Christmas knitting '13

I don't know about anyone else, but I haven't done any Christmas knitting this year and with a full course load I probably won't have time to knit anything big/personalized for anyone. So I dug some leftover yarn from my stash and tried out a 'design' that has been bouncing around in my head for a while. It's a star shaped Christmas ornament knitted in the round and shaped with increases/decreases and short rows. This is the first draft, I still need to work out some kinks. The photo is of the 'decrease side', I didn't think to take a photo of the 'increase side.'

I'll post the pattern once I've worked out all the kinks (basically just need to figure out which decrease and increase to use). I think this'll make a good (last minute) present because it only takes a few hours to knit and it can be made from leftover yarn (my budget doesn't really allow for any new yarn right now). I might knit a pillow-sized one for my sister's birthday next year, she loves stars!

It's been a while

since I last posted. I've been busy lately and my modem died on me last thursday so I've been in internet-withdrawl for the last five days. The first two days were pretty awful, but then I got used to it :)

I don't really have anything to show you guys, since I haven't really done any crafting... aside from teaching myself double knitting. So I thought I might show you something that I've been working on, it's a design assignment for school. I think I'm going to make up a pattern for the sweater, I really quite like it. The drawing isn't quite finished yet, I still have to fix the eyes, add the rest of the texture to the clothes and do a bit of shading. I used a croquis I found on the Threads Magazine website for the body, 'cause it takes me ages to draw an actual person and they all come out looking really skinny. I like the Threads croquis because she looks like a normal woman and not like some skinny model (which is what everyone else in my class prefer to draw.) I almost forgot, the design consists of two parts; a sweater and a dress.