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:

3KCBWDAY5 Video Blog

3KCBWDAY5 Today is experimental blogging day for blog week.  I procrastinated a bit on this one.  I have never made a video before so here is my first attempt.  I have been knitting amigurami apples lately so here is a time lapse video of me making one.  You can find the pattern here.