Hellooooooooooo ,
Oh Ramblers I missed you so! There are a couple reasons for this terrible hiatus. One, the major one, is because I have had nothing new to report about. Same old, same old, I'm knitting hats for the store....I'm still knitting hats for the store, hey! I'm knitting hats for the store! And by the way - I really am still knitting hats for the store. But there is a light at the end of the tunnel - I have 3 left and am in no hurry now, which is a huge relief. A giant shout out to Machelle who is the best person to work with, she hasn't rushed me one single time and is so kind!
Big News : The continuing story
Okay so test knitting right? I finished it! I sent it out to the designer on Friday and she hopefully got it today! Woot woot! It ended up being a different yarn than what I talked about last time because let me tell you : LOFT and I just don't see eye to eye and I will avoid that yarn like the plague. The designer was so kind and so amazing as to let me send the yarn back, PAY ME for the work I did correcting the pattern even though I did not finish, send me new yarn and let me do a different pattern that I adored! An amazing experience and I would wholeheartedly do it again! Also if anyone reading this is a designer and would love a test knitter, let me know and I can give you my references :)
Starteritis - Definition - The disease where you start way more projects than you should...and you start more.
Cure : Start more projects
Some of you might think that this "disease" is a problem, well let me tell you right now, it's not! It's a wonderful thing that I have and I enjoy it, it's a lot of fun to start something new every other hour haha. Also if you pair it with finishing things every once in a blue moon you suddenly have a lot of things done!
Here's my list of Starteritis projects :
1.
Sprig - Beautiful sweater I've talked about a few times, I just finished putting the sleeve stitches on scrap yarn!
2.
Vampolka - I have recently decided on yarn for this and will be doing it as part of a KAL. I will be using yarn from Alexandra's Crafts that I bought at STITCHES Midwest (denim blue + white) and then a nice grass green alpaca that I won at STITCHES as well!
3. Clay's gloves - My poor amazing friend has been asking for half fingered gloves forever and I finally found some grey yarn in my stash to use! I'll be using
this pattern but altering it for half fingers.
4.
Heliotrope hat -This beautiful cable hat struck me when I was looking through the magazine in the store and was the reason I bought it. Now I did end up deciding I like about 3/4 the patterns in it but still. The hat is so pretty and I'm using Knit Picks Biggo for it in the colorway
Haze Heather
Those are all in addition to the hats that I should be doing, the old projects I should be finishing, and of course all the other patterns I should start soon!
I will be doing another post with my pictures of my new projects soon :)
That's all folks,
Ashley~
