ah, the last minute. May 12, 2008

i sincerely hope that i am not the only one who finishes knitting presents at the last minute, taking pictures on the ground in the driveway of the baby shower or making excuses to go home and wrap a gift before the party. if i am, i will be very sad! : )

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this baby hat was knit in a hurry the day before the baby shower. you’d think i knit something amazing and wonderful from all the comments that i got… sometimes i love non-knitters! ^^ i still haven’t mastered (or even figured out) the jogless join. i am starting on a pair of striped socks for me, so i’m hoping to understand it better when i have wider stripes to work with. i guess we’ll see!

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i made these for a friend’s birthday. she loves stationary (i do, also) and i knew she would like them and appreciate the work that went into them. i just love how they turned out… i knit the little hearts and sewed them onto notecards, then decorated them with various things. i might have to do this again. it was hard to sew the hearts on straight, but i think a little bit of glue on the back might help for next time.

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i also knit a pair of cinderella socks for my mom for mother’s day, but i haven’t had a chance to take pictures. i am getting behind with everything! school is out and i’m at home, but i have been working part-time doing wallpaper removal and painting and it just sucks the energy right out of me! for more details about my projects, please see my ravelry projects page. i hope everyone had a wonderful mother’s day!!

studying April 25, 2008

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please note that this is only what you might call half true; my motivation has been seriously lacking. mostly i just wanted to show off the lovely tofu pincushion that i made into a photo holder. i think i defeated the purpose when i knit him out of wool, but i’m no vegetarian/vegan, so i suppose it’s ok.

hats, hats, hats! April 21, 2008

hi everybody! school has been absolutely insane the past few weeks… i am lucky when i know what day it is and what classes i am supposed to go to! we have all these groups and we have to meet and everyone has different class schedules and things just get really crazy. it will be over in a week, though! yaaaay.

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what is the best thing to do when things get crazy and there is hardly enough time to eat and sleep? why, knit of course!

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this is the random collection of hats i knit for sublynnminal healing. i used up a lot of stash yarns and i think they actually came out pretty well. i’m too lazy to post all the details and pictures on here (sorry!), so you’ll have to check my ravelry if you’re interested in any of them.

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however, look at how fabulous this one is! i think the little flower really makes the hat. *grin*

deadline knitting accomplished. and early! March 31, 2008

on thursday, i talked to mom and she told me that a friend’s baby shower is next saturday. since she lives in my hometown, i had to take into account shipping time, too. i’m in the middle of a project (that i really want to finish!), but i dropped everything to start a hat for the shower. and… *gasp* i finished it! and with time to spare! : ) yay! now i just have to get it off in the mail.

i think it’s a pretty cute hat, but my very favorite part is the crown decreasing. see how pretty?! i know, i’m silly. but still!

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also, an old project that needs showing:

a fabulous little set of potholders to use when taking things out of the microwave or oven or anywhere else (but most of my food involves the microwave, lol). they aren’t much to speak of, but they work really well. i used this pattern for a couple of sets of potholders a few years back, but now the pattern is gone. it’s a really simple double knitting pattern, though. i like the results and that there is no seaming (seaming and i are not friends!).

baby shower & a new technique March 24, 2008

if you’re looking for a baby shower gift that will get you bunches of compliments, tulip toes are the way to go. i can’t believe how many oohs and aahs i got over them. i will admit that they were pretty fiddly to knit, though. and the ends to weave in… painful.

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i really like the live tulips. : ) the picture was taken in the yard of the baby shower host (last minute finishing, yay!), so i don’t have any pictures of the booties open. sorry!

 

and! and! i knit my very first fair isle/stranded project! ^^

 

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i know that the colors don’t really pop, but i’m pretty proud of this hat anyway. i was surprised at how easy it was to knit. is it a lot more complicated if you are knitting flat? i knit this hat up for a knitting drive that i’m participating in right now.

Sweater Day! March 20, 2008

today (thursday) marks what would have been Fred Rogers’ 80th birthday. the non-profit that he founded (www.fci.org) put together “won’t you be my neighbor?” days in conjunction with pittsburgh’s 250th anniverary. i have nothing to do with pittsburgh (i’ve never even been there!), but i stumbled across the sweater day group on ravelry and thought i’d have a little bit of fun with it. ^^

 

i loooved mr. rogers’ neighborhood when i was a kid. even seeing it now that i am older, i am amazed at how calming and kind he was and to this day i remember the episode where he went to the crayon factory. i can’t even remember most of the other series i watched when i was small, so i think that’s saying something.

 

 

this is the little mini-sweater i knit for the occasion alongside my very favorite sweater. i love this sweater to pieces, as i have from the very first day we bought it. that year, i had three other sweaters fall apart in the first weeks i owned them due to low-quality workmanship (we were able to return them, luckily). i had seen this sweater in the store window and wanted it, but at $40 it was more than we were willing to pay. after the returning fiasco, mom let me get the sweater, anyway, since we were ready to be done with the hassle. it has sleeves that cover my knuckles, with thumbholes built right in! that’s probably my very favorite part.

 

 

the sad thing is that i wore it so much, for so long, that i nearly wore a hole through the left elbow (i’m right-handed, so i was always propping myself up on my left elbow). ever since i noticed how thin it was there, i have been too scared to wear it. i don’t want it to fall apart! *sigh* all good things must come to an end, i suppose.

 

 

here is a close-up of the mini-sweater. i want to make the little hanger in the pattern so the sweater can double as my first Christmas knit of the year. yay for a little head-start. ^^ the pattern for the sweater is here and its ravelry page is here. (and thanks, kelly!)

 

ok, i think i can be done with my silly little tribute now! ^^

one more new thing. and a tree. March 13, 2008

for those of you who have been reading my blog for a while, you may have noticed that my recent posts are all new this and new that. new haircut, new car, new pajamas, etc. i have one more thing to add to that stack. see if you can guess from the picture (it’s easy, really).

 

 

yup, it was time to get new glasses. i’m really liking this pair… very sophisticated and trendy. the inside is teal, which is also pretty cool.

 

this week is my spring break away from school… it is almost over already. i’d love to say that my recent time off has been lovely and relaxing, but that isn’t really the case. i’ve spent waaay too much time at the doctor and having tests and junk like that. i’m not going to go into any more detail here on the blog (though i’d tell if you asked), except to say that i am finally diagnosed on the wrist issue and i’m on medication that will hopefully remedy the problem. yay!

 

 

 

 

this is treeling. he is from softies. i changed his face somewhat, which i think makes him quite a bit cuter. i justified making him by giving him away to a friend when he was finished. she liked him, too (i think!). he was my first experience with craft safety eyes and i think i really liked those, too. too bad the smallest ones i could find at the local craft stores were 10mm, which seems too big for most of the projects i do.

 

 

i have some actual knitting content, but i haven’t taken pictures of it yet. be looking for some kool-aid dyed yarn, a set of potholders, tulip toes, and my first trip to a LYS in my next post (whenever that might be). ^^