I fail at blogging...

...Turns out, I don't have nearly as much time as I thought I did to keep a blog active. I'm so sorry!

To make up for this, I'm posting some of my finished knitted items, and hopefully by Christmas I will have a pattern up for this:

Rosette Cowl by Corina Irvine
Lion Brand Thick and Quick

I don't want to say too much about this cowl right now (saving it for next post), but I will say that it was a fairly fast knit and would make a great last-minute gift for someone. I've also finished a couple other items, like these really cute kitten mittens:

"Kitten Mittens" by Noelle Dempsey
Shepherds Shades in Cream, and scraps
of sock yarn for the details
For a friend's niece
Ravelry link

Aren't they the cutest little things? I suppose the scale is hard to judge, but they're just itty-bitty (6cm wide, 12cm long). They were really easy to make, the pattern was well-written, and they only took a couple of nights to make. The hardest part was finding the 'perfect' yarn to make the eyes and nose. I ended up splitting some black Cascade220 into two strands to make the mouth and eye pupils. Stay tuned, I'll post more pictures and projects, a new pattern (and hopefully a more interesting post!) when I have a few days off.

8 months later...

... I *finally* finished the '3 hour sweater' that I started in May! I knit it too small, had to rip stitches out backwards, and overall, it was a messy project. But now that it's done, doesn't it look nice?

3 Hour Sweater by Vintage
Berroco Ultra Alpaca

I think it's safe to say that I will never knit this pattern again from the bottom up. The original was ridiculously short and looked like a 10 year old's sweater. I had to extend the bottom by about 4 inches. There was a lot of seaming involved, and it just made me dislike this project (which is why it sat around for a long time). Maybe I'll start finishing my other WIPS... but that's probably just wishful thinking.

Happy New Year!

Hi,
So I'm about 10 days behind on my New Years post, but I've been busy! I'd like to thank everyone for their kind words about my Habs mittens! I've gotten a lot of good responses off of Ravelry and my pattern has been queued several times. The friend that I made the mitts for told me that he has been stopped by random people on the street, commenting on his mitts and asking where he 'bought' them. I definately got a knitting ego boost after hearing that :P I'm thinking I'll have to start a mini-hockey series of mittens, so stay tuned!

I got some awesome gifts for christmas-- my boyfriend bought me a spinning wheel! It's a Louet s17. I've never used a spinning wheel before, but I managed to figure it out, and ended up with this:


The colours are okay, but its a little too pastelly/Easter egg coloured for me. And I have no idea what pattern would work with this... It's also a little uneven with thicks & thins throughout it, but I think that practice will help! It was Handmaiden Merino roving (50g), and I got around 56 yards of a two-ply worsted weight yarn out of it.

I also bought myself an SLR camera! I've just started learning how to play with it, and I have to read up on how to edit photos better. I'm hoping now that I have a nice camera, I'll actually use it and blog more often too!

Here's the camera (and a small project):

"Turn A Square" by Brooklyntweed
220 Cascade and Noro Silk Garden
For my boyfriend
Ravelry link

Thanks for reading!
~knittypie