I Venture Into Adult Sizes!

Well, I finally had some time to sit down and create some new hats that fit full size humans instead of their mini-sized children and babies.  These hats took some experimentation on my part, but here they are!  Don’t judge me for my sub-par modeling, I can’t help that I look awkward whenever I try to look serious.  Serious face = not me.

I leave you with this picture of Porky… she INSISTED that I feature her in at least one of my “model” shots.  She’s such a diva.

You can view additional pictures (and maybe even purchase something if you feel so inclined) here: http://sugarandcaffeine.etsy.com.

Yeah that’s right. I posted three blog posts in one week.

Last time I posted pictures of a month’s worth of projects, there were a few projects that I couldn’t show here due to the fact that they were Christmas presents for one of the few people who read this blog.  Well.  Christmas passed, presents were given, and now I can brag.  So here we go:

Oh man. I am SUCH a beautiful scarf. And I am being worn by Leigh. She's my favorite. AND my new owner!

This scarf took me a LONG time.  I followed this pattern, for those who care, and also had one HELL of a time figuring out how to make the stitches look like they do.  Its counter-intuitive, but I am convinced that you can teach yourself how to do anything using instructions/books/etc., so eventually, once I stopped second guessing the pattern, it all made sense.  BUT NOT before Blake had to put me to bed and ban me from knitting for the rest of the night for about 3 days in a row.  I throw fits like a 5 year old.

Oh yeah.  I guess I should tell you who is featured in the above picture.  That is my sister-in-law, Leigh.  Leigh also has a blog, and can seriously “don’t look at the camera!  don’t smile too big!  look natural!” model my creations way better than I can (which you will soon see).  She also knows how to ask for what she wants.  This scarf never would have happened had I not received an email several months ago containing only a picture of this scarf and the words “I want.”

Here is a close picture of the pattern.  For all the cursing it invoked, it deserves a closer look:

ADMIRE ME!!!

(Oh yeah, and please notice the snow.  That’s right SNOW!!!  MY FAVORITE!!)

Now this hat is a present for my other sister-in-law, Brittany:

I look like a dork.

Brittany ALSO knows how to ask for what she wants, and it only took me one year to get around to making it for her.  I followed this pattern, for those who care – but altered slightly to account for the GIGANTIC YARN I used.  I was kinda iffy on it at first, and there was a comment made by someone named Austin Knight regarding some of the details THAT MADE ME WANT TO STAB HIM WITH  A SPOON, but overall – I think its cool (important lesson – don’t insult the knitting once it is completed.  It’s not worth it)

Finally, the next hat was made for my brother:

Hi! I'm a hat!

Now, I realize that this hat is being worn by me, a non-boy.  You see, my brother has the most sensitive skin ever known to man, therefore most “animal fibers” are off-limits for him unless he wants a sweet breakout on his forehead (this includes wool, alpaca, dog, or whatever else they make yarn out of.  Please click on that last link.  You won’t regret it.)  HOWEVER, believing I am a genius (no lie, it just took me 5 tries to spell genius correctly), I ordered some yarn that said, “soft!” in its description, which I interpreted to mean, “David can wear it without becoming a zit-forehead.”  Well, this was not true.  I simply rubbed the yarn on his arm and he broke out, so I was FORCED to keep the hat.  Now, I realize that this picture is not the best at displaying its inherent awesomeness, but OF COURSE, I lost the stupid thing within 2 days of being in Chicago (where it was DESPERATELY needed.  I ended up stealing Blake’s.  I am very selfless), so this is the only pictures that exists.

And that folks, is it.  FOR NOW.  Also, someone should congratulate me on three posts in one week.

Do I Maybe Watch Too Much TV?

So, on Saturday, Blake and I went to dinner with some friends.  While we were eating, another friend was mentioned who absolutely never watches television.  When I say absolutely, I am probably exaggerating a little bit, but I mean this particular person hardly ever turns on the tv.  I mean, shes doesn’t even have cable.  WHAT DOES SHE DO WITH HER TIME? (which was, not exaggerating at all, my reaction to that news)

You see, not having cable seemed to blow my mind.  I couldn’t get over it.  Which, if you think about it, is weird.  I know I watch a lot of television, but I also do a lot of knitting and the two are basically peanut butter and jelly.  Knitting was made for television watching.

The more I thought about it, the more I decided:  I definitely watch too much tv.  In fact, Blake and I have basically watched the entirety of every television series that received some level of good reviews.  Even Battlestar Galactica (watch it!), or The Wire, or How I Met Your Mother.  All these shows have been systematically watched by the two of us.  In fact, when we were debating which series we wanted to add to the top of our Blockbuster rental list next, I couldn’t even think of any show that I wanted to watch and hadn’t already began.  And you know what is the saddest part?  I then visit any of a number of websites whose sole purpose in life is to blog about what the tv show meant…As I type this, I am disappointed in myself.

After thinking about this through most of the day, I announced to Blake that we weren’t going to watch any tv tonight.  That lasted for about 5 minutes, until I started to knit in silence and Blake began silently typing up some work.  The quiet gets to me!!  So, I guess I will have to try again later.  I will let you know how it goes…

My Shop is Finally Up!!

Well everyone, I finally put up my etsy shop. I have been talking about trying to make a shop on that website for as long as I have known about it. Due to my chronic low self confidence, I never thought anything I made was good enough, but Blake convinced me that I could do something….so I did! Ladies and gentlemen, Sugar and Caffeine the etsy shop.  Now, I am bad at this “self promoting” thing, so I will just leave you with some pictures.  Currently the shop only has baby hats, but I have big expansion plans.  Who knows how long it will take me to get around to posting them all, but eventually I will.  Let me just say that I have definitely learned from this experience how utterly frustrating Blake’s job must be.  Not that his job is creating internet shops, but he does spend a lot of time on quirky systems that shut down with no warning or explanation and delete descriptions that took you hours to write (can you tell I am bitter?)  Anyways.  Enough about that…look at my shop!  Tell me how good it is (I love compliments)!!!

I made these hats!!!

Ok, there are several more (meaning 15) hats on my site, so that’s all.  I will update it every so often and probably mention it here too.  The end!