We’re recouping today, recovering from a long work week and now Paul is on Spring Break! So we’re spending the evening sitting on the couch, watching the old BBC Chronicles of Narnia, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe,
and I am catching up on some knitting, (slouchy hats for everyone!) and celebrating feeling better (hooray for the 2nd trimester!) Hope you all had a great weekend!
Sorry it’s been quiet here. I’ve been working a lot, and that leaves less time for crafting, which leaves less time for actual blogging about the things that I craft. I got kind of used to being able to have a lot of free time, but I suppose now with the baby on the way I can get used to not having a lot of free time. Anyway, I’m working on a few custom projects for people, and they’re all pretty fun.
A simple brown sweater for a cute little Floridian girl.
A Lemon Curd Slouch for a cute Floridian momma,
And another Lemon Curd Slouch hat in teal for custom birthday gift for someone (Sorry, Erika, not your birthday gift)
In other news… it keeps on snowing. It flurried off and on throughout the day, but never really amounted to anything, but it is still slightly discouraging to see it snow in March.
Also, my belly is getting really big. I’m officially too big to button my jeans, although with the Bellabands I am able to still wear them and still be pretty comfortable. No one at work knows I am pregnant, so it’s kind of hilarious to watch them glance at my belly, but nobody ever asks, although it has got to be pretty obvious by now because I’ve talked about it with several friends who have come into the store and we’ve chatted about it pretty openly. I’m not really against anyone at work knowing, I just haven’t gotten around to telling them yet. I suppose it can’t be ignored much longer, though!
Happy Monday, I am off to figure out something to make for dinner. (I am hoping now that I am officially in my 2nd trimester my cooking skills will reappear? Who knows)
I finished my February Lady yesterday. I miraculously also found 3 matching buttons.
I don’t think I’ll stay with these buttons, but they work for now, plus we were having a dinner party last night and I wanted to wear it, so I grabbed the 3 that matched.
And here you can see my kitchen sink! (Look! No dirty dishes!)
I am liking it without sleeves for now. I can always go back and add them on later if I feel like I want them. Also, I only have about 1/8th of a skein of yarn left, so that would mean ordering more yarn… so it’ll probably remain sleeveless.
The reason I waited so long to make this sweater was because this style of shirt typically ends up looking maternity on me, even when I wasn’t pregnant, so when I found out I was, in fact, pregnant, this was the first knitting project I started, because now it can look maternity and that is just fine with me.
Wow. This week has been very white. We’ve gotten snow dumped on us for the last 3 days, and supposed to get more throughout the rest of the week. I am so glad that I haven’t had to work the last few days, because my car is so bad in the snow and going out first thing in the morning is kind of scary!
This walk was just shoveled a few hours ago. There is also this huge pile of snow next to our front door, it’s about 3 1/2 feet tall. I feel like it’s never going to melt. Probably not until like April or so.
White… as far as the eye can see.
BUT, since it’s been so wet and snowy out, I’ve gotten a lot of work on my February Lady done!
The back. Also, I can’t seem to get a consistent color of this yarn in my pictures.
It’s more like the second picture, but not quite that “limey”. So.. yeah. The lighting stinks in my living room and I didn’t think about it enough to take it into the kitchen where I have good lighting. So, you get crappy pictures.
Also, I am debating on whether or not to add sleeves to it? I’ve seen both versions and I like them both, but man, I am really torn about this one! Any opinions? The sleeves would be done in the same lattice pattern as the lower body of the sweater.
So my goal for February is to finish my February Lady Sweater.
I don’t think I will actually finish it, but it’s good to have goals, right? I’ve only got one project that’s being made right now for someone else (At least that I am getting paid for) but right now I am just doing like 5 feet of stockinette stitch, so this sweater is just the perfect thing to mix it up with. The lace pattern is simple enough that I don’t need to keep the instructions up, but hard enough that I need to at least be paying attention. It’s the perfect project.
In other news, I started my new job today. Seems pretty straight forward so far, just hoping that it stays low-stress, because I am all about no stress these days. Also, I think I need to buy some more comfortable shoes, because standing all day is not something that I am used to. So if any of you locals needs some craft supplies, stop in and say hello!
Remember this Shalom?
Well, I never wore it. Well, that’s not true, I think I wore it maybe twice. Which is just sad, to put that much work into it, but I couldn’t quite ever get it to be exactly what I wanted. Then this morning I realized it. The sleeves were just too baggy.
So, one little snip and then a lot of unraveling and then I bound off the edges and, ta-da!
Don’t mind the makeup-less face and the just-woke-up-from-a-two-hour-nap hair.
I haven’t decided if I am going to retry the sleeves or if I am just going to leave it as-is, I think I like it just as it is, I think I’ll get more use out of it. And now I’ve got a big ball of bright red yarn to make something out of! Lovely!
I finished my Gray slouchy hat.
Sorry for the awful picture quality. I was in a rush. You know how it is.
I’ll write up the pattern for you all soon. Maybe next week, after the wedding craziness has died down and I’ve got a bit more down time. It’s a really simple pattern, I was surprised at how much I liked it, since it was so easy and basic (All it is is k2T and yarn overs! Super easy!)
Sorry for the quiet weekend, folks. I spent the weekend getting ready to come to Tacoma! I flew in last night, it’s pretty great to be back. Anyhow, posting might be light this week as I’ll be hanging out with my family and helping with wedding prep for my friend Charissa, who is getting married this weekend!
But, I do have some of my hat-in-progress to show you.
I suppose you can’t quite tell by the picture, but the stitches are a little bit more open, you can see through them, they’re in a diamond shape.
Anyhow, I’ll be in and out throughout the week, I’ve got lots to do (and a bunch more pie-pops to make!), so have a great week!
I’ve started another commissioned project for a gray slouchy hat, a little different than one I’ve done before. I’m making it up as I go along, but the brim looked so nice I wanted to take a picture of it before I completely screwed it up while trying to make up my own pattern.
I love knitting on small needles. I think it looks so nice and even.
It’s knitting pretty up pretty well so far… we’ll see if my pattern holds up once I get a little farther.
So, I finished the first 1/2 of the intarsia knitting on my Andre the Giant project.
The lovely backside of my work.
And yes, all of those ends have to be woven in. Ugh. I think that between weaving in ends and seaming, those two things would have an epic battle on the things that I hate the most about knitting. Actually, I think those are the only two things I hate about knitting. Everything else, well, we have a good relationship.
So there is his face. Kind of frightening, no? But considering this is what he is supposed to look like: (look down) I feel like I did a pretty good job.
I think it’s his eyes that creep me out the most.
I notice that some of the stitches look kind of loose, and others are pulling, that is just because of all of the loose ends hanging out the back. Once those are pulled tight and woven in, it will all be much smoother and nicer looking. Well, as nice as Andre the Giant can look, I guess.
Oh, and just in case you didn’t realize just hot HUGE this giants face is, here is my hand for some comparison.
I know, right? This scarf is going to be hooge. And now, wow. Now I get to do another 5 feet of straight stockinette stitch! WOO! My favorite thing ever!
Ok, so add one more thing to my knitting-hate list. 5 feet of stockinette stitch.
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