New project: Grey Cardi

I did finish my white cardi a few months ago, but I haven't gotten a picture of it yet. And after finishing my afghan I was itching for another huge project, so I started this cardigan:

It's gonna take a while, but I hope it's done by the time it starts getting cold. The one I'm making is almost the same colors, but the grey in mine is uniform and the gold is more of a tan and it's a multi. Also I'm not going to put pockets on, and I'm not going to do that goofy vest looking pattern with the gold. Hopefully that will make things go a bit quicker, too.

I'll let you know how it goes!

Finished!

I finished FOUR projects this week!

1) My afghan!!! I finished my afghan!!!
Here's the story one more time. My friend Rizzybet taught me how to crochet my freshman year of college. She taught me how to make snowflake granny squares. I was not very good at it, but I kept trying. I had learned to knit earlier, and made a catastrophe of a scarf that I ended up buying TONS of blue/green multi yarn for, then I pulled it all apart and was left with tons of yarn. I decided to make my snowflakes out of this color, and I wanted to use green as the border.

This worked very well, until my yarn color choices were discontinued! They still had blue/green multi and bright green, but they were not the same color so I couldn't use them. I sulked for many years before my husband finally pushed me to finish the stupid blanket. I finally decided to add a different color, and I chose pink/blue multi with a pink border.

I ran into a problem with the pattern I ended up using to combine the colors. I had absolutely NO extra green yarn, so everything that could be joined with pink had to be. A target pattern ended up working the best, so here it is!


2) I started a beanie and scarf for my brother years ago when he was getting ready for his mission. I finished the scarf a few weeks ago, and I just finished the beanie the other day. No pics, cuz it's just the same hat I always make.

3) Kitty beanie
A friend of mine has really short hair, like girl-hawk short, and she's decided to grow it out. She called for hat donations for the ugly part of the process, so I told her I'd make her a beanie. It only took me a few days to put together, and it was a fun experiment. I ended up throwing in some fair isle stitches, and she asked for kitty ears on it so I found a pattern for that. So cute!


4) I went to Tai Pan Trading with my mom on the way home from a yarn boutique last fall. It was pretty boring, but they did have huge barrels filled with really cute knitted headbands with flowers. I loved them, and what I loved most was that I was SURE I could make them. I've been looking off and on for a pattern ever since. I'm not quite good enough to make up my own pattern, sadly. BUT I found one the other day, and whipped this puppy out in just over a day:



I love it. I think I can sell these for like $8 too :D (let me know if you want to commission one!)