Wednesday, October 31, 2007

no new knitting yet

Well, it's the end of October, and I haven't worked on any projects at all!! My yarn stash hasn't even made it to my new place yet. (It's still in storage...*sigh*)

Because of my move this year, I had decided that I wouldn't try to knit (or crochet) and Christmas gifts this year-I'd probably be stressing about them right now! But I do miss knitting....

My new place is coming along-and I can't wait for my yarn to come home! LOL. :)

Quick note-the magazine I subscribe to, Creative Knitting is really on the ball-when I went to change my address, and discovered it had already changed!! (I am curious how that happened, I thought I had to change magazine subscriptions. I wonder if my Kraft Foods magazine will do the same thing... ) ;)

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

summer knitting and moving!

Yikes-I didn't post at all in August. I have a good excuse-really I do!! I am moving at the end of the month-so I've been packing like crazy.

Of course, since I haven't had time to post, I haven't had much time to knit (or crochet-still working on that Dalek!) either. I'm still working on a K-9 and a Dalek-progress is slow, but I think the pieces of K-9 are coming along nicely. The jury is still out on my Dalek, though-it's head kinda looks like a hat for a very tiny baby. LOL It's weird, I think it may be inside out...but I'm going to wait to see what it looks like when I get to the popcorn stitches before I frog it (if I decide to frog it) I've been working on my projects at the crochet club Perseph and I go to every month, and at Starbucks (we try to have a weekly gathering at starbucks, just to hang out). I haven't worked on anything at home practically all summer. In fact, about 95% of my yarn stash is all packed up now. LOL ;)

Well, it's getting late-dont' know when i'll have time to update this again. Pictures will have to wait until after I move. (sorry!)

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

A midsummer's night update!

I'm back from vacation! Well, I've been back for a week now, just didnt' have time to update this blog.

I didn't do any knitting at all while I was away-I brought a couple of projects, but didnt' work on them. (That was usually happens when I go on vacation). So all of my current knitting projects are in the same state as they were before I left. ;)

However, my Mom did teach me how to do more than just single crochet, so we both started a crochet Dalek. She is much farther along than I am-I only have about half of the head -a few rows after the eye piece-done. I'm not sure how far my Mom is now, but she was farther than that the last time I saw her Dalek. LOL.

I discovered that I am a very tight crocheter-Mom and I were using the same size hook, same type of yarn, but her Dalek was much bigger than mine. I have to work on easing up on the tention a bit-either that, or get used to using a larger sized hook.

Hey, I'd like to give a shout out to Persephone!! While I was on vacation, she learned to knit!!! I"m so excited-she showed me the scarf she's working on, and it looks beautiful! I'm so proud. :) She asked me to help her with ribbing-she says everytime she tries it, it looks funky. I told her no problem-as long as she helps me with some of the more difficult crochet stitches. ;) She agreed!! :-D

Well, that's about all for now-hopefully I'll get some pictures up of my progress soon.

Monday, June 25, 2007

Summer knitting projects!!

My [new] summer projects (so far) are as follows: K-9 toys, Daleks (crochet), and a lace scarf (pattern from my calendar). I was thinking about adding an afghan that I want to make for my sister, but that might be bumped down to a fall project. I have no idea if I'll be able to finish what I have on my plate (especially since I haven't gotten any crochet help yet! LOL) I've already told my mom I'm bringing my yarn and crochet hooks and the pattern up north with me-I asked her if she'd help me with the Dalek pattern. :-D

Speaking of up north-I'm heading up to Minnesota this weekend! YAY! Finally!!! I've been looking forward to my vacation for a long time now. I just need to figure out what projects I'm going to bring with me.

I've already started working on one of the K-9s. I finished the first side on Thursday and started the second one Saturday night at Starbucks (Perseph and I decided to try to get together every Saturday night at a coffee shop to work on our projects-like a little mini stitch-n-bitch. As excited as I am to go to MN, I'm a little sad that I'll be missing it for the next few weeks). I doubt I'll have time to post pictures before I leave (it's not all that exciting yet!)

TAFN!

Tuesday, June 05, 2007

pictures!...of completed projects!

It's June!!! I meant to post these some time ago. Yikes!! LOL. Click on the thumbnails for a slightly larger pic, if you like. :)


my slouching socks
Okay, I started these ages ago-they were the first pair of socks I ever attempted to knit. My pearl-ribbed slipper socks were actually the third pair of footwear I've attempted-and the first ones I finished, all three pairs!
The skinny on the socks:
Pattern: from Easy Knitted Accessories by Jeanette Trotman
Needles: size 5& 6, straight needles
Yarn: Lilly Sugar&Cream, 100% cotton. Salt-n-Pepper print
Started: late 2004; Completed: January 2007

I started these way back in late 2004-I liked the pattern because it didn't require knitting in the round-since I was still fairly new to knitting when I started these. Other projects kept coming up-and since these were low on the priority list, they kept getting moved into the UFO box. Every once in a while I'd take them out and work on them, but something always came up, and back in they'd go! They are a little big-I started these before I had learned the fine art of yarn weights. If you're not gonna use the same yarn as the pattern-you should at least try to match the weight!! ;) I actually finished these this past January-see? even when they are completed, the pics don't make it to the blog for nearly 6 months!!

My Strata Hat
Taa-da!

The skinny:
Pattern: Knit Cap from the back of the yarn label
Needles: size 6& 8, straight needles
Yarn: Red Heart Strata yarn: Cascade
Started: Feb. 3rd, 2007; Completed: April 27th, 2007

I was dying to try out this yarn ever since I saw an ad for it in one of my catalogs back in January. Self-patterning yarns-fair isle like pattern? Sweet! So I bought some, and had no idea what I'd make with it. Then I noticed the pattern for the hat on one of the yarn labels-yay!!!

slightly more detailed pic:

Hopefully I'll get around to making a scarf to go with it by next fall/winter.

Coming soon: summer of scifi...projects! ;) LOL

Saturday, May 05, 2007

New to the yarn stash...

Hey, hey! Not only two posts in one month, but two posts in the same week! Yay!!!

I finally uploaded some more pictures-I've got another post for a couple of completed projects (hey, three posts in one month! Woo-hoo!)

I broke down and ordered some yarn to add to my yarn stash. Last week, Mary Maxim was having a sale on Bernat Galaxy yarn, so I bought some of this:

Sorry about the quality of the pic-the color is Neptune. :)

This will eventually be turned into a lapghan...a crocheted lapghan. I can do the basic crochet stitch, but that's about it. I'm going to have to check out the Happy Hooker, and ask my Mom and Perseph (since classes should be over for her soon!) for help. ;)

I also purchased some of this:

Which will eventually be turned into 3 K-9s (one for me, two for Orville). :-D yay, Doctor Who knitting projects! ;)

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

April knitting- a month in review

I finished my Strata hat!! Now I just have to get pics up. LOL. I'm planning on making one for one of my coworkers-no hurry. She just wants it done by next winter. *hee*. I want to make a scarf to go with the hat-I just have to come up with a pattern...

Speaking of knitting for people-a while ago someone who found my main blog, Wandering Through E-Space discovered not only was I a Doctor Who fan, but enjoyed knitting as well. He asked if I'd be interested in knitting a K-9 for him. *hee* What a great excuse to try a new pattern!!! :-D I just ordered the yarn-so hopefully I'll be able to get started on it soon. I also ordered some Bernat Galaxy yarn (Mary Maxim had it on sale for 97 cents/ball!) There's a crochet pattern that I want to try. I would like to broaden my crochet skills.

Oooh! Speaking of crochet, Shigella, over at LiveJournal, should have her Dalek pattern out soon!! I can't wait! I want to make an army of soft, cuddly Daleks. *heeheeheee* >:-)

I started another prayershawl-using a standard pattern and some pretty yarn. This one has an unusual story behind it that I'm not quite ready to share...

TAFN-still working on trying to update this blog more often than I do!!! ;)

Friday, March 23, 2007

holy smokes-a new entry-with a picture!!!

I have really neglected this blog-and that was never my intention. :(

Oh, well, enough lamenting over the past-time to move forward!! ;)

First of all, a picture! I've finally posted a picture!! These are the slipper socks that I knitted for my mom, my sister, and myself for Christmas:
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(well, at least a picture of the pair I knitted for myself)
I know it's a little gray-sorry about that. My digital camera isn't the best in the world-but it'll do. ;)

Unfortunately, I lost my digital camera just 2 days before Christmas (I actually was able to track it down-thanks to the nice people of Perkins in Blaine, MN-it's now home, safe and sound)so I don't have any, what I like to call, 'instant gratification' pictures of the other gifts I knitted for Christmas-but there were other cameras on the scene-so hopefully I'll be able to track some pictures down.

I have to take a couple more pictures-one of the slouching socks I finally finished, and another of a hat I'm currently working on. :)

I'm creating a new section on my sidebar. There have been several patterns that I've really wanted to try, but just didn't have the time for-so I've decided to create a 'future projects' section in the sidebar. If I see a pattern I really, really want to try, but don't have the time for, I'll list it in the future projects section-the name of the pattern, and where I found it, so I can find it again. :)

Speaking of templates, this template is kinda boring-simple, but boring. I really need to think about finding a new one-or ways to spruce this one up a bit. Ahh...so much to do, so little time. ;)

Monday, January 29, 2007

another project finally finished!

Yay!! I finally finished my slouching socks!!! They've been in the UFO pile for so long-it's about time I finally got them done!

Now that I got my digital camera back (llloooonggg story...) I'll have to take a picture of them-and actually post them. (yeah, right.) ;)

I know I should probably try to finish more in my UFO pile, but I have some new yarn and a new pattern I'm dying to try...

I am so bad. ;)