Check out the new look!

Kynan was gracious enough to redo the outlook of my little bloggy! I'm totally smitten! I know it's been forever, and I feel positively awful about that. Life has been pretty busy lately. A few weeks ago I went on a weekend get away up to Down east Maine, then up to lovely St. John, in Canada. There I got the Stitch n Bitch Handbook, which is fantastic. I also got everything I need to make this awesome hat in there. I've started the hat a few times now, but it's on dpns, which is a new skill to me, so it's been a bit tricky. I also begin an awesome patch work knitting blanket. Kynan's been helping me out making a few squares of his own. I also got the lovely Laura Wesley to do the translating for my dawanda store, and am planning to finish up my products and get some up there today. I also am almost completely finished with big blue. The blanket itself is huge and awesome and really warm. Now I just need to attach the stars. I'll definitely post pictures of my wonderful creation.
I've decided that for today's stitch, I'll show you the one I've been using for my blanket. It's called rice stitch. Mine looks almost nothing like these pictures. I used Lion Brand Homespun yarn which is really chunky, and size 10 needles. The back looks a lot different than the front. but still wicked sick. I do think that it does look better when it's tighter though. The stitch itself is really easy. The thing I liked about it, especially when working with Kynan is that it's pretty easy to spot errors and also very easily fixed. The top picture is of the front.


Rice Stitch
Row One: *k1,p1; rep from *
Row Two: k
This is a picture of the back. It's kinda got a nifty little ribbing thing going.

On that note, I think I'm going to leave you for today. I promise that my next post will not be 20 years from now. Also, I plan to post some pictures of my WIP's and my newly completed projects.