Cookieknits, And does Other Stuff, Too!

My 20 year old daughter taught herself to knit. I have been promising to take her to get lessons, because I can’t teach her anything. (We end up arguing.) She got tired of waiting, and just sat down and figured it out.
You know how you always wanted to learn how to knit backwards, so you wouldn’t have to turn your work around for shortrows? That is how she does it! Holds the yarn continental style, too! What a girl. She taught herself how to cast on, but used Sally Melville’s “The Knit Stitch” to learn how to bind off.
I did take her to the LYS, and MJ taught her how to purl, so she doesn’t have to knit backwards if she doesn’t want to. She is now the proud owner of a little pink purse she made herself and a fringed scarf. She is now knitting a dishcloth worked on the diagonal, so she can practice increasing and decreasing.

I was in my LYS the other day, feeding the need by buying gadgets and magazines, and ok, two balls of Noro Silk Garden to make some hand warmers for a poor lady in a wheelchair at church, who’s hands are always cold. I didn’t have a thing in my stash that would work, so it DOES NOT count as falling off the wagon. Would you believe it? Word of Knit From Your Stash has even gotten around to the yarn store owner. Poor Mary Jane of Sympatico Yarns in Bedford, Texas is not happy! Of course, I did manage to spend $150 on stuff anyway.
So, if you are anywhere near Bedford, and are not participating in KFYS, please, please, please help poor MJ out. Go in and buy lots of yarn!

That last post wasn’t even supposed to be a post! I was trying to get a button here.
Well, anyway, if you are into color, and want to try something interesting this year, take a look at Project Spectrum. It is a year long “exploration” of color and craft. Many of us are knitters, but there is lots of room for experimentation. In fact, the whole idea is to break out of our habits, and try something new.Every two months are given assigned three colors, and participants are asked to create something using those three colors.
February and March are blue, white and gray. You can use one or all three. It just so happens, I was talking to a woman at church yesterday, who’s hands are always cold, and I offered to make her some fingerless gloves. She said she likes blue. There you go! I have something already.
For the next two months, I am going to try to carry my camera around, and really try to notice blue, white and gray in my world, and to take photos. I am a rotten photographer. I can only improve!

Project Spectrum