fuN TimEs..

All finished!!!.. well kind of finished.. I finished knitting them last night and started weaving in the ends.. usually I weave in ends once there are 4 ends dangling but since these are knit in the round I would have had to keep turning them inside out.. so I opted to wait and do the weaving after they were all finished... it looks worse than it is.. hehehe... anyway I'm really happy with how they turned out. I used a cotton/linen sport yarn instead of wool... and they are really soft. I'm not sure if they will stretch out terribly after a while .. I keep trying them on and there doesn't seem to be a problem atm.. (^_^)

composed mitts..

My progress on the composed mitts as of this morning... I'm running off to work and had a minute to share.. (^_^)

From this..















To this....the carpet is also new.. there used to be a yellow-ish shag carpet there.. the drapes are a gold taffeta with a cross hatch sheer.. the sheers have a scalloped edging with satin embroidery. The curtain rod matches the tie backs.. new furniture will be arriving next week..so there will be more pictures...





























My composed mitts are now 50% finished.. that means I have finished one and I have one more to go. I have already casted on and started the bobble edging.. woo hoo..!! I love these btw...!!!

so little

Just a little bit of progress.. I've been helping with some decorating... painting ... window treatments etc... Maybe I'll take some pictures.. (^_^)

I had a few days off and was able to finish all my wips.. I then made this fluffy spriped hat with some left over yarn.. I modified the striped hat pattern from the book easy crocheted accessories by Carol Meldrum..It seems I have more left over yarn than new yarn.. time to whip up some beanies or something.. I need to use it all up.. and there is a whole lot of it.














I have wanted to make these mitts the moment I saw them in the fall 2007 issue of Interweave knits.. The pattern is Composed mitts and I'm using a cotton linen blend called queensland collection Cotolino .. instead of wool... I really love it.. I bought it on sale at my LYS but had only bought 5 balls and then realized I needed 6 balls.. the color that was missing was a bright aqua.. which there were 2 giant bags of.. and of course by the time I was able to get back there .. they were all gone.. so the only other color she had that went with what I had was a linen color .. which is the lightest color next to the yellow.. So.. when I started knitting I really didn't know which color to use in place of the aqua.. so this is what I ended up doing.. they looks totally different from what I thought they were going to look like.. but ... I like it..!!. well off to work for me.. (^_^)

yes.. christmas is over..

Yay for finished projects.. the noro stripy scarf is finally finished along with a another boy beanie made from Bernat cashmere... and another Oversized beret made with lion brand wool-ease thick and quick..I really like how the stripy scarf turned out.. I need to find a nice pin or button for the beret for a finishing touch.. all these projects will be mailed up north to relatives that live in much colder areas than I do..






























Now that Christmas is over.. I'm thinking about other stuff besides knitting presents.. working at Michaels craft store has it's perks.. and the stems are 50% off this week so with a little help from the custom floral designer I made these today.. not perfect.. but decent.. (^_^)

can U believe??

Can you believe that I'm still working on the same scarf???.. well at least I'm almost finished.. there is just a little bit left of my second skein of noro kureyon.. the colors are a little washed out in the picture but in RL they are very manly colors .. dark.. rich..grey , black and brown with a little pop of brighter blue.. hopefully this will be finished today..















and... as a side project I'm crocheting another oversized beret in lion brand wool-ease thick and quick.. this pattern is free on the lion brand web site.. I'm up to the brim of the hat with is a total of 3 rows to go.. and hopefully this will be finished today also... So.... that means I get to start 2 new projects.. one will be the composed mitts from interweave knits mag. fall 2007... and the knit cardi wrap pattern from stitch diva.. I have always wanted to make this and I think it's something that I will actually wear. I just ordered the pattern today and now I have to pick out some yarn.. woohoo!!(^_^)