Tired

I have been working hard, taking down an exhibit and packin' it up. So I am tired and pretty busy. But I have finished a few more projects. I took a break from the HP shawl and knitted a beret, Le Slouch , which was fun to knit, turned out great but I, and Matt, are unsure if it is "me". If you like berets, let me know, I may be passing this on.













I also made felted, and needle felted cat toys because all that felted knitting I did is really a lot of material...I still have a bunch of the blue part left, this, I think, used up the pink part. The cats' think they are great. yay. At least I have found some use for this stuff.

I Don't Care How You Feel About Martha...

But how can you not like this stuff? Seriously here.. I Cried. You can find it at Micheal's too.. the possibilities... the itch to add to my paper collection. oooo














And I have tried needle felting and I deem it fun. This little pouch thing was just me messing around with bits cut out from a failed felting project from awhile ago. (It may seem obvious to you, but do not use different yarns when felting unless you KNOW they felt up the same... )
I plan on needle felting some kind of something into my Peruvian felted hat, to go with my Harry Potter shawl, so it's all witchy and stuff. And pretty.

OOoo!

Now it's a knitting bag... !
I added a bit to the tutorial page, but not an actual tutorial, I'd need to do this again to know what I'm talking about, this was all by the seat of my pants. I made it up as I went.

Craftyness

Tank top, finally, a pic, here:















The Harry Potter shawl, looks more like a sparkly bat ray right now:












And cupcake and card making for volunteer apprication week at my work. We made 90 cupcakes and two kinds of buttercream and about the same amount of cards. Here are some I did today( We didn't get em all done last night.)












freezer full o' cupcakes:

Why I need a ball winder

550 yards of yarn wound by hand. =P

But this yarn will hopefully, magically, turn into this shawl.
It's the Wing o' the Moth shawl from Knitspot and a rather dramatic departure from my usual projects. but the tank top(still blocking) has convinced me "I can knit anything now".
And it might not happen, but since it's the Harry Potter yarn, I am hoping for some conjuring magic to aide me.

Harry Potter and the Magic Yarn

The new, and last Harry Potter book is out in June...I plan on being at Powell's City of Books for the midnight book release block party. Which is utterly amazing and this year will no doubt be an all out party for us muggles to remember for ever.
Anyway, this lovely lovely lovely yarn appeared in one of our LYSs, Yarn Garden and if it isn't meant to be a magical scarf or cloak or something I don't know what is. I now need to find a pattern worthy of the yarn, I also got a dark blue mohair to complement it and make it fuzzywonderful.
Since the new movie is also out in June, and no doubt we will be attending the midnight release of that as well, the magical scarf or something will get lots of use!
and then I will cry when three days later I finish the last book in JKR's amazing series, and know that there will be no more.

knitting now!

Lately I have been making washcloths and dishrags. Dishrag pattern is from the Mason Dixon Knitting Book which has a lot of wonderful stuff in it and I love it. The washcloths are generally just random swatches of stitch patterns in a nice soft cotton yarn.


Now the new exciting project is a tank top. It's exciting 'cause I have not ventured out of the squareish shaped knitting projects often. I have been knitting for about 2 years, but the sweater seems so daunting. I have completed things like cool hats and fingerless gloves and even a BABY sweater, but a full size adult shirt of any sort? Nay. Same for socks, and lace patterns. So this project is a new foray! Lacework! Shaping! more than 3 balls of yarn! (ok the baby blanket and shawl were more than 3 balls of yarn too, but they are rectangles and therefore do not count!)
SO here it is as of now:

And a recently completed project, which was also a triumph, was the pattern I had been eyeing ever since I was a knitting neophyte, from the book Scarf Style. The pattern is Lady Elenore's Entrelac Stole and it's lovely. My mom bought be lots of yummy yarn, Trendsetter's Tonalita in several different colorways, when I went home last to visit. Entrelac is not hard, but all I had to explain how it worked was the written pattern. Of course after I finished the stole, Interweave Knits magazine had a lovely illustrated tutorial in the new spring issue...*sigh*