Christmas Knitting Part 1

Well, now I am unemployed. So you would think I would be knitting LOTS, right? Not really. You feel guilty knitting while unemployed. You just keep thinking "hmmm, I should be applying for a job right now..."

Despite that guilt, I have been knitting.

Behold!


A Christmas present finished before Christmas Eve! (Gasp!) I give you a Lace Ribbon Scarf in Bristol Yarn Gallery Buckingham color 1042 (love this yarn)




I got a wider stitch on one side of the repeat by using a wide stitch marker (hair-ties). I like the effect -- it's more open and a little bit funky.




It has been wrapped up and shipped off to be opened by its new owner. I always feel a little sad sending off my lace projects. Not as much with other projects, but lace somehow has that effect on me.

The only other Christmas knitting this year is to be a hat. It's just a simple Norwegian Star hat in Berroco Ultra Alpaca.




I plan on duplicate stitching blue onto the four little white bits in the center of each star. I might also add a fleece lining. We'll see how motivated I am.

And that, my friends, is all. I'll post pictures of the recipients modeling the projects when I get them.

Where has the Newman gone?

Let's see...since the last time I actually remembered to update this thing....

I got a new computer. (A wonderful MacBook :) )



I graduated from Cornell.




I moved to the Adirondacks where I have a job as an interpretive naturalist at a museum.




And I knit hardly anything worth mention. But I'll mention some anyway.

Here is a Katamari:



It's from the video game Katamari Damacy. Really awesome game, incredibly addictive, and you'd probably think it's weird.


I knit a purse, which is not yet finished. I had intended to finish it for graduation. Yeah...that worked well.



I started my Christmas knitting early. Super early. May early. I had good intentions to get my Christmas knitting done for Christmas. But my knitting has fallen short. And so my Christmas knitting only looks like this now:




And I knit and Obama hat. :) The "O" is duplicate stitched. I still need to add another row of four blue at the top and add a crocheted edging. But it's close.





Now I'm making a promise to myself that I won't let my knitting blog go so long without being updated. This also means that I am making a promise to myself to knit more...and knit things worth blogging about. We'll see how that works out. You guys should help by yelling at me if I start to suck at keeping my promise. :p

I think the hardest thing about living in the Adirondacks is the lack of a good knitting store close by.

Christmas '07

Christmas has come and gone. Oh hey look! It's 2008 already! Yeah, probably time to post a Christmas knitting update, eh?

Firstly, remember that big green thing? Yeah, no way that was happening. So I focused myself on two pairs of socks. That's all. I know, I know, kind of a lame year for Christmas knitting. Deal with it. The socks were both made from Knitpicks Bare, Kool-Aid dyed. The first you saw in the previous post. The second was dyed with lots of grape and berry blue. The pink ones went to sister Jill, and the blue/purple to sister Lori. Both were knit using Knitty's universal toe-up formula. They were my first toe-up socks. And let me tell you, I'm in love with toe-up now.




Interestingly, I'd spent weeks hemming and hawing over trying to find a suitable non-wool sock yarn for Lori who is allergic to wool. I even knit a whole sock in Cascade fixation effect (which I do not recommend) and ended up frustrated with the finished product. When Lori got here, I shoved some Knitpicks Bare in her face and said "does it bother you?" Aaaand...it didn't. I could have been knitting her socks with that the whole time. hrmph.



Anyway... They came out great, even though Lori only had a sock and a half on Christmas morning.





In other news. I finally have pictures of my mom with Bristow on! It looks aweosme, long sleeves and all. Mom switched the buttons to some bigger buttons which stay better, and they look really good.




And prehaps most excitingly I'm on Ravelry now!! Yay! The waiting time nearly killed me I was so excited to get on it. I can't stop just playing with things. It's so awesome. :)

I can't figure out how to get the button in my sidebar though. *idiot*