snugglekitty

I haven't been posting about crafty stuff, but I've been doing a lot of it recently.

I knitted a hat for Galaxy, out of yarn from greatergood.com that I got on

knitswap. It's one strand of sari silk, one strand of organic wool - I used it to make a basic ribbed cap. Really really pretty without being as loud as pure sari silk. I am also working on a scarf for her, using some of the same yarn and some of one-strand navy wool I got from frogging a sweater. They look really good together. I'm using modular/freeform technique for that, so I'm knitting small pieces and figuring out how I want to fit them together. At this point, I have a bunch of right triangles with equal arms, and now I'm going to start making long skinny triangles to use as well.

For

7j's birthday, I am making her this vest out of green and brown frogged yarns. I've never made a vest before, and was feeling kind of nervous about it - what if I spent all that time and it went horribly wrong? - so I decided to start by knitting the same vest for my teddy bear, Ursa Minor. I'm using purple and grey yarn for the bear, who is not as butch as the girlfriend.

7j and I altered the pattern for bear size last night in the middle of the night, and I have a little more than an inch knitted on it so far. It seems to be going well, and will hopefully give me the confidence I need to make the person-sized vest. (If it works out, all of my stuffed animals are going to wind up with knitted things. I think my lionness Treygul could do with a jaunty scarf.) The bear vest will only be about the size of a hat, so it won't be a big problem if I need to frog it and start over, the way it might be if I was making the actual vest.

I also have promised a scarf to Alanya in exchange for some BPAL deliciousness. I suspect it may be striped. And I need to make myself some MITTENS. COLD!! Happily, I really like to knit at this time of year, so it's all good.

(Yes, we still have no camera, --> no pictures. I've been looking for it, I swear.)