Phew!

Life has been crazy lately. In some good news, I finished my gloves this Sunday, and I've started work on a bag to carry all my knitting around in so I won't have to use my silly ol' Twilight bag any more. I'll be sure to add more pictures as I go along, promise! In other news, really inspired by a friend of mine from larping, she's so good with her crochet hook! It really gets my work ethic going!

Picture Update!

School goes apace, and been crazy busy with homework and such. Here are the long promised pictures of the complete scarf:
The first is a shot of the whole scarf, note the distinctive 'wave pattern' (hence the name). The second picture is a close up of the waves themselves, and thirdly a detail shot of how the yarn moves with the pattern.



I've been using the scrap yarn to make some fingerless gloves using stockinette and waffle stitch. One is finished but the other one I ran out of yarn. I'll have to buy another skein to finish it, and only once they're finished as a pair I'll add some pictures of them as well. In the mean time, I've been using my black Red Heart Super Save to make some double ribbed gloves.

It's been a little while!

I must apologize for disappearing off of cyberspace for a little bit there! I had two tests in the same week, then spring break, followed by two more tests-not to mention work and everything else that happened all at once. In more needley news, I finished the scarf! I've taken pictures and will post them up tomorrow. I also tried to start a hexagon pattern with crochet, but got stuck on some technical terms, so that's on hold whilst I try to iron out the details. In the mean time, I'm using my left over painted yarn and trying to make some fingerless gloves using a waffle stitch pattern. It's pretty fun, but if you accidentally add one too many rows at any given spot you have to rip back for a while to fix it, which is making me cross-eyed. But it's still fun! Thank you again to everybody who's been supporting me through everything! This weekend I'll be out of town and internet range, as I'll be cavorting through the woods LARPing at Shadowmoor! See you there!

A little hooked

Started relearning how to crochet yesterday. Chain stitch? No problem! Single stitch? Moderately easy-I'm pretty sure I'm doing it right. Double stitch? Doin' fine! Getting ahead of myself and trying to make an advanced lacy hexagon from a pattern? Kind of way more difficult! It's okay though, I'll figure it out eventually, that or find someone to help me translate the instructions. The scarf is coming along marvelously, I've finished two repetitions of the pattern, and it's about 2/5ths done.
In news of a witchy persuasion, I found out the hard way to be more careful when reading almanacs! I accidentally was reading last year's calendar for March and not this year's when trying to determine the vernal equinox. Luckily, the two books I ordered off of Amazon have shipped out as of last night, and today marks the beginning of me checking my mail every day. Things are coming along swimmingly!

A few days later

So it's been a little while, I'm sorry for not updating sooner! Things have just gone pear shaped with school, and I have a large project for work I'm doing this weekend at an ungodly early hour. I've been cleaning my apartment as well, and finally managed to get my closet clean. I finished my seed stitching rectangle, and it is SO delightfully textured and bumpy! I also spent the ENTIRE weekend doing nothing but watch Charmed seasons one and two and work on my wave scarf. It's getting pretty long now, and it's final length will make it a little taller than me, so I'll post pictures once it's finished. In a somewhat witchy moment, Ostara is coming up on the 20th of March! I'm trying to come up with ways to draw runes on my hard boiled eggs that won't soak through the shell and taint the delicious eggy goodness within. Hmm, decisions.

A little late

Sorry I didn't get this up sooner. I took the pictures and will put them at the end of this post. I ended up caving and started on my scarf. This pattern is super fun! It's a little trippy with how the pattern makes the yarn move. A few pointers. SK2P means Slip one, Knit 2 together, then pass the slipped stitch over (as if to bind off). I'm not sure if I'm following the 'Make 2' directions perfectly, but I decided yarn overs would work alright because they're increases-and give it a pretty holey-lace pattern. These videos I found on Craftster were priceless in helping. I've had a few wee hiccups which were a bit stressful, but ripping back (a majorly necessary skill for a knitters) has saved it tidily. I'm positively loving this painted yarn, between the moving pattern and the moving colors this scarf is positively engaging and super entertaining.


The first two are the dress I finally finished, with a detail shot of the back.



The first picture is my pretty new scarf yarn, and the new needles I purchased. The yarn cost $3.27 and the needles were $4.47 both from Wal Mart.

A new Day

I'll be able to post up pictures this evening. (I promised I would!) I finished my rectangle of ribbing and it's super stretchy! It comes off the needles looking almost too skinny, but it stretches considerably. I've decided to do single seed stitch next, since making the ribbing wider is such a simple adjustment. I'm worried about double seed stitch, since the trick of using the tail of your yarn to remember which stitch your starting with will no longer work. (You do two rows of knit 1 purl 1 repeat, then two rows of purl 1 knit 1 repeat.) A handy reminder, the difference between seed stitch and ribbing is how many stitches you cast on. Odds = ribbing, evens = seed stitch. So to make sure you've done your row correctly, you should be doing the OPPOSITE stitch at the end of your row in Seed stitch, and the SAME stitch at the end for Ribbing. I'm currently debating once I've finished this little skein of purple yarn whether to move directly to the scarf I want to make out of my painted Caron Simply Soft, or if I should try to use up my Red Heart Super Saver on miscellaneous learning projects. Decisions, decisions.