While my hubby is busy flipping stations between football and golf, I decided to join the world of bloggers and create my very first and only weblog or blog page. I find this world of blogging a very intriguing past time of not only the American population but all those abroad. It’s strangely unique and I find that bloggers post the most interesting information. So, hopefully mine will be just as intriguing and interesting as everyone else.
I am a knitter, a very passionate knitter, who is highly addicted to yarn. I can’t go into a yarn shop with without walking out with a bag full of yarn for my soon to be next project. As all knitters know, there are lots of “soonto be” next projects in the works. I get so carried away with my yarn stashing that once or twice a year I need to detash by selling on Ebay, every knitters yarn delight. I’m not a expert knitter but I feel that I am very good at what I do. I have sold many of my handknits to friends, family and folks I don’t even know. I’m truly excited about trying a new idea of selling items again on Etsy – a wonderful place for all us handcrafters to sell our wares (http://www.etsy.com/).
My idea is to create hats in many colors and sizes, similar to the one to the right, that I knitted several months ago. This hat was a fun and fast project and I had enough yarn left over to create a great scarf to match the pattern. This particular hat was created using two balls of Cleckheaton Gusto 10 with size 10.5 double pointed needles. I love knitting hats and scarves, as they are fun and very fast projects.
Last year I had the pleasure of joining “Charmed Knits for Charity Knit-Along” at my local yarn shop Sophies (then Louisville KY). The project consisted of knitting as many hats possible to send to a wonderful organization called Warm Woolies (warmwoolies.org). I was able to knit 10 hats and received 2 hats from colleagues. It truly was a wonderful feeling to be able to help in donating hats to such a worthy cause. The theme was geared towards the latest Harry Potter movie that was coming out and the pattern was used from Alison Hansel’s book, “Charmed Knits” , House Hats – using all the colors of the houses in Harry Potter. I think I might do a bunch of these hats and just send them - Harry Potter is always popular!
