Procrastination and School

I've been doing a lot of school work procrastination. What I have been doing with my time is knitting. It's like knit-therapy. Or maybe just boredom. I haven't quite figured that out yet. Even though I have been procrastinating on my school work, I still have been doing it. Just at the last minute.

I did start a crocheting project. I've never crocheted before. People say that it is easier than knitting, but since I learned to knit years before even touching crochet, I find knitting easier. I found this project from Pintrest. I thought it look adorable and decided it was time to learn to crotchet. So I began the Calm Cowl over the weekend and I liked doing it. I didn't stop until I ran out of yarn.

I haven't gone to get more yarn yet. So that one is just sitting there waiting to get done. I may go and get it this weekend so I can finish it. 

A couple more projects I started was Winter Twilight Mitts. I started it once a while back, but it was way too tight. Now it's more to the gauge that the pattern says and it is fitting better. And the design is looking better too. I should work on these one a bit more.

I did start another project this past week while I had a bit of insomnia. Susie Rogers' Reading Mitts. I finished one side in just a few hours. Then realized the sun had come up and that I needed to get some sleep. The next night I got the other side done. But I ran out of yarn, again. I only had one more row and my thumb to do. So I just used some black yarn. 

I was going to post a picture, but I was having some technical difficulties. 

I finished that one, and now starting on a new sweater. $5 in Paris. That one might take me a while, knowing my history with starting sweaters and cardigans. It's also the first time doing a top down pattern. All my others have been down up. We'll see how this one works. I'm using yarn from another project that I decided to start over with better yarn. 

Oh! And on my Reading Mitts, I was looking for some yarn last night and found another skein of the purple I had been using. So I did have more yarn, I just didn't know I did. It could have been all purple, instead of my random black thumb. Sad face.

Preparing for Winter

Last year, I wanted to knit myself up an arsenal of warmth for the winter. It tried to happen, it really did. My arsenal was anything but. I think I made half a scarf, part of one glove, and maybe an ear flap to a hat. Oh! And two sleeves to a cardigan. That was the extent of my knitting last year. I think.

But this year is different! So far this year I've finished my cardigan, made two hats, bought yarn for some fingerless gloves I've been dying to knit, and currently working on another hat. I also have another pair of gloves lined up after I've finished what I currently have on needles.

Right now, I'm working on a hat pattern I found on Ravelry. It's called Let it Snow! ear flap hat. I've already made one of them and I loved it. It was my first time working with Fair Isle knitting. I found out that I fucking love Fair Isle knitting. I think this may be my new obsession.

Fair Isle knitting

Since it was my first time, my coloured stitches were kind of tight. But it still looks AMAZING. It's really warm too. That could be because I knitted it in 100°+ weather. I really like the colours I chose for it and the way the pattern looks. It did turn out really pretty.

Lots of pink! I like pink.

The one thing I really like is knitting pretty things. And my definition of "pretty things" keeps changing every time I knit something new or learning a new knitting technique. I use to hate anything with cable knitting. Now, I fucking love them! Cardigans were so... ew to me. Now I can't get enough of them. There are a lot of cardigan patterns that I want to try out. 

So now I'm making another hat. With a different main colour. Still going to use the teal and pink, but switch them. It should be done by the end of the day either tomorrow or Tuesday.

Here is what it looks like right now. Ok, so that's a lie. I do have both flaps and about an inch into the actual hat part. I just haven't taken a picture of it yet. I'll do that soon. Can't wait for this one to be done with my new knowledge of fair isle knitting!

First post

Welcome to Knitting Nooses. A good friend of mine suggested this name after I said I was thinking of starting a knitting blog. I liked the name, and apparently it suits me.

This will be a where I blog about all the new and exciting knitting projects I will be doing. I may, from time to time, post about other crafty things. I may also post personal entries, and maybe even rants. Mostly this is where my obsession with knitting will be. Pictures, thoughts, projects I love, projects I hate.

I'll post shortly about my newest project. I may even go back to older projects and kind of talk about them. Where this blog will go, who knows, but there will be pictures of yarn everywhere! Just like my house.

The layout is kind of bleh at the moment. And will be that way until I can design my own. Which might be bit of a process. I am a full time student and spend most of my free time with friends and/or knitting. I have an idea on how I want it to look, I just need to create it.