09
May
by anniegurumi3 Comments »

OMG I’m Knitting & Other Stuff

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I stumbled across a yarn shop while walking around with the hubs. I’ve been having so much trouble finding cotton yarn, suddenly I find it everywhere! These packs were on sale and super-duper cheap, around $4 each. Normally they are a lot more but I’m guessing that nobody wants these colors so they’re making room for new colors. I took them because they make cute baby clothes colors. I’ve been working on some crochet projects and guess what? Uh, I totally made it too small for my nieces. Sigh.

I love the look of knitted items for summer since they are thin compared to crochet. I started crocheting a dress for my nieces. I hope I can finish these on time, I feel rather stupid that I spent all that time on their clothes and then found it too small. I really don’t know baby sizes at all, I need a baby at all times, like I did with my niece Claire. It was so easy since she was always right next to me and I could always measure as I go. Since I’ve been in Shanghai, I have no models to compare sizes to and I am HORRIBLE at following patterns. I usually wing it.

Speaking of children. Emails are trickling in from friends who are pregnant with their second babies. I am so happy for them, being able to get pregnant is such a blessing. I wish I could also experience that joy, I wish I were pregnant. I’m eagerly awaiting my (late) period so that I can get the polyp removed so that I can have a child. I try to be as positive as I can but I have my breakdown days where I just can’t understand WHY my body is the way it is. But then the doctor did tell me that once the polyp is removed, I should be able to get pregnant. I semi fear, what if that doesn’t work too? What will I do then? 

I’ll stop freaking out for now. 

I’ve been walking around a lot with the hubs when he’s free, knitting like a mad woman and I’ve stopped checking my email. Mostly because there’s nothing there when I check it anyway. Also to get a break from constantly checking, though I’m on instagram a lot. Instagram is nice since it’s just pictures of my daily life and I like to look back on it. Even the ones from before we moved here and to see how my life was in NY.

I have two questions for you: Are you working on any crafting projects? Is anyone out there going through infertility?

Two very different questions but I’d like to hear about them, since that’s what is on my mind. 

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06
Jul
by anniegurumiNo Comments »

anniegurumi: Knitted Scarves

Scarves make easy and very practical gifts. I think I made around 50 scarves by now in both knit and crochet. Knit scarves are usually tighter and generally look more flat and clean. Crochet sometimes can look more feminine and more of a lace like texture.

Here are some scarves that I made in the past:


I made this one for Qing last Christmas and it was a simple ribbing pattern that I’ve used a lot for gifts. K2P2. You can change the thickness of the ribbing by increasing the KP pattern. I would keep it even instead of odd. ie: K4P4

Both of these scarves are some that I made for my husband. The one on the left is a K2P2 pattern but I alternated colors every two rows. If you can find the really thick yarn it becomes a perfect winter accessory. Nice and soft, warm and dense. The one one the right is a basket weave pattern. I did K4P4 then P4K4 all the way to the end. When starting the next row you want it to look the same so look at the stitches and see if you should start P or K first. Follow this pattern till it’s the desired thickness of the box, then when you start the next row do whatever the opposite stitch is so that your pattern looks weaved/basket rowed. If that is too confusing to understand, here is avideo that explains it all.

Here is the same K2P2 scarf that I made. I seriously have made so many of these because it was my number one requested scarf. It’s seriously simple to make and it looks really pretty. I made this one for my friend Charlie. I made another one in dark gray for my husband which was the first knitting thing I made for him back when we were dating.

It’s already July and I feel as though it’s never too early to make winter gifts. But if you’re in a pinch and need a semi quick gift during the winter season… I highly recommend making scarves.

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