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My Favorite Things…November

This month’s motif is pulled from one of my first attempts at both color work and hand warmers.  I’m not sure I still have the hand warmers to be honest.  I was still newer to knitting then, getting used to the craft after a long time, so I was just working with what I had.  This meant that the hand warmers ended up too big.  It is also when I was still working with not as nice acrylic yarn from…

My Favorite Things...October

This month’s motif is very small, but also very cute.  One thing I have been trying to avoid in this scarf is my predisposition to symmetry.  I keep making my chunks of color work the same size.  It also means that I get very bored of the knitting very quickly because I think I have to do so much of it.  So this month I added some cute puppies to my scarf:

I actually really like these puppies. …

I am so bad at keeping up with this blog.  T____T

I have some posts from last year that I thought I scheduled, but apparently didn’t.  They will be showing up eventually.  I recently received a question though, and it’s re-inspired me to come back to this little venture.  So maybe I will be better about posting in the future.  No promises though.

Anyway, on to the question:

I so want to knit the…

I have another job interview this week.  On one hand this is exciting because I continue to have opportunities and am always inching closer to an actual career type job.  Yay!

On the other hand, it means that I get stressed out and have a hard time focusing on things, including current crafting projects.  My job search since I graduated as been brutal and full of quite a bit of failure, which is…

Now that I have a sewing machine I am tackling my first quilt using up all the scrap fabric we have lying around the house.

I like Flying Geese squares because I am a fan of geometric shapes and patterns, but I wanted to mix it up somehow.  When I was searching the internet I found that there are variations on the traditional flying geese pattern (Flying Dutchman Squares are one..at least I think…

My Favorite Things: September

I have made some sloooooow progress on this scarf, but that’s okay because it’s more of a side project/I’m bored and don’t feel like starting anything new or working on anything already started kind of project. This section of the scarf comes from this pattern: Pine Bough Cowl.

The pattern has 2 charts that run in two different directions.  Each chart is broken into 3 sub sections that you knit…

Purl Soho’s City Gym Shorts

Image belongs to purlbee.com and Purl Soho. The idea that I could make something that looks this good makes me laugh hysterically to myself.

I love Purl Soho’s blog.  In fact nothing has every depressed me more then when I realized that during my internship I was a freaking block away from this store.  In fact, I’m pretty sure I walked past it on more than one occasion.  Not that I would have…

Long story short, after I went on a trip to Korea I came back all gung ho about finding a full time job.  Needless to say I spent a very long anxiety ridden month in a half where I had a bajillion interviews and am still stuck where I started.  T____T  I mean, I am okay.  Being stuck where I started is not the end of me, but it was kind of disappointing.  Okay, okay a lot disappointing.  I may have even cried…more than once.  However, I am now more confident in my skill set and what I have to offer an employer and I have a much more concrete plan of my future, which is nice after being directionless for so long.  I also know that even though I am desperate for a job I am not willing to take a low salary just to say I have one.  (If you can’t tell I actually did receive an offer, but given the fact that I would have to move, and what they wanted to pay me was barely more than I currently make part-time, I didn’t consider it a wise move for my future.)  Even though this summer has been full of a lot of painful learning experience, it’s all part of life, and I am better off for it.

Regardless, I am back, and I’m also pleased to announce that since my mother decided to by herself a super fancy-pants sewing machine, I have inherited her old one, so you can expect to see some sewing projects creep on her to.  In the meantime, have some pictures.

  COMING SOON:

*cough* That may or may not be a sleeve to the John Watson sweater….

This picture belongs to Purl Soho and purlbee.com.

It is interesting to me what I love now versus when I was a kid.  Case in point: bees.  To start with, I am pretty allergic to bees.  The first time I was stung by one was when I was very, very young.  I might not have even been in kindergarten yet, so around 4 or 5 years old.  My neighbors had two children around our age, a boy and a girl.  That day the young boy was out playing with two of his…

I was scrolling through tumblr the other day and I saw this epic sweater go whizzing by, and I had to stop and take a second look at it.

  According to someone else’s internet legwork it is apparently a sweater that is sold in Japan, and the rest of the store seems to mimic this kind of quirky type of clothing.  I honestly have to say though I love it.  I don’t know why.  Sometimes this type of…

My Favorite Things: April

So I haven’t been working on this as much as I should, but since I knew from the start this would be a long haul type project I’m not too worried.  Anyway, I missed last month, but I have remembered to post this month with some progress.

This month’s motif is from a cowl pattern called Toast Wrapand it is a very fun and easy chart to remember.  Sometimes there is something to be said for simple…

I am pretty proud of myself I must admit.

Since I have to take it easy on the knitting for awhile for the sake of my wrists and arms, I have been cultivating my fair isle chart collection for my My Favorite Things scarf.  In the process of looking for a chart on Tricksy Knitter I stumbled onto this chart:  Sushi Chart.

And I thought to myself, “There is nothing you love more than sushi.”  And…

Not too long ago after graduating from college I was unemployed for a very long stretch of time (almost 2 years really) and it was sort of a bleak black hole of a time in my life.  It wasn’t really my fault, the economy was still reeling and I was generally competing against people with masters for a job I didn’t even really want, but was kind of desperate for in order to cover my finances.  I…

L.A. League Sweater Wrap Up

This is one of those projects that shows me why I like knitting so much, because there is always room to learn.  This was a project that required more patience than I was prepared for but I’m glad I was able to take the extra time necessary to make the sweater as I wanted it.

Unfortunately being a curvier gal, this sweater is not quite as over-sized as I would have liked it to be, but the open…

*Sigh* http://wp.me/s4ej8N-sigh

I don’t really know how it happened (okay I do, I remeasured my front and back panels and they are about an inch more than they should be lengthwise), but I have run out of yarn for my L.A. League Sweater, which means that I have a couple options:

1) Sit and cry (really this is a given since I’m already doing it as I try to finish up the last sleeve).

2) Buy more yarn (more on that later)

3)…

I remember one time

I may or may not have said something along the lines of, “I will not buy any more yarn until I use up what I have.”  And I’m sure all the knitters and crafty people around the world had some kind of crafting sense that someone just said something stupid and  just laughed and laughed and laughed.

Because KnitPicks may or may not have come out with highlighter colored sock yarn.

  …………………….And I…