Ravelry is truly an amazing, amazing site. I recently described it to a (non-knitter) friend that it is like "myspace for knitters." However, it is so so so so so so much better than myspace. It may just be internet love.
However, it has also led me to a sad realization about the type of things that I knit. Let's use some statistics here.
My Projects:
Knitted Toys - 6%
Hats - 13%
Scarves - 73%
73% scarves? That's more than half!! This shall not do. I need to have more variety in my knitting. This however, shall soon be remedied by the entrance of two sets of baby hats and mittens for a close friend of mine. That should help.
Right?
Friday, March 28, 2008
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
A Lesson Well Learned
I will never, EVER, go to the Dept. of Revenue without a knitting project ever again.
Sometimes my own stupidity amazes me.
The sad thing is I didn't take ANYTHING. Not my iPod, not a book, NOTHING.
That's two hours of my knitting life I will never get back.
On the bright side, I only missed one question on my permit test! Yup, I pwned it.
Oh! And I got my Ravelry invite today! It's amazing. I need some friends, though. Don't want to look like a Ravelry outcast! So yeah, if you read this, add me! My username is SodaSpill. Word.
<3jenny
Sometimes my own stupidity amazes me.
The sad thing is I didn't take ANYTHING. Not my iPod, not a book, NOTHING.
That's two hours of my knitting life I will never get back.
On the bright side, I only missed one question on my permit test! Yup, I pwned it.
Oh! And I got my Ravelry invite today! It's amazing. I need some friends, though. Don't want to look like a Ravelry outcast! So yeah, if you read this, add me! My username is SodaSpill. Word.
<3jenny
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
THE Music Scarf
I honestly can't believe I'm the first person to ever have the desire to knit a scarf with music notes on it. This simply can't be possible.
Well, I suppose it can, since I looked high and low trying to find a pattern without luck. I did, however find some crochet charts and other miscellaneous things, so I finally ventured into the strange, strange world of writing one's own patterns.
Frightening, I know.
So far, it hasn't been too bad, but it did take me a while to realize that I had to knit the chart backwards for the notes to be accurate. That was slightly traumatizing, but at least I now know better for the other end when I get there. And because this was my first excursion into color work, my fabric is a little puckered in some areas, but as I once read in a very wise person's knitting book, "You are a human. Therefore, it is ok for your knitting to look like it has been done by a human."
I like that. And plus, my art hero Andy Warhol loved mistakes. He frequently embraced and incorporated them into his amazing work.
So there, I am not perfect, and neither are you.
Anyway, enough of that. Pictures!
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Jumping On The Bandwagon
Since all the knitting gurus seem to have blogger blogs, I caved in to the peer pressure and got myself one as well. To be honest, I am liking my xanga much more so far, but if you have a knitting xanga no one cares. Angst.
Anywho, since this is a KNITTING blog, I should probably start talking about my knitting. At the moment, the only project I have on the needles is a fuzzy hat that I am almost finished with. If I can get my lazy self around to casting off and seaming it up, then it will be done and I will have a nice warm hat to wear. Which would indeed be fabulous. I am also looking into making a fair isle scarf with music notes on it for the instrumental music director at my school, which the extremely generous folks at the knittinghelp.com forums have been helping me out with. This would be my first project with color work, and I am excited to get started.
I have also been dabbling in the strange and cosmic world of crochet lately. I just learned not too long ago, but I have to say that so far I find it much easier, but much more boring than knitting. I am not a big fan of crochet. It seems redundant. And yes, I can hear your little chuckles out there. "Crochet is redundant?!" you are all saying, "You're a knitter for goodness' sake!" And you may be right. Perhaps it is a chemical imbalance or gene mutation, but I do not find knitting redundant at all. Each stitch is exciting to me. Straight crocheting is not very exciting. I kind of like granny squares (but they definately need a new name.) I started a scarf-hat made out of granny squares, and it is taking me forever to finish. I refuse to work on it anywhere that is not my home, because I have to do a different color on each row, and that is simply not an easily transported project. I can't wait to have the scarf-hat to wear, but 32 granny squares is a lot. And I mean, like a gigantic amount. You don't think about it when you say, "Oh! I want a scarf-hat made of 32 granny squares!" But you will later. Oh, will you think about it later.
Anywho, it is getting awfully late, and I must be off to do something that hopefully involves unconsciousness.
<3jenny
theknittingviolinist
Anywho, since this is a KNITTING blog, I should probably start talking about my knitting. At the moment, the only project I have on the needles is a fuzzy hat that I am almost finished with. If I can get my lazy self around to casting off and seaming it up, then it will be done and I will have a nice warm hat to wear. Which would indeed be fabulous. I am also looking into making a fair isle scarf with music notes on it for the instrumental music director at my school, which the extremely generous folks at the knittinghelp.com forums have been helping me out with. This would be my first project with color work, and I am excited to get started.
I have also been dabbling in the strange and cosmic world of crochet lately. I just learned not too long ago, but I have to say that so far I find it much easier, but much more boring than knitting. I am not a big fan of crochet. It seems redundant. And yes, I can hear your little chuckles out there. "Crochet is redundant?!" you are all saying, "You're a knitter for goodness' sake!" And you may be right. Perhaps it is a chemical imbalance or gene mutation, but I do not find knitting redundant at all. Each stitch is exciting to me. Straight crocheting is not very exciting. I kind of like granny squares (but they definately need a new name.) I started a scarf-hat made out of granny squares, and it is taking me forever to finish. I refuse to work on it anywhere that is not my home, because I have to do a different color on each row, and that is simply not an easily transported project. I can't wait to have the scarf-hat to wear, but 32 granny squares is a lot. And I mean, like a gigantic amount. You don't think about it when you say, "Oh! I want a scarf-hat made of 32 granny squares!" But you will later. Oh, will you think about it later.
Anywho, it is getting awfully late, and I must be off to do something that hopefully involves unconsciousness.
<3jenny
theknittingviolinist
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