Chevrons and Curls

So yesterday was a pretty exciting day, I got a new book in the mail. I heard about this book from a podcast, I think it was Just One More Row. Anyways, it is a book called Curls by Hunter Hammersen. I am making one for my mother, and I just started it last night, and I am making pretty good progress. The one I am making is called Gridelin. I am making it out of Pagewood Farm yarn in the Yukon base, which is Merino Superwash, Bamboo, Nylon (70/20/10), in the colorway Army Girl. I got it from Sue's Soft Stuff in Northern Missouri, I don't remember exactly which town. (My mom and I went on a mini yarn/fabric crawl for my birthday). She had a lot of locally produced fiber, and I got a lot of alpaca and llama. I'm working the curl on a US Size 4 needles.

I'm making this one for my mother, since she wears scarf type things in the office that she works at much more than I wear them. The next one that I will make I'll make for my grandmother. It took me about an hour or so of knitting right off the chart before I got it memorized, but now it is making sense and I am just flying through. I am really liking working on this and can't wait to finish this one and make some more. The colors are truer in this photo, and you can see a bit of the stitch detail.

In other news I ran out of light pink yarn for a ripple blanket I was working on, so I finished it up yesterday. I think that it turned out really cute. This is of course for Project Linus, and the pattern is from the 100 Colorful Ripple Stitches to Crochet by Leonie Morgan. I cannot speak highly enough of this book, I have made three or four blankets from the patterns from this book and have really loved working on every single one of them.

I also decided to go ahead and post the pictures that I have done and if they don't get any views than I will redo them and try again, this time making a proper photo box, but I think that the ones I have now will work and look nice. So if you want to check out my store, now with some hats for sale as well as all the bags it's right here. Thanks!

Sparkles and Glitz

I finished the glitter hat with sequins that I was working on last time I updated this blog. I had a knit and purl pattern on it that I think shows up better in this photo than the one before. I haven't worn it yet, still waiting for a special occasion to pull it out. I wear hats all the time, that I've made and I think that they make it better for me while I'm growing my hair out. I cut off 12 inches and it was really short for about the past six months, like shaved at the neck and not much longer going up, like how middle aged women wear there hair. And now I'm growing it out, but it has a nasty habit of standing straight up on end, and I don't think that that's very attractive, so I'm wearing hats pretty much non-stop.

I also finished a ten stitch Tunisian crochet blanket that I started just a couple of days ago. I really liked working on this blanket, it was addicting to just make short rows, back and forth. And with Tunisian crochet you don't have to turn your work every row, or learn how to knit backwards. I think that I'm going to make another one with two colors spiraling around at the same time, because I like how that looks. This one I started with one variegated, and then did a round of tan, and then another variegated skein and then another round of the tan. I really like how it turned out. I used a size 10 Tunisian crochet hook. And all the variegated yarn was Red Heart Super Saver, and the tan was a Caron Simply One Pound. This blanket will go to Project Linus.

The next one that I am going to make is going to be a bright green with a steel blue spiraling around each other, I think that it will look interesting.

I also took pictures for my etsy shop of my knitted items, but am waffling as to whether they are nice enough to put up. I think that they look alright, but all the advice on sites from Pinterest and other blogs says to make a light box and have a white background, but I don't see why you couldn't have a nice setting for your background as well. I will decide in the next couple of days, at the very worst I could post them, see if they get any hits, and then if they don't take them down and re-do the pictures. I think I might have to do that with my bags that I put up anyways. I'm not sure. I'm just trying to wing it as I go.