I haven't been posting much lately, but I have been up to a lot. The colder weather has caused my mind to obsess with knitting (is that a bad thing??):
I haven't been posting much lately, but I have been up to a lot. The colder weather has caused my mind to obsess with knitting (is that a bad thing??):
On Saturday I went to the baby shower of a good friend of mine. She's going as natural as possible with the birth and baby accessories, which is wonderful. Knowing that she's going to be using cloth diapers I thought it might be fun to whip up some soakers for her. I haven't really been knitting much lately, but I found that soakers are insanely easy to knit. I actually knit one up the morning of the shower in about an hour and a half. Because I was pushing it with time I didn't stop to take pictures, but I'll share a few tips and patterns.
now I absolutely must try felting. My plants are looking so cold without sweaters on them! via Papervert's Etsy
To replace the diamond mittens that I recently abandon, I've picked up the knitty winter 06 mitten pattern called Tiffany. Here's what I have so far (sorry for the really bad picture, it was taken with my cellphone last night right before I gave up the fight with my eye lids)
I've changed the color scheme quite a bit and I'm not sure if I like my choices, but once I started with the main body of the mitten I decided that the more I knit, the more I like :)
So far this pattern has been amazingly simple. I was really intimidated by fair isle and by such a complicated pattern (I have some dyslexic tendencies), but it's knitting up so fast and easy!
Between school, work and the band I'm not able to devote much time to this project...I'm just hoping to get them done before mitten season is over :)
I knit. I sew. I play in a band called Paper Brain. I fund my fun by coordinating the biochemistry dept. at a university.
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