WIP Wednesday

Another hat in progress right now. This time it's for my little sister. I had her look through the patterns I had saved on Ravelry, and she chose Graham by Jennifer Adams. It's hard to tell with this dark yarn ("black canyon", to be exact), but I've completed the brim and am onto the body of the hat. It's not the most mindless project, because the body is knit a row, then k1p1 the next row, but it's pretty close. I do like how big the brim is. It's 3", which is the longest I've made so far. I told my little sister I should be able to finish by Friday at the latest, so we shall see.

- rl

Frogged

Say hello to my first frogged project. According to Urban Dictionary, "in knitting, a frog says 'rip it rip it' and frogging refers to unraveling rows of knitted work due to an error found". That's basically what happened. I attempted this pattern, and while I read through the pattern a little before casting on, it was a bit more difficult than I thought. I counted the stitches after the first repeat of the hearts and was off by two, so I decided to just frog it for now. I definitely plan on attempting again one day, but for now I'm going to move onto something simpler.

- rl

Project 04/52: Hipster Hat

I love this pattern. This is my second time to knit this (first hat here), and I've already promised to knit a third for a friend. This one, though, was for my big sister. It is this pattern, and it's so simple. I started it last Monday, and binded off Friday night. I probably could have finished sooner, but I paused this to make this scarf, then I was working , yada yada. I finished it, though! Then I teased my sister by saying I planned on blocking it, and I did, except then I didn't feel like it. So. It's done. I gave it to her a couple hours ago, and she loves it. Good thing, too, because it looks SO cute on her. Don't worry, I definitely plan on asking (read: forcing) her to pose for some pictures one of these days.

- rl

(p.s. this is part of my 14 goals for 2014. You can view all my goals here.)

Self Portrait (05/52)

Today I've had a headache, which I only get every few weeks, so it throws me off when I do. Thankfully it's Sunday, so I don't have to be at work with this, but hopefully I can get to bed ASAP and feel fine when I wake up. Having a headache also made me very unmotivated to knit, but I did get a little bit done. I'm working on a hat that's a bit of a lace pattern, I guess, but it looks like I'm off by two stitches, so if that's the case I'm going to frog it and do some other projects. We'll see. Right now I just want to sleep.

- rl

(p.s. this is part of my 14 goals for 2014. You can view all my goals here.)

Project 03/52: One-Hour Knit Scarf

First off, this scarf did not take one hour. Given, I did use two balls of the yarn, while the pattern only called for one. So that should mean it would take two hours, but it ended up taking me about four.

I got the yarn from one of the managers at work (a few of us talk daily about our different crafts), and I decided to just use the pattern on the label. It really was a fun knit. It was a lot easier to knit with than I thought, so that was a nice surprise.

I started and finished on my day off, so I took it to work the next day and gave it to the same woman who gave me the yarn. Then I realized I forgot to take pictures of the scarf. I spent my entire shift trying to figure out if it was worth it to ask her for the scarf back just so I could take pictures. But, obviously, I did. I took it home, snapped the pictures, then took it back the next day. I gotta say: I really love working with fellow crafters.

- rl

(p.s. this is part of my 14 goals for 2014. You can view all my goals here.)