tutorial is up!

announcement #1:

Here’s the tutorial for my crocheted pincushion!

I hope you enjoy it!

announcement #2:

Aaaaaand, I’ve got a little tidbit of news.  Remember that secret thing I mentioned a couple of posts ago?  Well maybe not, but there’s something awesome coming.  It’s almost ready, too!  Ok ok, I’ll tell you — I’m just too excited to keep it in.

That’s right!  A giveaway!  But, not all of the components for this giveaway have arrived in the mail yet, so I’m not going to reveal what I’ll be giving away!  I’m just gonna tell you it’s a good bit of stuff.  It’s my first giveaway, after all, so it has to be good.  It’s to celebrate having over 50 followers on this site, and to say thank you!  There will have to be a couple of stipulations for you to enter, but nothing strenuous or annoying, I promise.  Also, the giveaway won’t be open for long, so you’ll probably want to check back every couple of days to make sure you don’t miss it.  Of course, I don’t know how long it will take for the last component to come in, but if it takes too long I’m probably going to get too impatient and I’ll throw in something different.

Anyway, I hope you’re looking forward to it as much as I am!  I’ll be posting again soon either way.  Thanks for visiting!

Kitty Ripple #2

My newest project is Kitty Ripple #2, and when finished it will go with #1 to PetSmart to line the kennels of the adoptable kitties.  Here’s my first couple of rows (I’m using the same pattern as last time).  I just wanted to show you the crazy yarn.  It’s totally something old-fashioned but I think it’s fun for kitties.

I say it’s fun for kitties and there’s already dog hair on it.  I’ll have to wash both kitty ripples before I take them in…

current projects

I’ve been working on 2 items, both Harry Potter related (I know, I’m such a nerd).

The first one is the hat Hermione wore in HP7 (pattern here).  It’s really pretty and doesn’t blatantly scream Harry Potter:

 

My second WIP is more obnoxious, or at least it has the potential to be.  I’m making a Weasley sweater (pattern here), and I’m still unsure of whether or not to add the giant H on the front.  In the movie of course it stands for Harry, but since my name is Hannah it would totally work.  But do I want to be that blatant of a fan?  We’ll have to see.  Here’s what I’ve got so far of the back piece:

 

And it’s about 14″ from the bottom, so I’m about halfway done with this section:

 

Can’t wait to make more progress in both of these!  Oh and I also have a sock, but I haven’t touched it in a while:

I managed the provisional cast on toe and then got burned out on how difficult I found it and how slow it was going, so I stopped for a while.

Thanks for viewing my current projects, I’ll update soon!

finished!

The Kitty Ripple #1 is complete!  Here it is:

Plenty big for a kitty kennel at PetSmart, even if folded in half.  I hope whichever kitty gets this blanket is happy!

Oh so colorful.  And there’s another one coming soon — I got another colorway of the same yarn to make Kitty Ripple #2!  Hopefully once I donate them they’ll go into the kennels right away and I can show you the kitties enjoying them.

previous knits

I’m a beginning knitter, and it shows in my projects.  That doesn’t mean that I don’t want to share them with you, though.  Here are some of the knitting projects that I previously posted on my crochet blog.

That’s me in my very first knitted hat and scarf pair.  Very basic for my first try.

My next hat, made of a fun yarn but still a simple pattern.  I was still getting used to knitting.

This bigger/slouchy hat was made from this pattern on Ravelry (a site I just can’t get enough of).  I gave it away to a buddy but I might make another someday.

So those are my finished projects!  Next post will be my WIPs, which I have a few of.  We’ll see!  Thanks for stopping by!