This week in knitting: brooches

Check out my new plans for knitting.  I know, I'm shocked I remembered to update the other blog too.

Okay, go read, if you're so inclined.

Brooch-ing a new subject

I'm a "making" machine! #reverb10

December 6 Make. What was the last thing you made? What materials did you use? Is there something you want to make, but you need to clear some time for it? (prompt by @gretchenrubin)

Ever since learning to knit, I've been on a roll.  A coworker said that every time she turned around, I had a new project I was working on with the finished one sitting beside it.  I've been a making fiend.

I'm happiest when I'm creating.  It's a weird thing considering that it isn't something I do for work or career or anything.  But I am happiest when I am creating.  Whether it is a map of agencies, a desk top phone list, a painting, a terrible Saskatachewan Riders muff, or my new found love of knitting, I am happiest making stuff.

This week, I'm making a pair of hobo gloves for my office.  I cannot find a happy medium of heat at the office, so my hands are always cold.  Now, I do have another pair of hobo mitts, but they were too hot.  So, I thought I should make another pair.

I am in love with this pattern.  Forgive the picture (it's hard to take pics of your own arm.)  I used the pattern by Jacqueline Vance-Kuss here.  I had the colour left over from a friend's repair project.  It's such a gorgeous rust red, I fell in love with it.

Now, I just have to start the second one.  Or, just have one hand warm and one cold.  Time will tell.

I made me a sweater!

Yes, I created a knitting blog so you wouldn't have to see or hear me talk about knitting.  But.  I made a sweater.  A whole sweater.  Okay, yes, a sweat shop in China could have created the same thing a lot quicker and without any mistakes, but those little kids have nothing better to do.  Be proud of me!!!

It is here for you to enjoy.

I have a new website! About knitting!

I love knitting.  I want to talk about knitting and tell everyone about it and make everyone try it.  i bring it with me everywhere and resent when things take away from my knitting.  I know I'm insane.  I know I'm intensely intense about yarn and sticks and clacking and making stuff out of seemingly random movements. 

I think I'm driving my husband insane.  It's a good thing I didn't discover this until after the wedding.

So, I decided to start another website.  Devoted solely to knitting!!! 

Buggering Knit Monkies will be updated as often as possible and will be a journal of sorts for my projects -- finished and in the works.  If you're a knitter and you know it, click the link!

For the rest of you, you're welcome.

Projects, lists, and plans

I have been a knitting fiend lately.  I actually stayed at work for an extra 10 minutes one day so I could finish what I was working on.  It has been an exciting discovery which has lead The Guy to shake his head and realized I have, indeed, lost my mind.  I started knitting a puppy sweater for Monty.  Although, Ky thinks I'm in over my head, that's just how I role.  I didn't want to practice on more scarves or toques.  I don't need any.  I need a puppy sweater.  In Rider green.

However, once I started knitting, I realized I needed a bag to put all my knitting things in.  I was using a small Rocky Mountain Soap Company bag, but it wasn't quite cutting it.  I had a brilliant idea for what I wanted in a bag to keep things organized.  So, I designed one and made it.  Today.

In order to do that, I had to first enlist The Guy for help.  We picked up the table I needed which had been left at the church after the wedding.  We set it up, ran power for it, and I set up a sewing area.  It looks great!  I'm starting to get organized and it took care of one more thing on my list of things I wanted to accomplish.  So, I started to sew.

Here is the final product.  I've found a few things I would change about it, but it's just the prototype for me, so it's okay.  I plan to make many others now that I have this layout and either give them away or sell them.  It didn't take too long, so I figure it will be okay.

 

Vintage 70s Fortrell which I picked up from a coworker's MiL when she moved.  

I've been dying to use it.

  

Inside the bag on the right side.  

It has four slots for tall needles and 4 for shorter ones.

  

Inside the bag on the left side.

One large pocket with flap (large enough to hold a 6" ruler)

and two open pockets for miscellaneous.

Top down view of the inside of the bag.