Snowshoeing Pics

I love snowshoeing. In honor of the snowstorm headed my way, I thought I'd post a few of the pics I took last time I went out to the state park!

The mittens

Got a bit more done on Adam's mittens. Actually a bit too much done - I have to frog back a row or two on the hand portion. I guess that's what happens when you're watching TV and not really paying attention to how much you're knitting...

And there may be a chance for lots of knitting yet this week - there's a big winter storm headed my way and that's leading to lots of talk of schools cancelling. Good and bad - good, who doesn't like an unplanned day off, bad since my band has a performance on March 16.



Oh and on a separate note, if you were watching CSI New York this evening, magicians creep me out. Not the card trick kind of magicians, but the cut people in half, light themselves on fire type of magicians. Just weird.

My Sweater!

Here's my first sweater! (Well, second attempt at knitting my first sweater - I didn't like the way the first attempt looked, so I gave up.)

It's from the new book, Classic Knits, by Erika Knight. It's a really great book filled with, well, classic type patterns. This happens to be the deep v sweater. It's being knitted from alpaca with a twist's baby twist. The yarn is so soft, but the color didn't really come out the picture. It's close, but it's not as blue in person as it looks it. Oh well..

Adam's Flip Flop Mittens

Here's the mittens I'm making for my fiance, Adam. He bugged me forever to knit him something. So, here's his something. The pattern is from magknits.com with a few of my own (sometimes accidental) modifications. Nothing spectacular, but a functional mitten.

Now, just to knit the other one, which I'm having trouble wrapping my head around. The pattern only has left hand directions. Should be simple to get to knitting the other one, but for some reason, I've gone stupid on this one...

My First Knitting Post

Here's my calamari knitting rug from The Mason-Dixon Knitting book. It's a bunch of cotton loops interlocked into yarn. It's on size 35 needles and huge right now! I can't decide how much bigger to make it. I think 4 more bags of the cotton loops and it should be all right.


In a side note, I'm watching the Grey's Anatomy episode where Meredith knits. Kind of appropriate while I start my knitting blog! (Though, I seriously doubt that Izzie knits a whole sweater in one day.)

All right, so here it goes!

So I'm going to try and start my own knitting blog, since I have a day off of school (yay for snow days!).