Craftster January 8, 2008

So I was gonna mention this earlier but I forgot to. I just got a Craftster account! And if you’re on there you should totally add me to your buddies list.

My username is mickeyness

And in other news, I gave my sister the pony I made for her. Her response:

“OH MY GOD THIS IS THE CUTEST FREAKING THING IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE. OMG. OMG. OMG…”

Clearly she doesn’t get out much if she thought that was the cutest thing in the universe, but the sentiment was appreciated Yay!

The shrug plan & amigurumi! January 8, 2008

Hello again!

I was so happy (and surprised) to see that I actually had a couple people read this blog and leave SUPER helpful comments for me! I am happy to report that I will not be wasting my yarn on yet another scarf (I must have hundreds of scarves already! ahh!) but on a shrug! I spent the last few days searching cardigan patterns online (btw, there are a lot of really ugly cardigans out there, ew) and found a few that I kind of liked. Nothing that seemed perfect.

And I just realized that when I posted the picture of my yarn, I didn’t say how much of it I bought (sorry for being a dork):

Green: 605 yards

Blue: 242 yards

The original plan was to use this pattern and change it a bit.

I wanted 3/4 sleeves and big stripes.

But luckily for me, there was a comment about a book called Fitted Knits and the two tone shrug in it

IT’S PERFECT!!!

I just ordered the book on Amazon last night, so now I’m just waiting to get the pattern until I start. THANK YOU THANK YOU Pepper for letting me know about that book!

In the meantime though, I just gave amigurumi my first try. I absolutely love how cute some people can make these little stuffies! I’m still working on it. Haha. Plus I’m a much more competent knitter than I am a crocheter, so my little horse turned out having a slightly deformed head and legs. I haven’t quite got the circular crocheting down and I couldn’t find any tutorials about crocheting to make tubes, so it was kind of guess work for me. Yikes. So I can’t wait to give a knitted amigurumi a try so it will turn out looking normal. Anywhoozles, here are a few pictures of the horses I made. The yellow one was the 1st one I did and the purple one I made for my sister (she hasn’t seen it yet and I’m giving it to her today).

I think they’re pretty cute, but nowhere near as cute as the one from the Cotton Candy Horse pattern:

Well, I think I’ve said enough. I’m trying to keep these entries short and sweet, but I find myself typing too much because this whole blogging thing is just too much fun! Okay. The end.