GO HAWKS!!

Just a quick hello to show my latest project for my favorite team!!

Has it really been a year and 5 months???

WOW!! My blog hasn't been updated in almost a year and a half!! I have been knitting a little making some super cute skirts for Christmas last year and didn't get any pics of them. And they are a big hit w/ EVERYONE who sees me make them! Now I must make more so I can show you guys cause they are the cutest skirts ever and they are super easy.  Someone on ravelry is selling the pattern but I got it for free at Ben Franklin.  In the next couple weeks I am going to be cleaning out my closet where I keep all my knitting supplies. I need to go thru them and reorganize and get some new projects going. So this short update is to say that I am hoping to be back blogging on here soon!!!! Happy Knitting!!!

New Hat..

Well DS1 out grew his first hat I knitted him a couple years ago so this year I finally casted on & got him a new hat done. Only took me about 4 hours I think total.  Now I still owe DS2 his first knitted hat too.

And I swore I would never do it again but I did. I got some sock yarn on size 2's to make my self some fingerless mitts.  I hate how long working w/ size 2's & sock yarn takes but I LOVE the results I get from them.   Tomorrow is Thanksgiving & I am having a hard time resisting to buy yarn on Black Friday.  I have SO much yarn I really don't need anymore.  LOL!! I do have some special projects I want to accomplish for Christmas & they are not even started yet.  O_O   Running WAY behind this year. Very busy not much down time.  But I am always amazed at how fast I will start relaxing when I pick up my needles & start the repetitive motion.

I miss knitting

I have hardly knitted this year.  Compared to the year before where I was a knitting fool!  I miss my yarn, my needles, my down time.  Life has been crazy.  I started a Mary Kay Business, DH is training for the STP (Seattle to Portland) bike ride, plus DH & I regular jobs, DS1 in school, DS2 starting his terrible twos. I am trying to find time to lose weight in the mist of all of this so knitting has taken a back burner.  I feel like I should start caring a small project around w/ me at all times so when the opportunity presents it's self I can knit but right now every spare moment I have is going toward my new business or taking care of the boys while DH trains.  DS2 still want to tear my yarn apart so I can't knit w/ him around making it a little harder.  I just wanted to stop in & say I miss knitting.

It's been a while

Well so much for knitting in the summer. It seems I've been unable to get any knitting done since my youngest DS became mobile.  He is a monkey! Climbing on everything it takes everything I have to keep up w/ the boys & keep DS2 out of everything. The first thing he does when he sees yarn is start tangling it up so needless to say my poor yarn has been in hiding for a while.

So here we are officially in fall & I am finally back to knitting & preparing for the craft fair at my work this year.  This is a very large craft fair that they have done for years & years.  I know a few people I work w/ that participate in it each year & they always sell out.  Some of my other coworkers are very interested in purchasing what I make so fingers crossed I will make money at this one.

I have knitted up 3 wallets that I have to felt & sew in the linings I hope to have my next post cover a wallet & a purse I've felted & lined but for now they are still just WIP.
I have also knitted up two pair of fingerless gloves .    The pattern is one I found outside of ravelry but it is on there. I follow this blog called "A Friend to Knit with"     This pattern is called Toasty very simple, quick & easy.                          
                                                                    One set in Red

& one set in Brown

I'll also be making another set in gray but this is all I have for now.  I am planning on quite the list of items so hopefully I am not being to overly ambitious.

I hope to start blogging more regularly as well but again it all depends on what time I can sneek away.  I did manage to get very organized this spring. I got my circular knitting needle organizer case from Namaste for Christmas & My DH got me my KA interchangeable needle set.  He also picked me up a plastic tool box that is working very well for organization as well. I will try to post some pics of that & another post on what I just learned about the differences in 4/medium weight yarn.

Hope to talk to you all much sooner than last time. :-) Happy Knitting!

Feeling Intimidated...

So I've been AWOL for quite sometime when it comes to knitting. I have been getting a few knitting projects in here & there & I still have to finish the post I started about the goodies I got for Christmas: My interchangeable needles & Circular needle case. So Yes now I'm realizing it has been over 6 months since I've done a post. WOW!!

So just yesterday I finally started my classes I sent away for to become a Certified Knitting Instructor. I need to double check & make sure I haven't passed the time frame already for completing the class. I feel like I don't know how to knit at all. LOL!!! I am so intimidated.  By the end of this class I will have designed a sweater & knit one too.  It is asking me why certain stitches do what they do & why is it important that they do that. I am like I don't know I just knit what the pattern tells me to & don't ask questions. LOL!  I guess I need to be prepared to answer questions about why if I am planing on ever teaching a class. 

In addition to my class I am also planing on participating in the Craft Fair at my work in Dec. This craft fair is very large & always does very well. So I am trying to make list's of things to knit. A friend I work with that does the fair every years thinks I need to focus on Purses & wallets but I need to sell them for around $80 to compensate for materials & time.  She thinks people will pay it & I will sell out. I have yarn for 3 purses & so I think I will start with those & then maybe some other new items. :-)

Fingerless Gloves

This project is honestly about 7 years in the making & here is why.....  As a newly married woman who learned to knit about a year earlier I wanted to take on another project besides washcloths & scarves so what did I choose? A set of fingerless gloves for my DH. So DH & I went & picked out some worsted weight acrylics yarn. It took me quite a while to get them done but I did it only to find out they were to big & bulky for him to wear. :-(  I was so sad I spent back then literally months making these & they are useless. So fast forward to the next winter. I decide that I am going to pull it all out & roll the yarn back up & remake them. I only ever got to pulling them out I never remade them. YEARS go buy & every winter I tell him I need to remake his gloves & every winter it never happens. Well with all the the gifts I was making this year & how my knitting seems to have taken flight. I thought I am REALLY going to make them this year & we address the problems w/ the previous ones & decided to get new yarn.

So off to the craft store we go & he remembers that the worsetd weight yarn was way to thick. He is using these while he flies RC airplanes & he wants to be able to feel his transmitter(aka controller) thru the gloves. So what does he pick out?????? Sock Yarn.  So I found a pattern for gloves from Patton's that used the exact sock yarn we got & size 2 DPN. SIZE 2!?!?!  I have never knitted a project w/ needles that small. Size 3 yes but never Size 2's. Well I started it while I was also knitting my SIL purse & all the hats for Christmas so the first glove took me over a month cause I really rather work on hats w/ chunky yarn & size 10's then super fine weight yarn w/ size 2's. And because the last pair was to big I had him doing test fits on them every couple inches. The second glove I did in only a few days. I am proud to say that they are a major success & he loves them.  They only took 7 years but hey at least I got them right this time. ;-)