I can finally say I feel like routine is returning to my life and I've never been happier to have one again. I intern 3 days a week, I drive an older gentleman once a week & babysitting once a week and my weekends are free to spend with my husband or at home crafting! Woot! Life is GREAT!
Check out this scarf I started the weekend after our return. With NO inspiration in my head. I have no idea where this twist idea came from (but I've been trying to come up with a good color-twist idea using a cable pattern since last winter; so I guess this was just me having an open mind and out it popped?). So I went with it and started this scarf up at a University of Michigan football game. Yes, I was knitting at a College Football game. In the stands. With a skein of yarn in each pocket. :-P
Moving on. At first I hated the way it looked, but it was like heaven having needles purring in my hands again. I wish I could describe how right it felt to be knitting again. It feels like punishment when I have to put the needles down (I was nearly late to babysitting tonight because of it; oops!). But luckily I now have lots of time & opportunity to be knitting whatever I want - and lots of Christmas presents!
I hope to post pictures as I start working on them. And I'm sure that list of mine along the right column will be growing by the week as I brainstorm more and more projects (and gifts) to make.
So glad to be back. I hope you'll return; I've missed the excitement of comments in my inbox. :)
And because I've started settling back into a routine, my knitting has started picking up again and with it, more crafty ideas & inspirations have followed! When I first picked up my needles after returning from our honeymoon in Croatia, I had never felt so empty of creativity and ideas. Talk about scary! For about 5 seconds I seriously wondered if I would ever be inspired again to create something new and not just a copy of something I saw. But I'm happy to report that over the last two weeks, and through a lot of etsy & self-suffient reading, my inspirations are coming back. :)
Check out this scarf I started the weekend after our return. With NO inspiration in my head. I have no idea where this twist idea came from (but I've been trying to come up with a good color-twist idea using a cable pattern since last winter; so I guess this was just me having an open mind and out it popped?). So I went with it and started this scarf up at a University of Michigan football game. Yes, I was knitting at a College Football game. In the stands. With a skein of yarn in each pocket. :-P
Moving on. At first I hated the way it looked, but it was like heaven having needles purring in my hands again. I wish I could describe how right it felt to be knitting again. It feels like punishment when I have to put the needles down (I was nearly late to babysitting tonight because of it; oops!). But luckily I now have lots of time & opportunity to be knitting whatever I want - and lots of Christmas presents!
I hope to post pictures as I start working on them. And I'm sure that list of mine along the right column will be growing by the week as I brainstorm more and more projects (and gifts) to make.
So glad to be back. I hope you'll return; I've missed the excitement of comments in my inbox. :)