Susan has shamed me!

I've been trying very had to live my "real life" -- you know that one that's actually in front of me every day instead of the one that comes to me via the web. :-) That means that my poor little blogs have been neglected. It's not just this one either. Trust me. Go check out my other one and you'll have proof.

However, knitting-wise I have been quite the over-achiever lately. I had a crazy impulse last fall and signed up to teach a beginner's knitting class at our university. Just four weeks that would cover the basics, but give people enough to get a good start with beginner's projects. Well, imagine my surprise when six people actually signed up! It was great and I'll definitely do it again in the fall. For our last class meeting, we took a "field trip" to Hobby Lobby about 45 minutes away and followed it with a trip to Chili's for supper. Women really know how to make anything fun, don't we?

Anyway, in addition to spreading the knitting love, I've also tackled my first hat! I don't have a camera handy but will post a picture of it on my sweet Emily's head soon. I felt kind of accomplished, especially when a 14-year-old clothing-and-wardrobe-aware girl actually WANTED it because she thought it looked cool.

Right now I'm working on a baby blanket (AWESOME YARN!) and a cotton knit-in-the-round tote bag. Can I say how much I LOVE knitting in the round? This is so fantastic! Addictive! Amazing!

So look for pictures soon and let the knitting continue!!

My FIRST Baby Booties

I am reborn as a knitter! ;-) No more just knitting..... NOW I can make GARMENTS! LOL! Not just things that are square and rectangular! I credit this to the fact that a bunch of us knitters have been getting together at work once a week. The expert knitters there have been teaching me things which has helped tremendously! These booties are for my new baby niece that is set to be born in just a couple of weeks. They don't like pink but I HAD to put a little pink in the pompons just for her! ;-p

My FIRST Hat

This is my first NON-scarf/NON-prayer shawl project... a project that isn't square or rectangle... I'm pumped. I'm working on Baby Booties, hat and blankie... I'll post pics when they are all done! YAY me! ;-)

Bits and Pieces

Here are a few pictures of some recent goings on in my knitting world.

Here's a scarf that I finished. It was my standby 15x15 scarf with boucle yarn.

After I finished that I decided to try a patterned scarf so I'm doing two scarves with a ribbed pattern. They're both just knit 3, purl 3 with a total of 21 stitches on a row. I'm using size ten needles with worst weight on one and size 8 needles with cotton worsted on the other. Here's the cotton yarn.

I really like working with it, which is good since I bought such a HUGE thing. I originally envisioned myself making dishcloths for people, but I actually think I'll use it to tackle my first ever blanket.

The day after Thanksgiving I went to Hobby Lobby and bought two sets of circular needles and some great neutral tones of yarn so I could make some scarves for my boys. Here's the beginnings of a scarf for my son. I decided to use the circular needles so I could get some practice. I'm not using a pattern -- just knitting every row and I'll stop when it's a good size.

I've finally done this enough to know that I really enjoy it and I don't feel bad about building up a stash of yarns and patterns. I can always find a few minutes a day, and I've gotten enough practice that a few minutes can actually yield a good amount of progress. Knitting is cool!

Bah -- my computer is being weird and won't upload the pictures. I'll try again with them tomorrow. :-)

Finally!

Yep, I'm finally at it again! This is my Thanksgiving Break and I vowed to finish up a couple of projects and get going with the whole knitting thing again. I finished the red and black scarf for my daughter and put together a lime green one for myself. I also decided to do some scarves for the boys so I bought a HUGE thing of variegated blue cotton yarn and will get those started soon. I found a skein of really cool blues and greens that I had and am working on a ribbed scarf out of that. I'll probably give it to a niece for Christmas . . . or maybe a friend. Who knows?

It's funny how I set this aside when life gets busy. It really doesn't take a lot of effort to pick up a bag with needles and yarn and take it along when you go somewhere. I finally did buy a "to go" bag so I can carry smaller projects along with me.

I'll put some pictures up soon. I can't find my camera (don't ask) so I'll have to use my daughter's. But I'll post pictures of my new bag, some finished projects, and the ribbed scarf in the making. I think I may challenge myself to a larger project too. Maybe an afghan? That would require the purchase of some new needles, but I'm always up for that!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I'll see you soon! With pictures!!!

Someone HELP me!

So... I think I have a real problem! I at least recognize it and wanted to share this with all of you. These pictures are not staged and that's why I think that I truly have a problem... Why I need all the yarn on the bed (who am I kidding... this isn't all my yarn)... I don't know... but I figured you all might could relate! LOL! Check these out: NOTE: What I think I'm going to do with the laptop while I knit, I DO not know! LOL! ENJOY!

Here are my latest.. these are contributions to our church bazaar for this weekend... I'm not very generous! I want to keep everything I knit!