Moody Blues and a Free Pattern!

Before I address the annoyance of moods.........
Shout outs to Jessica~ for the awesome comments.
Kim~thank you for your comments. To answer your question, no, I do not post when I am in a miserable, "I feel so sorry for myself" state of mind. I just can't stand to read it later on!!!!!
Catheryn~Rock on sistah! Glad you got yerself a blog and I'm a-comin' over to yer neck o' the woods to check YOU out! :-)

Ya wanna know why moods suck?
Well, it's obvious, isn't it?
I mean, they paralyze, they destroy, our own minds trick us into believing that ACTION is pointless. This is bad. This is very very bad.

OY VAY!
I have two main mottos that I seriously live by as much as possible:
1. Leap from love, fall from fear.
2. Be proactive.

Well, I was falling into a black hole chockful of vicious fear last week. I've climbed out by being 'proactive.'
Baby, I'M BACK AND I'M BAAAAAAAAAAD!
Meow.

ONTO THE KNIT
To make up for my absence, I'm including a free pattern for my placemat.
It's not anymore outdoor than indoor but since our table is outside, that's what I'm gonna use it for so that's what it's called. he he.
First, the pic of the finished placemat with all of its glorious mistakes. I really don't give a toss about its imperfections as it's gonna get totally used and abused anyway. But for future ones, I would consider knitting with TWO yarns at once to speed it up. (Ms. Impatient here!)

I wish I would've used a 4 row seed stitch pattern. (I used 3 rows.)
If you're interested, the pattern SHOULD be:

OUTDOOR PLACEMAT

Materials:
2 balls of heavy worsted cotton (varies based on YOUR size of placemat)
US #7 needles

Cast on 75 (or any number of ODD) stitches of heavy worsted dishcloth cotton. (Sugar n Cream, Lion Brand Kitchen Cotton...etc)
Row 1: K1, P1 to end. should end with K1.
Row 2: Repeat Row 1. (creating seed stitch border)
Row 3: Repeat Row 1.
Row 4: Repeat Row 1.
Row 5: K1, P1, K1, P1. Knit this row UNTIL there are 4 stitches left. K1, P1, K1, P1.
Row 6: K1, P1, K1, P1. *K1, slip1*. Repeat ** UNTIL there are 4 stitches left. K1, P1, K1, P1.
Row 7: Repeat Row 5.
Row 8: K1, P1, K1, P1. K2, *slip1, K1*. Repeat ** Until there are 4 stitches left. K1, P1, K1, P1.

Carry on knitting Rows 5 - 8.

When the placemat gets to your desired length, end with Row 8 and switch to Seed stitch for last 4 rows.
Cast off in seed stitch pattern and weave in ends.

**NOTE: to slip the stitch, slip it purlwise but do NOT move the yarn to the front. In other words, put your needle through the front of it and then just slip it on over. You can slip it knitwise, too for a different effect! This will twist and make a tighter fabric.

Yearning
I am coveting this yarn from Elann. I think the Rose and the Graphite works with my general color schemes. But alas. No funds for this just yet.

I did just buy some more Cascade Pearls from Stitch Cafe. I am fascinated with this yarn.

The Rock n Roll Side of Life
Bam just called me into the driveway where I helped him spray mount a life size black and white print of Brian our bassplayer onto foam core. See....he has to leave today for 5 weeks and we really need to shoot a music video for some opportunities in England. So Bam wrote a storyboard involving a 'Virtual Brian'! It's truly hilarious. VB is currently hanging out near our guest bathroom. Too funny.

In case you're interested, the band we just finished recording is Silver Needle. Their bassplayer, Johnny 99 is a good friend who helped us out when our band first started. Over on their site, you can see a video clip that Bam did for them on their downloadable music/video page. You'll see the link for "promo clip by BAM13."

For any of you who live in LA area, Johnny 99 runs a wickedly cool rock n roll club every Tuesday night at Zen Sushi in Silverlake. It's called Kiss or Kill and if you like down n dirty rock n sweat n roll, this is your hang.

Just Fun
Want a great place to learn and expand your brain cells?
I love this place: How Stuff Works.

Back to Reality
But for now.....rent and boring old bills are yanking back to the grind. To my fellow fiber freaks of this faux terra firma, I bid you adieu.