Cozy Up To Your Morning Jolt!

So I know I said I would post the socks I knit up, but I just made a coffee cup cozy this afternoon and had to post it! Also, my socks need washed so they get back into shape before I can photograph them.

I made this cup cozy from a pattern in Durant's One-Skein Wonders book that I recently purchased. I thought it came out so well and I knit it up so quickly! That's a huge selling point for me, as I can be an instant-gratification kind of person. I always take my coffee to class and since I haven't invested in a really nice stainless steel thermos that will keep my coffee warm, this was the perfect thing to make. Now I can keep my coffee hot throughout my 2 1/2 hour classes (if the coffee lasts that long) and I won't burn my hands carrying it to class.

Although I can't reveal the pattern to you (whoever you may be), I can tell you that I made the cozy with Debbie Stoller's Stitch Nation Bamboo Ewe yarn in a steely, almost lavender gray that is just gorgeous. I salvaged the yarn from some leg warmers that I made and was unsatisfied with. Let me tell you, that is one hard working yarn! I must have unraveled the leg warmers once or twice while making them and then a third and final time when I decided that I hated the pattern I used and the stitch definition is still fantastic. I really recommend this yarn. Plus, it's so cheap! I know the pictures aren't great because they were just taken on my phone, but hopefully you can get the idea.

Until next time! Keep knitting!

Not Feeling Creative Enough to Think of a Title

Now I'm really sorry for not blogging for a month. I'm doing real well at blogging regularly, huh? 2 posts and I'm already slacking off. I could give all sorts of reasons for why I haven't been posting, but it's really just plain laziness. I have barely been working (boo) and school has been completely manageable so far this semester.

Anywho! More about the knitting.

Although I haven't been blogging, I have been doing tons of knitting! Since my last post, I have finished a cable-knit pillow, a pair of alpaca socks, a scarf, and am very close to finishing a pair of leg warmers.

I put a picture of the pillow I finished below. I think it turned out all right for my first attempt at cable knitting. I accidentally put one of the buttonholes in the wrong spot. Still don't understand how I did that because I was trying to pay close attention to make sure I got it right and I still mucked it up. Otherwise it's pretty darn cute! I used this pattern and altered it by just adding more stockinette stitches on each end so that it would fit an 18" pillow. As you can see, it fits quite well! I just used an acrylic yarn because I got a bunch of it super cheap and I didn't want to waste good yarn on a new skill. All in all, it's a pretty cute pillow and in the future I'll probably make a mate for it.

I have to get going for class a little early today because of all the snow in Philly. We got dumped over the past two weeks and it takes at least an extra couple minutes to get anywhere now. I have to navigate around the 6' high snow mounds (no kidding). I'll post pictures of my socks and my scarf (and the project I'm working on concerning scarves). Hopefully it won't be another month before I post again.