You knitwit!

I taught myself to knit a back in April and I've been meaning to post a few pictures of my "work". My first project was a ball for Sam...he's played with it enough that the filling has de-lumpified and considering it was the first thing I ever made...I was pretty proud.

When Sam catches me with yarn out he loves to take it and play with it. This one took me awhile to unravel.

Before Sam was born I bought a bunch of this green, white & brown cotton yarn to make him a blanket. I have a blanket that my Great-Grandmother made for me as a baby and it's something I wanted to be able to pass on. Of course I didn't start trying to knit it until he was over a year old but he'll never know. I took a traditional cable blanket pattern and replaced the standard cable with an XOXO cable. I thought hugs and kisses would be appropriate. Here's what the pattern looks like. It's about a foot long now...only 4.5 to go! (Since he's not really a baby anymore I'm expanding the size beyond what I had originally planned.)

In between schoolwork and the blanket I'm working on a couple of baby hats for the little ones my friends have had/are expecting. Even if those little ones never wear them I love the thought of giving something that I made myself. Not to mention how rewarding it is to hold something in my hands that I have made (that isn't food!) and watch it take shape. It's really something that I think is being lost as we move more and more to a computer-based existence.