Camera-less

I haven't blogged in a while because I don't have a camera. A knitting blog without pictures is really, really boring. So until I get a new camera or whatever, this post will make it so my blog isn't completely dormant.

My friend Brittany Ankrom snapped a few pictures of me in my knitwear last week in the studio.


Here is the scrap scarf I finished a while ago. I'm in love with it.


Old news, I made this sweater years ago. I'd say I wear this more than any other sweater I've knit.


A new picture of Annie's sweater, plus the flower I wear in my hair a lot.


This sweater is currently in the works, for my roommate Deanna. I made it up in class and the pattern is really straight forward. When I make another I will surely put the pattern up here.

Take care!

I hope christmas music is over.

I finished the Dad socks.



It is funny how each sock pooled differently. I guess that is the charm of hand-dyed skeins. My Dad really liked them. I have enough yarn leftover to make another small pair.

I used this terrible pattern from Lion Brand. The instructions are off and don't make much sense. The neck would have been way too small for a living child. Because I like my brother a whole lot, I adjusted it by not putting buttons up by the neck.



He just turned 2.



Blurry, but hilarious. I used Plymouth Galway Chunky.



My cousins, Brynn and Nikki are the coolest dressers I know. My aunt Sherry lets them wear whatever they want, as you can tell. They are so rad.



...future hipsters of America, for sure.

This bag will be awesome.

Felted bag update.

One sock down

I finished knitting the first dad sock. We'll say it's the left one. I still need to graft the toe, but I am needle-less.



I can never forget how to START the kitchener stitch. Maybe that would be a good tattoo? I have been thinking about getting a knitting tattoo someday, but I want the meaning of it to apply to knitting and life. Maybe just a row of knitting onto my skin (like little Vs) or maybe garter stitch. Or maybe a tiny sock being unraveled? Who knows. I have time.



Oh, and here is a picture of my crocheted closet curtain.

2 posts in a day? Whaaa?

Well, I got bored with the dad socks.



I am going to work in this in spurts. It is made up of my ity bity leftover yarn balls. I am going to make it super long and dramatic.

Tis the season...

...to knit like crazy for my family.



These socks are for my dad. When the yarn store I worked at went out of business, he was nice enough to put up a lot of money for me to buy a lot of nice yarn for wholesale prices. So, basically I got about 800 dollars worth of cashmere, silk, mohair and other glorious fibers you can't find at Joann.

As a result, he and my stepmother are getting super super fancy knitted gifts.

Sometimes, people ask me where I buy my yarn. Nowadays, I tell them I am set until the apocalypse. I am only half kidding. I'm sure you knitters know, that sometimes you just "have" yarn. Yarn that you certainly did not buy, yarn that just kind of appeared in your house one day.

Craft Show

This weekend, my friend Jamie and I set up a booth at a local craft show.





The craft show ran next to some free christmas tree festival that drew a lot of people. Unfortunately, the $2 admission fee kept many people away.

Not many people were making money, and a lot of people left. The people next to us left early so we expanded our booth on the last day.



I basically made enough money to eat, drive and have a booth.



It wasn't all bad, Jamie and I both got a lot of knitting done.

I traded hats for some really cool stuff made by other local artists.



The women who made these were super cool, they even invited Jamie and I to come over to their studio to learn how to make them!



I am pretty much in love with my new light switch plate. All the stuff this guy makes is awesome. If I had a buncha money I'd buy a mirror or two, it reminds me of dripping metal. Defitintly worth checking out.



My mom and both of my grandmothers showed up, which was cool. I was lucky enough to snap a picture of me and Adele Berry. As you can see, she is wearing a scarf I once made her.

All in all, I think I will do another craft show as long as I can guarantee a young, hip crowd. My target market is really composed of people like my friends and I. (Although my friends don't really count, they usually get this stuff for free.) I met really cool local artists and got to make fun of a lot of corny country art. So even though I did not make very much money at all, it is worth another try. This time, however, I will try to ensure that each piece is really special.

In other news, I am going to rearrange my life. It starts with conquering this: