yay

Yay!i only have to make 3 more squars nd then i am done with the blanket. well, i hve to crochet it together too i suppose but i will be dne with the knitting. I have some pics of my lil' sis hoos 4 years old knitting. she can't knit alot at once but last night she knitted like, 2 or 3 ros! (which is quite good for her)

new needles

so, I got these new needles. and there is something very special about them: They are size 17!!(U.S) It's so awesome! I have this ugly sock yarn that i know I will never make a sock out of and I thought maybe i could knit a scarf for my friend with that to make it super lacy but it was such an ugly color that I decided not to. The needles are aluminum so when you clank them against each other it sounds all hollow. I find it very hard to knit with them though. THEY ARE REALLY COOL THO!!!! yay!
I also got some more yarn for my blanket that I am making(It was too small to make 3x3 so I have to make it 4x4) and I am making this really cool pattern that is too hard to explain so you will see what it looks like in the picture I take of it when it is done.

New Yarn

I got new yarn from this place in Carmel called Knitting By The Sea. It is this pretty greenish yarn that is lime and then it is sort of thick. It is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO pretty! I luv it.

8th square

i am now working on my 8th square which is black. (I decided i would make a diagonal stripe and then since i have four multi color ones, i will place thoes around the center black one. I will make one more solid colored one to make two and then those will be in the corners where the black ones aren't. U'll see) I can't wait to be finished and see how it looks. and i am sorta glad that they r not traditional baby colors cuz then those are sorta boring and I like mine better. :)

what should I knit for my mom and my 4 year old sister for Christmas or their birthdays that are simple?

I am thinking what I should knit for my 4 year old sister for either her birthday(May) or Christmas that is quite easy to make. Same goes for my mom. I thought maybe I could make her a bag but the thing is that I don't have much patience for things with large rows. Any ideas? Please comment if you have an idea.

Pattern for baby blanket

I am writing down this pattern (for a baby blanket)so that I can remember it but so i can show it 2.

Supplies:

Size 8.0mm needles(size 11 U.S)
prob. medim worsted weight-worsted weight yarn in lots of colors.
yarn needle
yarn for sewing squares together

Instructions:

Cast on 20 stitches. Knit until your knitting is square. (IDK how many rows that is.)Bind off. Make about 8 more squares (depending how big you want it to be) Sew together using yarn needle.

Optional:

Take ribbon and sew onto the edges
or
Embroider something onto the front
or
Do both!

Have a good time knitting this! (if you want to)

All the Squares [so far :)]

Sorry the pictures aren't so great. I had to use the laptop instead of an actual camera. So, here are all of the squares I have been making so far. The first pic is the first one I knitted and the second is the next one and so on. I might not use the extra black because I am trying not to use colors over again.

Next square

So, I finished my 4th square for my baby blanket and it is a little bit smaller than the others but it will stretch to fit the size of the others. Since it is a baby blanket, I hopefully won't have to put too many squares on this blanket but maybe if i want to make blankets in the future, I will have more squares in them. I just hate making no sew blankets because 1 row takes forever (for me, but maybe not for some of those ppl out there)and then 1 row isn't very long so i preffer sewn blankets.
I was thinking about selling some of my scarves i never wear over the internet so I could make some money but knitting seems to take too long for that. Well, it doesn't take too long but I don't exactly have the patience to do it. Like I want to do it for fun but there seems to be too much pressure to finish a scarf because I want to sell it. I will stry and get a picture of my blanket squares soon and you will see that they are not quite good. And i don't know how to block and i wouldn't go throught the trouble of all that because I have to go to school and do school work and stuff like that.
Just over our vacation to L.A. did I seem to become obsessed with knitting. when i was finishing my scarf that is super long but is so cool cuz I crotched a black edge around it and looks really cool and then the yarn changes color about every 3-4 inches when it is knitted so it looks like a rainbow.

Baby blanket I'm making

So, I'm making this baby blanket cuz there is this woman and she is going somewhere in West Africa in February and she told a bunch of ppl including my mom that she is collecting baby blankets that are sewn, knitted or crotcheted.(Did I spell that right?) Anyways, so I am knitting a baby blanket cuz I have been UBSESSED with knitting lately. But i have to knit really fast cuz the deadline is January 25, 2008. I already have 3 squares (I am making a sewn knitted blanket) and am working on my 4th even tho I just started today. I am REALLY proud of my self. Srry I am getting self centered.