Needles and String @_@

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Because I'm insane, I thought that I could knit a few Christmas gifts this year... and it's turned into almost a week of frantic knitting and carrying the balls of yarn and needles around with me wherever I go to sneak in a few stitches here and there. Strangely, all of the gifts I'm knitting are for guy friends or are in my family, so the colors are really boring: grays, blues, blacks, reds. Most of them are solid colors although I've managed to put stripes in here and there on some pieces...

But because of all this, I've gotten a lot better at knitting! I now can knit with double pointed needles, I'm more aware of needle sizes and what they do, and I now know how to do pattern things!


This is my favorite thing I have knitted, a pair of Batman fingerless gloves! Sorry that the image quality isn't so great, I took the pic with my phone before I gave the gloves as a gift, but the gloves themselves came out pretty well and I'm ridiculously proud of these. XD

I can't wait to be done with all the really boring knitting I'm doing now so I can finally knit some FUN things for myself. I want to make myself a pair of Wonder Woman fingerless gloves and I'm so ridiculously excited for these, it's kind of stupid. XD It's also inspired me thinking about how fingerless gloves would look like for various superheroes in the JL. But I only need one pair of fingerless gloves, right?

Also... I want to finally knit a dalek. I think I finally have the skills to make one! I think it'll be a Wonder Dalek, done in Wonder Woman colors... because I'm just like that. xD

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oh Batman!!! My kid who works at Starbucks wants some fingerless gloves so badly--perfect for handing out coffees on cold days through the drive through. So a friend of mine is making a pair for her in Starbuck colors, black and green. I may have to get some myself as they look so comfy!

You know that Nick aka cruentum knew NOTHING about knitting when he started to make Daleks? You might want to talk to him about them as he's made adjustments and improvements on the original pattern floating around. Each one he's made has been better than the last and someday, I may even get the one he made for me. :)

These two are daleks Skittles (the rainbow one obv.) and Blech. Blech now lives with amand_r and her daughter, and Rainbow lives at Ty Rosa Bed and Breakfast with the owners in Cardiff. blue_fjords has a solid blue one as does Nick's mom, and I have a rainbow one but it is STILL in Germany. Pout. :)

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They are REALLY comfy and I was so surprised how popular they were/still are! I was knitting these for my board teacher over the Thanksgiving holiday and at one point, all of my male family members would see me working on them and comment, "Those would be perfect for golfing" or "I need a pair of those when I go jogging in early mornings" and other things like that. They're not that hard to make and they don't take too long either. :D

Yeah, Nick made it sound so easy and then I looked at the pattern and was like o_O;;;; I couldn't make heads or tails of it! I definitely need to ask him about his adjustments! I love all the funky ones he made, I want to make my own funky one to go with it and even hilariously had this mental image of the 'Justice League of Skaro' where there are a bunch of daleks done in similar colors and motifs as the JL...

But that would take way too much work so just Dalek Wondy shall do XD