craftastic voyage

Moving

2009-02-18T10:24:00.002-05:00

My wonderful husband built me a very cool blog template, and I'm moving this blog. You can find me at http://pixelpages.org/blog

Waiting

2009-02-17T10:11:00.003-05:00

The Elegance scarf that I've been working on has been set aside, because I've spent the past few days organizing my stash and cataloging what I have. It's not as impressive as I thought it was! It looks so impressive in bins on the shelf, but once I went through and actually counted, it's not a whole lot. I did skip some items, like my half skeins of Homespun which I will never use again because I hate hate hate it. I have an entire bin of old acrylics that I use for amigurumi, and it's not even worth cataloging. I might actually thin out that stash a little bit.

I just ordered some Shine and Comfy from Knit Picks. I'm waiting, waiting, waiting and can't wait to get it. I want to make a cozy little blanket for Ian. I haven't knit anything for him! I feel like such a bad mommy.

Itty Bitty

2009-02-14T09:50:00.005-05:00

I finished my first preemie hat. I'm doing this knit-a-long by proxy. I did not know Dewey personally, but she had a huge impact on a lot of people, and I know folks who were very close with her, so out of respect of their friendship with her I'm going to make (hopefully) 10 preemie hats this year for donation. This is actually something that I've wanted to do for a long time. My very oldest and dearest friend's first born came into the world at 28.5 weeks and he was teeny tiny, and spent about 3.5 months in the NICU where he was given lots of TLC by some very great nurses. Her second born, my god-daughter was born at 32 weeks and spent some time in the NICU as well, though not nearly as much as her brother. I figure that this is the least I can do to give back to a very giving department in every hospital. These two kids are now thriving 5 and 6 year olds and you wouldn't know that they were born early.

Hopefully I'll be able to keep pumping out hats every year. They're quick knits, I just don't have a lot of time to knit these days, so it took me about 4 nights to finish that hat.

Finished!

2009-02-08T09:20:00.004-05:00

I finished up the beret I was working on! I messed up a few rounds early on but luckily it's not noticeable to the naked eye, or at least the non-knitter naked eye. I'm pretty happy with it even with my blunders.

I just started a scarf for myself using some Knitpicks Elegance that I bought on a whim over a year ago. Hopefully it will be a quick project! I only get like an hour a night to knit now.

Messed up already!

2009-01-24T10:33:00.004-05:00

Oy, I've already messed up the hat. It's not a huge deal, it just annoys me. The pattern calls for a slip stitch, k2tog, pass slip stitch over, and I forgot to pass the slip stitch about 4 times. I had to k2tog in the next round, so there's small holes where there shouldn't be. Hopefully when it's done and it's all slouchy the holes won't show! Fingers crossed!

Hiatus

2009-01-22T12:42:00.003-05:00

Man I haven't posted in some time. I went and had a baby and stopped knitting for a year. Most people knit like crazy when they're pregnant, I unfortunately ended up with such bad carpal tunnel that my hands would go numb after 2 minutes of knitting. I'm currently working on this beret. I've wanted a slouchy hat for a long time now and I decided to give it a go. I only get through 4 rows or so a night but hopefully I'll get it done before the seasons change! WIP pics to come.

FO's are on the horizon

2008-01-21T16:55:00.001-05:00

It feels like forever since I've written, but I've been working on top secret projects, that will soon be revealed! I joined a single skein KAL on Ravelry, I need to finish that before the end of the month, but I have so many projects in the queue. I broke my resolution and had three projects going at once, because the top secret project was drying after I blocked it, so I couldn't do anything with it, and my KAL project was upstairs, so I just started a hat. It's crochet, TABOO! I'm not sure if I like it. Many pictures to come!

crafty resolutions

2008-01-02T16:41:00.001-05:00

I'm not doing typical resolutions this year. They always turn out the same, "lose weight, get healthy," "save more money," "get organized." I'm slightly neurotic when it comes to most things in life so my goal setting on a routine basis is enough to control most of those general topics. My main resolution for 2008, finish the knit projects that I start, don't start projects I know I will fall out of love with, and knit a damn sweater already. I've been doing this knitting thing on and off for 5 years now, and, excluding hats, I haven't knit anything that wasn't square. How boring! In 08 I'm going to branch out, explore new yarns, and textures and see where it takes me. There are also some new techniques I want to try, like knitting on two circulars because lord knows dps drive me nuts!

I have a project that I'm about half way through at the moment, but I can't really post images of it, because it's for a soon to be little human, who's mama may read this and who is definitely a friend on Flickr so you know, the debut of that project will be sometime after it is mailed off and opened by the mama-to-be. I've decided that the baby blanket I was griping about in the previous entry will get finished, but it's going to be my "second" project so it will probably be done in 2012, and lord knows what I'll do with it. I might just keep it for posterity!

one down

2007-12-20T23:14:00.001-05:00

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I finished up one of my stalled projects. Also it seems I only had 6 hibernating projects. I forgot I pulled out yarn and bagged it with a pattern for a project for a friends daughter. I'm saving that for last!

One down Five to go. This guy was a test run. I started crocheting right after Christmas last year, and I immediately loved making little critters. I was gobbling up various patterns from Etsy, but wanted to see what I could do one my own. I figured this would be easy peasy, it's all spheres! And I was right. It really took about a total of a 8 hours to complete. The eyes are felt with safety teddy eyes. I had to sew them on because the "head" was already completed when I made the eyes. I also find it really hard to place eyes before the things are stuffed and pieced.

it's a start

2007-12-19T22:52:00.000-05:00

I decided to finally make the move, I'm pulling my crafty talk out of my regular blog (in hopes of not boring the snot out of friends).

I've been working my way through some old projects. I recently organized all my half finished projects and either bagged them up or frogged 'em. I have seven unfinished projects. SEVEN! How do I let these things happen!? And they're mostly small. I get distracted so easily.