New Headband!

I was trying to do the readings for my essay today, but the fringe tt I'm trying to grow out kept getting in the way. Resisting the temptation to just cut it short (again), I decided to knit myself a headband with some of that huge stash of yarn I have hidden away in my wardrobe. I did this using 3 strands (white, pink, pale yellow) of 8 ply Panda Magnum acrylic yarn on a 6.5mm needle in garter stitch. Took me around 3 hours while doing my reading.

Shucks, these photos are so unflattering. =(

This headband is great cos it keeps my ears warm too!

Oops!

Oops! Just realised that I got the direction of the buttons on David and my neckwarmers wrong! Mine ought to be right over left and his ought to be left over right... Gotta switch the row of buttons over to the opposite side! Thankfully, it's an easily solved problem. LOL.

Neck Warmers!!!!!

A few weeks ago, I bought the wrong yarn for my knitting and found myself stuck with 4 skeins of yarn (2 brown, 2 purple) with nothing to do with them. After attempting and ripping many projects, I finally settled on making neck warmers for David and myself. It's a combination of 2 patterns that I found online. They turned out great!

In the process of making these neck warmers, I also discovered a fantastic shop in Newtown, Sydney that sells buttons, more buttons and ONLY buttons! They have a fabulous collection of buttons from all over the world, with designs and prices to suit all pockets (no they din pay me to advertise). In the end, I settled for round wood buttons (from Germany) for David, and square plastic buttons (unknown origin) in 3 colours with a pearl finish for myself.

In case anyone's interested in the shop, here's their address:

All Buttons
419A King Street,
Newtown NSW 2042
Tel: (02) 9550 1782
Web: www.allbuttons.com.au (p.s. Check out the website! There's a really cool picture of the shopfront in there!)

Ok, enough talk, time for the pictures!

Wet blocking the neck warmer to make it nice, flat and straight.

David's neck warmer (buttons right over left)!

Mine (buttons left over right)!

Lazy Saturday Afternoon...

Feeling quite lazy today, but finally decided to take a photo of the handphone pouches I knitted for David and myself. David's pouch looks kinda like a shrivelled prune cos it's elastic and his HTC touch is not sitting inside yet. It should look something like mine once it's stretched out.


Also decided to re-do my toe nails cos it's been a month since I last did my nails and the old polish is all dull and chipped! Couldn't decided which colour to use, so in the end I painted my nails one in each colour. Lol.


Well, time to get started on my work now...