I hate to start off this brand spankin' new knitting blog with something for work, but I can only post pictures of what I'm doing right?
Oh wait, I should probably introduce myself on the off chance that someone stumbles upong this blog who isn't directly related to one of us contributers (we contributers? Come on English Major, kick in any time now...). I should probably come up with some super cool username like "KnitBitch McGee" or "Ms. Speedyfingers", but I think I'll just stick with amy. I am a mama who opened a internet based business knitting baby things in a desperate attempt to offset the cost of being a stay at home mom. It started with a post on a mothering board with a picture of my first longies with a skull and bones on then and it took off from there. That was over a year ago and I have knit more longies than I can count. My tiny man is getting ready to go to school now, so I am trying to figure out how to balance my time with him in the afternoons, working out of the home and running my little knitbiz. It should be interesting. I am the one who's posts will be formatted strangely because I am a little technologically challenged and who will likely bore you to tears with picture after picture of baby pants. Oh, here's me and the tiny man.
He has been known to play with his Hotwheels and declare "We're driving to the YARN STORE!". I have trained him well. I plan to get him his first set of needles for his 4th birthday next year. He'll thank me for it later-is there anything more attractive than a guy who knits? Yeah. He'll thank me later.
I just finished a pair of what I call "Daddy Longies" for a customer who is trying to convince her husband that cloth diapering can be manly. Block letters seem really easy, but since I only had about 75 rows of outseam to work with and 7 letters in each word, I had to make each letter 8 rows high in order to leave a little space at the top and bottom of the lettering. I only had room to leave 1 row between letters. Doing block letters with 8 rows to work with proved more difficult than I originally thought, especially with the "N" and "K", but I think they turned out okay. There maaaaay be one minor flaw. I was knitting at the pub the other night while playing pub trivia (which prompted a well dressed man on the team at the next table to call me a "crazy person" -pshaw. He was just mad because I can knit and kick his sorry ass in trivia all at the same time.) and in the darkness of the room I managed to yarn over and knit it for the next 3 rows. I debated just sewing up the tiny hole that resulted, but couldn't leave it be. Frogging at the pub-hey, there's another good knitblog name. Anyway, this was on the second leg, so I had to keep track of the rows I ripped out to make sure I kept a count of the exact number of rows I knit to make the legs the same length. There is a small possibility that one leg has one more row than the other. Shhhhh! I sent pictures off to the customer last night and haven't heard back yet, which is always nerve racking. I hope no one tells her husband that I am currently working on finding "Green Bay Packer green" wool for another customer. How did I become the go to girl for sports themed longies? No idea.
In exciting news, I have free knitting time while I wait for measurements from the one remaining customer on my wait list. That means I get to sit and work on my super secret project today. I measured super secret earlier and have a depressingly long way to go. My super secret plan is to let Henry go to school next week and have a lot of trouble finding a job. What's left to do but knit? Mwahahahaha!
Okay, I'm going to hit "Publish Post" and see how much I've mangled this entry. Wish me luck!
Oh wait, I should probably introduce myself on the off chance that someone stumbles upong this blog who isn't directly related to one of us contributers (we contributers? Come on English Major, kick in any time now...). I should probably come up with some super cool username like "KnitBitch McGee" or "Ms. Speedyfingers", but I think I'll just stick with amy. I am a mama who opened a internet based business knitting baby things in a desperate attempt to offset the cost of being a stay at home mom. It started with a post on a mothering board with a picture of my first longies with a skull and bones on then and it took off from there. That was over a year ago and I have knit more longies than I can count. My tiny man is getting ready to go to school now, so I am trying to figure out how to balance my time with him in the afternoons, working out of the home and running my little knitbiz. It should be interesting. I am the one who's posts will be formatted strangely because I am a little technologically challenged and who will likely bore you to tears with picture after picture of baby pants. Oh, here's me and the tiny man.
He has been known to play with his Hotwheels and declare "We're driving to the YARN STORE!". I have trained him well. I plan to get him his first set of needles for his 4th birthday next year. He'll thank me for it later-is there anything more attractive than a guy who knits? Yeah. He'll thank me later.
I just finished a pair of what I call "Daddy Longies" for a customer who is trying to convince her husband that cloth diapering can be manly. Block letters seem really easy, but since I only had about 75 rows of outseam to work with and 7 letters in each word, I had to make each letter 8 rows high in order to leave a little space at the top and bottom of the lettering. I only had room to leave 1 row between letters. Doing block letters with 8 rows to work with proved more difficult than I originally thought, especially with the "N" and "K", but I think they turned out okay. There maaaaay be one minor flaw. I was knitting at the pub the other night while playing pub trivia (which prompted a well dressed man on the team at the next table to call me a "crazy person" -pshaw. He was just mad because I can knit and kick his sorry ass in trivia all at the same time.) and in the darkness of the room I managed to yarn over and knit it for the next 3 rows. I debated just sewing up the tiny hole that resulted, but couldn't leave it be. Frogging at the pub-hey, there's another good knitblog name. Anyway, this was on the second leg, so I had to keep track of the rows I ripped out to make sure I kept a count of the exact number of rows I knit to make the legs the same length. There is a small possibility that one leg has one more row than the other. Shhhhh! I sent pictures off to the customer last night and haven't heard back yet, which is always nerve racking. I hope no one tells her husband that I am currently working on finding "Green Bay Packer green" wool for another customer. How did I become the go to girl for sports themed longies? No idea.
In exciting news, I have free knitting time while I wait for measurements from the one remaining customer on my wait list. That means I get to sit and work on my super secret project today. I measured super secret earlier and have a depressingly long way to go. My super secret plan is to let Henry go to school next week and have a lot of trouble finding a job. What's left to do but knit? Mwahahahaha!
Okay, I'm going to hit "Publish Post" and see how much I've mangled this entry. Wish me luck!
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