly fast or advanced, but for the most part, I really like it. (You just don't want to be around when I'm trying to figure out something new...pity my poor husband!)

My husband's been a NASCAR fan for years (Jarrett's been his favorite driver for the last 10 or so, but he's long-time Richard Petty fan). You can read about my conversion here. My husband thinks I now spend more time watching racing shows than he does. I also bought Pit Road Pets a few weeks ago, which helped me add to my favorite drivers list. (My other faves are Tony Stewart, Dale Jr. and Mark Martin.)

I'll stop typing now. But I do want to thank y'all for inviting me to join in the fun!

I have a GIVEAWAY!!!

I was blessed with some freebies that I am now going to pass them on to you!!! Pictured above is what I am giving away. I have a four most recent Crochet magazines and an extra issue of Creative Knitting. If you want one of these, email me at bigpikachica att yahoo dott com with the magazine number you want. This is first come, first serve. I will reply and ask you for your address if you have won. Right now, it is one per person, but give me a couple of options that you might want, in case someone has already chosen yours. Good luck and enjoy!! BTW - I will pay for shipping and (hopefully) these magazine will count towards my Nascar points!! LoL

Also posted on my blog, Heather Knits.

Finally in! WOOHOO!

Hi y'all! I just wanted to introduce myself first. I'm Rachel, but also known as the Procrastiknitter. I'm just now coming back to NASCAR. I watched it religiously with my grandfather when I was a kid in the 80's and early 90's. Once I left for college I stopped watching. Last year I started watching with the first Talladega race and was hooked again. It didn't hurt that I moved from Nebraska where racing is not all that popular to Oklahoma where the 2nd question people ask you after "What's your name?" is "Who is your favorite driver?". LOL. Well my personal favs are Jr (#8) and Mark Martin. I also like Tony, Jimmy, and Matt Kenseth. This week my progress I think put me over the edge with point hopefully. I had these two chemo caps which ended up being about 40 grams each (double stranded).

Then these are a little piddly project for my girls which ended up being 4.5 grams a set of flip-flops.

I gave this vintage wool to a friend who was eyeing it. It was 400 grams. I had to use for it at the time and I'm needing to stash bust.

I finished 12 squares between races at roughly 8.5 grams a square.

I also worked 10 grams on this cape for my oldest daughter.

So for last week's knitting/gifting I ended up with 611 grams of my stash used. I did not buy any yarn this week.

I'm very excited to see what everyone does in the next 2 weeks before Vegas!

hello

Hi everybody -
I am a knitter in a house full of obsessed NASCAR fans. My boys are big fans of Tony Stewart and Jeff Gordon (the kids are 6 and 8, so their favorites were picked completely arbitrarily - "Hey, look, that car says Home Depot! That one has flames!"), and I think my husband would leave me for Jimmie Johnson if he could. I'm not a huge fan but I do enjoy sitting with the guys and knitting while they watch the race. They get so excited it makes it a lot of fun. Full disclosure - I am a pretty slow knitter, I have to take frequent breaks to tend my baby daughter (a future NASCAR fan, I'm sure), and I don't really have enough stash where I'd be selling any of it, so I won't be winning any prizes. However, I saw the name "NASCAR knitters" and I knew I had to get involved.
Have a great week - see you on Sunday!

I'm Here - finally - Thanks Kimberly

Google finally decided I wasn't such a bad sport after all (they haven't seen me on race day - or maybe they have and that is why they weren't letting me sign in :-)

Anyway, thanks Kimberly for posting for me and I should be, not only able to take care of myself after this, but I might even get a decent picture of the next pair of socks or whatever I finish next - probably socks.

Sue

3 Pairs of Socks during Daytona Week!

Hi All!
Here are Sue's finished objects. Unless I took time off of work, I don't think I could do as much knitting for 3 pairs of socks!

Details from Sue:
The socks are left to right:

Regia Line Step with Phildar cuffs, heels, and toes. I used the Monkey pattern - just love that pattern. These socks used partial skeins, but the total would be about 100 grams as they are adult size. Started Daytona weekend and finished on Monday.

Regia Surprise Color in the Six Sense pattern. These used all but a tiny bit (like 3 yards) of a 100 gram skein. Started Monday and finished on Thursday.

Couldn't let the remaining Regia from the Line Steps just sit there, so made a pair with Phildar cuffs and feet and again used at least 100 grams. Started last Thursday and finished during the race on Sunday.

Have another pair on the needles and again using the Monkey pattern. Not sure when I will finish them as they are a large adult and I don't have the amount of time I had last week.

So, I guess that would come to 300 points for the yarn and 75 for 3 finished pairs of adult socks.

New Blogger Being Naughty?

By the way...
If anyone is having issues with the New Blogger (you don't want to know what words I have used to describe their badly-made code and their obvious lack of quality assurance which happens to be in my field of work!), please go ahead and email details of your race week to me at "NASCARknitting AT gmail DOT com". I will be more than happy to create a post for you! :)

Kimberly
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