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.

3KCBWDAY7 The Hat Tree

3KCBWDAY7 The last day! Today's topic: "Are you a knitter or a crocheter, or are you a bit of both?" I am definitely a bit of both.  I started out knitting but soon learned to crochet as well because knitting a blanket takes a LONG time!  Nowadays I knit and crochet fairly equally.
The book Caps for Sale inspired today's picture.  In the book a man's hats all end up in a tree.  Here is my hat tree with half crochet and half knit hats:

3KCBWDAY6 Sweater Skills

3KCBWDAY6 Today's topic is "improving your skillset."  I have only been knitting and crocheting 2 1/2 years now so I still have a lot of improving to do.  I try to push my skills by choosing projects that will make me learn new stitches and other techniques.  I crocheted my first sweater about a year ago and now my goal is to knit my first sweater.  I picked a fairly easy looking pattern from lion brand yarn and am using Vanna's Choice yarn in linen.

Here is the crochet sweater (pattern from Stitch 'n Bitch: The Knitter's Crochet: The Happy Hooker):

Here is the start of my first knit sweater: