I have finally completed a project for my own use. After 6 months of knitting, I realized that I have nothing of my own to show for it. Thus, I knit these:
They were knit with the bright and colourful Gjestal Naturgarn and are currently residing on my cold feet. Yes, it is June, but my feet are cold as I am fighting off some sort of head/stuffy nose/sore throat thing. Sacha gave it to me. Damn kids.
NOTE: A boring post about knitting!!
I knit this up a couple of weeks ago, but I didn’t want to post the pictures until the hat was received by its new owner. Sacha is, once again, my willing and cute model for your appreciative purposes. The pattern is from Itty Bitty Hats. Believe it or not, finding an appropriate colour of green to use for the olives was no small task. Most greens out there are in the sage-forest spectrum, with very little in the olive-martini area. I finally settled on some Red Heart Cotton Twist, the last skein of its colour in the store, and it did the trick. Now, I have a whole lot of olive coloured yarn left. Must make more hats.
As much as I am addicted to knitting and all things yarn-related, I am even more obsessed with teaching. You can imagine my utmost delight when a friend asked if I could help her learn to knit. OH BOY! Double the fun! Although, she is expecting her first baby in 5 weeks, give or take, so this doesn’t leave a lot of time to really play around with yarn and colours and needles and patterns and fun techniques. It will be knitting: the crash course, version S.A.N (hmm, can you guess what my middle name is?)
Any other interested parties can forward their apps and $$ to Knitting New Interesting Tantalizing Yarn Offerings Unlimited (henceforth known as KNITYOU).
In an effort to support my addiction, Tony has said very little about my yarn and needle purchases. In fact, he almost looks interested when I talk about how much I love working a heel (don’t judge me). But the true measure of his love shone last night.
Mr Dash had spent much of Sunday playing with a hank of bright orange yarn while we were away for the day. I returned home to a massive mess of yarn, which was supposed to be for Tony’s woolies. I worked on detangling it for 2 hours yesterday, and had to cut the yarn twice. I gave up and threw it on the floor and went to read a book. Tony spent over an hour and a half sitting on the kitchen floor detangling, and managed to wind it into a nice little ball for me, placing it in the cupboard with our plates so that Dash could NOT work his evil ways with it. And Tony shall be henceforth known as The Detangler. I’m sure the Backyardigans could have an excellent backyard adventure about this.
PS – I just realized that the proper word is untangle, but I think The Detangler is a better superhero name.
Success! My first pair of adult slipper-socks! They are to be felted, and although I did run it through the washer once, they did not felt as much as I wanted for two reasons:
1. Our hot water tank is set to “piss-warm”, but I really should set it to “my skull is on fire” hot.
2. Our washer is a front loader, meaning not a lot of water (normally a good thing) and not as much agitation to felt.
Other than that, I am very happy with the results.
I am making a chart of my friends’ and family members’ shoe sizes for future reference. Feel free to send me sock yarn at any time and I will gladly transform it into a magical wonder of feety comfort.
I did it! I made a sock! A small sock, but a functional sock, nonetheless! It is the class sock from Sensational Knitted Socks, knit in the ever-fabulous soy-wool left over from Baby Seasen’s hat. And to boot (pardon the pun), it fits Sacha! Too bad it’s almost summer 
I finished this hat for Baby Steeves last week, but I didn’t want to post any pictures of it, lest the baby’s mama stumble on my blog and see it. The pattern was easy-peasy, although working the top part of the hat in the round with only 8 stitches for 10 rows or so made for a very annoying Monday night. But, it finished up well AND it’s made of the lovely superwash wool from Knitpicks. I even tested its superwash properties in my front loader and it came out just lovely.
Comments I have received about the hat:
“Are you raising a hippie child?” – Paul
“It looks like a circus tent!” – Marlene
“So precious! That is a keepsake for sure!” – Random old lady
Now, I may FINALLY begin to learn the fine art of socks. ALthough, truth be told, I am rather nervous and delaying starting them because it is something new and I am sure that I will be ripping them out numerous times before I am done. And ripping out my work just kills a little piece of me each time I have to do it.
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