What am I working on now? Well, I just finished knitting a pair of slippers for my mom but they still need to be felted and assembled. Not fully assembled, they are mostly assembled before felting but there is a strap and a button to be sewed on each slipper. If you are interested, here is the pattern on Ravelry, they are super cute and very easy! Well, to knit, we shall see how well I can felt them, thus far I have not had too much success in felting. Thanks to advice from friends I think I have pinpointed the problem to a water temperature issue, so we'll see. I need to go ahead and do them though, they are for mom for her birthday and that's tomorrow!! Ok, so we aren't actually celebrating until Sunday, but still, two days...
I also made her a simple little cup cozy, since her weakness is Starbucks, in the same yarn I made her slippers with - the slippers are two strands of orange Cascade 220 Quatro and one strand of orange Cascade 220 for the soles and two strands of the orange Quatro for the top and sides, one strand of orange and one strand of Quatro for the strap, the cup cozy I used just one strand of the Quatro.
I do have a cotton washcloth on the sticks (also for mom, yes I knit for her quite a bit lol) that I really should get finished. Not hard but I battle my ADD on some projects and that's one of them.
Lastly I started a blanket last night but I'm not sure about it. I'm running 3 strands of Caron Simply Soft, one in black, one purple and one white and on size 13 needles. It's a diagonal, basically a super sized version of a basic washcloth pattern that is one of my favorites. Just cast on 4, knit across for the first row, from then on just knit 2, yarn over and knit across until you feel it's big enough, do a couple of rows of knit 1, k2tog, YO and knit across. Then start decreasing by knit 1, k2tog, YO, k2tog and knit across until you are back down to 4 stitches, bind of and you are done! I love it as a washcloth pattern (mainly because I have a hard time making squares otherwise - I have a large collection of rectangle washcloths lol) but am not sure how I'm liking how it's turning out as a blanket so far. I think it's the colors together, they are nice but it's busy and boring all at the same time.
I am trying to decide what to knit next and also what to take with me when I go to Vegas in two weeks. I am a spur of the moment knitter and as such I usually end up with all of my needles and hooks along with a large selection of yarn in my knitting bag, never knowing what I am going to be in the mood to work on. I am hoping this blog will help me out by helping me talk out what I would like to work on and maybe be a little more organized. I tend to have a large list of things I would like to make and none of them get done because I'm always working on something else.
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