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andi on march 31 2019 in an effort to try to work on the things that have been hanging over my head one of my goals this year was to finally start crocheting i m starting by knitting swatches with cotton yarn one per month to try different stitches today is the last day of march the third month of the year true to my goal i have crocheted three swatches the stitch for january was single crochet overall i m pretty happy with this the chain was too tight so it was really difficult for me to do the first row of stitches it was difficult to get the hook through the chain as well as get the yarn through on some stitches but once i was through with the first row it went along fine the stitch for february was half double crochet this didn t go quite as well the chain was still tight also i had a hard time knowing where to put the hook in to start a new row i was supposed to put the hook in the second stitch and i think sometimes i didn t put it in the right place which led to me losing some stitches and it being wider on the bottom than the top i wasn t very happy with this but i could use it as a dish cloth i probably should have done this one over again in march but instead i moved onto double crochet hahahahaha look at this how hideous i had problems going from one row to the next when i got to the three chains that started the previous row i had a hard time knowing where to stick the hook the middle the actual stitches themselves came out fine it was starting and ending rows that didn t work out i started with 21 stitches across and ended with 17 working with cotton was probably not a great idea but i really didn t want my learning to go to waste the january and february swatches are already being used as dischloths i will use the march swatch as a face cloth so i will continue doing that as for knowing where to place my hook at the start and end of rows i think it s time for me to watch some videos i ve been learning from a book and while i thought i was following all of the directions correctly clearly i am not for april instead of moving on to another stitch i m thinking of watching some videos and trying half double crochet and double crochet over again posted in uncategorized leave a comment trim the fat posted by andi on march 3 2019 i realized i never posted my crafting goals for 2019 in order to do so i need to take a step back to discuss my focus for the year trim the fat i mostly mean this figuratively i want to cut my bad cholesterol through eating better and exercising more which should mean i lose weight but that s not the point i want to be healthy not fit into a certain size i really just want to trim the excess from many areas of my life in an effort to reduce stress and increase calm everything from systematically reducing clutter in my home to trimming social media accounts i follow but this is a knitting blog so what does this mean for my knitting first i want to deal with the things that have been hanging over my head those things that i want to work on but never seem to get around to i m starting this by working on the topiary wrap i started last year after frogging an awful sweater this has been my focus so far this year i ve worked on this project the most the beekeeper s quilt i ve been working on this for years and i need to make a point of getting this done i m not sure whether or not i will actually finish it this year but i m making a point of actively working on it my current portable project is hexipuffs i have a kit i put together i keep at least three bits of fingering weight yarn some dpns a crochet hook a yarn cutter and some polyfill this has been working well my amigurumi vegetables this is my goal for the summer in order to motivate me to work on it i already have a project in mind fo some of my leftovers dealing with the sweater i made last year where the top doesn t fit it s a bottom up raglan and all i need to do is reknit from where the sleeves join the body the rest of it is fine my mending pile i have a pile of knits with holes some i made some were from an unfortunate moth incident a while back for each item i need to decide whether i want to mend the item frog and reclaim the yarn or just dispose of it altogether my goal was to do one item a month at least but we re in march and i haven t started this honestly i kind of forgot about it so i m going to start it now any yarn i reclaim gets added back into my stash learning to crochet i ve been saying i m going to do this for years but now i really want to do it i m starting my crocheting a large swatch a month out of cotton so my swatch can be used as a dish cloth which we need more of anyways at some point i will switch from swatching to other crochet projects but i m not there yet second my focus of the year can t be trim the fat without reducing my stash i will do this in two ways first i want to take more yarn out of my stash than i put into it i say this every year some years i m more successful than others i really don t want to buy too much yarn this year and when i do i want to be very intentional about it this probably requires its own post so i m not going to go into detail about that second i m going to focus on larger projects the larger the project the more yarn leaves my stash over the past couple of years i ve stashed several sweater quantities of yarn so i plan to make at least two but preferably three sweaters for me tim gets more sweaters than i do i want some of my own sweaters this means i will have way fewer fos than i normally have but that s okay third i don t want knitting to be a stressor i want it to be fun again i plan to achieve this in two ways plan gift knitting well in advance i only have one gift planned right now i m sure i will make more but nothing at the last minute i will start planning christmas knitting in july and give myself a month for any other special events such as birthdays or new babies outside of a few specific projects i ve mentioned i m not making a list of projects i want to complete i want to knit what i want to knit outside of focusing predominantly on multi skein larger projects i m not going to say which ones i m going to do in which order and that s really it this isn t my traditional list but i m switching up how i do things i figure this plan will help reduce stress by systematically reducing stash and the number of long planned projects that keep getting pushed trimming the fat posted in uncategorized 1 comment i m back and looking back posted by andi on january 1 2019 now that 2019 has started let s look back on 2018 first i haven t posted in 9 months i assure you i have been knitting i just haven t been posting about it life was a bit stressful and during that time i considered blogging to be another stressor not something fun so i didn t do it i m hoping to make it something fun again in 2019 how did i do on my goals 1 9 pairs of socks i chose 9 pairs of socks as my goal because i joined a sock pattern club that had 6 patterns plus a bonus holiday patter and i had two pairs of socks i wanted to make for me and tim i ended up knitting 11 pairs of socks all 9 mentioned above plus two pairs of socks i made for christmas gifts 2 finish the brioche scarf i had started check as a matter of fact my last blog post was about that scarf i gave the scarf to the recipient and she really liked it 3 make a brioche cowl to back up i took a brioche class in late 2017 and another lesson in 2018 we received the pattern for the funkasonic cowl by heidi gustad who taught the class when the class was over i wanted to make the cowl i did and i love how it turned out it s so cushy and warm 4 make a matching hat and cowl set i did that i made barley and oats by tincanknits i wear them both frequently 5 make my amigurumi vegetables and here is where it starts going downhill i did not do this and i really want to in 2019 because i want to use the leftovers to make a shawl but i m getting ahead of myself here 6 finish viajante so i finished knitting the viajante but i never wove in the ends or blocked it and it s in my apartment somewhere but i m not quite sure where that s ridiculous i need to find it the whole point was to use it when i travel in the winter it s winter now 7 do something with the two sweaters i made but don t work for me i did not make as much progress on this one as i would have liked but i started one of my projects during the ravelenic games was to frog one of the sweaters i did that and started knitting topiary by michelle wang actually i started with another shawl first but that didn t work out and i d rather forget about that so i m not going there a few months ago i put this shawl down in order to prioritize other projects when i finished my last fo of 2018 on new year s eve i picked up topiary to work on the rest of the day i m on a bit of a roll with it right now so this might be my go to pattern for now i haven t touched the other sweater i debated back and forth on whether i should frog it and knit something else entirely or whether i should just rip back the part that was too big i m leaning toward the latter but haven t done it yet 8 finish my beekeeper s quilt nope i barely worked on it i maybe made a few hexipuffs 9 take in less yarn than i take out of my stash a big fat no i did pretty well at the beginning of the year and it started to go downhill worse i bought a whole bunch of yarn toward the end of the year including 2 sweater quantities that doesn t include the other sweater quantities i bought earlier in the year and didn t knit i took in 16 767 yards of yarn and took out by knitting only i didn t destash anything 9365 5 yards which puts me at 55 9 which is bad weight is worse i took in 5957 grams of yarn and knit 2739 grams for 46 0 my percentage for grams is worse than yards because i knit with a lot of fingering weight yarns more yardage per gram 10 finally learn to crochet nope i intended to i really did but i just didn t get around to it what thwarted my progress as i already mentioned i put the topiary down to knit on other things and i really didn t leave myself any wiggle room to add anything in for example i knit two pairs of socks for christmas i knit one birthday present and two baby presents i knit a scarf for a charity auction and a small garment for myself looking back at my goals i don t think i could have accomplished them and made anything else i m keeping that in mind as i consider what my goals for 2019 will be as for the fact that i haven t posted in 9 months i don t now if i m really going to go back and update everything i might if i feel like it but really i m looking forward posted in uncategorized 1 comment brioche posted by andi on march 31 2018 there are so many beautiful brioche patterns out there that i want to knit so late last year i took a beginner brioche class at a local yarn shop it was great it worked out really well because a woman who works for my dad had requested a scarf normally i don t take requests but she helps out my dad and stepmom so much that i wanted to do something nice for her she wanted a black scarf so i bought some black yarn and started looking for patterns then i realized i can use the scarf to practice brioche no pattern basic one color brioche yarn knit picks mighty stitch in black 2 72 skeins 565 8 yards needles us 8 date started december 23 2017 date completed january 27 2018 instead of looking for a pattern i used instructions for one color brioche on the handout i received from the class i just cast on more stitches after a while the single color brioche became basic for me i could work on the scarf while watching television or whatever the problem was trying to fix any errors maybe it was because the yarn was black or because it was one color but it was difficult for me to see how to fix mistakes when i made a mistake i had to rip back until i was comfortable that the stitches didn t fall down more and grab all the stitch loops and yarn overs that happened infrequently but i was able to make it work i finally gave the finished scarf to the recipient a few weeks ago and she really liked it a two color brioche cowl pattern came with the class along with the yarn so i made that next pattern funkasonic cowl by heidi gustad yarn why knot fibers steady 157 yards needles us 8 date started january 27 2018 date completed january 29 2018 i don t have a lot of information on the yarn other than the brand the shop balled up different colors which were partial skeins i m assuming half a skein but i could be wrong and we were able to choose two contrasting colors to make the cowl i chose the green first and chose this gold color because if you look at it really closely you case see some green speckles in it i thought they would go nicely together and didn t even realize that they were basically green bay packers colors right away when it came time to decide the main and contrast colors i decided to make the gold the main color since green is th...
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