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3rd time spinning, tried dying some things:

April socks:

May socks:

Horse cross stitch for a friend:

June socks:

July socks:

August socks:

Baby quilt for new neice:

September socks:

October socks:

Novembers socks:

Crocheted Ood:

Polymer clay Poogi:

Tardis shawl:

This year I've decided to make one mystery sock pair per month. So far, so good.

January:

I wasn't too happy with this one. It turned out way too small and I screwed up a bit. Plus, I'm not a big fan of having to work back and forth on socks.

February:

Nice and classy pattern.

March:

Loved these, but I think my contrast was not good enough with the colors. My mom loved them though so I gave them to her.

I kind of stopped blogging for a while but I think I'll pick it up again, just to show things I've made.

Here's some recent WIP:

This is a scarf that will take a year to make. Each line records the temperature of one day. You can see the warm streak in January by the yellow-greens.

This one is a pattern I'm developing. Some of it will change but I like the results so far.

And finally, a mystery sock pattern titled Eisern. It's my first time doing stranded knitting (properly, anyway).

Pattern: Elphaba Mitts
Yarn: String Theory Colorworks Entanglement in Trifolium

These look like Rainbow Brite arm thingies to me. I like them :)

I haven't actually started much lately, since I've had so many things on the go. Here's a few of the in progress projects:

Watermelon socks! I'm half done the second one. They're a bit tight though, with the way the heel is done, so I'm probably going to give them to someone with smaller feet.

Okay, so this isn't anything started quite yet, but this is the next thing I'll begin. I'm not entirely sure what this ball will end up being, possibly armwarmers, possibly socks, but I love rainbows. So it'll be for me.

This is part of a package I'm putting together for my new nephew. I've got some booties ready for buttons, too. Unforunately, the other grandma (not my mom) is a knitter and so they need more knitted goods like a hole in the head, but I want to contribute. I've also got most of a sweater (ugly, as usual, and patternless) done, and I've started working on a present for my brother and his wife for their wedding, but I can't show that one just yet.

So, I felt like making another shawl, and although I had a different pattern in mind, this one turned out to be the one I made. It's somewhat small but that's all the ball of wool allowed for. I just need to find a nice pin for it, and then I can do something with it. I don't know what yet.

Made using 1 skein of Zauberball in Cafe Flair. Pattern can be found on knitty.com

This is probably the prettiest thing I've made yet. Not sure if I'll keep it or give it to someone who would actually wear it.

Pattern from ravelry.

Yarn used: 2 balls of patons sequin lace.

I found a 30-day knitting meme so I think I'm going to do it. Starting... the 1st of April, maybe. Or tomorrow.

Day 1: What was your first finished project?

Day 2: What is currently on your needles?

Day 3: Do you have any other WIPs (works in progress)?

Day 4: How did you learn how to knit?

Day 5: How long did it take from the time you learned how to knit, to finish your first project?

Day 6: What is your favorite piece that you’ve knit?

Day 7: Your least favorite?

Day 8: What’s your most challenging project?

Day 9: What fiber or yarn do you love working with?

Day 10: Do you have a favorite pattern or designer?

Day 11: Do you have a “Knitter Hero” or someone that is just way too awesome for their own good? Do share!

Day 12: Where do you keep your stash? Post pictures!

Day 13: Do you have yarn that you love but can’t find a project for?

Day 14: What’s the worst yarn/fiber that you’ve worked with and why?

Day 15: What was your least favorite pattern and why?

Day 16: Have you ever had a knitting related injury?

Day 17: Have you ever had a project that you loved become ruined? What’s the story behind it?

Day 18: Do you knit English or Continental?

Day 19: Do you watch movies and/or listen to podcasts while knitting? What are your favorite things to knit to?

Day 20: Do you knit in public? Was anyone offended/incredibly happy/curious that you were doing so?

Day 21: Do you knit gifts for friends and family for the holidays or birthdays?

Day 22: Have you ever stricken someone off your to-knit-for list because they didn’t appreciate/take care of your last knitted gift to them?

Day 23: If you had the supplies (and patience) for it, what project would you start today?

Day 24: Have you ever made your own pattern or dyed your own yarn? How did it turn out?

Day 25: Do you have a knitting book or a place where you keep patterns, ideas, size measurements? Post a picture of it!

Day 26: Have you ever been a part, or wanted to be a part of a knit-a-long? What was it? If not, why?

Day 27: How do you acquire most of yarn? Online retailers, local yarn shops, swaps, or large chain craft stores? What’s your favorite?

Day 28: Do you do any other crafts besides knitting? What are they, and did learning to knit come before or after learning these other crafts?

Day 29: Do you have any tips, or things that you’ve learned from knitting?

Day 30: What’s your name on Ravelry? If you don’t have a Ravelry account, why?

These took hardly any time at all to make! So happy :D I plan on wearing them in my office when my feet get cold. I think the reason I didn't think they took too long is because a) I'm actually a pretty fast knitter and b) the colours were fun to knit.

Materials: Kroy Sock Yarn, Color "Summer Moss"

Pattern: Lickety Split from Knitty.

Well I started to make these socks today and I've already got probably 1/2 of one done. They're toe-up socks, which I'd never tried before. I'm making them because I want to wear flip flops at my office but sometimes my feet will be cold. So... split toe socks.

That said, I feel like everything I do is just an escape. Because if I ever sit down and think about things, I feel too awful to do anything. Does it ever get better?

Sometimes I just want to make hats. They're fast and easy.

Pink and White convertible hat
I found this pattern in crochet form from April Draven (look in my links, I'm lazy for now), but I wanted to knit so I converted it into knit form. I might post the pattern later. It's pretty simple.

Slouchy Crochet Hat
Just a random crochet hat. It's a bit big.

And what's this? Another creature? We'll see. I may not ever finish it, poor little guy.

Socks for my mom. She requested slippers, but I'm sick of making those. Socks are way more fun! And hopefully she'll like them just as much. I made these out of special sock yarn bought from a local store. Expensive! As you can see, I'm not quite done yet. I burned my fingers baking cookies today, otherwise they'd be finished by now. Pattern is from here

Update: finished these, but no new pictures.

This is the hat I made for Eryn for Christmas. I conjured up this pattern because I thought the idea of cables that decreased in size as they went along was kind of neat. I may write up this pattern for use later. Can be worn as a beret or toque style.

Finished the enormous legs! I love giant feet. They might be a bit too giant though. I think also that the arms will have to be bigger. Other than that I'm happy with it.

Next to do: figure out what I did and write up a pattern, so I can make another one and make it all pretty looking.

At my new job, I like the people but the work kind of sucks. Fortunately I will only be experiencing small doses of it at one time. I'm now a cashier, able to ring people through on my own and everything. Yay.

Fortunately the second half of my shift today cancelled out the anger of the first half. The computer modules nearly made me angry enough to walk out. Not because the computer was acting up or anything, but because of the content. It just pissed me off.

I think I'll survive this. I'll just have to distract myself with my hobbies instead.

I'm working on my knitted dragon again. I've got the wings finished and the pattern written down, now all I have to do is design a foot. Shouldn't be too hard, right? I guess we'll see.

A little under a year ago I found a pattern (bo-peep glove pattern) for these beautiful lace fingerless gloves, which I just had to knit. I used a bamboo yarn of some sort. (I lost the label since I bought it a year ago) Finally this month I actually made them. They were a bit tricky, and the pattern had a lot of errata in it, but I figured it out anyway. The gloves are pretty but impractical. Perhaps suitable for... a tea party? I don't know.

Closeup of palm:

He's got a body and arms! Progress is going slow, but well. I've designed the wing, I just need to make another and stitch them on.

After seeing all sorts of cute amigurumi things, I decided to make an amigurumi dragon! Of course I'm not as well-versed in crochet as knitting, so instead of crocheting, I'm knitting it!

Here's a preview:

I've only got the head (minus the eyes, which are still in the mail) and most of the body done so far, and work on this project has been postponed because I've come down with a cold (though this hasn't hampered my ability to be on the computer).

I can't wait to get this done! It's going to be awesome. I'm thinking of either selling customised versions or the pattern, because I think people are going to want this.

Finally knitted something for myself, a new pair of socks! I had to knit socks because my brother got me some wonderful sock knitting needles for Christmas (although I later found a non-sock use for them...)

Pattern from here.

Finished socks:

In use! (I cropped my other foot because it looked ridiculous)

I've managed to injure my back knitting. Okay, I guess the repetitive motions at my job are also to blame. But I'm sad because it hurts to knit now. And I still have three toques to go! Will I make it? Who knows.

Also, I think my comments are working in case anyone felt like leaving a message.

I have an urge to make cute pixel things again. Hmm....

Craftiness

Projects of 2014

Socks and more socks.

It's been a while.

Rainbows!

WIPs for April

Citron Shawl

Sommerwind Shawl

30 days of knitting

Flip Flop Socks!

Run away, run away

Crafts of late...

More socks!

The pie hat

Knit Dragon WIP 3

Up early on a nice day isn't so bad.

Bo-Peep gloves

DRAGON!

What I'm working on...

Pulsations socks

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