Spring Knitty!

The Spring issue of Knitty is up! Yaaaaay!!!

http://www.knitty.com

I really want to tackle this adorable skirt:

http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEspring05/PATThottamale.html

With a pair of saddle shoes, I just think it would be fabu!

Picking up.....moving on

After much deliberation and a few desperate calls to my knitting guru, I finally decided to sack up and finish the kitty hat with double points. Going slowly and carefully, I made all the reductions just fine and finished the hat off. The next step is picking up stitches along the cast off edge to make the ear flaps, and picking up stitches on the top to make the kitty ears. I have read a couple different explanations of picking up stitches and have even tried to pick some up. I got it to work, but I have no idea if I'm doing it right. I guess I'll just have to see.......

Allllmmmooosssttt

I am almost finished with the reductions on the top of the kitty hat. Instead of transfering it to double points though, I'm gonna try one of those little tiny round needles that Clover makes. I hate working with double points and I'm wondering if I can save myself the hassle. I'm don't really like the way that the pattern is written for the reductions. Its pretty visible, and I have made hats that have much nicer looking, and easier to knit reductions.

finally!

After much stalling, I finally got around to taking a poor quality picture of the beginnings of the kitty hat. I intended to scan it, but for some mystery reason my scanner decided not to work tonight so it was back to the ol' camera phone. Anyways, this picture gives you the basic idea, moss stitch on the bottom. Next step, reducing stitches! Yuck.....

le chapeau de chat

I have gotten all of the seed stitch done and 4 inches up to where I need to start making the decreases (cringe!) without any mistakes (that I know of). I promise to scan it tonight and post the pictures. I am loving the way it looks!

Whats new pussy cat?

The kitty hat of course! I'm working the pattern from kittyville.com in Lion Brand worsted weight Wool Ease. I already knit a first one up, but made a mistake in the moss stitch and got impatient and completely fucked up the decreases on the top. Rather than frog it, I decided to leave it for now and start a new one. For once I actually bought enough yarn! Pictures soon to come...

Kermit Sweater

I've finished completing all the pieces of the kermit sweater, so named because of the lovely shade of green I made it out of. I had never completed a sweater before this project, so this turned out to be a great turned out to be a great tutorial on garment knitting. Its a pattern from The Yarn Girls Guide to Simple Knits and its knit on huuuge needles (size 19!). Right now, all I have are some poor quality pictures but I promise to post better pictures when I get them.

This one shows the shape of all the pieces:


This one shows a close-up of the ribbing along the bottom edge:

decisions...decisions...

After working with this site some more, I think I've decided to switch my blog over to this site. It seems to be a bit more complicated, but I think there is alot more freedom and I like the format better. I'm going to be working on changing over here, so keep looking for new posts!

abc.....123.....

I've had a blog on livejournal.com, but just recently came upon this site and decided to try it out. I liked the look of the blogs coming from here a bit better. Anyways, this is my first post, hopefully I'll be able to decide which is better and really take off.