Hat!

Finished a hat for me on the plane.

Cast on again...I'm a hat maniac!

Mad Hatter

Knitting hats is sort of compelling. They're fast. They're satisfying. And they look great even in bulky yarn on 10.5 needles.

Crochet Diva

Here's the first crochet shrug I've made. I designed it myself based on a shrug Nancy had in the shop that she bought at White House Black Market. Of course I'm never going to make anything white and using tiny yarn...so I just looked at the overall stitch pattern, and the overall construction shape (fold in half and seam) and ran with it!


Here's the beautiful back. I guess it doesn't really go well with the green shirt, now does it?



It's so pretty it makes me smile like a fool.

My first weekend up here in East Lansing this summer I wound up at a yarn shop called Woven Art (it was teaching crochet/knit/and letting people weave as part of be a tourist weekend). I wound up learning how to crochet, and true to form, walked out of the yarn shop with two skeins of Henry's Attic Safari III to make this guy. All it took was some double crochet in a circle. I know I said I'd never knit a poncho...but this one is crochet, thankyouverymuch. As you can see from my face, I am very unhappy about how hot Michigan is!


So of course the next step was to take Woven Art's beginning crochet class. Here are my three samplers from it.


And so of course, this little guy (sampler 3) will so be frogged and used with the rest of my remaining Alpine cotton to make a shrug. Welcome to my shrug kick.

Soon to be frogged...

This is a start on the Phoebe caplet from the Spring05 IK. However, it's slow as heck in knitting and is just trying to look like crochet...so I'm thinking I'll endulge it, frog it, and just crochet it on huge hooks. I'm also considering making it a shrug to be more in season.

Life got cra-zy...

So, I was very sick over Spring Break, and in the ensuing weeks, school became absolutely crazy, leaving me with very little quality knitting time. I did start on some stuff. I think I'm going to have my hands full this summer, with the WIP I have going. No more yarn til grad school!

I found out about a month ago a good friend of mine from long ago is having her first baby. I'm working on the Big Bad Baby Blanket from SNB as a gift for her. I'm using Caron Simply Soft for it.

My progress on Clover has stalled for a while. While I was sick over break, I had some issues that basically boiled down to me needing to loose a lot of weight. My mom pretty much discouraged me from continuing to put so much effort into a sweater that hopefully won't fit me in a year, so I'm sort of at an impasse - do I keep knitting on it (I'm only a few inches into a sleeve), or do I have the self-discipline to say, "I will lose the weight and knit this for myself as a final reward." I'm still debating it, and I figure until I decide what I want to do, forward progress on it isn't really a good idea.

Pictures tomorrow, camera batteries charge tonight!

Spring Break!

With it being Spring Break, you'd think I'd get to knit a lot...but I've been rather sick. I did finish the scarf I've been working on and am almost done with Coronet. I'll have pictures of those, and my yarn shop sale acquisitions, up as soon as I get back to my lovely high-speed on campus access (this 28k dialup is killing me!).