Cell Phone Cover

So, I designed my first thang. It was a cell phone cover. It's blue and bamboo and beautiful. Okay, maybe not beautiful, but it started with a B.

I'll post pictures tonight.

Kim

Lace, but not Lacey

I've been wanting to try lace; so, I was super excited when I picked up my newest library book and found a simple pattern for a lace-like bag. I made the back panel yesterday and hopefully will finish the front panel today or tomorrow. I bought some blue lining and will try to sew! I used left over cotton from my mom's gingham Fair Isle bag. It was the only thing I had that I was sure had the yardage.

Lace isn't nearly as hard as it seems, and it's a lot of fun to have something new for practically every row.

Gloves for Josh

I made gloves for Josh (well, 1 glove so far). It's gray. He wanted it to be like TRON. It's so totally like tron and not at all like a snowflake.

Blog

Heather had the most fabulous idea for a virtual knitting circle blog thing; so, we created "Knitten Mittings." It's her clever name. She's one of those people that comes up with amazingly clever stuff and makes you wish you'd thought of something involving periwinkle and flowers or kittens and yarn instead of "Nubby Knitting" for a blog name.

I'm hoping Heather leaves the blog open instead of being a chicken and making it private like me.

KnittenMittings.blogspot.com

I'll post tonight about tron and gray gloves of amazing-thumb-too-short-ness!

Better

I'm feeling better. I started Josh's fingerless gloves this weekend. I'm using US2 instead of of the 1s I used for the purple set (yeah, there's still only 1 glove in that set). Doing this a second (okay, third) time is much easier--it might just be an easier pattern, but whatever. I think I might be done with 1 glove by this weekend. I'm also working on the pink and brown hat/scarf set. It looks okay.

My mommy is coming to visit soon--exciting! I'll post pictures of the hat and scarf set soon and the fingerless gloves in progress.

Confidence

So, I'm having some confidence issues with my knitting. I found this woman's blog and now I feel so inept. Even though she's been knitting for years, I feel like she has a gift. I'm terribly jealous of her Fair Isle Sweater.

Girl Who Knits

Yesterday, I started a brown and pink Valentine's Day-ish hat and scarf set. I wish I knew someone who wanted or needed a brown and Pink Valentine's Day-ish hat and scarf set. I might give it to myself. If I start Josh's gloves tomorrow, I might finish those by the middle of the month. That would be happy.

Heath in Knit

Did you hear that Heath Ledger died today?



Josh is pretty upset about the Heath thing. We were in the car and he free-styled this lovely poem:

I think it was just an emo accident.
I think it was a mistake.
I think someone killed him.
I think it was Jack Nicholson.
~Josh

Endpaper Mitts

I'm almost done with 1/2 fingerless gloves. I kinda slowed down on making them because the fingers are hard and boring--stoooopid fingers of fingerless gloves. I should finish the 1 glove tonight and hopefully the blue ice skating scarf for Jenny. The glove is too small for my huge like xbox, or maybe more like huge like grapefruit, hands. I'm going to give them to Lani. She comes in early in the morning and it's freezing at Sonic at like 8:00am because they're trying to turn us all into Popsicles for Dane to lick. Okay, that creeped me out. She has super small hands. The thumb is still in the wrong place though... note: next set of gloves should have the thumb hole moved down like 4 rows.

So this had a point. OH! I got that great Alpaca lightweight at the yarn store and I was like wtf am I gonna do with 2 50g balls of pretty Baby Alpaca? I've decided to make the Endpaper Mitts! It'll be exciting, and I can always shorten them just a little if I think I'm cutting it too close.

Chicken Brain Hat

So, when we went to San Francisco, we were meeting some friends for dinner. I was asked to bring a chicken hat for Cruu. Below is a picture of the chicken hat in action!



Apparently, the chicken's skull is damaged and it's brain flops out every so often. Hopefully, the hat will help keep it's brain inside it's head!

Artfibers

Yesterday we went to the city. We had some strange TresCon West thing to attend... don't ask. Anyway, so we had some trouble getting to San Francisco. My battery died at the gas station before we left. Stoooopid battery. Anyway, we got a jump and then spent the next few hours at a battery repair shop. They probably screwed me: $110.00 battery, FTL. Anyway, so we got a battery, but we were really late. I told Josh that I was going to scream if we didn't get to go to the yarn store. We barely made the yarn store. We parked under Union Square and walked the 5 blocks to Artfibers. We got there about 10 minutes to closing.

They have these silly little names that make me think of power yoga. They spin their own yarn and are known for combining unusual fibers.


From right to left:

Quipa
Color #1
100% Baby Alpaca

Quipa
Color #7
100% Baby Alpaca

Marble Cheesecake
Color #6
30% Silk
70% Extrafine Merino Wool

Marble Cheesecake
Color #3
30% Silk
70% Extrafine Merino Wool

Oki
75% Bamboo
13% Silk
12% Superkid Mohair

Fingerless Gloves

So, I redid the last set of fingerless gloves (I'm so using set loosely... there was only 1 and it was like 1/3 done). Anyway, I redid the pattern in purple and gray Alpaca.

Alpacas!

I've made it all the way through 1 finger! I might end up with a fingerless glove this time.

Brown Hat w/ Ear Flaps

I've made josh an amazing brown hat. It's really so amazing that pictures can't do it justice--so, I'm not going to post any. I will, however, post comments regarding the amazing ear flap head, er hat.

Josh: the thing is. i told her i have a big head.
and she still made it too small

Josh: i said. i have a HUGE LIKE XBOX head
can't be any clearer then that

Miles: its so brown.

Josh: is... umm brown..ish. Soft... umm warm. And I have been told the top is well constructed.

Obviously, it's a huge hit, and I'll probably be bombarded with requests for more "So brown...ish brown hats of ear flaps" for huge like xbox heads.

Brown Hat

I'm making Josh a new hat. Very exciting. The fingerless gloves are almost done--well, one fingerless glove. I don't think it will ever have a partner. I've decided that I hate the colors. After I make this glove, I'm going to switch colors and use the shetland. I'm going to try to make something pretty in gray.

I bought some yarn from Jamieson & Smith. I don't think I bought enough in any 1 color though for the MC (Main Color) of 2 gloves. NUTS! oh well, I'm going to make some not matching gray hobo gloves.



Jamieson & Smith Shetland Wool Brokers Ltd

Platypodes for Josh

When Josh was a kid, he had a stuffed platypus. He loved that stuff platypus. It was named googles in like 1986--yeah, google is full of stealing pirates! Anyway, I thought it might be fun to make a platypus something for Josh, but I'm not making a stuffed one from that woman's stupid book of flat stuff. So, I'm looking for something knitted in the round or intarsia'd into a hat.




And, Josh told me that the plural of platypus is platypodes, and I was like NFW! And, my spell check wants to turn platypodes into platypuses, but noes!