Needles and String @_@

[bluejeans07]

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

Comments

[bluejeans07.livejournal.com]

Thanks!! I heard that you were a knitter as well!! Nice to know I have a support group when I burst into tears of, "IT'S SO DAMN HAAAARD~ *whinewhinewhine*"

[misswinterhill.livejournal.com]

I'm knitting an anglerfish for my sister for Christmas! It's going to look, uh, sort of cute. Which I think might not be the point of anglerfishes.

[bluejeans07.livejournal.com]

An... anglerfish?? :O Is there a picture or a pattern???

[misswinterhill.livejournal.com]

I'll post a picture when it's done! The pattern is by Hansi Singh, and here's a pic: http://www.knitpicks.co.uk/patterns/Black-Devil_Anglerfish_Toy_Pattern__D31256223.html

Mine is cuter than that. I used toy eyes, so it doesn't look quite so creepy. And it doesn't have its teeth in yet, which might be a significant up on the cute factor.

[bluejeans07.livejournal.com]

That.. WOW o_O