Wishcasting Wednesday

Today Jamie asks us "What steps do you wish to take?"

With this question I need to ask myself, "Where do I start?" There are so many different steps that I wish to take to better myself. There are the steps that I wish to take to become an independent adult, the steps to become a better knitter and crocheter, and the steps that I wish to take to get back into school.

I wish to decide on what steps to take first and make a plan and order as to what to do.

New Hand Warmers

I found a new pattern that I am going to try out for one of my Christmas presents. I am doing a few changes to it. I made one of the patterns and found it to be a little tight. I am making a pair of hand warmers by Marta at Creativeyarn. I really like her patterns and her style. It would be nice if there were some alternative patterns for people who aren't her size.

This is the first pair that I made. It turned out pretty well, but I don't like not tight they turned out and how short they are. With the new pair that I am making they are going to be looser and longer on both ends. I hope with the ones that I am working on now will work better.

Pattern collection #1

I think that I am going to start collecting on my blog all the different items that I want to create, from patterns that I have found online. I will be posting a picture of the item from the pattern along with a link to the original site/pattern.

http://www.crochetandknitting.com/mitglov2.htm

These are the fingerless gloves I have made earlier this year, but I have another pair to make for Christmas.

http://www.freewebs.com/spillyjane/Piggy%20Mittens.pdf

I think that these Piggy Mittens are adorable. Since it is

a pdf I don't know how to take the picture out of it. So you'll just have to trust me on how cute they are.

http://creativeyarn.blogspot.com/2007/10/free-snowflake-sweater-pattern.html

This one I want to make for myself. I don't know if I'll have time to make this one until after the New Year. The author of this blog also has many other beautiful free patterns that she shares with the reader and even more beautiful pieces at her Esty shop.

I hope to do a few more postings like this as I go on in my journey of pattern finding.

~Happy knitting

TGIF

Yay its Friday!

Things that I am looking forward to for the weekend...

1) Seeing my boyfriend. I am very excited to see him. It has been about two weeks since we've been together.

2) Not working, I will have time for some knitting and crocheting. Hopefully get those two scarves done. Once I get all of my presents finished for Christmas then I can start working on finishing my bunny that I have almost finished, and I want to start making some clothing for myself.

3) Getting out of town. I'm meeting up with the boyfriend in Tomah.

another boy scarf

Making boy scarves that don't look stupid or too girly is hard to do. I have the two that I have been writing about and another one that I pulled apart and restarted just today. This one is for my little sister's boyfriend for Christmas. It is starting to look a little like a tube sock. It is maroon with black with gold and black stripes. They are the his school colors at Minnesota. I hope that he likes it, but if he doesn't I would love to have it, or it can be donated to someone that would love to have some warm wool around their neck. This scarf is going to work out much faster then the wide one that I was working on with these yarns.

Now some fun personal news.

Last Saturday I broke my glasses. It was right after I finished my shift at Younkers. I had to fill out a form for my hours. I was getting warm and pulled my scarf off over my head and bent my glasses almost in half. I took them off to bend them back and snapped them in half. Just yesterday I got my eyes checked and ordered a new pair. I am very excited for these new ones. They are very chic, dark blue (almost black). The earpieces/ sides are rather thick. The nose piece is thicker then my last frames (thats good since that is where I broke my last pair). I now need to wait until the 25th for them to come to me. Soon I can throw away contacts that I have been wearing for five months or longer.

I am very excited for a new look.

making progress

I feel like I am finally making some progress on my present making. Yesterday I completed one of the many scarves that I have been working on. This one is going to my boyfriend's father. I did a faggot stitch with size 15 knitting needles with yellow and white yarn. It is a shorter scarf then what I would like to make, but it was requested to make it short. I really like this stitch. It is a nice open and elegant stitch. It was fun learning this new stitch also.

Tomorrow I need to get close to finishing my grey and red scarf. I asked my sister around how wide I should make it, so now I know. Also, I got the okay on the length of it. That's good because otherwise I would need to pull it all apart and start over again if it was too long.

I finished making dishcloths until the rest of my projects are completed. I have seven of them done. I just need to weave in the ends and then I can say that I am finished with them. I think that will be the very last thing that I'll do before I wrap them up for Christmas. My mother gave me a new pattern that she wants for dishcloths. It is pretty much what I do now but there is a center square that has a different type of stitch in it that I don't know how to do yet. I told her that it'll be a while until I get to learning how to do it.

Today is going to be a fun day filled with work at both Younkers and at Micon. I really hope that I can get out of Micon at a decent time. I know I am their closing usher but sometimes it is nice to get to bed before midnight.

oh no!

"My glasses, I can't see without my glasses!"

Yesterday when I was finished with work I had to stop by costumer service to complete a form. I was pretty warm since I had my coat and scarf on and the building was warm. I took my scarf off over my head and bent my glasses up. I then took them off and tried to bend them down and ended up snapping them in half like a twig.

I now have to wear my contacts in order to see and drive legally.

The next few weeks are going to be awesome.