One Handed knitting

TOTALLY made a tool to assist in one handed knitting.  Got Dylan to go to the store with me, bought bunch of stuff, made the people at the store thing we were stealing stuff because we were putting it inside one another to test sizes... this made him get real into our project

Man: so whats your project? (totally thought we were stealing stuff, but we weren't)
Me: we're trying to make something for my client at work who wants to knit but only has one hand.
Man: oh... wow, well uhm.. you should try *insert thing that I have no idea what he was talking about* instead of the stuff you have there.  Same price, but might work better.

Loved it.  Dylan and me spent like an hour in the store trying to figure out different stuff to use the build this tool. I can now proudly say I have made one and I am not telling anyone how I did it or post pictures until I get a patent because I am not having anyone steal the idea.  I am just so excited that I got it to work (it needs tweaking) and now know what I have to do to make it perfect.  YAY!!

The glove is almost done, didn't knit tonight because I was working on this tool.  So excited.  Gloves will be done tomorrow.  I have to knit more, and stop getting distracted by awesome projects.
All for now.  Happy Knitting!

Almost done glove one!

Going to knit the same cable design for like three or four more rows then begin the double rib to finish. THEN BEIN GLOVE TWO. I feel glove two will be easier as I already have decided how it should be and have done it.

Going to see if Dylan will go to home depot with my to check out stuff for my one handed knitter. Since he's paying (up to like 50 dollars) I'll see what we can get or look into getting and then see about putting something together to take to work with me for my clients. I'm excited.
Time to work now. Below is the picture I promised. Enjoy! Happy knitting

It doesn't look like a glove...

I am quoting one of my swimmers at the meet yesterday. Apparently the knitting was entertaining the small children not only on MY team but on the team sharing my swimmers benches.
Little girl: excuse me... What are you doing?
Me: I'm knitting a glove
Little girl: oh

One of my swimmers then asked where the fingers were and stated it didn't look like a glove but was crazy excited to put her hand in it lol

Didn't go out partying for st party's day. Sat home. Knitting and watching tv with my family. Great saturday night huh? My mom made that new crystal light cocktails drinks (without alcohol because we're not Hugh drinkers in my house and my mom didn't know what to put in it). She inadvertently made the appletini and like a half hour later realized she made a drink drink on st party's day.

Driving to the meet yesterday I saw this billboard that I wish I had gotten a better picture of. It was a billboard about divorce made easy and literally said "no spouse signature needed. No lawyer required" and I went "wow... You can get a divorce in Jersey without your spouses consent...wow" and took a bad picture of it. Because I was at the light and it changed

So you WOULD see below the picture of the gloves as they are currently, but wrote this from my phone and the photo didn't work... I'm gonna try and finish at least this one today and hopefully have pictures up on Tuesday or wednesday at the latest. When I get a chance to type up a pattern I'll post that too and I'll post it on ravelry for everyone

Boyfriend has promised to finance the one handed knitting project prototype since he has a gift card to a store I can buy the stuff at he won't use. So tempted to make this project part of my 2012 projects lol

All for now. Happy knitting.

St. Patrick's Day

Happy St. Patrick's Day to all of you Irish or Irish for a day people!!!
Swim meet today, maybe get some knitting done while I'm there.  Possible going out tonight so no knitting then. lol

Enjoy the day! Be a little green today!
(Of course I'm like more than 50% Irish and will be wearing red today for the swim meet... long as it isn't orange I guess)

Not too disappointed

Didn't get that job I was looking for. BUT I will use this as motivation to find a way to create the one handed knitter. I think that might be more important than making more money or living closer to home. That's not sarcasm either. I want people to be able to do different two handed crafts even if they've had a stroke or they were born with one arm (or if I think hard enough no hands). It's unfortunate these things happen to these people but it shouldn't keep them from doing things they may love to do. I have sketches already for one of the tools and from working with my clients at work I'll not only have guinea pigs to try stuff out (they love new things as much as anyone else if not more sometimes) I can watch how some of them move an function to get a better idea of how some tools need to work.
All for now

Knitting and swimming and Spring time OH MY!

So yesterday was crazy warm. Tie dyed tshirts with my guys at work. Not was fun. We now have a brightly colored ramp... But still fun.
As you can see from my picture slowly making headway on the glove. Dylan told me to finish it before I decide I don't like how it turned out. I'm kind of liking it. But I feel like its too small for my hand when I try to put it on. I may have to just switch to bigger needles when I get to the cables part. We'll see. I may still take it apart because if I say down and just knit uninterrupted I could probably get the whole thing done in like an hour or two (maybe more...). I've got vocal rehearsal tonight so I'll have down time at play practice to knit a little. As long a my double shows up and stays til we're done

Hope you enjoy the gloves. Hopefully be done this one by this weekend (if I'm lucky. TONIGHT!)

Teenage Mutant Ninja.... gloves?

Changed my mind about the gloves.  I'm leaving them as is, and I'll just add more stitches on the NEXT glove so it fits better, because these are for me, so I don't care how they differ as much as if I was giving them away or selling them.

Made dinner with my dad for bear, her husband, mom, my boyfriend, and inadverntently, the little bear (she eats through momma bear obviously, lol, horrible joke, I know).  Spagetti and meat balls, been doing that for the last hour (maybe longer) so I have not been knitting.

Weekend was crazy, helped with the last weekend of my friends show.  The small children that I did the hair and makeup for were all in tears at the end of the show because the 8th graders were done with the shows forever and most of the little kids were coming up to me going, "I'M GONNA MISS YOU SO MUCH KELLY!!!!!" and giving me hugs, most of them through tears, not crying for me obviously, I told a few of them to get a grip because they would see the rest of the cast Monday at school, lol.  Due to my entertaining these small children during the show, and making sure they didn't miss their scene (one did, because she didn't listen when I told her to get ready.  That resulted in a tiny panic attack and her in TEARS for like 5 minutes while her mother tried to calm her down) I did not get much knitting done.  I had dinner with Dylan between the two shows Saturday so I didn't knit there... at all.  I curled and straigthen 6-12 yr old's hair, lol.  And explained why they can't use brown makeup on their face when they have pale skin, it just doesn't work on their porcelain looking faces.

Almost done ONE glove, gonna wing it from here with the thumb.  Gonna do it COMPLETELY without a pattern and just from my memories of how I made them before.

Dylan is watching me update this blog as I type.  He keeps distracting me.  He told me to put the teenage mutant ninja turtle label.  I may ACTUALLY make something tmnt related now that I've put it on here... lol.  We'll see, Dylan, maybe it'll be a hat or something for you, lol.

HAPPY KNITTING!!!

Not loving the cables so much

So I got so into the cable routine that I went farther than I wanted and now I'm like "hmmm..." and wishing I had done a lace effect with the gloves instead. Seeing as the gloves aren't taking long I think I'm gonna take it apart Andre start with a smaller cuff an some Lacey crazy colored gloves. Dislike the tedious work of following Patterns but they do work if you follow ten right... I enjoy making up my own patterns more than following ones. I like not knowing how something will turn out but it does cause some unexpected results. Decisions decisions. I'll take pictures and you can all decide. I may have to take it apart either way because the gloves seem too small. I'll think about it. Decide what to do

I do love cables

So I'm making the Kelly dyed yarn into fingerless gloves. Dylan likes them coming a little past my wrists so that's how they'll be. Lots of cables in them. This is the second time in typing this entry as I did it perfect like 10 minutes ago and it just wouldn't save. SO WE TRY AGAIN
I'm using the left over yarn from my moms scarf to make leg warmers. No just keep looking at it going "you'd make warm leg warmers". for those days when I have to wear a skirt and KNOW that stockings just won't keep me warm that day. Should be fun.
I read over previous entries and saw about a job I was thinking of taking. I didn't take the job and now am waiting to hear how the interview I went to on Wednesday (where I posted saying I was bored as I waited) went and if they'll offer me the job. I'm excited because it feels right. Who knows. Fingers crossed
Below are the pictures of my current project. Knitting up faster than I thought. There's 2 that look alike but it's only because one how's the ACTUAL color correctly even though it's blurry.
ENJOY GUYS.

Boredom

Waiting for an interview person to finish their conference call. My thoughts? "Wish I hadn't left my yarn home...".
Picked a pattern for the gloves although I can't post it right now because I'm updating from my phone. Post it when I get home. Saved it on my ravelry library so should be easy to find

Socks or gloves...

I could still make this yarn into socks. But I feel it will not breathe right and will became a sweaty itchy mess so I think I'll keep going with he gloves idea. I like fingerless gloves. They keep my hands warm whilst allowing me to still knit when I want to. Dinner for boyfriends birthday tonight. His birthday tomorrow. Play practice tomorrow. I should get some knitting done at practice. Friday and saturday another 3 shows should get knitting done then too. I expect these gloves done before march is over. If I get this new job i will reward myself with a spinning kit sooner than hoped. Yay
All for now

Birthdays

March came so quickly that I had no idea my boyfriends birthday was this week. He told me last night and my response was "yea right" whereupon he went "it is" and I went "what? Omg it is!". Now to get a gift for him... Darn you nice weather making me think his birthday had passed. Taking some of my guys from work to the store as an outing to the book store because I always get him these books from this one book series for his birthday and various other gift giving holidays lol. Hopefully they have the book there. If not it would have just been a trip to get out of program for an hour
Decided in making leg warmers with the left over yarn from my moms scarf. Making my fingerless gloves from the yarn Dylan and me dyed and buying a spinning and dying kit on etsy to spin and dye my own yarn as a project. Maybe I'll count that as two projects because I assume spinning is tedious and I know dying is so... We'll see
Starting the christening blanket after the gloves. Hopefully the gloves take almost no time to make they did before so... Leave comments!

Baby bear blanket

For a chance today to take pictures. So proud of myself for getting a baby blanket done. Onto my gloves with yarn Dylan and me dyed. Yay! Fingerless gloves. Maybe a cable on them. So excited for a new project

ENJOY THE PICTURES GUYS

Done

So when I posted yesterday I looked at that tiny ball of yarn and was cursing at it going, "WHY WON'T YOU END!?" and then I'm sitting at work during movie day, knitting with my guys... and realized, this tiny ball was very deceiving... because I didn't have enough left to bind off.  SO! I sat there and carefully took out the last row and have no bound off the blanket AND ITS DONE!
Because I'm lazy, its Saturday and in my mid 20's, I haven't gotten out of bed yet and I finished it last night before going to bed.  I'm crazy excited its done, and so proud I'll be able to give it to my sister when she has her first little one.

I'm going to count the stitches my sister originally cast on, she kind of eyeballed it and went, "that looks wide enough..." and began knitting lol. I'm just gonna post it Bear's way

Baby Bear Blanket
Supplies:
36oz of yarn, devided into 6oz of three colors from light to dark
I was forced to do this part because I ran out of the original color.
I used all simply soft yarns
6oz bright yellow
6oz dark yellow
6oz gold
(those aren't the names, I just lost the sleeves...)

Cast on 150-200 stitches (it depends how wide you want it) of color A
1. Knit all stitches to the end of row.
2. Continue until all 6oz of color A is gone.  Must end at the end of a row
 - If you think you won't make it to the end, stop with Color A even if it leaves a large tail
3. Begin knitting with Color B.  If you have Color A still left, knit both together to make a more secure joining, and you don't have to sew the ends in... just cut off any edges that seem ugly looking
Repeat steps one and two
4. Begin knitting with Color C.  If you have Color B still left, knit both together to make a more secure joining
Knit until Color C has enough yarn to bind off.

DONE!  That seems so simple, but took me forever... I'm just slow I guess.
PICTURES TOMORROW!

Yarn yarn and more yarn

I made a huge breakthrough on this project im working on and have been focusing on researching that instead of knitting (tho it is knitting related...so I guess it counts lol). Blanket is so close to done that it is driving me nuts that it's NOT done lol. I look at that teeny ball of yarn and go "AH! You're so little yet so big! Darn you little yellow ball of yarn!" lol. My friend in my show asked me "where's your yellow blanket?" because she always sees me working on it. I just pointed to my giant "yarn bag" (I make every bag a yarn bag lol) and went "THERE and ALMOST done". I got so excited because I was almost done and then practice ended and my tired fingers just wanted to do nothing when I got home. I'm gonna try and knit during my friends show tomorrow (I'm backstage so it's not insulting to knit during the performance lol
PICTURES BY SUNDAY. Promise. AND I'm making arm warmers next. Single rib cuffs and maybe a cable OR! Maybe some ribbons or buttons. Who knows. I just know I'm using the yarn I dyed with Dylan.
He's been watching me knit so intently lately...THEN TONIGHT he goes "so you stick the needle in the loop and push the yarn through with the needle then move on to the next one..." and I wasn't sure if he was talking to himself do I just went "Uhm...yea..." and he goes "now I just need to learn the movements..." and stared at me knitting up a storm between songs at rehearsal lol. Love him. Time for sleep to dream of yarn and sweaters... And me not knitting socks. I seriously consider it a nightmare. BUT I WILL TRY THEM AGAIN! Night!