Green Fingerless Gloves

Please excuse my lack of posts. I have been packing up my life and transporting it back to New York again. Now my life is here again, but with less stuff. And less free time. However, lots of time to knit. Hopefully I will have something fancy to show off by the end of the week or so.


However, I DO have something fancy to show off right now! Maddie made me these supacute fingerless gloves which are going to look fabulous with my fall jacket. You know, a little pop of color to a grey jacket.

Photos like this = my stamp of approval.

P.S. The new John Quincy Adams dollar coins look like play money. I want my Sacajewea dollars back. Sacajewea is infinitely more badass than John Quincy Adams. However, I like Metrocards better than both of these things. So I use them for more of those when the machine gives me too much change in coins.

The Knitting Fairy Visited Me!

... in the form of this hat from Madeline! I loves it. Excuse the cracked-outedness of me-- I just got back from work and have a zillion things to do before I collapse for the night. As for my own knitting... it's kind of been sitting all lonely in its basket since I started work. It's hard to knit on the train without poking anyone. I'm going to have to acquire some shorter needles or something. Also, I have been reading a lot of books, so that's also been cutting into my knitting time. I'm going to try to get to Michaels this weekend to see if I can pick up some more fun stuff.

(Halp! I can't see!) There were also some short gray kitty hairs on the hat. That made me smile. Madeline completely made my day today. I shall have to get my butt in gear and send out some cool stuff soonish.

HAT!

I got something special in the mail yesterday ...



It's by far the nicest thing I've gotten in the mail in a long time ... maybe ever! Wait, scratch that. When I was seven my grandparents sent me an American Girl doll bedroom set with a bed and a nightstand and shit for Christmas. That was a pretty bitching present. But this hat is ALMOST as good, which is saying a lot. THANK YOU ALEXIS!!! I'm sorry I won't be sending you anything soon ... I think I shall give the hat to someone without a wool allergy ... and make you something fuzzy and wonderful out of cotton or acrylic or some shit.

Past Knitting Projects.

According to my calculations, I have been "knitting" approximately eleven years. Of course, that's bullshit. I learned the basic knit stitch when I was eight and knit two small squares of garter stitch at that time. Ten years later, I started knitting for reals. I have done a lot of projects since then ... sometimes churning out as many as three new thingies a week. You might have thought that those special productive times coincided with vacations and such, but surprisingly enough it is not so. I tend to be very productive at knitting when I am VERY busy with other crap. That's because ... well, I'm not sure why. You could become a psychologist and figure it out.

But whatever. These have been my favorite knitting projects of this year.

Favorite #1: Green Zig-Zag Hat. Hey, it's my own pattern and shit! I made it from yarn that was left over after I made an afghan. Er, started to make an afghan. It's still not officially "done," yet. That is, my mom still has to crochet it all together. Did I mention that this hat is for sale in mein Etsy shops? Well, it is, and you should buy it, for the good of your soul and such.


Favorite #2: Maine Morning Mitts. I lurve them. They're made from a pattern by Clara Parkes in "The Knitter's Book of Yarn," which is also my favorite knitting book. I have made about three pairs of these, all with lovely Noro changing-colors yarn, which is the best, FYI.



Favorite #3: Felty purses! I knitted the felt. I felted the felt. I cut and assembled the felt. I embroidered the felt. NOW WHO IS GOING TO HELP ME .... EAT THE FELT???


Favorite #4: More arm-warmers ... but I made the pattern myself! And the yarn is super soft ... cashmerino. I've made one and a half pairs of these. I just love them. I used the thumb trick for the first time in making them, and while I ... kind of botched it the first, second, and third times, I think I can do it pretty good now! Well. Pretty well.


And, hey, what is this - a picture of me making my first knitting project with my grandma back in nineteen-ninety-a-million-years-ago? Sorry - I know I've posted this on my old blog and on Facebook and such, so you've probably seen it ... unless you don't know me ... which I guess is possible ... but I can't help it. I mean, who else has photographic evidence of their first ever time knitting? Not everybody, you know. NOT EVERYBODY.


... not everybody.