An overdue post

This post is long overdue. I've all but finished the Tree Jacket that I've been knitting for my sister. All that I need to do is weave in the ends and block it. I have until Christmas to do it, so it might actually take a while to get it done. But that's alright, as long as it's done in time for me to give it as a gift, that's all that really matters.

I've got a few projects that I'm getting ready to start, including a set of half-fingered gloves out of malabrigo lace. I haven't gauged them or anything like that, and thus haven't cast on yet.

Also, I knit a Kiwi Hat, a la Peter (yarndude), it was really fun and easy hat to knit, I enjoyed it a lot. Ooh look! A picture!

New project!

So I cast on a new project today (I know, I have finished so many projects that I've cast on), but I figured that I needed to get started on this if I was going to finish by Christmas (especially at the rate that I've been knitting). I finally started the Icarus shawl for my mom using the Alpaca with a Twist yarn that was originally from the Seascape stole that I ripped. It's going alright, i'm sad that it loks so awful at this stage, like wet ramen...

Tipsy, Excited, ZephyrGals are awesome...

Alright, so I pretty much just flipped my shit at getting mentioned in the ZephyrGals blog, like, really, freaked out a little bit.

A suprise came in the mail!

Oh look, it's a box! How interesting...




Look, who it is from... Yarn, that's interesting...


The anticipation is killing me!


Oh look!


And what's this? A spindle?


Look how pretty! Sheeps!


Instructions, they look classy.



It's the pre-pre-drafted test yarn I spun.


Look at how pretty it is.


Here is the first that I spun


It's not very pretty.


I think that I'm really gonna have to have someone show me how to do this better. Watching videos and reading about it isn't helping very much, i'm still a little unsure how to control the twist, though I suppose I will have to practice more.

Project in less than 24 hours...

So I completed the boy hat today, I cast on this project yesterday, and it was nice to cast on and cast off in a day, makes me feel better about some of my longer projects.

Not much more to this post, but here are some pictures.

Rubbing elbows with the Knitting Stars

So, guess who should show up tonight to Twisted Knit Knite? Why, it would be the ZeyphrGals who designed my tree jacket. I about peed my pants when they showed up. Not only did they come to knit knite, they came out for drinks afterward. I talked to Rachel for a long time about knitting and designing patterns, and she has put the idea in my head that I should start designing things for men, maybe I can convince them to collaborate on designs with me, that would rock ass.

I cast on the boy hat today, and am almost half way done, I should finish it tomorrow.

It was a good day for knitting.

Sleeves, Hats, Gloved Dreams

I am probably 3" away from being done with the second sleeve of the sweater, but I am waiting for my sister to get back to me with her preferred sleeve length, which is taking a while because she has a baby. So, until then, I pulled out my longer needles and re-threaded them to work on the body. The only sad part is that the sleeves went so fast (I knit the second one in about a day) that the body seems to be going so slow. I just need to get back into it.

I am itching to cast on a new, shorter project, as many of the ones I am working on right now are bigger. I want to knit the boy hat out of the Velvet Grapes Malabrigo that I bought at Twisted last week (how can anyone resist this yarn?). I think the patter is interesting enough to be fun to knit, but simple enough to show off the yarn. It'll be nice.

Also, i have this dream of making fingerless gloves out of the Malabrigo lace weight yarn, which means, with my gauge I'd be knitting on double zeros, which I've never done before, but I think the result would be amazing. So tell me, am I mad?