Wednesday, June 1, 2011

My new LOVE!!!!!

Okay, so I have not kept up with the blog......shocker! But, I have been trying to keep the creative juices flowing so I have been knitting. I was talking with a cousin of mine about her knitting (I think it was Thanksgiving) and she said that she has a super long "scarf" that she just keeps working on to practice patterns and such. I said "like a cross-stitch sampler?" and she nodded.........


Can I say how BRILLIANT she is????????



All of my cousins are this way.... if they aren't tall and skinny and gorgeous, then they are muscular and athletic or Marilyn Monroe curvy. Me? I'm the Danny DeVito of the family, in that I got the dregs of the gene pool...... sigh.......I have curves all right, but instead of being Marilyn, I am more of the Violet Beauregarde type curvy.... sad, I know. Anyway...red herring aside, I thought my cousin's idea was fantastic! So I started one...I just opened my knitting books and started trying certain patterns and decreases and increases.







So I didn't get too far but then I tried making a little hair-kerchief and it came out okay....






I'm going to put some beads on the thread on the end and I think it'll look cute. But why did I go through all of this? It was prep work. I was waiting on the UPS delivery of my new love.....




The Denise Interchangeable knitting needles!



You can change the size, the length and connect them for circular knitting needles. They rock!!! I have been on a baby hat kick lately... okay ONLY baby hats, but now? Oh the projects that await me.....


I will not be a slacker. I will not be a slacker.... I WILL NOT BE A KNITTING SLACKER!!!!!


Hugs everyone!!!












2 comments:

serenacpt said...

That's my sis in law!! Keep it goin' doll!!! All day long xoxoxo

Anonymous said...

Jesse. You inspire me!!! Your knitting needles remind me of an antique painters box I found at a yard sale for $4 about 3 months ago. It contained 25+ usable brushes! Has a section where I can place a canvas. And I will have to admit ... I've been a painting slacker :-(

I WILL NOT BE A PAINTING SLACKER! Let's do what we enjoy. I'll paint. You knit. And we will share our creative work.

Love you lots!

Mari