Blanket in progress 4

So I took a couple of days off to craft other things.

Notes on this project:

• It is very easy to pull out and put away. No stress and easy to fix the fewer mistakes. I LOVE LESS STRESS!
• Every time I pick it up, something new as an idea pops into my mind. Too bad they would mean starting all over again. 
• I trust myself, but I need to let go more often and sooner! Then point above would happen less often.
• Weaving in ends are good to do as you go along. I am using superwash so spit felting won't work, but all those ends hanging around seem to create some sort of issue in my brain. Too many ends means too much jumbled mess in my head. Funny how it works that way.
• A couple of years ago this wouldn't have happened. WHY you may ask? I guess I don't trust my instincts or myself entirely, so as I am generally in life getting more comfortable with my self, the free form blanket also becomes more fun and easy going.

Here is the latest shot:

 Here it is with a cool effect from the iPhone:

Blanket in progress 3

Another day in blanket land.

I am bored with white. I have never been a huge fan of white, but I had it and so I wanted to use it up.
Why the aversion to white? I am not sure. It doesn't thrill or excite me, but I use it as its necessary. Maybe one needs the boring to enjoy the rest. To quote the Baker's wife in Into the Woods: "Just remembering you've had an and when you're back to or, makes the or mean more then it did before."

Anywho I am about to move away from the white and into grey. I am psyched for the next step. Still not totally sure where this will lead fully.

I think I'm about  1/3 through the blanket. The stripes equal 10 inches. If I do 2 more sections that makes it approx 30 inches. Add a couple of inches of boarder and voila! a decent sized baby blanket.

Still not sure of the boarder, but I am not there yet. So I will relax and meditate and let the force tell me what its meant to look like.

The plan is to have this done on May 13. Then I will move onto another project to focus on in the blog.

I craft multiple things at a time, so this is only a sampling of what is going on!

Blanket in Progress part 2

So here I am on the 3rd day of the blanket.
Do I know what I am doing entirely? Nope

Am I worried at all? Nope

The biggest thing on my mind is should I weave in the ends?
I'm actually pretty happy that I am not in the least bit stressed how it is going to turn out. Sometimes not having it all mapped out makes it more exciting. Which I guess I could follow through in life.

Here is the photo of where I was yesterday.
I am a bit farther now!

Blanket in progress day One

So I know its been a loooong time.

I think I'm back to trying to be more consistent in my blogging. Another one of my plans for the last year of my 30's.

So for now I am going to chronicle a baby blanket that I am working on. There is no other reason then I feel like it.

This is a free form blanket I started on May 1. There is no baby to take ownership but I am sure I will find one!

May 1, 2012
chosen 3 balls of cascade 220 superwash in white, teal and purple.
Plan stripes of the colours. white, then a purple, then teal, back to purple and white to finish it off.
Cast On 130 stitches in the white
Knit all the rows.
Plan 20 rows of white.
While knitting said row of white realise it might be nice to use the white as an over all boarder. I will add on the  side boarders at the end.
realise that I don't want 20 rows of white. It's too much stop at 16 instead.
Start the purple.
Think: You know it would look really great if I had some blank in there. OOOO 2 rows black with a 8-10 rows of white then 2 rows black and colour
Decide that teal is not what I want
Oooo I have black and grey. Let's make purple the colour and then use the shades in chunks.
Boarder? Oh I'll decide later.

May 2, 2012
Forget part of the design plan, but my new plan will work out better then you might expect.
To be continued..........

I feel like sometimes this is how my brain works, neither good nor bad.
I find myself with great ideas that I am easily swayed by. I sort of plan sort of go with the flow!

 I hope to have this done in a week - 10 days. It's possible. So get ready for some crazy blanket moments.

Street Scenes

So I don't have too much to say.

I wanted to share this photo I took last week.
I was on my way home and the sky was absolutely incredible!
The light on the buildings made them look like they were on fire.
This is Queen Street West in Toronto, if you want to know!

What a lovely night that was!

iPhoto art

So I was photographing my cowl I finished to post online. I am using Hipstagram on my iPhone.  I take regular shots and then try them out in other ways.

Well look what showed up today.

She looks like she is staring to the side looking at someone, maybe a long lost lover, or someone she is  afraid of.

She's a mannequin, so that's what makes it all the more interesting. The dark background with the stark white baldness and the shadows that line her face. Really intriguing.

This is another Hipstagram photo of the same in a different film called kdot.

Not as creepy, but still looks like a woman longing for something.

Wow iPhone art!

Thrum Mittens - The Journey!

DAY 1

So I have a new project that I started last night with a cold. I didn't understand what I was doing.
The project is for my Aunt Pat, who asked me to knit her a pair of thrum mittens from yarn that was her sisters.
COOL! I've always wanted to try Thrumming and I had never had the opportunity.  So I found a pattern and sped off into the wilds of thrumming.
What are thrum mittens you ask?
They are mittens that have pieces of roving (unspun yarn) knit into the mitten.

Roving

Then one rips them into pieces to insert.

Then the fun begins.

So I think I know what I'm doing, but it looks wrong. I read a relatively famous bloggers' take on thrum. Still doesn't work

Thank goodness for YouTube, as I am obviously a look not read for a concept kind of gal!




So here we go off to the races. I have the yarn the roving bits in a bag ready to go!

ripped roving

 

So finally I figure out what I am doing & I drop a stitch somewhere.

Rip out the small amount of work done and start again.

Now on a break and I think it looks cool to see Medusa like roving creeping out o f the top of the mitten.

This may take more time to finish then planned, but I still think its cool.




The alien looking mitts will be awesome and will be loved and that to me is the most important thing!

Alien tentacles rising from the mitten!