News Update

My apologies for not having posted anything for 3 weeks. For those who don't really know me personally, my husband and I are getting ready to move to our new house a week from tomorrow. Half of our stuff at home has already been packed in boxes, including most of my knitting stuff. So packing compounded with my usual chores and running errands are what's keeping me utterly busy lately. My husband is actually quite surprised that there are days when I fail to knit. He knows knitting is my daily "vitamins"... he now probably thinks that I might start getting sick. Ha, ha!

Anyway, let's back track what happened to me, knitwise, these past 3 weeks...

Remember the baby sweater? I already gave it to our friends' baby (Jonathan) a few weeks ago. To be honest, I feel bad that the baby sweater seems so "amateur" --- it being my first intarsia and first sweater project ---- BUT our friends liked it, so I'm glad. Another thing I feel bad about is timing. I gave it away when it's a few weeks before the end of winter. But then again, at least I finished it and gave it to Jonathan as intended! :) So anyway, to compensate for my sweater's being "amateur" and late, I also gave him a couple of cute tiny hats that I made: the multi-colored striped one that I posted on my last article, and this hat shown on the right.

News #2 is that I got "in" on the Saturday class at Personal Threads. Wooooohoooo!!! I seriously wanted that slot as I would like to get back to working again soon. But Lydia (my instructor) can only take 5 students per class and if not for one of her students who backed out, I seriously wouldn't have gotten in. I swear, I'm not going to let go of this slot --- EVER! Haha.

So what is my current class project? My Grandma's request: a poncho. Well, the truth is, she asked me for a shawl... but she's my grandma... I don't want her to be hassled by putting together both ends of the shawl everytime she wears it... so I decided to make her a poncho instead. I got the pattern off my One-Skein Wonders book and I'm using Cashsoft DK in Savannah and Donkey, and Ritratto Stacey Charles #94. It looks sooooo pretty... my "classmates" are even saying that I might change my mind about giving it away. Ha, ha! Don't worry Grandma, that will never, ever happen. :) (Picture will be shown on my next post!)

Lastly, I don't know what happened to my signing up for Secret Pal 10. I went to their site to register and posted on my blog the answered questionnaire as early as February 11... but I got no email from them and my blog site isn't on their list of participants. Sniff, sniff. I was really looking forward to that :(

Hats, hats and more hats!

I swapped knitting books for a week with my knitting 'classmate', Tiffany. She's got my Adorable Knits for Tots while I have her Itty Bitty Hats... OMG! I am now obsessed with her book... and making lots of adorable baby hats!

The patterns in the hat book call for just DK yarns... but I needed LOTS of colors. So instead of spending so much on Rowan and Manos del Uruguay yarns, I went to Hobby Lobby and bought Caron Soft yarns in different colors.

The first pattern that caught my eye was the Rainbow Marley. I wasn't really crazy over the I-cord toppings but I know I can make just a plain striped hat and still make it look adorable! Unfortunately though, I've ended up mixing the stitches with my first hat coz I knitted while having a Grey's Anatomy marathon with my husband... but again, the colors looked soooo adorable and the hat nevertheless turned out cute and girlie.

My favorite color is turquoise so of course, the second hat I made, which I'm planning to make for a boy, still has turquoise on it. Check out this picture on the left.







The third hat, which I just finished knitting a few minutes ago, is my favorite. It's a birthday hat! The pattern actually calls for white as the main color and for the frosting to either be baby blue or baby pink. But I like chocolate cakes in white icing. So this is how it turned out. I used violet for the candle so that either a girl or a boy can wear it. Cute eh? Makes me crave for some chocolate cake...

I am going to make an upside down daisy this afternoon --- another adorable pattern in the book. So watch out for my next post!