if you can read this...

If you can read this, please leave me a note. Just a character, if'n you want to!
I will continue to post in this blog, but I am entirely curious as to who's looking at it!

please, and thank you!
Anaya

Big Wool Hat

I've been dying to make this hat since I first saw the yarn! My local shoppe has SUCH a wonderful selection of fibers - so many choices, and me with an empty pocketbook *sigh*

okay, so check out this gorgeous fiber!



I LOVE this yarn!
www.ravelry.com/people/ZebraArtist/stash/bear-creek-bulky

I learned a new trick today... the I-tube

A very nice lady at the yarn shoppe taught me how to make an I-tube.
Cast on three sts to dpn - slide it to the end, knit. slide it to the end, knit - and it make a tube. I then made loops out of a loooong tube, and made a cute noodley loopy hat topper!

I might not ever take this hat off again! I love it!

"come to the dark side, we have cookies"...

You've heard it before...perhaps you even have an icon for your journal/blog. It's amusing.
So, I couldn't help but laugh out loud when at the last social knitting (stitch an' bitch) get together, someone brought home baked cookies! I had to confess why I burst in to laughter, and in turn, they all laughed out loud, too.

I started knitting January 2, 2009. My friend gave me the gift of some beautiful yarn, and my first set of knitting needles...a size 8 circular. 24". I believe I've worked on a project every day since then...oh! save the day I drove from Sonoma California to home, Southern Oregon...I may not have knit on that day.

I appreciate my local yarn shoppe! The owner, the employees, and all of the social knitters. I felt immediately welcome at the knitting table. And, I'm new, so they all laugh at my jokes - that's fun! There are women from many walks of life, and spanning generations. (there's a mother & daughter who attend together often - the child of the daughter is 49 - there are five generations alive and well in that family. That's amazing to me. They are lovely women, a couple among many who gather at the yarn shoppe!

Okay, off I go. Time to primp for yarn shoppe time (and, by primp I mean to say - organize my the knitting items I want to take with me...I need better organizational tools for my growing knitting supplies. That would be helpful :-)

progress on hat and scarf set

I figured out how to knit these lil flowers - I hope they tie the set together... Thoughts?

knitted flower embellishment!

I wanted a way to tie the hat and scarf together - this might be the ticket!

skinny scarf to go with hat previously posted

this will be adorned with yarn from the hat I made yesterday - I hope it makes a coordinating set (like I'm hoping it will!)

an experiment with color and texture

I've just got the 8 rows of decreases to finish up. I thought it would be fun to play with color and texture - this is a quick knit! I like how the two colors combined make a whole different hue to the hat. Groovy!

a new model for my hats and scarves - help me name her? :-)

She needs a name....and she has a 'sister', who will also need a name! Won't you help me? *laughing* Silly, I know....but better to be amused by them, than to be annoyed with me! *laughing some more*
It's all in good fun :-)

New yarn in my stash!

I acquired a few new yarns today at Michael's. Nice prices!

maybe this is a good time for a change

I don't think anyone's reading this (not yet, anyway)

I've been in livejournal since Dec 21, 2o01 - and my paid acct. is about to expire.
Perhaps it's time to move along. Perhaps it's time to let that account expire, and move my blogging over here.
I will be taking photos until the day I die - and, I'll happily be posting my photography at flickr.com/photos/zebraartist (until such time as it doesn't work for me anymore)

another hat finished

I played with a pattern that I used previously for a slouchy hat (see post before this one), I love the hat, but wanted it slouchier....so I revised the pattern, and made just what I wanted!
I'll take photos soon.

nobody is following this blog

slouchy hat and scarf set

I found "another slouchy hat recipe online, and made up the scarf pattern.
I'm making another hat like this, but altering the pattern a bit - I want it slouchier!
Overall, though - the pattern was easy to follow, and I'm happy to wear that hat!

Welcome to my knitting blog!

there's no separating photography from knitting - I might be so bold as to say - my photos may be making my knitting look good! *laughing*

In any event - I've never really used this thing before, but I'd like to start a journal/blog about my new hobby!
I have NO idea why it took my 44 years to learn how to knit - but I'm happy to be doing it now!

If you can read this - say hello!
Anaya :-)