Yarn Art Apple Tree

I decided to do my first piece of painting with yarn today.  I have all this yarn and I thought it would be a fun way to use up some scraps. After debating for hours on the right glue, I decided to just use plain old white school glue.  Next time I might use nicer glue but it worked ok for a first piece.  I glued the yarn on some acrylic painting paper that I previously ruined with a not so great painting. :) So fun!

Babies

I seems like everyone around me is having a baby these days. My sister had a baby girl in January, three people in my department are pregnant at work, and one of my best friends, k, is having a baby in October. K is a knitter too and this is the first time I get to knit baby things for a knitter's baby, so I went all out a made a baby set with a sweater, hat, and booties.  She doesn't want to know the sex of the baby until it is born, so I tried to make it unisex.

The yarn is Malabrigo Rios, which I am in love with. The color is "Ravelry Red." The sweater pattern is from Pickles and can be found here.  The hat uses "Perfect fit baby hat" pattern by Heidi Mikitish and can be found here.  The booties are "Simple seamless baby botties" with pattern found on the "Blog of Joy" here.

Purple Crew Neck Sweater

This is my newest sweater that I made using the app "Raglanify." It is a nice app where you plug in your measurements and it will give you the pattern for a custom fit sweater with a few choices of neckline.  I made the crew neck.  The pattern was great, but I had some issues with my neckline.
Here is the first attempt:

Pretty wonky. I did some research and it looks like I should have planned ahead because some of the solutions would only work if I started the whole thing again, such as putting the neck stitches on a stitch holder instead of binding them off.
I also looked into maybe adding some neck shaping before starting the rib but I couldn't quite figure out how to do that.  What I ended up doing was taking out the neckline and picking up fewer stitches.  I also picked up some stitches deeper into the sweater than just the very edge to make it more round and less holes.  Here is what it looks like now:

Not perfect, but better than before. Overall, I am satisfied with my first crew neck raglan sweater.

New Year, New Niece

It's a new year and my newest niece was just born on Jan 3rd.  Unfortunately, I could not be there, but I left some knitted gifts for her.  Here is the matching blanket and hat set I made for her. You can find the pattern for the blanket and the hat on ravelry.

Space Invaders!

An awesome space invader hat I made.  Very fun knit.  You can find the pattern on Ravelry here.

October

It is October and so I made some small pumpkin hats for my 2 young nephews.  The pattern is adapted from a Ravelry pattern and can be found here.  

First Knit Sweater

I finally finished my first ever knit sweater!  I used Vanna's choice yarn in linen and the pattern Emerald from Ravelry.  I am so happy with it even though I accidentally grafted one underarm backwards.