i have been knitting again in the last few weeks but haven't gotten around to taking any pictures. maybe i'll do that sometime this week. no promises.
to tide you (and by you i mean the ones of people who actually read this thing) i submit to you two photos of my most recent FO's. i drove to austin, tx a bit ago for a show with some of my bandmates (we weren't playing, sadly) and decided that i was going to knit hats in the car on the way there. well, 7 hours of driving there and 7 hours of driving back produced the following:
of course the pictures are blurry, they were taken with my camera phone. i'll get better pictures at some point. both hats are made from the same pattern, some pattern that i randomly found online. once i find the link to it, i'll put it up. the one on miguel (resident cute boy) is knit from manos del uruguay and the one on me is patons SWS. i knit mine first (it took me about three hours, on and off) and migs (the bass player of my band, coincedentally) decided he wanted one just like it! i had the manos with me and he really liked that yarn so i knit him a hat on the way back. that time it took me about five hours but i think that was mostly because i was car sick.
you'll note in the second picture (if you can tear your eyes away from that dashing guatemalan to my left, i don't blame you if you can't) that there is a crochet border to the hat... this is a first for me! i have no idea what stitches i was actually doing but it made the hat a little bit longer and doesn't look like complete crap. i'm pretty pleased.
current WIPs that i'm going through:
- a wrist band for my friend chris so he doesn't get 'rock rash' (his words) when he plays guitar
- a felted entrelac wallet for miguel (he asks for things and i can't help but make them)
- an argyle iPod cozy for yet another friend
- a nautie for my friend steve (this is at the bottom of the list as he lives in north carolina and i won't be seeing him for a while)
