A few months ago I carded a bunch of batts that are now just sitting on the shelf. I have been slowly learning core spinning and decided to star spinning up all the batts sitting on the shelf and put them to good use. This batt is called Vanilla Icing and is soft wool, tencel, tussah silk and silver angelina. I used crochet cotton thread #10 as the core and added bits of chenille yarn. The result : 60 yards of pretty bulky yarn. There is still a lot of over spin but not as much as the first skein.
March is almost over already. Little by little I'm feeling more like crafting. Crochet seems to be more attractive to me right now with hot weather right around the corner. It's already in the upper 80's here. I even splurged and purchased two magazines. With all the magazines available, each with beautiful projects, I'm trying to be selective and only purchase the magazines with projects that I actually want to make. Over the years I have accumulated a pretty big collection of both books and magazines, some very useful and some not. The two I ended up with are Spin Off and Interweave Crochet.
One of the projects that I have wanted to make for a while is a Japanese crochet pattern for a pretty camisole. Abby's birthday is coming up in May and I thought this would be so cute for a 5 year old. She likes green and yellow and green is so pretty for spring. I can just see her running around in this. Hopefully I have given myself enough time to complete it.
In my last post I mentioned that I wanted to practice a little core spinning. Here is the result. Not pretty hahah.. I see more practicing in the future for me.
Today was a good day to play with fiber. There was half of a batt of purple hand dyed fleece left to spin, so I finished that. I tried a little core spinning in some spots which gave it a little texture. After I finished spinning I felt like throwing a bunch of fibers on the drum carder mixing it with some chenille yarn bits. It came out a little light so I repeated the whole process and made two batts which I'm setting aside. I plan to practice a little core spinning with a batt that hasn't sold on my etsy shop. It's called Garbage picker, named that because I used the little pile of fibers that I clean off the drum carder. It's rather ugly, but will be interesting to see what the yarn will look like. Maybe I'll name the new batt Celebrate or Party time. (^_^)
Yes it's been a while. I finished a couple of hats that I forgot to take photos of and remembered after I mailed them out. One was a Jayne Cobb hat in red and black for a friend in Alaska and the other was a black wizard hat for my son. After it was knit I sewed a Gryffindor patch onto it.
Maybe my son will send a picture of him modeling it.
As you see in the photo I have started a new project. I think it looks totally 70's. I didn't think the yarn would look like that when just seeing it in the ball. The pattern im using is my pattern LittleBlackShrug. I plan to change it up a little and make it more a daytime shrug that you could wear to the mall or a lunch to the zoo, etc. I'll give more details later on.
Florida is slowly heating up. Spring is on it's way in the rest of the country which means thinking of summer knitting and crochet projects. I have my eye on a few things I would like to make and will post them as I start them. (^_^)
It's been a while since I last blogged so I'll play a little catch up. The boys are getting bigger of course. Jayden recently got a big boy hair cut and looks so cute. Micah is now 2 months old and over 12lbs. I got to baby sit them the other night. Both of them went to sleep. hehe. Since I last blogged I've made two silly hats for the boys and then our weather got warm.. like around 80 degrees. I guess it's the thought that counts. I'm starting to like making these little hats. I also finished a flower pot holder for my daughter... I have yet to mail it. She moved into a new apartment and wanted some new dishrags and pot holders. Hopefully I'll mail them out this week. The last picture is of my son wearing his Jayne Cobb hat in not so Jayne Cobb hat colors. He said it's pretty warm. He visited me the second week in January and enjoyed the warm weather and the parks.
My next small project will be some wizard hats. After visiting the Harry Potter Theme park you just have to have a wizard's hat of your very own. (^_^)
Can you believe I'm still knitting Christmas gifts. Two more gifts were finished this week. I have family visiting right now and have been visiting the theme parks and the local zoo with them and relaxing at night watching movies and knitting. Yesterday we went to the Harry Pottern theme park and drank lots of Butterbeer and rode all the rides and then came home and watch Harry Potter movies. Such fun!!
I still feel like I haven't recovered my knitting mojo. I'm inching my way through each project. I've been looking at everyone's finished project on ravelry hoping to get inspired. Until then I will continue to make small projects that are easy to finish.
Little by little I'm trying to get my knitting mojo back. Making little fast projects that I can finish without much effort is probably what I need to do right now.
I finished this little hat for Cameron. His mom wanted a pointy hat and that is what this started out as and some how had a mind of it's own. I used up some scraps from other projects and still have lots of yarn left over. This pattern is super fast to knit and can probably be knit in a few hours. This will fit a 2 to 4 year old.
Needle size : 11 us
Yarn: Wool-ease thick and quick
Pattern: Teo Hat
