My New Love: Knitting

he's gonna kill me for posting this picture on my blog but i think its cute... 

     this weekend i got out all my books that i already own about knitting, and my knitting needles and finally got to work. i definitely dont consider myself a knitter, as a matter of fact i have avoided it for a long time because it just seems to much more difficult than crocheting. ive been crocheting for a long time and i remember how long it took me to understand exactly how it all worked. i thot that knitting would be the same but i think it actually maybe easier to understand. ive never finished anything besides a few scarves and ive never used circular needles before but i figured i give it a try... i turned out this hat on saturday. its alpaca and it sheds... he seems to like it tho :) and im glad.

     i also decide to tackle cable knitting and i thot that was gonna be the most difficult thing ive ever done but it wasnt! i was so surprised that it only took me one try to turn out a perfect 4 stitch left cross cable, i think its beautiful!
     i obsessed over this 3x4" piece of knitting all night long. i think that brian got a little annoyed with my incessant giggling after awhile but i understand. he says he likes the fact the i crochet and knit. once he said it seemed more like magic to him than a hobby or a craft. he likes to know how things work and i think it annoys him that he doesnt understand yarn craft...
     i catch him peeking over my shoulder alot...

     i found a pattern that i adore set to work on it immediately... its from a book from lion brand yarns and yes it is the picture on the front

im frustrated.

     i didn't figure out until half way thru my 3rd try that "make 1" and "increase 1" DO NOT mean the same thing ... i decided to go on anyway and start making stitches instead of increasing stitches. so we will see how it turns out im sure that once i finish im going to start on another and make sure i do it perfectly and then make it again in every color...

its a start.......

getting inspired

ive spent my weekend snowed in, recovering and searching for inspiration for... something... anything... ive been skimming over crochet blogs, sewing patterns, online art galleries and as of yet im still only mildly motivated to start work on anything... i havent even been able to put pencil to paper and do a little doodling. i spent a small fortune on assorted colors of a cotton/acrylic blend yarn (that i love for amigurumi) which someday will be repurposed into softies of some sort, i hoped that would give me a jumping off point and i do now have an idea for a doll in the likeness of a friend (keep in mind that i rarely follow thru with any of my project ideas)

what i need is a place, a room set up specifically for me to focus on, what i consider, my hobbies. im in the process of apartment hunting and its turned out to be more challenging than i had anticipated (i need an apartment with a parking lot that i can get out of when it snows... ugh) and im hoping that when i get out of my current apartment, which is 3/4 of the the way empty (or 1/4 of the way full, which ever way you prefer to look at it... ... ...) and in a chaotic mess right now (and for the past year...) ill be able to get back in the kitchen, im dying to get back to baking bread and hand dipping bon bons... my current kitchen is miserable, its dark and little and has no dish washer ...ugh...