Project Updates: Tiny Green Cthulhu & Others
Cthulhu is almost finished (thank god!!) but I've lost count somewhere on making the body, so he's looking a little funny. I had already ripped it once and redid it. My hubby said not to worry about it and just finish it up from there since it's not that badly flawed. I'll just wait for pictures until I've got the rest of the actual body done, then I've still got arms, legs and wings to do and he'll be completely finished. Yay!
I've also found a pattern in one of my new books (I've got to add them to my shelfari shelf now) for tube socks, which does not require trying to knit a heel, so I'm in the process of making a sock on DPNs (doublepoint needles). I'm getting better at handling the spikey hedgehog of doom and ubberpain DPNs, and have managed to get about three or four inches of the sock thus far. ^_^ I'm happy about even getting that much on it and it looking sockish. They're just ankle socks, but at least I'm making them. I don't know that once I finish I'll make the other one, as I'm working with a rather course acrilic yarn to make the one I'm working on right now, as I mostly wanted to just try out the pattern. I like the look of the heavier weight, though. I'm using worsted weight (4) rather than fingering, since it's what I had in my stash.
I'll probably pick up some cotton/acrilic yarn next time I go to Hobby Lobby in order to make a pair to actually wear.
It's also giving me an idea about how to better make wrist warmers and/or fingerless gloves. The main problem I'm having in trying to figure out how to knit those is the thumb and fingers (for the ones that actually have partial fingers). Plus all of my yarn that I have enough to attempt to make them is too heavy. I'm going to have to get several skiens of sports or fingering weight first. I could crochet some, I guess, with worsted, but it'll be lacy rather than solid. *shrug*
And on a random side note, I need bento boxes!!! *sigh*
And OMG!!! This one is so cool!
http://www.3-athlon.com/product.php?productid=224
It lets you attach your bento to your bicycle! That is just too awesome. ^_^ But I need to find regular ones as well. Trying to find one for Darian is going to be interesting in itself, but here's a couple I've found that I know he'd like:
http://static.flickr.com/64/166820975_b6246aa0e9.jpg
http://static.flickr.com/21/166820979_f064798919.jpg
http://static.flickr.com/50/166838664_246630d5a0.jpg
Edit: Edited to make links clickable... LJ needs to learn to parse links... *sigh*
I've also found a pattern in one of my new books (I've got to add them to my shelfari shelf now) for tube socks, which does not require trying to knit a heel, so I'm in the process of making a sock on DPNs (doublepoint needles). I'm getting better at handling the spikey hedgehog of doom and ubberpain DPNs, and have managed to get about three or four inches of the sock thus far. ^_^ I'm happy about even getting that much on it and it looking sockish. They're just ankle socks, but at least I'm making them. I don't know that once I finish I'll make the other one, as I'm working with a rather course acrilic yarn to make the one I'm working on right now, as I mostly wanted to just try out the pattern. I like the look of the heavier weight, though. I'm using worsted weight (4) rather than fingering, since it's what I had in my stash.
I'll probably pick up some cotton/acrilic yarn next time I go to Hobby Lobby in order to make a pair to actually wear.
It's also giving me an idea about how to better make wrist warmers and/or fingerless gloves. The main problem I'm having in trying to figure out how to knit those is the thumb and fingers (for the ones that actually have partial fingers). Plus all of my yarn that I have enough to attempt to make them is too heavy. I'm going to have to get several skiens of sports or fingering weight first. I could crochet some, I guess, with worsted, but it'll be lacy rather than solid. *shrug*
And on a random side note, I need bento boxes!!! *sigh*
And OMG!!! This one is so cool!
http://www.3-athlon.com/product.php?productid=224
It lets you attach your bento to your bicycle! That is just too awesome. ^_^ But I need to find regular ones as well. Trying to find one for Darian is going to be interesting in itself, but here's a couple I've found that I know he'd like:
http://static.flickr.com/64/166820975_b6246aa0e9.jpg
http://static.flickr.com/21/166820979_f064798919.jpg
http://static.flickr.com/50/166838664_246630d5a0.jpg
Edit: Edited to make links clickable... LJ needs to learn to parse links... *sigh*