Spidey 'Ghan!

There's one particular Little Man, who stole my heart quite some time ago...Apparently, the Very Best Thing In The Whole Wide World, according to this young gentleman, is Spiderman...We have Spiderman jammies, and brand new Spiderman snow boots, we dance and sing to the Spiderman song, it is all about Spiderman...

So, when his momma found this pattern on Ravelry, I absolutely had to help out...*enormous grin*




It's going more quickly than I thought, actually, but I have now passed the easy part of the rounds and they are just going to get bigger and bigger...Luckily, it is not going to be a full-sized Spideyghan, so there might even be a chance that Santa could put it under the tree...

The downside to all this is that I have had the Spiderman song running through my head all afternoon and evening... What's worse is that I only really know the first line...The Momma tried to teach me the rest today (of course, she has the song down pat at this point, poor thing!) but that just got me to "Spider Man! Spider Man! Na na na something-something a spider can!" Which I suppose is some improvement...

Happy Merry Turkey Hat

Holy.

Crap.

Get the pattern here.

Book Review

I recently got my grubby paws on a copy of Dominitrix...

First off, great book...No, seriously, great book...

Just about every knitting book there is starts off with a techniques section, which I usually just skip, unless I run into a specific problem with a pattern I'm working from that book...But I read through the whole section this time, and I quite liked the way it was put together...For a noob knitter without the patience to go through some of the boring how-to's I've seen in other books, this rocked...That said, I was very confused at one of the omissions from this section...I keep telling myself maybe I just missed it, and have gone back 2 or 3 times (it is entirely possible I am having a huge Brain Fart) but I can't find any info on weaving in ends??? This is a huge knitting bete noir for me, and as I read "Let's Skip The Pleasantries", I kept thinking how great the how-to's were, clear and concise, and that finally, Jennifer Stafford was going to be able to make me understand how to complete a perfectly woven in garment...Oh, well...

The patterns are fabu...


Valentine Candy pillows...




A Devil Hat...



The Winged Heart Bralet (too bad my boobs are too huge for this one--I love it!)...



The Diva Halter...


(All pics shown here are from the Domiknitrix book by Jennifer Stafford, copyrighted, etc. etc. I take no credit for these, they are for illustrative purposes only, to show how freakin' cool her work is...)


Also worth checking out is the Domiknitrix website...She's got a couple of patterns there she refers to in the book (don't know why they weren't included) that are free to those who purchased the book, and several charts that are way cool..

Bruce Lee!

(Aside...I was checking out Flickr to see if I could find some pics of the patterns I particularly liked, and found this cool afghan made by oh no trendy...)

The black vinyl cover will probably scare your granny, but it gets four out of five, I reckon...

Sweater Mania!

So I have x number of projects in the works now, but I am still looking at what I want to do in the future...*sigh*

Belle Epoque

Viveka

Tubey

Tempting

Bad Penny

I have wanted to make both Tubey and Tempting since I first saw them on Knitty.com...I quite like the style of Bad Penny, though I think I would have to change the colors (orange?)...I am not familiar with the yarn used for Belle Epoque, but from the picture it looks a little heavy for the design to me...I see it in a softer and more flowing lighter weight yarn, and a little less fuzzy...But that would probably require math or something to refigure the gauge, wouldn't it? *cringes*

Of course I had to go through all the archives, and managed to whittle down my choices to these 5, which would probably keep me knitting for the next couple of years! Hopefully I'll get at least one done by next winter so that I can flaunt my Mad Knitting Skillz...