On The Needles: A Few More Little Projects

I confess, I've been knitting like a fiend. Pretty much ignoring all else...housework, email, holiday decorating...everything really. Not sure why I didn't have much knitting mojo this summer, when it would have been in my best interest to knit gifts... So, a few things...and more to come.

Both of these hats are from the Rustling Leaves Pattern/Coastal Knits book. I knit the green first and then modified the pattern somewhat to make the orange a more fitted hat.

Green: Yarn/ Sanguine Gryphon Bugga in the colorway Cuban Cockroach (very hard to find now)
Orange: Yarn/Casbah Sock in the colorway Pumpkin

Next up is this little sweater, which will be gifted to my niece at Christmas time--it was a relatively quick knit for a sweater-something about the tiny size, I'm sure! Althought tiny, I realized I still despise picking up stitches for button bands--urrgh! 

Funny story: I find it difficult (probably because I'm a moron) to sew buttons on to knitted garments and my first attempt on this sweater was hilarious. I, very carefully, placed and attached the buttons, convinced Seth (to his abject horror) to model and took photos. As I was editing the photos, I realized that I didn't have the ruching matched up on both sides, it looked like I was drunk when I affixed the buttons...not the case, but the fact I didn't notice until I edited the photos made me laugh. Re-attached buttons in the properly aligned places and re-photographed...Ask Seth how much I had to pay him to model this a second time AND walk out the door in front of his sister's friends to do it.


Pattern: Tiny Tea Leaves
Yarn: Miss Babs Yowza! What A Skein
Colorway: Smooch

I'm hoping by next week I have some more knits to share. I'm also working on some more journal pages AND trying to figure out how to make a December Daily work for me this year.

I also noticed, as I wrote this post today, I'm coming up on my 200th blog post. Probably not a big deal for most people...but for me, I thought it might be fun to have a little giveaway when I hit that mark. Any suggestions as to what I should give? Knit? Yarn? Art? Gift Card?

Comments

[Michelle Adams]

All of those projects are so super amazing - so very lovely....
And LOL on the Seth model....
A knitted scarf???? :)

[Linda Barber]

Seriously, being your friend/family is a very lucky thing! :)

[Kelly Rodgers]

Your knitted things are so amazingly beautiful. You are truly talented Jenn xxx