Meet Vivian!

This is Vivian. The product of 2 months worth of work but it was totally worth it! As of Friday morning I was finished the shoulders and then I moved on to the hood, which felt like it took forever. I knit the rest of the day Friday, Saturday and the majority of Sunday until I was done. Today I sewed in the zipper (and badly). I harvested the zipper from a sweater that I don't wear anymore. There weren't any places near me that sold zippers, not within walking distance anyway.

The pattern was great. Only two mistakes but I believe those are fixed in the newer version of the pattern and the Vivian KAL really helped (THANKS GUYS!)! My only complaint would be that once I got to the hood it got kind of confusing because the odd rows became the right side and even rows became the wrong side. I missed a row of cables at one point and had to rip back two rows :(

Next project: something small... no more sweaters for a while

Bunch of Projects - Update

Christmas was good to me. I got a bunch of knitting tools - two sets of straight bamboo needles, one size circular bamboo needle, stitch markers, some cable needles, needle holders, a knitting magazine and 'Knit Fix Problem Solving for Knitters' book. I already made a small scarf for a muppet belonging to my soon-to-be sister-in-law. It turned out really well, I even put some fringe on it. I made it with one set of new bamboo knitting needles. I love them so much I found 15 sets of 5 double pointed bamboo knitting needles on ebay, hopefully those will arrive in the next couple weeks. Eventually I'd like to have a set of straights but I should probably get a job first :P (current project is a needle holder for my new double pointed needles). 

I gave my mom an early Christmas gift, a cabled scarf. Its my first cabled knitted something. I also made some toy mice and a toy bumble bee for my cat. She loved the bumble bee even though I didn't fill it with catnip. 

I made myself a Jayne Cobb hat. I've been wanting to make it for a while. There was talk for a while of it being a stitch n' bitch project but I guess we were all too busy. It practically knit itself - it only took 2 days. I'm planning on re-doing the pom. It was my first one and turned out a little thin. 

New techniques learned:

- cabling

- cable cast on

- making a pom