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
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:
