Knit a Bit of Magic

After watching a funny knitting video last night, I was in the mood to knit this morning. It was high time I picked up the vest I'd set aside before I forgot how to do it. So I knitted for about an hour and a half and got the back section done. Now I have to do the last bit of the front panel and sew it all together at the shoulder seams.

I worked on my knitted vest last night. I'm finally on the first shoulder strap. I can't wait to get enough along to try it on. I sure hope I made it big enough. If not, I'll sell it, but I'd rather wear it.

I've been busy knitting away on a heavy duty vest in many colors. It's so fun to knit in a riot of colors on big needles.  Truly loving it. I'm about to the point where I can add the arm holes. The back and sides are knit all as one unit.And I already bought some white and off white yarn to make another one. But I'm going to cut back to 3 yarns held together instead of 4, because I don't need 2 heavy vests.

I've been thinking I should just go get the right size circular needles for the tammy and start over because it's too much work to make a hat just for practice. That, and one of the cables on the cheapo needles I had broke yesterday. I just hope Joann's has the right size today. I may switch the yarn as well. I don't like how the Caron yarn keeps coming un-plied. I think I will switch to Woolease instead and it's on sale today 2 for $5.00 and I already have 4 skeins of it. This hat takes 8 colors, and I only have 3, so I'll need to pick 5 more colors. There goes the ole budget. Yarn is never wasted

Every knitter wants to be a better knitter. I'm no exception so I just bought a book on Fair Isle Knitting. To get my feet wet I'm making the smallest item in it, which is a tam. So I cast on 140 stitches, and did the first row and a half, then realized I'd done it wrong, and ripped the whole thing out. I'd never heard of corrugated ribbing before, so I found it in the index, and realized I'd done it wrong and started over. And thought I bought 5 colors, I see now I didn't buy enough. So I'll go as far as I can with the colors I have, and pick up a few more colors next time my craft budget allows

This project intriques me: http://www.shellykang.com/all-about-the-blankie. I might have to give it a try and use up some of this yarn before it strangles me in my sleep. I'm not sure I have all that much sock weight yarn sitting around though, and if I did, wouldn't I be knitting socks out of it? And speaking of socks, I just about a booklet called Paton's Stretch Socks Sweet to Your Feet, but the yarn is so expensive I haven't bought it yet. I don't really need a $16 pair of socks, that I have to make myself. But if I am judicious with my 40% off coupons from Joann's I might get some of the yarn

The people at AllFreeKnitting.com have offered to sponsor my knitting videos, so now I hope to be making two videos a week. I'm so excited. They've already approved my list of projects. They want a few technique tutorials first though. So if you are just learning how to knit I hope you'll follow my blog because I'll be embedding those tutorials here too for my readers. It's a win win situation. I drive traffic to their site and they drive traffic to mine. They pay me a small bit to do that, so it helps me to keep going as an artist. Youtube is wonderful in that way. And because someone is actually

I'm making a bunch of hats and baby cocoons and other photo props for my daughter's new photo studio. It's right in downtown San Luis Obispo, CA. We are all so excited for her! And she is also expecting, so she'll get to try out all the props on her son.I'm making a striped long tailed pirate hat for babies right now in black and white. I've always loved black and white together. I don't know why I don't do more things in black and white. I used to be a mime...you'd think I'd have tons of black and white items.

I'm working on a pair of blood red, almost brown vampire mitts (fingerless gloves). I started off with casting on 48 and then doing 2x2 ribbing for 15 rows. Then I switched to stockinette stitch. The needles are size 7. If the pattern comes out I'll list it for sale in my Etsy shop.

Gee I wonder why my yarn bag is on the floor. Gee I wonder where my cat is.

Since I'm on a quest to finish lost projects, I thought it was high time I finished my yellow confetti sweater. So I got it out of the bucket and it's sitting here as I stitch it up. I've done the shoulder seams so far. I still have to set in the sleeves, sew the side seams and weave in all the ends. I'm trying to figure out if I have anything else I can wear with it. I want to put together an outfit for the Fatshionista Flickr pool I'm in. That site has put the fun back into planning my...

I love knitting long skinny scarves. I found this one I'd already finished so I listed it on Etsy. I have some big bags of projects I just dragged out to the patio to sort. In one there are 2 tychus hats that need to be finished, and a pumpkin hat and a gob of other things. So I better get back out there and make some progress before it gets dark.

Yesterday I started making a ponchini/capelet thing out of Homespun yarn that I got off the free table at the All Things String knitting event at El Dorado Park. I knitted like a mad woman until 2 AM and finally had to call it a night. I think I can finish it in two more rows, only now I'm thinking a black border would look nice and I don't know where any black yarn is off the top of my head. So do I finish it right away, thus assuring it gets done and doesn't fall into the project black hole, or do I shelve it until I can find some black yarn in this mess I call home?

Renata hosted a great bash. You can reach All Things String at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AllThingsString/

Right now I'm knitting a rectangular panel with a rocking horse on it. I'm not sure what it's going to be but I was in the mood to knit something from a chart. In fact last night I knitted so much my hands were too sore to knit today at all, so I made earrings instead. The important thing is that I made something, right? Maybe I can knit again tomorrow. I wish it wasn't midnight. I still have lots of things I want to do.