Finally, an FO post!

Now that it has been gifted, I can blog one of the baby gifts I've been working on. This one I had to make twice, because as you can see...




The first one was way too open and mesh like. I loved the size of him, but not the openness. I found a pattern for this little guy over at BearBuns Studio. The Husband has claimed the larger one and wants a WWI Flying Ace costume for it.

There isn't much else to say about the pattern. It's pretty straight forward and even a crochet noob like me could figure it out. If I had more experience, I would have attempted to make the second Snoopy larger like the first. I'm very happy with how it turned out...so, all's well that ends well.

April Wrap Up

Oh my, I know I'm stressed out when I forget to do my yardage tally! Sorry kittens, my life is a stressful mess at the moment. It will clear up in the next couple of months. (Is it crazy of me that I am upset about writing April's wrap up post on the first day of May?)

Anywho.

Yardage Totals 2010

January: 1884 yds
February: 2850 yds
March: 2893 yds
April: 777 yds

Year to date: 8404 yds or 4.78 miles

Less then half a mile this month: ouch. Oh well, it's not terrible--I am still averaging over a mile per month knit--and I'm hoping to have an upswing in May. I spent the last couple days identifying factors that were messing with my mojo and ruthlessly eliminating them. We'll see what happens. (And I should hopefully soon have some pictures, as items I've been working on are getting ready to be gifted and then I can post about them!)

It's Wednesday again....

Seriously?

I'm starting to think that WIP It Wednesday may have to be put on hold until after the move...unless someone can locate my lost mojo.

FO Teaser

Because I felt bad about not posting pictures in the last two weeks. There are full pictures on my Ravelry project page.

Hard to WIP...

when I'm not really knitting. Sorry, kittens. A knitting slump, I haz it.

WIP it

And once again, Wednesday sneaked up on me. Where is the time going? No pictures tonight; there really wasn't any notable progress that would be interesting to look at. I did make another 3/4"-ish headway on the ugly socks after three weeks of no work on them. And I'm working on the front panel of my sweater: miles of stockinette. I have a mystery project on hook that I'm debating if it will be gifted or not. As written, it's a bit wonky for me, but that likely is my fault, as I'm not much of a crocheter yet. I may alert my friend to the pattern instead and call it a day.

I'll try to do a post with pictures in the coming few days!

WIP it Wednesday

Holy smokes, kittens! April is flying by. It seems like I just did my last Wednesday post, and here it is, time to WIP it again. There's only one project that I've worked on in the last week, same one as last time: Silk Cocoon Cardigan.



I have to admit that I have not been that into knitting this last week. I am working at a much slower pace and have been spending my spare time playing Nintendo DS games or dinking around on an avatar forum I enjoy. I'm quickly boring of those and suspect that I'll be back on knitting soon.

Despite my slow down, I'm enjoying this knit and can not wait to see it finished. Connie's patterns never fail to yield a fantastic, wearable FO. I have already been imagining outfits I can make with this one. The only thing is that her patterns tend to be involved and have many things going on at once. One really needs to read ahead and keep alert, or she'll miss a direction. So far, I'm chugging along just fine and no mistakes that I'm aware of.





The only thing I want to complain about is this. Why do knitwear designers always insist on doing twisted rib with (P1,K1) on the wrong side? As can be seen in my photo--I hope, anyway--this results in a wonky, funny looking ribbing. I can never get consistent stitches that way. After a few rows, I decided to do twisted rib the way I prefer, with (Ptbl,K1) on the wrong side, giving a much cleaner ribbing. Does anyone else have these issues with twisted rib, or is it just me?