Its all true, the boogie girl is real, and you've found her. She knits, sews, spins, does pottery and writes it all down in this blog.
Friday, December 12, 2003
No fingertips!
Mom - Why don't these have fingertips, I mean that's the first place that my hand gets cold?
Me - this way you can pick your nose with out having to take a mitten off.
I'm making these with regia sock yarn on a size 3 needle. They look a little odd. I wanted them to be really funky and odd so I didn't work to make any color hit a certain spot. The second glove starts with yellow so they will be really mismatched. I want them to be really silly for those days when you just need a little pick me up. I might make a "pretty" pair after these are done. You can see on the orange part there is a green yarn running through it, I haven't decided yet if they are going to be convertible mittens or not, that yarn marks the spot to start at. I tried to take a pic of myself wearing it, I am seriously uncoordinated, they do look much better on a hand.
Last night I wrote a patten for a new fulled tote, I just need to find the right yarn now and start testing out my pattern. I was thinking of dying some more yarn with koolaid (I love how the fuzzy feet came out) or maybe using the ever popular noro. I jsut don't know yet. I also got a fabulous hank of fingering weight yarn the other day that I've been trying to decide what to do with it, I had an idea come to mind for a tank top. I sketched out my idea and I will hopefully starting putting the pattern on paper as soon as I get the details worked out in my head.
Today: I've been busy busy busy sewing needle rolls and hats. I love to sew and I really like my designs but sometimes I really just want to knit. I've also been finishing up some pottery orders. I've got the last batch in the kiln (I hope). I'm going to sit down and try to unwind before I have to leave to go to a wake, its for my cousin's wife's aunt. It will be Moira's first wake. The child doesn't understand death at all. I love the simplictic idea of go to the doctor and then you can come home. ahhh if it were only that simple.