Showing posts with label beginner knitting project. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beginner knitting project. Show all posts

Thursday, November 22, 2012

i did it!








my first post-washcloth knitting project completed. yahoo and phew in equal measure-i did a lot of unpicking! not perfect, but perfectly serviceable, not going to fall apart, and rather fetching. and now a gift for a northern hemispherer who has a seasonal need for them now. now for a baby blanket. something plain and in a pale grey, for a boy. i will decide on a pattern and start soon. i better start soon, (i'm 25 weeks already!), it's just that ravelry is soooo distracting...

its has been marvellous doing sitting down knitty craft, post my advent-swap-craft-marathon. my advent calendar is in the mail to Stella (i'm itchy to show you some of the things i made/thrifted come December openings) so now so i can catch my breath and vacuum the craft room before finishing up christmas present makings, and clauds birthday party makings, and Christchurch Bloggers secret santa swap makings, and...you get the picture. it's my last craft hurrah before probable craft-barren newborn-dom!

the good thing about learning to knit in spring/summer, is that by autumn/winter i could be awesome at it, ahem, and be able to knit endless chunky cable cowls (whilst carrying the boy in my gobsmackingly beautiful silk Sakura Bloom baby sling, won at Che and Fidel)  which are my major ravelry preoccupation at the moment. and Cat is sending me the pattern for this most gorgeous strawberry tea cosy she made. i do like the thought of knitting it in strawberry eating season, if it's not too complicated and unbeginnery.

it's my creative space. what's yours? do show and tell!