... is a common thing I hear from people who see me knitting. BUT! I found an article today that shows that knitting is actually becoming VERY popular in the US, specifically New York, and it is now traveling to other countries in its popularity. I found this article in a German newspaper (it was on a knitting group on my facebook... I don't randomly search international newspapers for knitting articles...) and was like, "wow... a whole article about how knitting is awesome!
In other news, I finished one of my socks... I don't think i'm getting 12 projects done, and I'm slightly upset at myself, BUT I WILL TRY FOR 12! I'm ALMOST there! We'll see how it goes. Updates later. I just had to share this knitting article with you guys. If anyone wants to read it, click below!
German Article about knitting!
Also! So happy that Google translated it for me... it was slightly hard to read in English because the DIRECT translation is a little different than actual English... but whatever!
Happy Knitting!
taxikab
Showing posts with label blanket. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blanket. Show all posts
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Sunday, October 21, 2012
long over due
HI EVERYONE! Life has been CRAZY since my last post, thus the lack of posting... LET ME UPDATE YOU
First and most important I have 11 projects started, and 8 done! I have to finish the gloves, the socks and the blanket. I also have to start either a sweater, or another hat for my nephew. He enjoys my hats they keep his little adorable head warm. I made him 2, and the second one ALREADY is too small... so I have promised my sister another one for him. She then complained he has hoodies to wear, but no sweater, and she wants a little jacket for him without a hood. I may find a like 12-24 months pattern and make him a sweater so that he can keep wearing it through winter. Hes only like 2 months old, but hes a big baby already. He's tall and growing fast, hes not a fat baby though, that has to be specified because I think my sister would be upset if I was telling people she had an overweight child... hes tall, NOT fat lol, tho of course he has little chipmunk cheeks like me :) So like I said, we will see. I'll probably make the hat because I need to finish the other 3 and I've only got 2 months left!
Second! I GOT ENGAGED! My awesome wonderful and handsome man Dylan proposed to me on September 22 2012, ironically on my friend Bobs birthday so I won't forget! Love my ring, love my fiance. I had been waiting for this to happen, because I knew it was coming, lol. I'll do a picture post to update on everything later because I don't have a picture on my computer of the ring, just my phone.
What else has happened... OH! Dylan and I are trying to buy a house, I'm trying to lose weight for this wedding, and we're also trying to save money to pay for said wedding... going to be an interesting and frugal year 2013...
Been going on Pinterest ALOT again... this has resulted in Dylan telling me I should make the foods I see on pinterest for him... I went, "yea and I'll make it a blog like my knitting blog" and was very sarcastic about it... and he went, 'DO IT! We'll make a video blog! I'll tape you cooking for me, then I'll eat the food" 'and then you'll get fat...' We'll see what happens.
I have choir soon. Sister is bringing the baby to church to see the organist, who I love dearly and have known for like 15 years now... and she taught my sister and me piano and she has seen COUNTLESS pictures of the baby, but no actual BABY, lol. SO my sisters going to try and bring him today. See how it goes.
Going to knit today! I need to get my stuff done before the end of the year.
Happy Knitting!!
taxikab
First and most important I have 11 projects started, and 8 done! I have to finish the gloves, the socks and the blanket. I also have to start either a sweater, or another hat for my nephew. He enjoys my hats they keep his little adorable head warm. I made him 2, and the second one ALREADY is too small... so I have promised my sister another one for him. She then complained he has hoodies to wear, but no sweater, and she wants a little jacket for him without a hood. I may find a like 12-24 months pattern and make him a sweater so that he can keep wearing it through winter. Hes only like 2 months old, but hes a big baby already. He's tall and growing fast, hes not a fat baby though, that has to be specified because I think my sister would be upset if I was telling people she had an overweight child... hes tall, NOT fat lol, tho of course he has little chipmunk cheeks like me :) So like I said, we will see. I'll probably make the hat because I need to finish the other 3 and I've only got 2 months left!
Second! I GOT ENGAGED! My awesome wonderful and handsome man Dylan proposed to me on September 22 2012, ironically on my friend Bobs birthday so I won't forget! Love my ring, love my fiance. I had been waiting for this to happen, because I knew it was coming, lol. I'll do a picture post to update on everything later because I don't have a picture on my computer of the ring, just my phone.
What else has happened... OH! Dylan and I are trying to buy a house, I'm trying to lose weight for this wedding, and we're also trying to save money to pay for said wedding... going to be an interesting and frugal year 2013...
Been going on Pinterest ALOT again... this has resulted in Dylan telling me I should make the foods I see on pinterest for him... I went, "yea and I'll make it a blog like my knitting blog" and was very sarcastic about it... and he went, 'DO IT! We'll make a video blog! I'll tape you cooking for me, then I'll eat the food" 'and then you'll get fat...' We'll see what happens.
I have choir soon. Sister is bringing the baby to church to see the organist, who I love dearly and have known for like 15 years now... and she taught my sister and me piano and she has seen COUNTLESS pictures of the baby, but no actual BABY, lol. SO my sisters going to try and bring him today. See how it goes.
Going to knit today! I need to get my stuff done before the end of the year.
Happy Knitting!!
taxikab
Friday, July 6, 2012
theres a post coming...
I SWEAR! I haven't been posting because I've been SO busy getting the blanket for my sister done, and then helping my mother with stuff for the shower... I took TONS of pictures (well not tons...) of the stuff for the shower tonight and will post on Sunday because my big sister can not see any of it before tomorrow! So excited for her. Picture post on Sunday!
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Happy Fathers Day!
Happy Fathers Day to all the Daddy's out there! Rather than wake up and begin knitting, I helped my Daddy with the garden in the front yard. What did you do?
Speaking of Fathers, for brother in law, who's soon to be a father himself, I show you a picture of Baby Bears Christening blanket. Cables that intertwine. I tried to take a decent picture but it was difficult. I gave you one yesterday of it though. Yes I am aware that there is less footage on this picture than the one yesterday, I took this picture a bit ago and had to go out and couldn't finish the post, so I'm using it now, because it was a pain to get the picture, lol
Fixed the ears on baby bears hat! The one is kind of square... but looks better in my eyes than the
pointy ears looked, lol.
So I have another post where I show you things that aren't "knit" but I find interesting...
I personally am not a big floral print person... BUT! I love giant sewn flowers and knit flowers, and love them as headbands, however, I work in a place where we need to be not so flashy with my head bands... so I make them and put them on my clients at work, and everyone ooo's and ahh's at how adorable the headbands are. I'm satisfied with that. My clients need to look adorable too!
Anyway! So I'm always looking for crafty things for making flowers and such. Heres one I found and was like, "LOVE IT!"
The website says that its a "Mothers Day Corsage" thus the babies picture on the back. My mom would need one picture of all of us... or just her grandchildren (when Baby bear gets here!).
I truly am fascinated by the things people can come up with. I mean seriously, how creative are some people that they can make all this stuff! I think I'll quote my mother on this one
"It's just how your mind works" - My Mommy
I tried explaining cables to her yesterday and how simple they are once you do them a few times, and its really just putting some stitches on a needle to hold, knitting the next ones not being held, and then knitting the ones being held. She told me that's too complicated, and when I said it was easy she said it was just how my mind worked, that I can see that as simple and figure it out, where as she can't, and other people can't. Frankly I think if you work hard and put your mind to it, you can do almost anything. I've been knitting 7 years, so if I can't do cables by NOW I never will. Now if I could only learn how to make socks!
Happy Knitting!
taxikab
Saturday, June 16, 2012
Looking good...
Got a foot of the blanket done. My mother told me i should make it about 3-4 feet so my sister can wrap the baby in it. It's not very wide but I've been knitting all day only stopping to go to church.
Enjoy the picture update.
Enjoy the picture update.
Saturday, March 3, 2012
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!
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!
Thursday, March 1, 2012
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!
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!
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