I got a little restless recently and decided that I couldn't knit on my cardigan anymore. It's too hot to have it sitting in my lap and yes, I'm a wimp. Needing inspiration, I caught up on my knitting blogs. Martine at iMake posted a photo of her Trillian shawl. It looked simple and beautiful so I got the pattern. I dug up some stunning orangey-pink sock yarn from my stash and got started. I am a happy camper now.
I'm still in the midst of knitting my 6x9 rectangles for HAP as well. Easy and portable and for a great cause. All the rectangles become afghans for the wounded in military hospitals. How can I not do this? So it would appear that I'm occupied....
On a non-knitting note, I think I came to the realization that I might very well be on the wrong path. I don't think I started on the wrong path, it just somehow turned into the wrong path. Can I say wrong path anymore? Yes. While I really do love programming, I knew today that I can't do this forever. Part of me is pretty sure I knew this way before today, but I won't admit that.
Why is it so hard to get out of a rut? Whether it's a job, a bad habit, a bad person, we always seem to make excuses on why we should: stay at the job/in the relationship/continue doing the bad habits. It's really fucking hard to change. I've already noticed that I'm becoming anti-social, but I'm not terribly concerned. I think alone time is a good idea sometimes. I'm hoping to come out of this with some significant changes in mind and in action. Otherwise, we could just probably call this depression and not learn from it at all.
Back to my shawl.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Friday, July 1, 2011
Dr. Frankenstein, I am not
But I tried!
I made my first knitted stuffed critter and he turned out really well! I bought a pattern from Rebecca Danger, which I learned about from Yarngasm. I had to learn a backwards cast on, which is pretty easy. But I also got to learn magic loop!! It was very exciting :) I really did want to learn magic loop but was really nervous about it. It's not that hard!! What was stopping me?? Geesh.
I thought it would be fun/interesting for my fellow crafters to post pictures of monster in progress on my facebook. It really did seem to entertain people. Crafters are a special breed.
So we have the start of monster (no name for monster yet. Matthew gets to name the monster). I think I redid the feet maybe 6 times. I'm really not happy with metal dpns. It was SO slick that I was having lots of trouble keeping the stitches on. But I finally got it going.
I had to tear this foot apart because I used the wrong size needles. I must have been tired when I started this.
The body of the monster was super simple and ended with a 3 needle bind off that eliminates seaming. Whoop!
Next up was the arms! And stuffing!
Once the arms are sewn on, I decided to sew eyes on instead of getting safety eyes. I don't have kids but I felt that sewn eyes were better for 4 year olds. I could be wrong but I like the eyes anyways.
I gave my facebook friends a peek (literally)
I tore my house apart for felt that I KNEW I had but apparently didn't. So monster had to wait a bit for his mouth until I could get to Hobby Lobby to find felt and liquid stitch (which, gosh, was mostly dry when I opened it. Thanks Hobby Lobby). So.... we present the final monster!
The yarn I used for this is from Colorbug Yarns in Detroit. The colorway is called Inchworm. God bless Etsy!
I made my first knitted stuffed critter and he turned out really well! I bought a pattern from Rebecca Danger, which I learned about from Yarngasm. I had to learn a backwards cast on, which is pretty easy. But I also got to learn magic loop!! It was very exciting :) I really did want to learn magic loop but was really nervous about it. It's not that hard!! What was stopping me?? Geesh.
I thought it would be fun/interesting for my fellow crafters to post pictures of monster in progress on my facebook. It really did seem to entertain people. Crafters are a special breed.
So we have the start of monster (no name for monster yet. Matthew gets to name the monster). I think I redid the feet maybe 6 times. I'm really not happy with metal dpns. It was SO slick that I was having lots of trouble keeping the stitches on. But I finally got it going.
The body of the monster was super simple and ended with a 3 needle bind off that eliminates seaming. Whoop!
Next up was the arms! And stuffing!
Once the arms are sewn on, I decided to sew eyes on instead of getting safety eyes. I don't have kids but I felt that sewn eyes were better for 4 year olds. I could be wrong but I like the eyes anyways.
I gave my facebook friends a peek (literally)
I tore my house apart for felt that I KNEW I had but apparently didn't. So monster had to wait a bit for his mouth until I could get to Hobby Lobby to find felt and liquid stitch (which, gosh, was mostly dry when I opened it. Thanks Hobby Lobby). So.... we present the final monster!
The yarn I used for this is from Colorbug Yarns in Detroit. The colorway is called Inchworm. God bless Etsy!
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