New Projects

Well, I haven't been up to a whole lot lately, but I'm starting to
work on a couple Christmas gifts now. My birthday surprise Shawl for our friend up in KC has been coming along nicely. I'm on the second skein of sock yarn for it, and am very pleased with how it's turning out. I'm going to surprise Roommate with a new cowl made from the Lionsbrand homespun, you know that really soft yarn that is difficult to crochet with because it's hard to see your stitches? Yeah, that stuff, because I'm also going to use that in a pattern for Little Sister. It's called the really big crochet cape, unfortunately you have to be logged in to find the pattern if you want to see it, but trust me...it's kind of awesome, and I think using the homespun will be good because of the softness and warmth that will be there.
But I know I'll be in the hospital for 48 hours after I give birth (at minimum) due to an antibiotic I have to have while in labor, so I'll have lots of time to work on my projects, hopefully that will keep me from boredom when not being bombarded by people wanting to see my baby :)
I'll try to post pics of the finished projects on Raverly if nothing else.

And that's all for now! Hoping for my water to break any day.

Surprise Project!

I've found a wonderful pattern to make for the lovely Kitty for her birthday in December. I've very excited. I found the pattern on Raverly thanks to the ladies at Twist. It's called Eva's Shawl, and I've picked out some wonderfully orange yarn to use, I just know Kitty is going to love it!
I've also finished my first bib, I didn't really like the way the pattern had it turn out, so for the second one I've modified it so it's more square than rounded, and also the i-cord ties on a little differently. I'm also very proud of myself for being able to modify a knitting pattern....it makes me feel acomplished :)
And now off to the yarn store to get some work done on the new shawl, and also just to get out of the house....I need more of a social life I think.

Creativity update

Well I havent' really been up to much lately....I dunno why, more than likely it's the fact i just can't sit still anymore, I start to get sore and hurt after just a little while. And my pregnancy brain has come back, and I have lots of trouble focusing. It's a little irritating, and leads to me not updating my blogs as often as i should...
But anyways, hopefully I'll have a new project update soon.

New Stitches

Well, due to finances I'm not going to be able to take the sock class this time, *sigh* maybe next time I will.
In the mean time Roommate and I are learning new knitting stitches. She's mastered the basket weave

New Plan

I have Husband's permission to take a 'basic sock' class next week, now I just have to complete a list:
*knit
*purl
*knit in the round
*increase
*decrease
*cast-on
*bind-off
*ability to follow a pattern

of those not marked off, I'm pretty sure I mostly know how to increase and decrease...I'll have to go to Twist sometime this week and make sure I can read patterns well enough for the class requirements. As for the increase and decrease...I've learned one version of both, so I'm waiting to cross that one completely off until I have learned one more of each.

I've been lax with my updates...i know

Not much is new in the crafting world of Eryal...I finished one of my cowls, unfortunately I made it just a little too short, so I had to put a panel in, so it has a two nice little seams in the back, but in all it is amazingly soft, gotta love those soft acrylic yarns. I've now started a new cowl (still working through my stash yarn, hopefully we'll have some extra cash soon and I can start getting some new yarn to work with) made with the Naturally Caron yarn, it's ever so soft. I'm combining a white and charcole, and after this I'm going to use the forest and red that I have, I think they'll both look very nice when finished.
In the mean time, I'm going to try to learn how to cable with my knitting...and hopefully work on my 'subbie slippers' pattern, I've already got someone interested in them when I've got them going....so yeah, really need to get on that. Hopefully will have some news about that later this week.

And the Crafting goes on

Not at the frenzied pace I had going last week, but slow and steady win the race. After re-doing Aunt's cowl 3 different times I have finally picked a pattern of stitches I like, and I do believe that I will stick with that pattern when I make more cowls for my Etsy site. The two I've already made that are a half double crochet stitch have been dubbed "the Cozy Crochet Cowl" (There is another shop I like that has named their different types of cowls, and I just thought that was the bees knees, so I'm trying to do something similar, with the naming, I mean)

But anyways, I'm off to crochet some more, and after finishing Aunt's cowl I'm going to work on a scarf for me that I'm knitting, this time not just the knit stitch, I'm using the purl stitch too! (scandalous, I know) Thanks to the wonderful ladies at Twist, I have learned not only how to purl correctly, but I have learned how to read the stitches and know without remembering what stitch was done last and what the next one should be.
All in all, very good things to know, and I am very happy to have learned them.