Knitting is my most favorite hobby. I would be utterly lost without yarn in my life, but thankfully the size of my stash won’t let that happen anytime soon! Here you will find all the fibery goodness you crave, from knitting and crocheting to sewing and plastic canvas.
My son J was asking me for a toy stegosaurus that he saw on Pinterest for a while, so I finally decided to make it. He was really into dinosaurs at the time and really loved the knitted one, which was great for me because I enjoy knitting more than crocheting and knitted toys are not as common. Continue reading “Knitted Stegosaurus”
My first attempt at a top-down, sleeveless cardigan didn’t go as planned, so I ended up making another. I decided to use bulkier yarn for this one and tried to cast on enough stitches so that it would be wide enough to drape at the front like a proper cardigan. I figured the angel hair yarn was of the perfect amount for this, so after figuring out the sizing on a swatch, I set out with the hope of making a better cardi.
I was getting tired of my old hat and the slouchy part, so I wanted to make a warm hat with no slouch. I knew which yarn I wanted to use for it – the soft alpaca wool that I made a baby hat with a built-in scarf from. My son outgrew that hat and never really liked the alpaca fibers on his head anyway. Now I just needed the design. After a couple of weeks of searching, I settled on a simple hat with rolled up sides and a scrunched top – a no-frills hat that would show off the yarn. Continue reading “Alpaca Hat”
I started this project because I had an upcoming short trip to San Francisco and I needed to knit on the plane, in the airport, and while waiting in general. All my other projects at the time were large and cumbersome, so I was looking for something that would take up little space with the yarn I needed. Not too long before that, I found some yarn that I somehow neglected to add to my Ravelry stash, but it was gorgeous and soft and just asking to be knit with. And I only had three skeins of it, so it was perfect to take with me on a trip. I did some research and found the perfect item for the amount of yarn I had: a top-down sleeveless cardigan. So it was settled: I had the yarn, the design, and the needles. I wound the yarn into balls and was ready for the trip. Continue reading “Green Waves Cardi”
The idea for this scarf materialized from seeing one my managers at work sporting a cool-looking arm-knit scarf one day and my brain going “I have to make one of those!” So one night, when I was sick with a bad cough and couldn’t fall asleep, I found the chunkiest yarn I had (leftovers from the Chunky Cabled Vest) and learned to arm knit. It looked easy – you just use your hands as needles, right? So I cast one and even knit a row easily. But what then? I couldn’t turn my right arm to the left side so I could knit the next row. So I tried pulling all the stitches off and moving them to the left arm, but that was just cumbersome. Continue reading “Arm Knit Scarf”
I have had the yarn for this project for a very long time, back from when I was obsessed with the Caron Simply Soft yarns. I bought a bunch of different colors – sage green, persimmon, plum wine, three shades of blue, and black. I gave the plum wine ones to my mom and had plans for the blues and black, but the sage and persimmon were still waiting for projects. When I was going through my stash and Pinterest board to try to find projects for the yarn I had accumulated, I knew the Remnant Stripe Cardigan was going to be perfect for this yarn. The yarn is silky soft and would drape beautifully, so I set out to knit one of the biggest projects I ever made. Continue reading “Green Silk Cardi”
When my son J was younger, I made these cute little leg warmers for him from a llama and silk blend yarn that were so soft, fluffy, and warm. Needless to say, he outgrew them fairly quickly, but the yarn was beautiful and expensive, so they just gathered dust in storage because I didn’t want to throw them out and didn’t know what else to use the yarn for. Then during a closet purge, I found them again and pulled them up on my arms. And I realized they were the perfect fit. I thought about using them as wrist warmers, but I still had a skein or so left, so I thought I would use up the yarn and make them into fingerless gloves since my old ones were becoming a bit dingy. Continue reading “Fluffy Fingerless Gloves”
I came across a picture of tiny crochet monster slippers on Pinterest, and faced the same conundrum as the lady who reverse engineered them. It didn’t bring me any closer to a pattern though, so I decided to make my own, like she did. I found some green scrap yarn and got to work. My son J was so excited that he kept wanting to wear them everywhere, so I actually made another pair in red. Now he just wears them when it’s too cold for just socks at home. Continue reading “Green Monster Slippers”
There is a long story behind this cowl, but let’s start with the yarn. I bought the yarn a long time ago without thinking much about what I will do with it (as I did with much of my yarn), mostly because I liked the softness and the color. Almost two years before I even started on the cowl, I made legwarmers from this yarn and learned three things from that process: 1. this yarn knits into a beautifully soft garment, 2. but it is very painful to knit with (the silkiness, the strands that come apart during the purl, the horrid pain that is the yarn over with the combination of the previous two factors), and 3. to say this yarn was wrong for the application is an understatement. No matter how tightly I knit, it just wouldn’t stay up on my legs, even when I used tights. So I took all that apart, bought new yarn for the legwarmers, and left this yarn until I found something to use it for. Continue reading “Meandering Vines Cowl”
It has been over a year since I made this vest, but I never got around to posting it. I wanted something simple that would knit up very quickly and that I could wear with anything. So I bought myself some super bulky yarn in beige for Christmas and would have been done the same day if I didn’t run out of yarn. I needed two more skeins, but all the stores were either sold out or stopped carrying it, so I had to order it and wait another two weeks to finish my cool vest. It’s quite bulky, but so so warm at the office. I loved it with my navy button-down shirt, but the fabric of the shirt didn’t get along with the vest’s fibers, which ended up clinging to the shirt in a very uncool way. So white shirts that are not as stiff and a plum blouse have gone much better with it since. Continue reading “Chunky Cabled Vest”