Boys Knitting

This semester, I've gotten countless amounts of people to pick up knitting.
Today however, I managed to teach my amazing boyfriend the craft as well.
We are both sick, so we set in for a night of Woody Allen movies and vegging on the couch.
But this time- He agreed to knit! I gave him a skein of blue red heat super saver, and he made quite a bit of progress. Actually, he commented how easy it was, and laughed at our friend who took a week to learn to do a stitch. "That's all there is to it?" he kept saying. He's going to knit me a scarf, and was concerned about all of the holes.

I'll love it anyways.

Back to School Vest

My Vest from Fitted Knits is finally finished!





Unfortunately, It is a tad bit too short. I think a little bit of blocking will fix that.

I'm just glad to be finished.

Rosa, this ones for you.

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The Winter Time...

...Is something of a tough time for me. No, it's not the Cleveland snow, or the blisteringly cold, windy walks through campus that strike fear into my heart. As a knitter, I quite enjoy the winter time, it gives me the opportunity to show off whatever I've been working on all year. Sweaters, hats, scarves, mittens, I love it all. However, the one thing I don't love about winter is the sweaters, hats, scarves and mittens of OTHER people.
It has been cold enough for these articles of knitwear for about 2 weeks now, and so far the parade of chenille hats and fun fur scarves has sickened me to my very core.
I am sick of the sparkely crochet tams, and the winter- themed intarsia caps. I am sick of the goofy cables and over sized bobbles.
Enough.
For serious people.

Holiday knitting into high gear

I am officially kicking my holiday knitting into high gear. I've finished a lot of things today, but there is still more knitting to do. But isn't there always?

Yet to knit, I have to knit items for:

• Zachary (My new, finally born baby brother)
• Erica
• Katelyn
• Josh's Grandma
• Matt
• Daniel

Fortunately, most of those are children and won't take that much to finish them.

Today, I finished a few things; mittens for Nikki, a hat for Brynn, and a mouse for either Matthew or Daniel. I made a grey one, got too attached and had to make another to give away.

FO!!!!

I've been crocheting and knitting up a storm as of late- AND I GOT INVITED TO RAVELRY!


A Panda hat for my friend Kris




A hat for Kat,


Max's hat


Chris' hat

and a gift hat for my friend Nikki!



The vest is still coming along...

And in other news, it's snowing outside my window!!!!!

MITTENS

2x2 ribbing has eaten my soul...

Consider the back to school vest ON!!!
only about 67,890 more inches of 2x2 rib to go!

I finally finished the sweater!

Well, sewing the buttons on anyways. I finished it way back in August, and forgot about it completely until I was looking through my Fitted Knits Book. It's the Short-Sleeved Cardigan from Stefanie Japel, using Cascade 128 in a tweed eggplant. It's a tad bit small, because I did the yarn-overs in the wrong direction, and so the holes at the arm seams aren't as big. Other than that, I like the sweater. The buttons were pretty pricey, but they were bought at a charity thing, and they are gorgeous.









In other news, I made $127 in a week, with more coming from all of the stuff I've been knitting for people at college. Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures of anything. I'm thinking about going around and photographing them, but that would be a lot of work.

I even sold my Newsboy Hat! Someone requested one, So I sewed the brim and sent it off.
I love the color so much I could vomit.

Halloween weekend was rather fun.


At first I was a seven year old,


...but then I remembered the 'slut rule' and became Polly Pocket.

Downtown was completely insane, as haloweens usually are in college towns.

I'm itching for a new sweater, and I have four skeins of cascade 220 in a light blue. Any ideas? I'm contemplating the puffed sleeve cardigan in Fitted Knits, but I am not sure.

peace.

TICKETS SUCK

My weekend as follows:


Josh time.

On the way to see:


I got this:

(the ticket, not the bunny. I finished the bunny. I got a ticket for going 13 over the speed limit. )


Then I wore the sweater out to a movie with Josh. We saw The Darjeeling Limited, because I happen to think that Adrien Brody is the sexiest man ever to walk the earth. The movie was equally amazing.

Then, I came up with a brilliant plan to make the $125 to pay for my ticket.

KNITTING!

If I sell 12 hats at $10 a piece, I'll be able to pay for it! So far, in the past 30 or so hours, I've made 6 hats and three scarves. GOOD THING THE COPS CAN'T PUT SPEEDOMETERS ON MY HANDS!!!!

I've made thirty dollars so far, and have 6 custom orders brewing. We shall see what happens....

Oh and my friend Isaac wouldn't buy this beautiful hat.


idiot.

SWEATER DONE!!!

So I finally got around to weaving in all the ends of the sweater, and blocking it too!


I LOVE IT!!!




I love the square neckline.

As for the pattern, I just made it up as I went along, in the basic top down raglan form. I used lambs pride and US #8's. I may ave used #7's for the sleeves though. The neck, hem and sleeve ends are all in garter stitch. I attempted some short rows for the bust, but i think they look a tad bit silly.

For my first attempt at designing a sweater, I think it turned out nicely.
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Grafiti CRAZY!

The other day, we struck KSU again!


Tiffany, sewing her piece to a pole outside the art building.

We've taken to sewing dismembered babies to the pieces, so people can wonder if we're trying to make a political statement or not.









In other news, I finished a few more holiday gifts.


A crochet ripple stitch scarf for a friend,


and a hat for my boyfriend!!!
(modeled by Dan)



I'm almost done wit holiday knitting- it's exciting!

Jess Hutch Bunny!

I finished this little bunny today. I used #7's and lambs pride. It didn't take much, i just used leftovers from the dreaded sweater. (I can't bring myself to weave all the ends in..... motivate me? Ha, yeah right.)






chilling with all of the other knit/crochet/fleece creations in my room. Hannah made the adorable pink pillow guy.

I should be studying..

...and I was about 40 seconds ago. I just need a little break.

A few days ago was the Habitat for Humanity Sleep Out, to maximize homeless awareness.


A few of my friends and I spent about two hours building the perfect house of boxes. It could have easily slept 5 people.


It was amazing.

But then at 3am, while I was sleeping two drunk guys ran through our house, trampling it into the ground.


Mostly, I was disoriented due to being woken up, but Tiffany was angry and ran after the guys. I gathered up all of my blankets and went back to my dorm. I felt sort of guilty abandoning the fort like that, but I couldn't take it. I know the exercise was to get a feel for homeless life, so going back to my bed seemed wrong, because obviously homeless people can't do the same. But seriously, who the hell is drunk? It was a Tuesday night! Fuck college.

Last weekend, a yarn store near my house was having a closing sale. All yarn was 40 percent off, and magazines were only a dollar. Normally, I avoided shopping there because they mostly carried fancy stuff that was usually about 50 dollars or more a skein. A lot of times they had cascade 220 for 5 dollars. I don't know where I will get my cascade fix from now on.

In fact, when I got there, only two colors of cascade were in stock. Thankfully, they went together nicely, and I'm currently using it for a pair of socks for my dad. I also bought 2 skeins of that nice ruffle yarn that I've been dying to use for a while now. On top of that, I bought a skein of veregated Plymouth Encore Worsted, and a few issues of Knit1, Knitscene and Interweave Knits. I'm pretty sure I have every issue of Knit1 ever now.

Also, I finished another Knitty Forecast, using some kind of bulky wool from my stash.

it came out rather small, so I might give it to a cousin of mine whose six. Yes, it's that small.

Blah Blah Blah...
MUST STUDY!

Hannukah socks done!

The gift socks are done, with yarn to spare.
*huge sigh of relief*



I used a few patterns, mainly one from that book thats obnoxiously shaped like a sock.
Lambs Pride is rather nice, the mohair is a nice touch.



More to come!