Not everyone can walk around with a fish on thier head.

My daughter Ginna was talking about how cool it would be to have a Pokemon hat. A particular pokemon who is a fish. I had downloaded the dead fish hat from knitty way back when it came out, so of course, I was proud to announce " I can Do that" After hunting up the pokemon card for that character and coming up with a sketch She gave me her instructions and I set off knitting this hat. I added whiskers and inserted pipe cleaners in them to help them stay up. I knit the eyes instead of using felt. I also made the fins a bit different. The white is some of my cherished glow in the dark yarn. The supply is getting smaller.






Not nearly as exciting as the hat, I also finished the greenfield cardigan. It's from the new England knits book. It came out way too big. Not sure if I will try to felt it or just go with it. This is # 5 for IntSweMoDo2011.

I really need to design my own garder yoke cardigan because they all seem to have a neck that is way to wide for my small frame. I also want long skinny sleeves.

finished projects update for February

Here we are in March, the end of March even and I'm posting my finished sweaters for February.

These are # 3 and 4 for IntSweMoDo 2011. I don't know why I didn't post them sooner.
This was the crisp and Grey vest from Veera Valimaki. She has some really great patterns. I used spud and chloe otter to make this.
Very fast knit.



This one was the Eternalism vest from Knitscene winter /spring 2011. Also a very fast knit. I love the yarn. Which reminds me, the pattern used about half of what I bought for it.

I guess my theme for February was vests.

I also spent a little time on a UFO that is a vest . Its a rowan pattern and Im using rowan colorscapes. Wish I had finished that one too. It wouldn't have taken any time I just got bored with it.

weaving love.

I started my 4th weaving project yesterday. It was one of thoes listen to your gut moments. While I was warping the loom I was having some trouble with the yarn and I really should have stopped then and picked another yarn. I didn't. I finished warping and started weaving. I noticed right away that something wasn't right about the tension. Then after wewaving about 1 1/2 inches I noticed my first broken warp thread. It didn't snap it just slowly fell apart. as I looked I watched another one fall apart. The yarn was disintegration. So I pulled it all off the loom and put it in the trash. The yarn just wasn't strong enough to be used as a warp and I was basically pulling it apart. So today I picked a yarn from deep in the stash. It doesn't have any ball bands but I'm pretty sure it was knitpicks stroll in a taupe heather color. Its plenty strong and is holding up much better. I used about 1 3/4 balls of it to warp a 8 inch wide surface on a 12 dent heddle. I am using mini mochi for the warp and even though I only have a few inches I can see that this is going to be a very pretty scarf.

a very sporatic blogger

Im not a very good blogger. Im blaming my new loom, It"s so much fun to weave. I got a 20 inch flip rigid heele loom and I love it. I have been pulling out old stash and weaving away. Life in generally is super stressfull right now and weaving is very calm and mediatative. I think part of it is that I'm so new at it that Im just playing with no exspectations.
In knitting news, I started a small shawl. It's my first shawl ever. Mostly Im trying to use up some sock yarn stash and there was a KAL on the cold sheeping forum so I jumped in.
I finished a hat for Raven at work. She's leaving to move home. She wanted the kitty hat from Stitch and Bitch so I did that. I also finished the dead fish hat for Gin from Knitty. That was an adventure. I changed the pattern to make it look like a pokemon charachter.

post missing

I just noticed that my post about finishing the Aidez Cardigan is missing. This was my 2nd sweater finished in January for the IntSweMoDo2011. It turned out well except for the seam on the collar is a little bulky and the collar is a little to tall for my small frame. After I wore it a few days It wasn't as annoying.

Goals for Feb

My goals for Feb:
At least do a few rows on the 2nd sleeve of Kerrera
Finish the Fish hat for Gin (soooo over this project) DONE
Finish the eternalism vest from the new knitscene DONE
Finish the body of the greenfield cardigan and start a sleeve
Work on the spud and chloe hoodie Kal
Knit a sock for the sock yarn stash KAL
Go through another bin of yarn and make sure it is photographed and already in my Ravelry stash
No yarn purchases
Don’t start anymore new projects this month OPPS

Figure out how to update the knito meter on my blog. (MIGHT JUST REMOVE IT)

first sweater done for IntSweMoDo2011

Here it as a finished sweater for 2011. I started this one on Jan 3rd of 2011 and finished it around the 8th I think. Super fast knit on size 15 needles. Its in puffin which I was really happy with. It's a one ply yarn but it's pretty sturdy. The pattern is very simple and takes no effort to knit up. I wanted to start a new project before I went in to the ufo finishing frenzy.
I then went to work on my Aidez cardigan and finished all the knitting for that today. I just have to block it and assemble it. I think that will be a good weekend project. Hopefully it will be warmer and dry this weekend.
I havent done any sock knitting for the 12 socks in 2011 challenge.
I haven't bought any yarn so I'm still clean in the cold sheep challenge.
I have knit up 11 balls of yarn so far for the 100 balls of yarn knit in 2011.
Seems like to many things to keep track of.