This makes me happy…
I live in Southern California. I can’t say there are many occasions for me to wear my wool hand knits. I rely on the winter rainy season for an excuse…
<3
It’s rainy and cold here today. A perfect day to wear my docs. And if you look real close, you might see my hand knit wool socks. Warm toes = happy Stacy.
2012 – The Year of the Hat
Ok, so I think I mentioned before that I am in a serious hat knitting phase. For some reason I long to wear hats…like, *every day*. I am not sure why I am feeling so compelled to cover my head day in and day out. Maybe it is because my office is so cold. Or maybe it’s because it is chilly outside when I go out on my nightly walks. Maybe I am just going for that hipster look.
Either way, you are bound to see a lot of hats flying off my needles coming up. They’re a quick knit…which is something I feel like I need right now because there aren’t enough hours in the day. Maybe it is because I am really trying to knit down that sock yarn stash for scraps my legacy projects (yes, now there is more than one).
So here is my first official hat of 2012. I’ve been trying to scratch my fair isle itch.
This photo is closer to the real color...
My completed hat. I blocked it out enough to have a beret shape.
This last picture looks very orange, but I assure you it is more of a bright coral/pinky-orange color.
Christmas comes a little late…
Well, since I hadn’t been around much during Christmas, I didn’t get a chance to deliver all of my completed knitted gifts. Luckily, I actually remembered to bring it with me when I saw Ashley for knitting night.
Recruited one of my 6 year olds to take my pics...
Yay, I can finally post the pictures! She liked the Camp Out mitts! Success!
Back to the usual thing…
So helllllllloooooo 2012. I can already tell this is going to be a better year than 2011 for sure. Now it’s time to get back to my Friday Night knitting time!
This past Friday I met the girls up at the shop and this time, Angelique brought her boyfriend Joe! He is a super swell guy and totally brave to spend time in a knit shop with the likes of *us*. He even did a little knitting! Angelique needs to give him serious bonus points for that!
But just to up the nerd level on this post a tiny bit…let me just say that he has a knit item that Angelique had made him that is truly drool worthy.
I want one...
Of course, now that I am done with my Christmas knitting, I can start some things for myself (or maybe finish that Mountain View Sweater that is just snoozing on the needles with only it’s backside done). I started winding yarn for a fair isle hat I’ve been in the mood to work on…hopefully I will have some photos soon…
I am thinking 2012 is the year of the hat for me….
Some yarn for my new project...
One more Christmas project to finish…
If you thought I was done, you are sorely mistaken! I had one more set of mitts to complete. I wanted to give something special to my hairdresser. So much for making it by Christmas….it was more of a “Happy New Year” gift.
How I love knitting in the park!
Of course I realized that this is the only photo I took of this project. I am kind of kicking myself for that. Oh well, I do know what Mitt Envy looks like finished since I made so many of them. These turned out lovely though!
A yarny update!
So, remember that local homeless girl I was talking about a few posts back? I ran into her again one afternoon while grabbing lunch with my folks. At the time I met her, I was thinking about bringing her some of my scrap acrylic that I had lying around in may stash for her to practice her skills. Well, it looks like someone beat me to it! I saw her on one of the benches along the main strip in our downtown area. She was knocking out crochet like nobody’s business and even had finished a project (a small blanket) that she was trying to sell.
Working that yarn!
I noticed she had a full bag of yarn for projects...
What I did on Christmas Vacation…Part 4
I wasn’t done yet! I still had a promise to keep to the twins!
I have been walking a lot lately to try and get in shape, and most of the time, the kids join me. They had asked me to make them fingerless mitts after seeing me knit some for just about everyone else I know. It’s been chilly in the evenings and they wanted to wear them when we go out for our walks.
I was knitting nearly every day at lunch...
Almost done...
Just need to weave in the ends...
The kids love them!
This pattern was easy peasy, and I knocked them out in no time.
What I did on Christmas Vacation…Part 3
Okay, by now Christmas was officially over and I needed to still finish the left over items that I hadn’t gotten done pre-holiday. Luckily for me, my family understands that knitters operate on a different timeline. I had promised my kids some fingerless mitts…and I still had those socks to finish!
It was a dead week at work. No one was in (except for me and a couple of others). The people that did show up ended up leaving early most days.
My folks were in town and using my car, which meant if I was at work, I was *staying* at work. There was no leaving early for me. Good thing I had projects with me.
Working and *working...
Completed!
Yup! I did finally finish them! Now my husband has knitted socks to replace the pair that he wore holes in. I am taking those apart for scrap yarn for the insanity blanket.
It’s all about the recycling!
What I did on Christmas Vacation…Part 2
It was a Merry Christmas indeed! Amazingly enough, I didn’t receive a single knitting/yarn related gift. Okay, maybe that is not entirely true…my mom did renew my Interweave Knits subscription (which I haven’t received yet).
I did get Santa to do his part in passing on the fiber addiction to my daughter…
She loves it!
Santa brought her a loom so she could make pot holders for everyone!
Her first potholder!
She really likes it.
I had a few last minute knitted gifts to prepare for the day. I started this thing I call the “prize box”. I figure I could knit the hell outta my stash and for those things that I don’t need to keep, I can throw in the “prize box” and if I need a gift or something….I can whip out something I made. It might just make next Christmas easier for me. I don’t want to deal with hand cramps or knitting ennui.
A washcloth with soap...
What I did on Christmas Vacation…
So I know I have been gone for a little while. So sorry! I was attending to various life things that always seem to get in the way of my blogging. I was working hard behind the scenes to ditch godaddy’s SOPA lovin’ butts and get to a new company (hover.com). I was also feeling the pressure to get my Christmas knitting done. I really piled on myself this year without really realizing it until it was too late.
Of course, I did think to myself that I would write about my friend’s projects so I wouldn’t have to write about my own. I spent so much time insulating myself from the rest of the world to get my stuff done, that I didn’t end up seeing very much of my friends.
I was freaking out a few nights before Christmas Eve and decided to bite the bullet and walk up to the local Starbucks to get some Christmas gift knitting done. I was trying so hard to get a pair of socks done for my husband without him knowing…but that was near impossible and I ended up having to tell him about it. I figured the time away from home might help me get more done. I met Mallory up there and we did some crafting…
Mallory working on gifts.
Socks!
I made some progress on those socks, but I hadn’t gotten them completed.
It was an interesting night. One woman came and sat with us to ask Mal questions about what it was she was doing…then a local homeless woman showed up with her crochet project and sat with us. Before we knew it, we went from a group of 2 to a group of 4. The homeless woman chatted us up about what we were doing and showed us the tiny blanket she was making for a friend’s pet rat. I wanted to take pictures, but she was really tired and dozed off at the table.
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