Hi! I'm back! I turned in the written part of my exam today and rather than wandering off to take a nap, here I am blogging. The good news? At least for the interest level of the blog? The exam time was not without the knitting. Because the knitting is what I do when I'm taking breaks during long slogs of work.
No really exciting knitting of course, but at least it was something. Here's what I made, some felted bowls from One Skein by Leigh Radford:
Dispensing with the usual project stat layout because I'm too lazy right now to do that. I've had this skein of purple Brown Sheep Lamb's Pride Bulky laying around for a while. When I did the great stash re-org a few weeks ago, this yarn got a pink slip. It was headed for the trade/sell/give away bin. But I was putting away some knitting books the other day, flipping through books I've never used, and came across the pattern for these cute bowls.
I had a feeling I could get two bowls out of a single skein, but I was a little wrong. I was trying to get two large bowls of the skein, but after I got mid-way through the second one, I ran out of yarn. So I started over and ended up with one small bowl and one large bowl. I had forgotten how Lamb's Pride felts like a dream - it's like this yarn is made to felt.
The bowls aren't super sturdy, but they are cute. And mine also happen to be true nesting bowls:
Courtesy of the metal nesting mixing bowls that we use all the time in the kitchen. With special thanks to mother nature for dropping a little bit of snow so I could catch some good pictures of my bowls while the snow lasted. It looked like a little mini-winter wonderland in our backyard for all of 30 minutes but then the sun came out and it all melted. I was glad I was working from home so I managed to actually see the snow.
I highly recommended these bowls as a fun and fast knit that would probably work well as a gift too.
I expect I'll be back to a more regular blogging schedule for the next couple of weeks. I still have the oral version of my exam coming up (March 11th) and a defense of my proposal at the end of March and then of course the big vacation to Japan. But I should be around for at least some of the time in between :)
I forgot you are going to Japan - luckiest lady!!!!
Anyways, the bowls are super cute.
Smiles,
Erin
Posted by: Erin | February 29, 2008 at 05:54 PM