Hey everyone... haven't posted in ages. Not enough time to knit a lot, and not a lot of knitting to blog about.

New blog. Back & Forth. Not just knitting, it'll be a little bit of everything.

Jorah Hadley

This design has been on the needles awhile. Or, rather, for the past 4 months it's been sitting in my dorm room waiting for me to knit the last 15 rows of a sleeve and I finally got down to it last night.



This is called Jorah Hadley, it's a simple tee kind of top that, depending on the yarn choice, can be appropriate for most seasons. The contrasting color will highlight certain spots of the torso to make this top feminine, but overall it's a very simple top to knit.






That's a close up of the bustband detail.






And this is the ribbing done on the body -- not just your average 3 x 2 ribbing, however. Has a little more texture in it and a bit of color to break it up.






Pattern available on Ravelry. Click the link on the side panel.

Murray Gloves

I bring you another design that has been finished for awhile, but I've been tinkering with it.

You've seen it before, but now you can download the pattern here.



Sorry there's a lack of updating lately. Finishing up classes, finals week, college social life, and returning home for winter break has eaten up a lot of my time lately. Fortunately for me and unfortunately for my knitting, I'll be back at college-home for New Year's Eve and don't know if I'll have much time for knitting/blogging.

life gets in the way of knitting

So I have actually been knitting on and off... just haven't had time to finish anything. I finished the first of a pair of gloves I'm designing called the Murray Gloves. Here's my suitemate modeling them:


There's limited photography environments at 1 am in a dorm building. You get my messy desk, my apologies.

Essentially what happened to knitting so much is that I got really involved in the Obama campaign. Sorry for you guys who are anti-political or McCain supporters... but it was an amazing opportunity to be a part of and a shit load of fun. And amazing on Election Day at 11:01 p.m. when they could just flat out say Obama had won over McCain.

And also... it's not a bad way to meet guys. Accidentally, but still.

hats and gloves for the coming wint-- uh, slightly cool weather

Here's a pair of fingerless gloves I made for myself on a whim. It was slightly cool (dare I say almost chilly?) yesterday as I left my dorm to bike to class, so I suppose now I'll make some gloves and such.

Pattern:

Waffle Stitch Fingerless Gloves

Yarn:

Sirdar Snuggly Baby Bamboo in colorway 164, a nice bright pink

Notes:

Not much of a fan of seaming gloves up the side. If I knit another pair it'll be in the round. And if in bamboo, I'll cast on fewer stitches so it's a bit tighter.

Then there's two Thorpes:

Yarn:

Laines Du Nord Maxi in colorway 4, brown

trim is Queensland Collection Kathmandu Aran in colorway 122, a natural color

Yarn:
Bouton d'Or Mango in 264 Indigo
same trim as previous

Notes:
The brown is modeled by Michael, the blue by Damian.
If I made this hat again, I'd use a tweedy yarn. However, I let the guys go to the yarn shop with me and pick out the yarn they wanted, so this time around they are in solids.

Then there's just a normal beanie that I freeformed:

Yarn:
Queensland Collection Kathmandu Aran in 153, a tweedy green
stripe is in Laines Du Nord Maxi colorway 4, brown

Notes:
Modeled by Matt. I love the way this yarn works up and it fits perfectly.

I knit another beanie in black with a natural colored stripe, but I forgot to snap a picture after I gave it to Trey. I'll track him down sometime this week and get one up.

Also, I'm not sure why all the pictures turn fuzzy once I upload them to Blogger lately. They're perfectly clear when printed out or on other sites. Bugger...

look! I'm knitting!

So I've been here a bit over 3 weeks and have settled into a nice routine. Okay, not quite a routine so much as now I occasionally have time to myself.

Decided my issue is I'm trying to knit too many big things in a row, so I need to break it up with smaller projects. Like hats.

Unfortunately, I don't really wear hats. Hats are not very good for people with curly hair. Occasionally they work, but for the most part... no.

But here's an Irish Hiking Hat anyway.


Hat is a little big for me (due to laziness... I don't have size 8 needles, but I had size 9) so I'll probably end up gifting it.


I completely changed the decreases the pattern had. They didn't accomodate the cable pattern well. In fact, this pattern was kind of a shitty design. Good concept, bad technicalities.

Oh well.

(And note the picture of the guy beside me... my roommate has them ALL OVER her side of the room. Our RA told us our room looks like a gay bar. So now our window advertises. We call ourselves The Rainbow Grotto.

And on a more personal note... these are my college best friends, Nicole and Matt. We met at orientation at the beginning of summer, reconnected when school started, and now we're almost always together.

We have a thing for getting pizza and eating it in random places around campus. Here we're on the Memory Mall right in front of the Alumni building, which apparently had some rocking party going on while we were eating.

I think I'm making hats for all of Matt's roommates. I'm considering taking them with me to my favorite yarn store here (Sip and Knit, which I've only been to once this past March) and letting them entertain me as we pick out yarn for their hats.

lack of updating

There's been a lot going on, very little of it knitting (though that has occurred).


Namely my car being stolen. Sometime between Sunday afternoon and Friday (yesterday).





This may be an inactive blog for awhile.