crochet (she wanted to learn to knit, but didn't have the patience really) and crochet is a little simpler to teach. She was so excited, and she told me "Tomorrow I'm going to tell all of my friends I learned how to crochet!". It was really cute. However, she's still not too adept at it yet. When she's crocheting I have to stay right next to her to help her. It's kind of tiresome after awhile. 
I floundered for a few days, played games on my mom's iTouch and didn't really knit much. Then, after mention aloud to my mother that I had 12 UFOs (only 4 of which were current WIPs)...I decided it was about time I quit stalling and finished up some of those projects. So I looked into my UFO bag and pulled out my Somewhat Cowl. Do you guys remember this? It's been TWO YEARS since I've done anything with it. Though there are a few UFOs that have been lingering longer than that, I figured finishing this one would boost my spirits. Many times, I get discouraged when something has to be started over from (practically) scratch. So, if I could turn this one around, maybe all of my projects have hope! All that was left was the sleeves and collar anyways. It's all done now, except the blocking. Still haven't made up my mind whether I love it or hate it though. What do you guys think?
pull out The Lady. The kids had broken the drive band, which my dad fixed and it was time to test it out. I pulled out some BFL that I had purchased forever ago, prepped it and it looked good enough to eat! The join worked beautifully and I spun up one of the strips. Then...nature called. When I came back to the wheel That Baby was spinning it and had wrapped the drive band all around bearings. That ended that endeavor. The drive band is broken in two places. *sigh* We just can't have nice things! :) Tomorrow I am going to hang out with Mouse, and hopefully she has a fix for me. Otherwise it's just six dollars to get a new one. This gives me time to figure out how I want to ply it. Should I do two-ply or Navajo ply? HmmmmLabels: accidents, decisions, fiber, fingerless gloves, finished object, hat, knitting, mittens/gloves, mouse, Nolan, Somewhat Cowl, spinning, Struan, sweater
gone back to school, cut people's hair, taken another LOA, had my four-year-old get suspended, watched my best friend get married, rescued my daughter from a motorcycle that fell on her, and generally just been insane. My hair is a normal color again. Those crazy colors fade very quickly. Actually, most people were impressed they stayed as long as they did. But I figured it would probably look a little off if I was a bridesmaid with pink and purple hair. Especially since the wedding colors were blue and orange. The wedding was quite beautiful, I did Jamie's makeup for her. Unfortunately, I didn't get any good pictures for a portfolio. :(
though. I made some Cigar Gloves for my boyfriend. Have to come up with a clever nickname for him. Made a few mods to them, finished all of the fingers except the pointer and middle of the right glove. He's going to use them for hunting, hunting season started today. I had to prove how skilled I am, finished the gloves in 5 days! In other knitting news, I have finished a cowl, some gloves (this is easily my new favorite pattern), and two hats. It's finally cooling down a bit here in Georgia. The weather has been lovely, and I'm just itching to sport all of my handknits. I've already had several people ask me to knit things for them! 
Labels: boyfriend, cowl, fingerless gloves, hat, kids, knitting, life, spinning, Struan
Yes, I know! Another post in less than six months? I'm on a roll. Right now I am busy as a bee. Today I need to go finish packing up my apartment. Tomorrow I turn in the key. Though I still have 27 days until I am out of North Carolina. This move has me on a constant roller coaster of emotion. My body has been happy to let everyone know it too. Nothing like being betrayed by your own body. haha Since I haven't been blogging regularly, Ms. Rose is now 7, Ky Boo is 5 and That Baby...well he's 3. They are all soooo big now. No, they are not coming with me when I leave. Part of the reason I am so stressed about moving is because of that. I will visit them (and vice-versa) all of the time though.
made multiple versions. Sometimes for themselves or others, one knitter had made three! Looks like the bug has bitten chez Kitty too! The hat I have finished is for a friend. We'll call him Mr. Bond. So, Mr. Bond requested a hat with ear flaps. When this pattern turned up on a search, it seemed perfect. Went out and bought the yarn (originally intended to make it from leftovers but packed all of my yarn away!), and got to knittin! While knitting and admiring the softness of the yarn and simple beauty of the fair-isle, I came to the conclusion that I must have one too! Once finished my children grudgingly modelled it for me. Boo seemed to change his mind though, after protesting and throwing it off I later discovered him wearing it while watching tv. Then while snuggling me. He said "Mommy this hat is just so soft that I'd like to sleep with it". And he did. Looks like he might need a hat as well.Labels: busy, fingerless gloves, finished object, hat, kids, knitting, Knitting Lingerie Style, life, scarf
Dashing pattern forever. When Sunne sent me some beautiful Olive colored cashmere in the PRGE awhile back, I knew that it'd be perfect for that pattern. The yarn was put aside for later, and I added Dashing to my Ravelry queue. Now...if you clicked on that link to my post about this, you may have noticed that I received this yarn over a year ago. That was back before I even had a "to use soon bag"; which is, by the way, now a box. Still, I kept the cashmere close, knowing I'd use it soon. So, when I finished the handspun bag and the tam and I was left with nothing to knit, I knew that it was time. I started them on Friday with TS Hanna looking over my shoulder. Having something soft and soothing to knit really helped me out that night. They came in really useful as therapy (despite the fact that I kept making stupid mistakes and having to rip back) again when I made Mr. Shad take Nolan to the hospital Sunday night. I finished the second glove while waiting for them to return home. Don't worry, he just has croup. It's the first time I've dealt with that and 
it really freaked me out. He was struggling to breathe and having intercostal retractions. Which, if you've never seen that before, can be frightening for a mother. He's running around like a madman today and trying to break everything though.
Tons of green wool yarn, but not acrylic. Went to my bag of random acrylics and found several colors, I asked Kyran which one he wanted and he said "I want black with red feet". Uh...sure, I can do that. At first I was cursing his color choice (stupid black yarn, can't see what I'm doing, hard to photograph *insert mumbling under breath*), but when I went to sew it all together I was really glad. Because you can't see the random stitches either. Also, it came in handy for the spine, which is actually knitted. Didn't really like the big fat spines, plus Tinky (that's what Kyran named him) is a rather smallish dragon. So I made like I was doing the starting triangles for entrelac, but bound off each triangle as I went. They get progressively smaller too. Because I can do that. The wings were modded slightly from this dragon pattern. Which kinda looks like eeyore with wings, you can thank Mouse for that astute insight. She's right though, it does.... Go to my Ravelry page on Tinky if you want to know what I did for the wings. They are a little different than the ones in that pattern. Really, a very little. I think that's all really. Oh, I positioned Tinky with his thumb in his mouth, I thought it was kinda funny considering Ky is a thumb sucker.
Labels: crochet, Dashing, dragon, fingerless gloves
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