Okay so I haven't updated like I've been meaning to. Life has been absolutely nutters around here. It's like I'm in a race with myself to learn everything I can. BUT...I do have photos of some recent works. Not many, but I'm going to try to update this with those photos tonight! Since we're supposedly getting "bad" weather down here tonight, there ( Read more... )

I'm about to work the heel of my first ever sock, I'm so excited!!! I have a picture of it in progress, but I'm at work so I can't put it up. I'll try to remember to put it up later.

Now if I could just use the dpns for the bookscarves! I wanted to do laceweight and the book said you could use embroidery thread, so I got that. I've tried to get the ( Read more... )

My attempt at crocheting beanies. I don't know what you call them really, but I tried! I was proud considering that I had no idea how to make a hat, and I didn't have a pattern. (I'm going to try knitting some hats from the charmed knits book as soon as I finish those socks and bookscarves. The bookscarves are a nightmare...I decided to use ( Read more... )

Somewhere in this office there is an evil evil pen stealer. I bought a nice blue ball point pen for work a few days ago because all my pens are dead or just evil. I've been hiding it in a drawer to keep it safe.

So here I am at my desk, minding my own business, thinking about making socks and bookscarves, and trying to make it look like I'm doing ( Read more... )

So far I'm not doing so good with the dpns. But thanks to some wonderful folks on hp_knitting it's starting to make a lot more sense now. You actually use up to 4 dpns!!! *feels stupid*

I watched a little video on knittinghelp.com that showed me how to do the magic loop, somehow I thought you could do something similar with the double pointed ( Read more... )

This is my first actual post here. I'm excited since I have now figured out what to use this for. KNITTING!!! Or any other things I might do, but in the near future, I think knitting is it ( Read more... )