Late Night Updates

I'm sure you don't know this, but lately most of my posts are written in the middle of the night. Something to do while the wee one eats, and since it's about the only time I have free to blog anyway it just works out.

I have two new items in my shop:

A pokeball phone cosie and:

A soot sprite one!

They're both designed for IPhones, but there is some give so they would easily fit over another similar device. I am working on a few other ideas rolling around in my head, so hopefully I can get those out and onto paper then into yarn/fabric! :)

edit: I've been having issues updating my listings on Etsy, so they should be up soon!

Hey!

Guess what I did? I technically finished my sweater!! Neat huh?

Except for what you say? That button band is making the sweater all cinchy where it shouldn't? Yup, pretty much. So I ripped the whole band out and than I remembered, I was going to add a little length once I finished the sleeves, so I undid that edge and will continue the rib a little farther and try a swing at that band again. And believe me, there was no amount of blocking that would fix that problem. It is an easy fix and she will be done before I know it!

What have you been working on? :)

Knitin

I've finally gone out and got some yarn to match some lovely knit picks gloss in guava I bought with my sweater yarn (because I needed a few more things to qualify for free shipping... and I'd rather my money be spent on yarn than that!) But before I do anything, I have to wind it up into a ball. Which I've never done on anything but remnants, but I did some pokey-poking around the interwebs and found this!

 

I can totally do that! And so I did. And it took awhile. But it's my first, and with that comes a level of perfection I'm not likely to see in future wound yarn balls made by me:

I'm very happy with the way it turned out. Although, I did try to make it center pull but somewhere in the process I lost that end.... oh well. All long as it isn't a loop of doom threatening to tangle I'm cool.

 

I'm pairing the lovely guava up with some cool grey I found whilst poking around the yarn section at Michael's. It's Loops & Thread sock yarn, stupid soft and only $2.99 for 600+ yd or something ridiculous! I'm am super excited to get started on these suckas! (and these too!)

What are you working on?

Sleeves are done!

And I've already started on the hood (finally!) she's starting to come together! But it's Santa Ana season over here and it's been stupid hot… we've been hosing Watson down a few nights a week in order to cool him off and I finally went out and replaced our broken fan, so it's been hard to sit down and power through like I want too. Still, I'm managing to get a few rows done in the morning before I head off to work to melt!

Hope you're getting work done on your projects too! (And getting some cooler weather unlike us!)

Ps: if you care, I've been posting my progress on Instagram fairly regularly, so feel free to follow me if you want more updates!! :)