KnittyBug

....for slacking off in the blog department this week………it was my birthday. I just didn’t feel like doing much of anything. The day was on Tuesday and it really wasn’t that exciting. Well I did get a new toy, some flowers, and some really cute jewelry. (The jewelry was a gift to myself)
Anyways here’s the new toy.

Let’s just say that the first day I played with it I wanted to take it back. Looks can be very deceiving when your watching a video to show you how to work this darn thing. The lady kept saying that for some of us (meaning me) it would be a little more difficult. I almost gave up but I decided to try it again the next day.

I have to say that it really just takes practice and patience. After a few attempts I figured it out and realized even if I dropped a stitch on the end (which is hard to fix) I could always start over. In minutes I would be back to where I had dropped the stitch and could continue on. It is fun to be able to see something work up faster and fun to use but some details you can do with hand knitting you can’t do on this. Ribbing and cables are pretty easy and lace work can be done if you practice the pattern beforehand. So all in all I like my new toy. J

To go back to the birthday events I also got these flowers and a lovely chocolate cake.


On to the kniting part. So Butterfly zipped along and I finally got to the bind off point for the bottom section and I did something I should have done a while before this point…um yeah try it on.


Now if you know the pattern you know the details for the construction and obviously it would be hard to make a decision on how the fit would be at this point. But let’s just say that no amount of gathering would avoid the cinch sack look that I concocted.


Yes it’s a funny idea now but at the time I was a little disappointed. I knit the second smallest size, changed my needle size twice, measured and so on. Oh well back to the beginning.