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Hello again!

Back at school now, so everything's pretty busy.  Still finding time to make things, though!  (And watch tons of dramas at the same time... :3).  Anyway, I just thought I'd post a few random pictures.

 This is a hat I crocheted for my mom before winter break.  I think the pattern is called Post Stitch Stocking Cap on Ravelry (I'm not sure why it's a stocking cap?).  The picture isn't that great, but it came out really nicely, I like the pattern a lot.  It's in fingering weight yarn, I forget what but it's on my Ravelry.

 

 Can anyone guess what this is going to be?

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 That's right!  It's Kurara!  (aka Clara, from Kuragehime <3)  I hope I have enough stuffing to do the legs, I'm getting low on it...  Anyway, I'm just improvising for this.  I did the head in multiples of 6 stitches, up to 48, and then 6 even rows before the decreasing.  It could have been a little more round, but oh well.

Lastly, my Wool-Ease came in, so I'm knitting a bunch of hats with it to put on Etsy.  This one's not done, it has some cabled braid that goes around the back and down the corners on the sides, but I ran out of the first ball in the middle so I'm waiting to see how much the other hats use.  (Totoro makes a good hat model, right? :P)

That's all for now!

Just got back from the annual winter trip to India, and decided to finally update this blog after a million years!  So, new layout etc., now it's finally time for a new post haha. 

So I bought yarn in India...  50 Rupees (~$1) for 100g, who could pass that up?!  I wanted to buy the whole store but I was with my mom and plus had suitcase constrictions.  So I got ~220g of two different colors.  See that huge blue bundle at the back?  Yeah.  Thankfully that thing is actually four smaller skeins together, or I would've died trying to ball the orange one yesterday!  In any case, it took me the entirety of an 8-hour plane flight to make those three orange balls, and I still have five skeins to go.  (Thank god for movies >_<  Actually, I don't mind balling yarn - unless it gets horribly tangled like my third ball did)  Not sure what the plan is for these yet.  I also have no idea what they're made of and don't know how to find out :(.

 Also, I was productive over break!  I made these fingerless gloves while I was at the beach.  They were knitted on my Knook (the Leisure Arts one, in G-5mm), from 1 skein of Cascade 220 Wool that I got from Stitch DC before I left ($16 o.O).  On a side note, I wasn't at all impressed with Stitch DC; I think their collection got really limited after they moved, and it was pretty pricey.  Looped is  way better, but of course still a tad expensive.

Anyway, the pattern I used for these is called Lana Gloves, I found it on Ravelry.  You can probably see that there are a few issues; the main one was that I did my increases a little wrong and so there are small holes in the pattern.  I don't think it looks too terrible, and they're only for me, anyhow.  I also probably have to re-block and re-seam the left glove, no idea what happened but it didn't quite come out right.  (You can't tell when they're worn, though, so I might just get lazy and not bother.)
 

Not much else to say about winter break.  I bought a million sizes of knitting needles, so I'm going to practice and try to get better with the real needles (I've still not been able to knit a rib properly xD).  All my listings have expired from my Etsy shop....I need to repost them, but I lost all the pictures.  They needed better pics, anyway. :P  I'll be knitting up a storm soon, I also ordered some stuff from Craftsy recently - I never knew they had a deals section, and the prices were good ^.^  Of course, I ended up spending a lot anyway.  I got some Lion Brand Wool-Ease and Malabrigo Chunky, just waiting for them to arrive in the mail!
On a not-really-related note, I sort of want a dressform.  It would be good for blocking stuff and for modeling things for Etsy, too.  I heard you could make one out of garbage bags and stuff, but that seems intimidating... Maybe I can find a cheap one somewhere?

Okay, enough rambling.  Until next time!