Charmed Knits charm knitting me :)

September 8, 2010

Guess who is totally knitting a Gryffindor scarf for the Deathly Hallows opening? :)

Yesterday Zach and I popped into the library, where I drooled over cookbooks and knitting manuals. I found this awesome one right as I was about to walk away--Charmed Knits: Projects for Fans of Harry Potter. (Cue swooning.)

I can also make matching house socks, sweaters, beanies, berets, mittens...but let's not get carried away.

Some of the other projects I really liked include The Weasley Sweater, Errol, Wand Cozies (WHAT?!), Tea Cozy Crown, Common Room Cap (for liberating your favorite house-efl), and Ron's Animal Crackers Hat (*haha*).

If only I had magic knitting needles...

I'm a sexy knitter for reals, y'all!

September 2, 2010

Looky here! I finally finished my first scarf! :)

It's not perfect, but I didn't expect it to be. I'm still learning the art of gauging. I think it will be a long time before I knit something big (i.e. over 2 x 2 inches) with chunky, fuzzy yarn. (That stuff is a pain in the behind, especially when you drop a stitch.) This afternoon I had finished knitting all of my squares and had bound the end when I realized my last five squares were done wrong!
(That's what happens when you knit in the dark while watching Harry Potter. I need magic knitting needles. ;)

So I detached the five bad squares and redid them.
Hobie now has his own scarf. *tehe*

My funky color-block skinny scarf will look really pretty with my teal dress that I always wear in the fall. I got it at Target. (I love Target. *gush*)
I need to mend the hole in the seam, however...

Pharr Cousins

August 28, 2010

~*~Fun with the Pharr cousins~*~

(I took this photo through the glass door, so it's not the best quality. I didn't realize Zach was missing at the time. *lol*)

And a big thank you to Judy and Marion for showing me how to knit like a professional! Apparently I had not been doing a knit-stitch, but a kind of garter stitch that was a cross between a knit stitch and a purl in that I was holding my needles to knit, but moved the yarn round like a purl. Oh, wells...it's an Ashley stitch!

I'm a sexy knitter

August 18, 2010

So...it's not much (yet?), but look what I'm knitting!
It's a funky (i.e. not perfect) skinny color-block scarf in navy blue, grey, and teal. I bought this knitting kit (and this yarn) in December 2008 with great plans to learn to knit over Christmas Break. *haha*

I've tried several times (including during this summer whilst being unemployed and out of school) to pick it back up and try with all my might to get past purling. I. just. can't.

(Hopefully Judy Tucker or someone else or videos on the Internet can help my poor, pitiful, non-purling soul.)

I have to feel like I am learning something, so I just decided to jump in feet first and knit SOMETHING other than a random practice piece. I can do an okay knit-stitch, so I just started making a neat little square. (You can see my grey square is somewhat better than the navy one because practice makes [more] perfect.)

I knitted a navy square, but I didn't start the next color correctly and had to unravel it all. I finally got the navy and grey done, but the fuzzy teal (to give it some texture) did not cooperate very well, and, when I was almost done with that square, I had to unravel it. BUT I am starting to have something to show for my hard work. :)