Finished The Dress!

Gosh I've been a little quiet haven't I?  Too busy knitting!

So the Christmas dress is finished and put away for Christmas eve, hopefully it will be cool enough to wear it.

Now I started working on the baby blanket before remembering, I need to knit Lars first.  Of course I knitted 15 rows realised I had casted on 10 too many stitches, pulled it apart and am now doing it again.

I have done the dangerous thing and logged on to Ravelry.  Oh god, so much knitting to do!

But in other news, oh my gosh I'm going to be a working uni student next year, how cool is that?  I am going to be so damn busy I probably won't have time to knit.

Yeah right.  I'll find time to knit.

Christmas Knitting!

So I did something very dangerous and went to spotlight and lincraft yesterday.  Actually the beginning would be a better place to start.

Last week my great grandmother, my Nan, someone very dear to me, passed away.  So natually I've been a bit upset.  Therefore, knitting more.  It's a funny thing, missing someone who has passed, especially someone like my Nan.  I know she wouldn't want me to be upset, that all she ever wanted was for all of us to be happy, and that makes me miss her even more because she was honestly the single coolest person I've ever known. 

Anyway, so I've been a bit snappy, and cranky.  Oops.

But this blog is about knitting!  So I went to spotlight and bought some nice purple yarn and a big ball of rainbow yarn, a circular needle and a new set of bamboo needles.  No idea what I'll make with those yet.  And then I headed to Lincraft and found Christmas Wool!  Now I know facebook tells us we should buy local and all that good stuff, and it truly is good stuff, but I'm knitting my girls Christmas dress myself!

So it's Christmas dress for Liz, then baby blanket for Beth, then skirt for Liz for Sam's party, and then my Metallica blanket.

The Newkid is in the house!!

Alrighty so Jason is finished all bar the border and I am VERY impressed with him.  I've been perfecting my knitting of shading and each one is getting better and better.  So why I didn't leave my beloved for last is beyond me ;)

Okay, so pictures.

Clearly this is the giant chin/jaw of Mr Newsted.

And here we have all 3 completed so far, knitting needles sticking out the top of Jason's head and no drummer as of yet.  OH NOES HOW WILL THEY KEEP DA BEATZ???

Anywho... I've sliced the top of my finger open knitting Jason so every stitch is pain lol but must. keep.  going.

So it's November

November!  I want this skirt finished by December 23, the baby blanket for December 25 and the Metallica blanket whenever it gets done but it's my favourite project right now so I must admit neglecting everything else I'm working on.  The skirt is coming along though.  The pattern is non-exsistent, I'm plucking it from a project I did about 3 years ago and tweaking it slightly.  Happy with it so far.

Working on multiple projects

So the big Metallica knit is probably the biggest project I'm working on.  Scrap that, it is the biggest knitting project I have EVER worked on.

This is me hard at work -

And here's Jason's jaw from the Metallica blanket, that man is all chin!

Now I'm also working on a baby blanket for my sister's first baby due in January, so I won't post a picture of that until I've given it to her.

However I am working on a skirt for Miss 3 so here's the beginning of that

Three projects on the go, I see carpal tunnel syndrome in my future.