princess snowball kitteh bed

pattern from stitch n bitch.

i can't promise this bed is going to stay together as 1. im SO effing sick of fun fur i don't care what it looks like, and 2. the SAINTS are playing! (Go Saints!)

ok and seriously, i am never making another one of these, k?

Felicity Hat

This is the hat that will never end. The pattern is a free ravelry download and is knit on 16 inch circular needles. I'm using Bernat Alpaca Natural Blends - a soft chunky yarn in ivory.

It's a super easy, pretty mindless project.

I knit a practice run (seen on the bottom) in about a week, but this second hat is just draaagging along.

I give it about another week before I'm done.

-duffy-

The Miles Diagonal

The Miles Diagonal Scarf

I'm making this scarf for my friend, Gary. I linked the pattern above and I'm using Red Heart Soft Yarn in Heather Grey (2 skeins @ 204 each.) The cast on is 42 stitches but it also gives options for narrower or wider. I didn't think 42 would look as wide as it has turned out to be. If I had to start it over (which I am NOT doing!) I would do it narrower, but I still like this. The only reason I'd do it narrower is so that it wouldn't be so bulky when wrapped around the neck. I was going for something a little more season neutral (fall-winter) but I think at this rate, I've got a pretty solid winter scarf. It's still rather nice though. And the soft texture of the yarn (which my nasty-starbucks-winter-fingers are not felting, thank pete) combined with the diagonal pattern make it look like a nice, dressy scarf. Hoorah!

Pickin' it back up.

So I have finally picked my lace project back up. I'm not attacking things with as much vigor as I was before, but I'm doing the "slow and steady wins the race" thing. One reason that's good is that I am taking the time to enjoy the process and not just rushing to have something new at the end of it.

There's still that one little hiccup, back before I set the project down for a while, where I had dropped a stitch or something, and ended up with a whole. But by my calculations, I've decided that it's no big deal because a) it's my first lace scarf and your first everything is supposed to have some mess ups and b) it's at the bottom, so I don't think it'll be mega obvious.

My goal is to make it a longer scarf. I imagine it being a nice springtime scarf that I can wear out and about in Evansville. Casual, yet classy.

took you long enough.

on monday i finally lit a fire under my butt and lined my bag so that it is functional. because i got ahead of myself and attached the handles before lining it, i decided not to line them. (they were supposed to be lined before attached.) subsequently, they stretch a fair amount when i put it on with things in it, however it allows for it to then be slung across my chest, which i quite prefer in a purse/bag/satchel. alas, all turned out well! i'll also admit that my hand sewing is shoddy but there again... i don't so much care.

ruffles 1, laura 0

here's just a quick update on my just enough ruffles scarf in aqua. i dug bryans nikon out of the closet and had to fiddle with the settings. hopefully when he gets home he's not bothered! i need a lesson or two in photography. this will do for now. pretty darn good if i do say so myself.

as for the scarfy - so far, so good. i've learned how to wrap and turn and am just doing a simple stockinette stitch for like 12 more rows before i start my ruffles. wish me luck!  

where my babies at?

well it only took me months to finish but HERE SHE IS! all pretty in violet and lime this here baby blanket is far from perfect but she is mine all the same. i learned a lot doing this project - how to add a stitch, pick up stitches, add trim, seam, join yarn, check the dye lot, etc...

but tada! done and done.