Another one bites the dust

So I've finished another 12 by 12 square of two mixed shades of blue. This particular square isn't made from the lion brand fuzzy yarn, but rather a usual yarn type (sorry it never came with a brand, yay yard sale yarn). But since it doesn't match brand-wise and softness-wise it's going in it's own large blanket.

I've decided to do two different blankets, one thats completely blue and made of 2-3 shades of lionbrand fuzzy yarn and another that is a rainbow. Yes, I'm a big enough dork that I want to do a rainbow blanket. I've done some figuring and since there are seven colors in a rainbow (roygbiv) and I want to do a row of either black or white at the top and bottom to bookend it. So that's nine rows of 12 by 12 squares. 9 Feet... this blanket's going to be so huge! and then it only seems right to do another 7 in the other direction so... a 9ft by 7 ft blanket is underway. (expect it to take me years to finish).

The completely blue one won't be nearly as bad, I'm thinking 7 by 7 so roughly 49 squares. Wish me luck!

Once upon a time

So I completed a little 4 by 9 rectangle that'll form the middle of one of the blankets I'm making. I used up part of the vibrant pink and one of the fluffy blues to do it but it looks really nice. Apart from that I thought it might be nice to tell the tale of how I learned to knit.

Once long ago in a high school far away from my college there was a girl named Lily. Lily knew how to knit, having learned it from her older sister. One Monday Lily brought a skein of yarn into school, and toted it around to all of her classes. After school that day Lily went to anime club and sat down and began to knit. Suddenly next to her sat one of the juniors in the club (I'll give you three guesses the first two don't count) and the junior commented on how pretty the knitting was. So Lily decided to teach her, it was a slow and painstaking process. The junior hadn't been very smart and had bought hard to use yarn that broke very easily, she also had a terrible tenancy to make her stitches very tight which resulted in several castings being useless. Finally through much exasperation Lily managed to get her started. The junior worked and worked and finally ended up (two years later) with a scarf that had gotten out of hand and had morphed into a 2 foot by 5 foot length. This over, the now senior had to rely to going online to remind her how to cast on... the casting on she had learned two years ago but not used since. And ever since that day there has been knitting in the kingdom.

Yarns that I currently possess

So I thought I'd make a list of the yarns I have available so that people (mostly you Ashley) can send in suggestions of what to make. So then as of now I have:








478 yards of ecological wool from cascade yarns (100% undyed peruvian highland wool) in a very pretty light cream color.















1 full skein peach/flesh colored yarn















2 full skeins autumn colored yarn (mix of reds, oranges, browns, and golds)


















1 full skein highlighter green yarn (thinner yarn)




















1 1/2 full skeins black (thinner yarn)
















1 full skein ice blue (ribbon yarn)













1 full skein aurora colors (ribbon yarn)












2 full skeins black w/ reds and purples (ribbon yarn)















1/2 skein bright pink (thinner yarn)
















3/4 skein olive green (fluffy yarn)
















1/2 skein pale yellow yarn




















1/2 skein red yarn




















1/4 skein gray (fluffy yarn)


















1/4 skein vibrant pink (brighter than pink mentioned earier)

















1/6 skein black (fluffy yarn)











ends of




white yarn







































green yarn

























rainbow






















at my disposal I have:
knitting needles

plastic #9's (aka 5 .50 mm)


















metal # 10's (aka 5.75 mm)



















metal #2's (2.75 mm)

















metal looped #9's (5.5 mm)

















bamboo looped #8's (5 mm)

















bamboo #20's (8 mm)

















and a crochet hook at 4.25









mm

Better late than never

So as a continuing post to my first few. I finally finished one of the pink and black hand warmers that I was working on. The first attempt resulted in one that wouldn't close around my hand and was extreamly loose on my arm (this was a result of having measured too far down my arm to begin with). The second version fitted well up through my wrist but flaired too much after that, resulting in a bulge at my thumb (very unbecoming) and a side that extended a good three inches beyond my hand. The reasoning for this was the loss of my tape measure. The third time was not the charm unfortunatly and while it fitted comfortable it still had that annoying bulge, so I ripped it apart to the wrist and restarted. Thankfully the third and a half time proved fruitful and and I managed to get it right.

Suggestions for people attempting this (I'll post specific directions later)

Make sure you have your tape measure
Try and get someone else to help you measure your arms (it's hard to do by yourself!)
Make sure you have enough space for your thumb when you make the hole or the whole thing will be uncomfortable

And that is all for that piece tonight!

The only other thing I've been working on was a two colored 12 by 12 square for a rainbow blanket. It's about a fourth of a way done but should take too much longer now that the hand warmer is done.

I also recently bought four very beautiful scanes of ribbon yarn. The colors are so fantastic, the only problem that I for see with them is what to make. A scarf just wouldn't be enough to justify the beauty of the colors, but sadly it's really expensive stuff and making something like blanket just seems out of my budget. Once I figure out what to make with them things will be good!

What do you do with left-over?

So recently I've begun knitting quite a bit. The reason for this is my apartment-mate knit's up a ton and she's the president of Knitter's anonymous at our school. Not only is this a great chance for me to catch up on my knitting but having the group gives me access to different designs that I wouldn't have considered before. And as for the handle of rum? Well what's knitting without a few drinks and a few good laughs along the way. I'll use this blog to keep an update on my projects, thus far : 1 hot pink and black wrist warmer (prototype)
1 hot pink square (12 by 12) use for rainbow blanket
1 blue square (12 by 12) use for blue blanket
1 black and pink and gray striped tasseled hat (also prototype)

wish me luck