with eyes like the sea after a storm

As I'm currently saturated with a zillion shows spinning in my head, I decided I should try to be somewhat productive as I get lost in a sea of fictional drama.
So I started this. The design is from a t-shirt I see floating around whenever I try to find Princess Bride things (cause I need more in my life).

So far, it's only ok (holes up the wazoo!), since I was too lazy to walk the twenty minutes to JoAnn's for proper embroidery fabric and new tools.
One of these days I'll get the hang of it.

stash busting

I've finally decided to try and work up the hat pattern I wrote a long time ago. It'll be my first original hat, well, I saw it at a store and thought "I could make that". So now I'm testing it.
Also, using some of the mass amounts of yarn Rachel gave me.
It's hard to tell from the camera photo, but it'll be light purple and brown.

Fingers crossed it goes well.

Making up for yesterday

What I meant to post and failed to do yesterday was the beginnings of a scarf I'm knitting.

It's gonna be a color block of two colors and it's really simple cause I started it during the blizzard to distract me. Though now I don't know if I want it to be yellow and green or yellow and purple. I'm leaning towards the green today. We'll see how long that lasts.

Finishing and Starting

I finished a hat for Susan, who, by the way, is the cutest person ever.

 Finished one of my socks a while ago and failed to post about it. It came out better than expected, though I don't have enough yarn left to finish a second one. Good job me.

And since I haven't been able to figure out what to do with the excess of red and pink yarn I have, I've started making an epic one that will include all of them!

And still on the fence whether I should take part in....

Thinking I'll start writing something and if it's going well, I'll stick with it. Cause I know if I get off track, I'll never get back on. Which would just stress me out. Which I wholly disapprove of.

in which I cast on

Scarf and hat weather are back in Chicago!
These are my current WIP's. Pictures coming soonish.
Urban Jungle by Vickie Howell
Zoe by Emily Kausalik

a study in socks: the sequel

I survived the heel, flap and gusset. Looks a bit different than I expected, but looks like a sock. Which was the ultimate goal.
Down side: I may not have enough yarn left to make a second sock. So this may just be a legendary single sock that will constantly be mismatched whenever I wear it.
P.S. Watching Party Down, new favorite awkward life show, while knitting.

a study in socks

Progress of my first set of sock knitting.
Nearing the part that I'm most worried about...this heel. Dun dun dun!

The never ending hipster hat

Remember that huge ball of yarn my friend gave me?
Yeah.
After a scarf/hat set for my mom at Christmas, I'm still working through it. Trying to decide how long this hipster hat should be, cause really, what else is there to make but a hipster hat?

Despite my disapproving face, I do like the hat.