I think I knit funny..

My Oma taught me how to knit when I was eight, but it wasn't until last year sometime that I really fell in love with it. Other interests, you know? That, and the annoying way my stockinette would curl. How could I ever knit anything cool like a sweater if my scarves wouldn't even sit flat?? Yes, laugh. It's funny : ) (Not to mention completely normal for stockinette to do that if you didn't know. You have to block, or pin the fabric out and get it wet, to get rid of it.)

Anyway, I knit these arm-warmers in October because it's cold here and I was having a hard time finding a coat with long enough sleeves that wasn't also a tent in the torso region. Not very far into the project though, I finally got frustrated by the weird bumpiness that my knitting always seemed to have. Obviously, I was doing something wrong. For reals. Help me, Youtube!

And it did! It did, it did! I found this video on combined knitting pretty early on in my search and everything was solved! I was able to actually finish the project and haven't looked back. I found I could even hold the yarn instead of throwing it with this method : D Something about winding it around like you do in continental just never stuck with me all the times I'd tried to do it.

In any case, it was a Happy Day.

Look at all my pretty yarns : D

So...my husband is pretty much the bomb. The other week I finished off everything left on my needles from the winter, and was really itching to do something for summer. Particularly, this.

Problem #1: I only have wool. Big, chunky wool at that. It simply won't do.

So, I go to my lovely local yarn shop down the street to pick up some cotton. No biggie.

Problem #2: The LYS doesn't stock much cotton. At all. In fact, that are closing out a lot of it too.

I could cave and get a color other than the one I'm looking for, or I could go online and find what I do want. Yes. Online. Yes.

Problem #3: Shipping for just a couple skeins of yarn costs as much as a whole new ball!

This is where my husband's awesomeness comes in. After watching me squirm over it for a couple days, ogling some pretty Rowan Revive yarn that's just perfect but not being able to justify the shipping costs he says to me:

"Why don't you just plan out your next few projects and order enough yarn to get the free shipping?" (That's $60 of yarn, and we just got married a month ago, so money is tight.)

My eyes lit up. "Can we??"

"Yeah, we can make it work."

And lest you think this is just fiscal irresponsibility, my hubby doesn't like to roll that way ; ) We had to move some funds around but we did it and look! The yarn came! It came it came it came! : D

So, whoosh and away I go to knit ^^

Who are you, what are you, and why do you have a lion?

All very good questions, to be sure. We'll start with the first.

I am a multi-crafting college undergrad studying Art Education at BYU. I knit, I draw ('art' might be a more accurate verb, considering how just drawing isn't really the half of it), I write fantasy, and now I want to add beading, metalworking and sewing to that already rather time-consuming list. I kinda grew up on HGTV...

And as for the lion, it is a sort of personal symbol for me. When I first got to college, I started carrying around an old lion-shaped backpack my grandfather had given me for Christmas when I was six. I named him Leo, but never really used him much before then. As I walked around campus however, people started recognizing me for having him and it struck up a lot of conversations that I otherwise would never have initiated. I'm kind of shy like that..

But! I've gotten a lot better thanks thanks to him <3