Self portrait Monday: January 17, 2011

Here it is! One of the six "secret" projects I've been working on for the past few weeks. It's a very simple triangle shawl made from Lion Homespun. I love making these! I picked up some grey, black and white yarn on Saturday so I could make more. It's super simple to wear, and can be worn a couple different ways. This is how I plan on wearing mine once I finally settle on the colours I want mine to be. All you have to do is tuck the ends under the part at the front and it holds itself in place.

The ones I've made already are all different colours, all striped though.
So far, I have:
-light blue and grey (the one in the photo)
-dark grey and olive green
-light blue and cream
-light grey and rose
-cream and rose
-dark grey and royal purple
I'll post a photo of the rest of them very soon! It's part of my New Year's resolutions to photograph each of my knitted items.

I am planning on making many more of them, and hopefully selling a few at a small event this upcoming Sunday.

Are there any particular colours you'd like to see? I have just about everything available, and I'm always looking for suggestions!

Charity Knitting

Over at Homespun Helpers, there is a Personal Achievement contest going on from now until Labour Day Weekend.
I'm going to be making a ton of these cute hats on my Knifty Knitters from now till then. I have a load of scrap yarns that will be perfect for these!
The red and orange-y one here was made on the second smallest loom (I think the red one) and the rest were made on the blue one.
These have all been made since... Thursday, except the first three.
Red and orange-y made of an unknown bulky weight, blue made from Bernat Baby Clouds, green made from Lion Homespun.


The pastel rainbow is one of my favourite yarns. I have about 3/4 of the skein left. I wish I kept the label. White and rainbow is made of Red Heart sport weight something or other (the colorway is called "crayon", I think) and white. The bottom one is actually a very pale blue at the brim, to a very pale purple at the top.These are awesome. No idea what brand, but it's all the same.
The left is a very pale pink, and the right is purple. Both double stranded with white, and they both have a slight sparkle to them.
Some fuzzy rainbow variegated with white.
The left is mostly white with pink, purple and blue flecks. The right is double stranded blue and green.

Once again, a ton of ends to weave in. I'm going to wait till just before I donate them, and do them all at once.

Current projects

I have quite a few projects on the needles right now. I just thought I should updated to show I havn't fallen victim to Rick Roll, yet.
I still have that mystery dishcloth going. I usually knit that one on the bus, so it's still sitting in my bus bag.
The yellow dishcloth hasn't progressed. I can't figure out where in the pattern I am. I'm thinking of taking it off the needles and using a different pattern.
I have 2 baby blankets going. One in "Breeze" and I'm not sure on the colourway of the other, it's a pink and yellow-ish varigated., they are both Red Heart Baby Clouds, though.
I've also been making hats on my Knifty Knitter. I'm planning on getting a bunch of super soft yarn from an LYS that's closing down and making some chemo caps. I will update Homespun Helpers when that happens.

An interesting livejournal group

I recently joined Homespun Helpers. This is a Live Journal community that set it self a goal of 4000 handmade items donated to charity in 2008. In 2007, they had set and attained a goal of 3000.
All you have to do to participate is knit, sew, crochet or just MAKE anything, take a picture, donate it to charity and post something there. An other way to help out is to sell something hand made, and have the proceeds go to charity.
This is something I'm going to support as much as I can this year. I have already made a few hats on my Knifty Knitters, and as soon as I find a place to donate them, I will be!