Afghan of looooovvvvveeee

I have finally decided to make an afghan. I've thought about it for a long time but haven't had the patience, or a good plan. I'm knitting lots of random brightly colored squares using acrylic yarn I have aquired from my nice family (they support my addiction). I am going to sew them together with black chenille, which will look very nice and rather classy.





And I'm using this as a chance to practice different knitting patterns and skills. I tried for the first time using a different colored yarn in the middle of my knitting. Usually, I only do stripes and cut off each color as I go.





Here are two of my favorite squares so far, the blue and white H, and the yellow with criss-cross lines. They are pretty simple but I've never done anything like that before so I'm excited. I'm also planning on making one with a heart, and one with a 'C'. Then, magically, in the center of the afghan it will have "H heart C". Yes, it will be amazingly cheesy!










Heather

Oh so crewel

Here is an embroidered design I did quite a while ago. I finally got around to taking a picture of it. I had this pretty green, yet plain 3/4 sleeve shirt and I wanted to spiff it up. The design is based off of a flower I saw in a 70's crewel embroidery book, and I did a variation on it with colors I wanted. I really like the way it came out and I wear it all the time.

Heather

Chris' Hat

I finished Chris' requested hat. I, personally, would have not picked all these colors together but it was really fun to knit, because I like changing colors. I let Chris design the hat, down to the order of the colors. Haha, yeah well halfway through we changed it some, and then I just did what I thought looked best. He wanted it 12 inches long, ahhh! It really didn't take as long as I might have thought. It was basically a couple of days of marathon knitting while hanging out with my Chris. The picture to the left he is modeling a la Cosby kids. I'm not really sure why he wanted it that long, but he is very happy with it! So that's all that matters ;)


Below he is wearing it normally. Also, he is posing with thiss weird blob-like stuffed animal I made him. He's actually really cute and Chris named him Mebba, good times.

About the hat: I cast on 85 stitches using size 7 circular needles (12 inch circular). There are six colors in all, with the base obviously being brown. I randomly decreased it as I saw fit, because that's just the way I roll. If anyone just loves this hat and wants a more detailed pattern, I'd be happy to give one.

Heather

Doggie Cardigans and Other Knitting

Okay so I finally really have knitted something, hooray! Who is the recipient, well none other than Felina (Caleb and Amanda's chihuahua).
Felina is a totally nice cool little dog. Normally, I dislike chuauhuas (however you spell that!) but not Felina, she is way too freakin' awesome. And while being so awesome, and small, she gets pretty cold. Sooo, Amanda and I came up with a idea/pattern to make a little doggie cardigan. All I need to do now is add the velcro so that it fits her properly. I embroidered a big F, some little flowers, and added purple lace. Don't worry I will update with a picture of her modeling it later. Heck yes!

On to other knitting news.... Chris requested a new hat with specific colors in mind so we went on the hunt today to see what we could find. We had a bit of trouble finding the perfect thing (he's surprisingly picky). But we found a bunch of colors at Hobby Lobby he liked, even I was surprised at what he picked out. I think it will be very cute, and he better wear it every single day. haha. Here's what we got:

He wants the base of the hat the chocolate brown, then a chunk of all the colors with gray on either side. He was very specific, which is actually very helpful. I drew up a little plan with measurements and all, so I don't have to ask him a million times.

Heather