Feeling Crabby

It is Wednesday, and my Harry Potter anticipation is skyrocketing. Unfortunately, with all of the spoilers that are floating around the web now, I’m laying low and trying to distract myself from the temptation of said spoilers, so I’m going to take some time throughout the next couple days to post some projects I’ve had finished for awhile.

So, meet my Bollywood Crab!

And from the back:

I find it amusing that the mica in the clay shifted and kind of ended forming a wee moustache for him, if you look closely. I was thinking about selling him on Etsy, but I’m rather fond of him, plus I don’t know how much to sell him for. So, I’m keeping him for now.

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The Knitting Bug

Though I’m not entirely sure how it evolved into. . . well, you’ll see the pictures below–I believe it started when I randomly found a craft blog that I immediately fell in love with, and the blogger posted pictures of her knitting WIPs. That looks interesting, I thought. And boy, is that yarn purty. I had briefly tried to learn how to knit once before towards the beginning of my clay craze, with the cheapest and roughest Red Heart yarn that exists, and then I quickly gave up when time after time the last stitch on every row was so big I could fit my thumb and index finger through it.

Inspired by my new blogcrush, I decided to look into this knitting thing a bit more. I followed the links on her blogroll to other knitting blogs. I kept reading those. Then I found additional ones. Then I found the knitting boards on Craftster. Clearly, despite not having picked the needles back up, I was already in deep.

I bought softer yarn. And a couple books. And more yarn. I started collecting free patterns online. And most of all, I started my first scarf, in plain old garter stitch.

And I finished it.

And a close-up:

And since this, I have also knitted a Panta (go to page 4 for pattern, picture here), a hair kerchief (from Stitch ‘n Bitch), half a lacy bag (based on the lace stitch used in the Saturday Market Bag), and am currently working on a laceweight garter stitch wrap (Tie One On, the mellow green version) for my mother’s birthday, which is why I put my bag on hold. Need to take pictures of all of these things.

But until I do, please allow me to help you understand the full extent of my addiction:

Exhibit A, the stash after just two months of knitting (and not including the Knitpicks yarn I got in the mail the other day, as well as a few other Wal-mart finds):

Good Lord, help me.

I plan on making posts with finished projects I have to show off, one by one, so that I encourage myself to write in this blog more. I will craft my way through my blog guilt.

Comments:

1. Laura said,
September 6, 2007 at 5:27 am
Congrats on picking up knitting! I took a class at Michael’s to learn to knit and purl a couple years ago and forgot about it for crochet. But in the past few months, I’ve made scarves and am now working on my first pair of socks. Amazing what a bit of online research/scouting can help you do!

–(yarnstormer on Ravelry … saw your cool usernamer in The Office group!)