Almost forgot....

Here is the mini penguin scarf that I made the other week, on a whim.

You see, I had this 3 foot tall plastic penguin that looked chilly... and some extra red heart lying around, and well....


penguin scarf. LoL. (foot shown for scale)


It was fun to make, just garter stitch :) Now "Tux" is ready for winter!

Baby hat done!

Yay!!! FO's are always a good thing. I like how this baby hat turned out! Pics of both sides:


I only needed one ball. Pattern: CO 72 sts, since I used US6 dpns the whole way I divided 18 sts per needle. Knit until 6 inches, begin decreases, voila!!!

I especially am liking the top. It formed a neat looking spiral all on its own:

Sorry about the super-bright colors, I had to use the flash. They aren't nearly that "neon"!

Cute!!!! I think I would defintely make another baby hat from a ball of kitchen cotton.

Also just for fun I am making a mini garter stitch scarf... for this big plastic penguin i have. LOL. Pics to come when its done... :D

cotton baby hat

Surprise! yesterday I started this baby hat. I have had this ball of kitchen cotton, a gift from M (thank you!) for awhile and love the colors.... I was trying to think of something to make with it. Cast on for a dishcloth, didnt like it. Ripped out. Ah ha! A cute cotton baby hat. Perfect for my friend A who just had her baby I am hoping she could use a little hat to keep her baby's head warm in the cool (but not cold) fall season. :D I used another cotton hat pattern to find a number to cast on (72). It said it was for a 0-6 month baby, so I hope mine fits OK. But I am also knitting this on size 6's... because that is the biggest size double points I had. OK fine, I have size 7's but they are METAL and I HATE THEM. lol. Large size metal double points are NOT my friend, lesson learned the hard way on my first socks.

I love how it is pooling... with the dark color on one side and the light on the other, and the cool stripey in-bewteen. I know, wierd, right? I mean, who in their right mind likes pooling? Oh well I don't care, I think its cool... haha.

Have a good monday everyone!

Blanket progress

Today I made a lot of progress on my baby blanket! I am almost done with the third skein, woot. It is looking really good and feels soft.



No other progress knitting wise... I did buy Itty Bitty Hats finally, after coveting it for awhile... I love almost all of the hats and plan on making some of them soon, there are a lot of new babies lately. Must be something in the water, as Cynthia has said ;-)

The weather is cooling off... YAY! I love sweatshirt and jeans season. I will probably be wearing nothing but that for awhile lol. I hope the mosquitos die off soon though, they have been crazy bad lately. I went over to my parents the other day, and my dad wanted to show me this cool mushroom that was growing in the grass, and he said "OK, we have to run". I thought he was kidding but the mosquitos really were so bad that we had to jog out to see it and then jog back. Crazy!

Whew

Hey all! Sorry I haven't posted... it's been crazy busy.

I have to finish a pair of fetching by this weekend, but I am 70 percent done, so that shouldn't be a problem. Havent worked on much else though... eek! One of my coworkers just had her baby, so now that I know that it's a boy I can start knitting blue things! :D

Labor day weekend was very fun, I got to go up to a friend's lake on saturday, and got to lay around and be a bum, and get ice cream, and do many fun things! I just wish I had a "real" job so I wouldn't have to worry about making up the lost hours this week... bleh.

Let's see, what else is going on? Well partially why I haven't knitted much is I have been playing computer games again... I had a 10 day free trial for WoW: burning crusade (If you dont know what that is, then congrats: you're not a nerd), so I decided to go ahead and activate it this last weekend... so gotta get my playing in while it's still free! lol.

So now that you all know how much of a huge dork I am, I better get back to work. LOL.

Have a good week!