Monday, May 25, 2009
knitting occurred this M.emorial D.ay weekend!
I decided to do a quick and cute purse since I've been sitting on this cute purse handle from last year
So I eagerly started knitting again since I've been hooking so much,
with some of my fav yarn of couse! :o)
and even tried a new technique 
Well as fun and challenging as this project has been..it has not been going well :o(
I first wasted 2 hours of my knitting life to discover what was frogged I really was doing correctly...sigh. So I started again.
And then realized my purse handle was NOT going to match up with my knitting
DOH!!!! Too big (and too thick to fit b/c of the double knitting)! Ugh!
.....Soooooo I will have to order a new handle, which completely defeats the purpose of having a free handle *rolls eyes* As you can see I refuse to start over, but also refuse to keep knitting right now....back to crocheting!!!
That darn baby blanket which I am sick of working on now....it is big enough so gonna end it soon. Besides the baby shower is this upcoming Saturday, so that will be a wrap either way!
Despite the start of my knitting coming back and the start of my crochet fever now wearing off...
It is the unofficial start of summer! You really can't kick off a M.emorial D.ay right unless you have some of this
I have waaaaay too much of it
the lid won't even fit on top of this bowl...whew!
Hope everyone is having a nice holiday. And I definitely want to take a moment to honor all the soldiers who have put their life on the line for our country protection and my freedom!!!
Hang in there with your knitting and crocheting. I'm going through the same thing.
Happy Memorial Day!
Good luck with the purse!!! I can't help you with that lol.
You KNOW we had our watermelon! LOL
Oh your watermelon looks so good. i love watermelon but i always gets the precut ones cause i dont know how to buy a whole watermelon-i never know the tricks to picking one thats good.
Have a great day and week!
I hope your memorial day was good too!
In the double knitting, I assume you are doing sl 1 and K1 on each side, where the sl 1 becomes the K1 on the opposite site. So, when you come to a decrease point, you sl 1, then instead of K1, you put 1 stitch onto a cable needle in front, sl the next stitch, then place the CN stitch onto the left needle, then K2tog(or ssk) 2 stitches. Mark this spot, because you will do a companion decrease on the other side when you see the 2 knit stitches next to each other without a slipped stitch in between. You will K2tog (or ssk) those 2 stitches. This results in a decrease on each side. I don't know if that made any sense, but I tried my best :)
I STILL haven't started practicing crocheting for my baby blanket. I guess I need to start before the baby is 12.
That watermelon looks SO DANG GOOD. Sweet. OMG!!
The watermelon looks great!
Oh how I miss watermelon with seeds. We just have the bland seedless kind around here and it's just not as sweet.
Now watermelon, that is a something I am so happy to be doing the summer dance with! Yay!