Adventures in yarn craft

It's nice to have a friend that you can talk to about most anything but even better when you're helping her learn how to knit!!! She already crochets so that made it easier to explain how to handle the yarn. Of course, I directed her to knittinghelp.com for the videos. I' m happy to say that she's catching on very fast. She only started a few days ago and she's already purling like a pro. Her stitches are so nice and even... I'm a little jealous but I'm thrilled that she's having such an easy time learning. I told her that when/if my b/f gets me the Harmony Interchangeable set that I would send her most of my circular needles since I won't be needing them. Believe me, I know how much money you can sink into circular needles!! Figuring that you can spend about $6 a piece on cheap ones and you need probably 6-8 pairs... that adds up in a hurry. I want to save her all that muss and fuss of looking for all that. Plus, I'll probably send her most of...

Yep, I caught it.... At the big yarn sale this week at Michael's, I got a ton of Sassy Stripes (Moda Dea) and I just finished up my first toe up sock early early this morning. It's not perfect... I know I made a lot of mistakes and it looks funny but it's my first real sock with a real heel!!! *happy dance* The toe on the second one looks different and I know what I did wrong (or right?) but I'm not going back and redoing it. I really want these done so I can wear them when I go to visit my best friend on Tuesday/Wednesday (depending on when I can actually get out of here...). I've started on the foot portion and hopefully, I'll have some uninterrupted knitting time tonight where I don't have to go out for anything other than a quick trip to Walmart to get a sleeping bag (long story...). I do have to say that I'm not thrilled with the 'non softness' of acrylic sock yarn. Now... I want the real deal to work with. My friend told me that he found a ...

I've come to discover that there are some patterns that I never get tired of making. One is the Handmade Hat that I posted about a few entries ago. I can't stop making these!! LOL I've made 3 so far and I've got 2 more on the needles. Another pattern that I'm learning to love is the Caribbean Scarf I'm using this to make an afghan for my best friend's Mom. I've always been a big fan of motif/strip patterns and even though this is a scarf pattern, it lends itself quite well to making an afghan. I know that there's an afghan with the same stitch pattern as the scarf... but I dread huge numbers of stitches on my needles and I wanted it to look a certain way so doing strips is working well for this. I'm using Simply Soft in most of the rose like shades they have (well, all that I could find in the stores...). I'm adding in sage and dark sage to make it look like a rose garden. I had to go out and buy size 11 needles because, for the life of me, I...

I've been trying (unsuccessfully at that..) to bust some of my stash but the yarn at Jo Ann's calls to me so badly... I've recently discovered the joys of Moda Dea Washable Wool.... sadly it's out of budget for me to make anything huge (like a sweater) so I've been buying a couple balls here, couple balls there for hats, scarves and whatnot, just so I can use it for things that I can... use LOL I just got done doing a 'first sweep' through my stash to pick out yarn to send to my g/f in Indiana. She's yarn deprived and I have plenty so... So far, I'm trying to give her a lot of colorful yarn that will add to her limited color range that she has now. She told me that she has blue, green and tan so I'm trying to give her reds, purples (a lot of purple as it's her favorite color...), in addition to some nice variegateds. While I was at Jo Ann's yesterday, I did get her a couple of Caron One Pounders in light and dark purple, just for her in a...