Can I Stop Knitting Hats Now???

I've been knitting a lot of the same hat lately. I finally counted and I have knit 11 of this pattern!
This where you can find the pattern. Free Pattern: Slouched Tuva Hat



This one I made out  MeiMei Bamboo yarn in this lovely blue color and that was for a swap on Craftster.org

Then....


I made all of these for another swap on Craftster. I have all the yarn info on my Raverly page is your interested to know what I used. Only 5 hats but probably over 10 yarns because I put a lot of them together to make the hats more interesting.

One thing I love to do is a simple pattern with an amazing yarn. I think that some yarns stand so well on there own that if you put them with a crazy pattern it will all be muddled and you'll loose the yarn and the pattern.

And then...Another hat but I different pattern this time!



I loved everything about this hat! The patter the colors everything but I made it for another swap lol. So I think I need to get more of this yarn and make one for myself because I luvre it. The yarn is Knit Picks Chroma Worsted in Lollipop. It took more than one skein of it to make this hat but I also made 3 pompoms because I didn't like how one of them turned out. The pattern is I ❤ pompoms. I found it on Ravelry but I'm not sure if the designer has it anywhere else. I wasn't able to find any links to a site or blog. But you can find it here I ❤ pompoms

 

Lastly I have made something other than hats I made one sock. lol It went pretty fast for me. Usually it takes me a year to knit socks but probably because I don't knit on them enough and then wait months until starting the second one. So hopefully these will not be my socks of 2012. 

 

le Sock and 2 pugs

 

The yarn is Shibui Knits Sock in Spectrum. I've had this yarn in my stash for a long time because I loved it and was waiting to use it until I was better at knitting. The pattern is the ever so popular Jaywalker by Grumperina. You can find this pattern and more by her here. http://www.grumperina.com/knitblog/   

 

Hey if you like comics here is a rage comic that I made featuring my pug Lulu. 

 

 

Lulu is the cutest pug in the would this Link will prove it. 

That is all for now might go to bed or I might knit more hats???

Happy Hunger Games

Untitled, a photo by JenBrown1983 on Flickr.

I also am working on a costume for The Hunger Games movie. Were going to the midnight show. I painted these shoes to wear with my costume.

Back Knitting A Lot Again

I know its been awhile since I've wrote to you blog. I am so happy that you are still here when I am ready to talk again!

For awhile I hadn't been knitting that much because of school and lack of money. But my life has really settled down over the last year. I've moved and have a new steady job. Which also means steady pay checks to spend on yarn.

I have been knitting a lot lately for Christmas I knit 7 or 8 hats for my friends and family but I didn't take pictures of them.

After Christmas I've still been knitting hats. This one I made for my sister and let her pick out the yarn because she didn't seem to like the one I knit her for Christmas

This hat was made out of Berroco Vintage DK and Lucci Yarn Sequins. The Berroco was great the Sequins not so much. It is full size regular sharp sequins. Not so Fun to knit with.

This pattern is the Slouched Tuva Hat. I really Like this pattern. I like it so much I have made a total of 6 of these hats 2 for myself and the rest for friends. I'm not going to post pictures of all of them because most of them are on my Raverly page. But this is one I made for myself and I love it.

  

I love this hat. I made it in my favorite colors
purple and green. 

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Getting ready for winter!

So I have been knitting but its seems like I haven't finished that much.
I'm still working on the never ending pink socks. I finished the first one a long time ago but I have a good amount of second one done. I want to get this done for winter because they are so dense the I think I'll be able to still wear my favorite shoes even in the snow with these socks. So we will see. I don't have a pic of the second sock but I have so many of the first one and they look just the same so I don't think I need any in progress shots of it. But I will have many whenever I get them finished!

I have also knit a new hat for myself this winter. Its from the movie the golden compass and its based on one of the hats that Lyra in the movie wears. This pic isn't very good its pretty yellow. I will take some new pics later for it.

I really love this hat and for most people it would have probably to many colors but for me its great. I love things that are multicolored that is why I used this yarn for the hat.

This hat had a long starting process. I started working on it before I even moved but I didn't like it. The hat is supposed to be knit with really big yarn so you can see the stitches and I did have they yarn all together so it would be at that point but I have learned that I do not like to knit with really big yarn. I have learn that from this project and the bathmat project I have been working on. So I scrapped that and unwound all the yarn from each other and balled it all up again separately 4 different strands. So then I just put 2 together and knit it in a smaller gauge.

For this hat I used Gedifra Fashion Trend Fino Stripe yarn in colorway 4666. I also used Knit Picks Swish DK in the storm color to add a whole color threw the hat. I turned out well because the blue worked well with all the other colors in the multi yarn.

I have also started a scarf. I want to have a new scarf when it get colder here so I started the

Shifting Sands Scarf by Grumperina and I am using Malabrigo Yarn in the worsted weight. The color is burgandy but just saying burgandy doesn't describe it very well. It is a deep rich red color. It is lovey, soft, and shiny like all Malabrigo is. So when this scarf is actually big enough to see I'll take some pics of that.


That is what I have been up to on the knitting front. I have been so busy with my photography class this semester that is really all I have been doing. On the plus side of that I enter an art show that we had on campus over parents weekend and my photography I put in won first place. Here is a picture of it with its lovey ribbon.

It is a photo of a pair of high heels set on fire. For my class we had to take pictures of things that are cliches but in a new way. So I gathered up a whole bunch of stuff and set it on fire. This idea turned out really well and I really love a lot of the pictures that I took for it and by the looks of it other people did it.


One last knitting note. Now that I have moved I have my own little place to keep my yarn stash that I feel is rather cute. Here is a photo of it when it was nice and orderly. It does not look like that now but oh well.

The shelf that it is in I painted myself about a year ago and when I moved it found a new home. Also I think it is a good use for my weird hallway in this apartment.

Lack of blogging

I haven't blogged for a long time. I've been really busy lately. I've moved and had a job for the last bit of the summer and now school is starting tomorrow so I have had to do all the things that go with that. I've been knitting but it doesn't seem like I have finished anything lately.
So maybe if I can get the knitting group back together on campus I will get somethings done.

Here is a pic of one thing I have finished and is
not up here. I made this really fast for a
co-worker of my mom who is having a baby.
I don't really know the lady but I haven't had a chance to knit something for a baby so I jumped on it. They knit up really fast so that was nice. It probably took longer to weave in all the ends than to knit them up.


Thats all for now.

Don't Knit and drink...Or don't drink and leave your sharp DPN's on the floor..

Last night I had a knitting and cocktail accident. It wasn’t oh I knit all these stitches wrong kinda accident though..

We were having some very strong cosmos last night and I was working on a sock while we talked, drank, and watched a movie. As the evening progressed I stopped knitting because I did not want to mess up my sock so it ended up on the floor on top of my purse. So later in the evening I was getting up to pet the dog and I musted have stepped down wrong and ended up with a sharp metal knitpicks DPN in the side of my foot threw my blue jeans. I think it went in somewhere between and half to an inch into my foot but I could be wrong everything was kinda fuzzy.

So I pulled it out and checked the wound and it bled a bit but not to bad. But it hurts today so we’ll see how it goes. Luckily I am up to date on my tetanus shots.

The Internet

The internet is like one big yarn store that is open 24 hours a day and is always taunting me and pulling me to it.

Even my paypal is against me. Yes my lovely paypal we have been friends for several years now making very carefully selected purchases. Never to much and never to frequent but now my paypal has gone an added a new feature to auto fill any website that asks you for your shipping and billing information.....So with just a click click click it is done and not just to those stores that are friends with paypal too but with any store my paypal will now work securely with. (I think my friend paypal getting around town quite a bit these days)

What is a poor yarn addict to do? I cannot buy every yarn that strikes my fancy. Especially since I want to buy a sweaters worth of yarn. I don't even know how much yarn is a sweaters worth for me because I have never made a sweater!! I am quite ridiculous I know but I cannot help it.
Does anyone know if there is a 12 step meeting I can go to for yarn addicts?