warm hands, cold heart

So I finished my first pair of knitted hand/wrist warmers today. Small step for humankind, but a huge leap for me. Tried to do something with a pattern this time & what could be better than to start off with the classic venus/feminist symbol?

It might not be the most neat knitting in the world, but I'm still learning... I found the pattern for the symbol at Subversive Knitting & then just sort of made the rest up. It was pretty easy & fast, good for a newbie like me. If i could, I would give you the pattern here but I actually don't know how to write out knitting patterns... They start with six rows knit 2, purl 2 (bottom) & end with four rows of the same, otherwise it's just plain knitting with two different colors & then sewing the two sides together & leaving a whole for the thumb. When you put them on it looks something like this (yes, it is very tricky to photograph your own hands):

knit 2, purl 2 (stuff I do instead of studying)

With some help from Stitch 'n Bitch & Roliga Stickboken, I finaly finished my first real knitting project.

It might not be the most revolutionary & prettiest scarf ever, but I'm still proud of myself considering that this was the result of the last time I tried knitting. I made it as a gift for my dad (he chose the color, not me) & it wasn't as complicated as I thought it would be. Now i'm thinking mittens, found some inspirational stuff here.

project increased salary

Mine, Sofia's & Gabriella's version of the knitting cupcakes:

It's all a part of our mastermind plan to guilt trip our co-workers into buying us presents & bakeing vegan goodies for us. Hasn't worked out that well yet...

knit it or quit it!

Today I started my new knitting project - which actually means to learn how to knit. I've done it before, but since that was about fifteen years ago I consider myself a newbie at this. But a friend at work showed me the basics today (thanks Sofia!) & this is the result... Just a practise piece, but I guess I'll find some kind of use for it (note the handmade Kylesa bag in the backgrund - I accidentally shrunk my t-shirt when I washed it, so I made it into a bag to carry around my craftstuff in). So, to celebrate this fantastic event & the fact that today is payday (stora löneutbetalningsdagen!) I dwelled in some mindless consumerism & ordered this wonderful t-shirt from buyolympia: