KNITSTER

Okay, so maybe I’m not masked, but I’m been blazing through a lot of projects lately. I think it’s mostly because of my new job. It’s incredibly boring, non-stimulating in any way. I have almost no interaction with people, and all I do is open mail and pull and file check stubs. YAWN. Like I said, not stimulating at all.

I’m guessing, that as a result, since I’m not using my web or desktop publishing design skills, I need some sort of creative outlet. That would make sense, right? So, in the last week or two, I’ve completed two more projects.

First, I finished “Oceandirt’s Mittens”. Behold!

These are made with Debbie Bliss’ Soho yarn in #19 colorway, which was hard to find! What makes these special is that these are custom made for my friend, Sandy, aka “Oceandirt”. I still have to give them or mail them to her, so I hope she likes them!

The other project was a hat for myself. It had been put aside a few times due to other projects. I started it before Christmas, for heaven’s sake! But finally, after buying the yarn a year ago, and starting it a while ago, I present to you, “Mama’s Hat” (me being the Mama):

Mama’s got that ‘come hither’ look, don’tcha think?

I messed it up on the top, but I think I recovered it okay.

It looks almost like a flower, despite the goofup.

So there you go. Two projects– done!

Also, in the interest of being crafty, I purchased two books in the past week.

I dunno– sometimes I think that maybe I can just do little projects and such and sell them. Or maybe I could start doing the yarn dye-thing, or something like that. Just seems like a fun way to start making some extra cash perhaps, so the book intrigued me.

And, in the interest of a little boy who is now including Harry Potter among his obsessions…

Drew’s already chosed two or three patterns out of it already. He wants me to make him an owl, a wizard’s robe, and perhaps a Weasley sweater.

But first…another Drew project. He usually has a sweater-jacket of some sort each spring, and he’s always gotten them from his grandmother who would get them in Ecuador. Well, she hasn’t been in Ecuador for a few years now, so the ones he’s had are too small now. So he asked me to make him a red sweater. Okay, no problem. Oh, and by the way, he wants flames on it. Okaaaaaaaay. So, I found a good pattern from the Yarn Girls’ book for older kids’ knits, and then pulled out my SnB Design Journal, and looking at both, well, I guess I’m setting out to design my first sweater, so to speak. Or at least my first graphical pattern. It’s graphed out, so now I have to decide whether to do intarsia or fair isle method, or both. I looked at Knitting Help, which is a site that Helen turned me onto when I first was starting to learn 3 years ago (has it been that long already?), and I actually understood the explanation pretty well. But I’m still undecided. I finally got the gauge down last night, so it might help if I cast on first, right? We’ll start with that, and then go from there.

Look out! Whoosh! There’s she goes off knitting up a storm again!

Posted on February 4th, 2008 by Dani
Filed under: Finished Objects, Photos, Projects