So much has happend since July, that I will just skip ahead to October and pretend I never stopped blogging.
I have finally managed to take photos of my new finished knitting projects. I finally caught the bug and bought a little kit to teach myself how to knit. That was utterly useless other than a more economic way to get the "basics." By far, knittinghelp, and my dear sister taught me how to knit. So for my first project I decided to make a scarf for my toddler out of some junky yarn I had left over from some crochet projects.
It turned out great, but she will have nothing to do with it. I snapped this photo seconds after putting it on her and you can clearly see she is ripping it off her neck. Oh well, lesson learned. Don't bother knitting anything for my little one! I had originally planned to make scarves to practice my stiches and do some red ones for the Red Scarf Project, but I am waaaaaaaaaaay too slow for scarves to be very much fun. It took an eternity for me to finish and I never wanted to do sockinette stitch ever again!So I decided to try dishcloths. I'd already purchased some cotton yarn a while ago to crochet some but just never got around to it. Actually for the life of me I cannot figure out how to do a long double crochet like the one in the pattern, so it just never happened. If any of you know PLEASE post how!!! Obviously I wasn't a very good hooker... I was able to complete the Feather and Fan Dishcloth with no trouble at all and
the Tulip and Garter Dishcloth was a breeze too. I was so relieved! Best part of all, it was almost instant gratification. I had two completed projects in half the time it took me to do a scarf. Hooray! I wanted to move on to hats, because I figure they too will give me that instant gratification that I need, but big sis says I'm just not ready so for the hat I want to do. So I will settle for this one instead. Good thing I have her to guide me so I don't get in over my head, right?So there you have it kids. If you are lucky, some day soon I'll post pictures of Sydni's second birthday. I made a pretty cute cake for her as well. It's so cute in fact I haven't had the heart to cut into the front of it. More on that later though...
