I turned 23 today...that age sounds rather adult...but yeah...a year into law school with a full fledged yarn addiction I'm not feeling all that grown up. When my BF turned 24 last May I was like "oh god I can't believe I'm dating someone who's 24. Thats so OLD!" and now I'm OLD too!
Anyways, while in Hawaii I discovered that my skin is extremely sensitive to sunlight and consequently I spent a lot of time indoors at the hotel (this is not a complaint, the hotel was gorgeous and I got to knit). Thankfully, the hotel also had free wireless so I've discovered some really cool knitting stuff on the web. My LYS's facebook page posted a link to the Fall Knit and Crochet Show which just happens to be in Greensboro this year. YAY for copious amounts of fun with yarn just 45 minutes away from meeeee! While I contemplated taking every single class, I've decided just to drive up for saturday afternoon to take a fair isle knitting class (fair isle and color knitting in general is something that has terrified me for far too long) and check out the shopping room. While exploring that website I THEN discovered TKGA (The Knitting Guild Association). Any knitters reading this should go check out their website immediately, they have all kinds of useful resources. I'm particularly excited about the knitting correspondence courses that they offer, including their Master Knitting Program. I want to be a master knitter! Just you wait, 2 years from now I'll have a law degree and a knitting certificate and I'll go around bragging about the knitting certificate. Anyways for now I've enrolled in their "Basics, Basics, Basics" course so that I can make sure I have all my basics technically correct (since I have never gotten any knitting help from another human being) before I start the masters program. I'm SUPER excited about this because I get to knit swatches and then send them in to get feedback from someone who knows much more about knitting than I do :D My class materials came on friday so I'll be getting started knitting my swatches this week! I'm also getting close to finishing the rainbow spectrum afghan I've been working on...I decided to block every square individually before sewing them together so thats taking a little while but expect pictures of the finished product very soon! I think its coming together really well but I gotta say, I regret using Cascade 220 yarn for this. I've been trying to purchase higher quality yarn from WEBS or my LYS for most of my projects, but for even a moderately sized afghan this just costs too much! This project was super fun to make and I hope to make more to sell on Etsy but in the future I will be using nice, cheap, machine washable Red Heart Super Saver for any afghans.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Thank you Geek Crafts!
So today I was checking out my shop stats on Etsy to see if my facebook page (Niki's Knerdy Knitting on Facebook) was generating any traffic when I discovered that several views had been directed from my FAVORITE blog: Geek Crafts . They featured my Soot Sprites on one of their postings today! I am super excited to have them notice me just a week after I listed items for sale in my shop. Thank you Geek Crafts, you guys almost made me start jumping around and squealing in a very quiet resort lounge in Hawaii :D On that note, Hawaii is completely gorgeous and fabulous, look at this big manta ray I saw swimming around in the ocean just a few feet away from me! And of course, I've been doing lots of knitting (my needles made it through security after all!). I've started a new project just for this trip, its an afghan made of 49 squares: 7x7 to represent all the colors of the rainbow! Here is my progress so far, you can see I've incorporated all the combinations of red, orange, and yellow and am just starting work on the green sections:
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
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