basimah knits… and spins… and maybe complains about things a little…

anyone?….anyone?….bueller?

it’s not just a poorly executed blury photo with bad color…. it’s a real live grown-up size sock toe. and i made it!

the pattern makes a right sock and a left sock.. so my toe is lopsided on purpose. i’m using size 4 needles and some sort of acrylic sock yarn i got at hobby lobby over a year ago (bernat "hot sox" maybe?) and i have no idea why i chose this color, other than maybe it was the only one with pink in it. the needles are probably too big for the yarn, but i know i knit pretty tight, especially in the round. and i also know my feet are wider than most sock patterns so a bigger sock wouldn’t be terrible. a third thing i know is i should have done a gauge swatch, but swatches be damned, i’m making me a sock… ill-fitting as it may be.

hey another new year. woo-freakin-hoo. call me pessimistic, but i can not imagine this one being much better than the last. and the last sucked pretty hard.

so now that i’ve said that, on to the knitting.

i didn’t get the scarf for mom or the fuzzy dice for boy done in time, but i did make a wine cozy for my aunt and uncle and a poncho for my great-aunt.

and now that it’s after christmas, i can say that the top secret silly cat hat and almost matching felted orange bag for my bestest friend were well-received. at least she seemed to receive them well.

now that i think of it, i’m not sure that anyone is even reading this since it’s been a long-ass time since my last post, and the one person i know that had my blog linked apparently no longer does. ah well. words to no one. that’s about right.

…. and we’ll all go broke together.

i taught my brother’s girlfriend how to crochet… and she made a whole scarf in like 2 days… in single crochet! you know how long that would take me? forever. not so much because i’m not a speedy stitcher, more because i would be bored out of my mind with an entire scarf full of single crochets. she did really well, though i didn’t think to get a picture of her with it.

a new crocheter… perhaps someone i can foist my ginormous acrylic stash on… so i can get new stuff! but shh, don’t divulge my evil plans. muahahaha.

as far as my work goes, i started a cabley scarf inspired by the one that ladybean was making, but cables get boring so i stopped it and started one of those multi-directional triangle scarf dealies and boy’s girlfriend harassed me until i finished it. it was easy, and looks alright. i might be interested in making another one with a finer yarn and maybe some beads… i think i saw one somewhere on the interweb with beads and eyelets. that would be cool.

other than that, not a whole ton on the project front.. knitting and otherwise. i think i’m going to try my hand at some jewelry making… with wire… i’ve made other sorts of jewelry but wire is an unconquered horizon thus far. so we’ll see how much i can lame that up. huzzah!