Elephant thoughts

My thoughts on knitting, crocheting, being crafty and just my life in general. I am calling it elephant thoughts because elephants never forget and I am hoping this will help me to remember more things. Wish me luck!

Saturday, January 13, 2007

Well, I finally uploaded my pictures. Here they are:

Santa hat for my new niece

Bracelet for my mom


Another Bracelet for my mom


Magnetic bracelet for my older neice



Circle scarf

Closeup of Circle scarf

Me wearing the finished Circle scarf
New Navy Blue Alpaca scarf (not finished yet

I really like to make scarves, so you will be seeing lots more of them in the near future.

Monday, January 08, 2007

Christmas over and extra projects made

I finished all (well almost, but it was an extra gift anyway) the projects I had intended for Christmas and even made a few extras. I made 2 extra bracelets for people and I finshed the napkins and no I do not have pictures of them with me. I do have them and I will post them at a later time, I promise.

I am now working on something I read in a new (to me) blog I found, Joan Knits. She has this wonderful idea of how to get on track and keep on track (hopefully) with your knitting and/or crochet projects. It is the Joans Wacky Dot System . I started organizing for this last week and so far I cleaned up my room (yesterday) and put away the extra yarn so that it is out of site and only left out the projects that are partially done and the ones that need to be done first. So far I finished one project and am almost through with another one. I feel like I am actaully going to do all that I need to get done by my deadlines. I also made a pledge to myself that I would not buy anymore yarn for 4 months or until I had used up the majority of my stash and just absolutely have to buy yarn for a specific project that has a dealine. I am going to use up what I have buy making afghans and scarves and maybe even some hats and arm warmers, but I will use it all up. I promise. I even told my BF about it and asked him to keep me in line and that I would try not to fuss back at him when he did. Yay for me!!

Well, that is all for now. I promise to post more later and add pictures of what I finished.