So, I've been meaning to post about some projects I've been working on for awhile now. Here's my one big problem~getting pictures of them. I'm not too keen(at all!)on the whole self portrait thing and I'm never happy with how any of the shots turn out. I need to get over this. I'm working on it. So moving on...I've been doing a bit of knitting these past few weeks and have been quite happy with the results. Above is a hat that I made for myself out of yarn from Twinkle Handknits. It's the soft chunky and it's just that. Soft, super chunky and toasty warm. I also made a sort of cowl or neck warmer out of the same stuff in a different color and love it. In fact, both of these items came from a scarf I had made some time ago and didn't love. After much deliberation and time spent hanging on a hook and not around my neck, it was torn apart and reknit. I'm so happy that it was.
I taught myself how to knit years ago and although I have quite a few years under my belt, I've never learned how to read a pattern. To be perfectly honest, I'm not very good at following patterns anyway. I'm more of a wing it kind of girl. Which unfortunately makes posting projects difficult. I can give you the end result but the getting there is more difficult to explain. This too, I will work on. I promise.
I've also been doing quite a bit of french knitting. Quite alot actually. I'm a little addicted, really. A french knitter is that orange tool in the pictures both above and below. I remember doing this as a child. But I remember them being bigger and using fingers instead of a needle or hook but very much the same. This has been a great craft for chillin' out in front of the tv with at night. And an added bonus~it keeps my hands busy so I can't eat! Perfect.
I've been using alot of leftover yarns in beautiful, bright colors that I adore and making knit necklaces. I'm really excited about these. So excited, in fact, that they may just be the first of my handmades to go into my soon-to-come etsy shop(I'm thinking in a couple of weeks, fingers crossed~yikes!).
I was skeptical about taking apart that scarf, but you sacrificed it for the greater good, I think! That hat is fantastic (let's see pics of the cowl too!). And the necklaces? Total stunners. Really, like a sculptor sees the shape the block of marble wants to take, so you see the knitted goods the yarn wants to become. Such intuition. Anyway, I do hope you add these to your shop--they're sure to be featured in many an etsy treasury. Oh, and I remember those knitting spools too--mine was a powdery blue!
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