I finished my wrap, and let me begin by saying that I started this wrap back in like, January or some really cold month.  The wrap is based on the "O Scrap Wrap" on Vickie Howell's website, which I realize now, was meant to be a wrap and not a poncho-y wrap.  At least, that's what I figure.  How do I turn a simple pattern into something else??? The funny thing is that I just bought her Knit-Aid book, and i saw on her blog that the O-Scrap Wrap pattern is going to be in it, so I can see just how weird I changed the pattern.  To be fair, the picture on her website is not very clear.  So anyhow, I sewed the poncho-y thing and it kind of had a cool effect.  Check it out:

I got many compliments on it at work (I teach at a junior high). I was worried about being so colorful since I usually wear such cheerful color combinations as black and gray, and gray and black.  I got a much less crazy reaction than when my hairdresser let me pick out the red she was coloring my hair with (which turned out fire engine red). So I figure I made a good fashion statement this time.

So now, since I have completed that abandoned project, now that there may be one chilly day left in spring to actually wear it, I am moving on to my most recently abandoned project, these socks I'm knitting.  I'm using a pattern from Knitting Circles Around Socks: Knit Two at a Time on Circular Needles, by Antje Gillingham.  This is meant to be a slipper sock, since I found this cute yarn on clearance when I was buying the book, and thought I could actually find the size needles required in the pattern.  i have turned the heel already, I had some trouble picking up stitches, which I still don't understand. Maybe I did them right, I don't know.  But I guess I am in the home stretch now.  Here's some pics:

My dog was helping me take pictures.  he's very helpful like that.

Oh yeah, and I'm now reading Yarn harlot, which is very funny.  My husband could not grasp the concept that I bought three knitting books which were for reading, not patterns.  Oh well.

Saturday I completed (just in time) a baby hoodie I was working on for my neighbor's week old son, Ian.  They didn't know whether they would be having a boy or girl, so when I found out it was a boy I ran out and bought a Pound of Love in blue.  I was going to crochet a baby blanket, but I just did one of those and I knew they had several blankets and I found this free pattern laying on my table that I happened to be cleaning off.  Who knows how long it sat there.  It went pretty quickly until I got to the hood.  For some reasons knitting for six inches was just too dull I guess.  Here's a pic:

My favorite part of the hoodie is the cute buttons I found!  Look how cute!!!!

It took a week total to complete.  I think it looks a little weird in shape.  But my neighbor seemed to like it.  I just hope it fits the little guy!

After finishing that, I was able to dig out a half-finished project, a wrap that I found the "pattern" to on Vickie Howell's page.  I only had to add one or two rows and then I had to sew in all ka-billion ends.  It just needs sewn together to be a poncho-wrap thing. I hope I don't look like a freak wearing it.

Now I am tired. My husband bought Mario Kart and we were having a blasty blast playing that.  My goal this week is to finish this wrap and maybe another project.  We'll see, I have graduate courses that need worked on/ procastinated on.  Well, it's off to bed for me!

Welcome to my first crafting blog!  I am a finicky crafter, I have to confess.  I have always been creative, and always making things. The problem is that I guess I get bored and I have a stockpile of half-finished projects hidden throughout my house.  My modus operandi (is that how you say it?) is I focus on one craft-genre for a while, and ignore all others.  So right now I am a knitter/crochet-er, but sometimes I am a jewelry-maker, sometimes a scrapper, sometimes a painter.  I am hoping that a craft blog can therapeutically help me with my dysfunctional crafting.