Halloween Crochet Project

I know, this is a knitting blog and here I am sharing my crochet project with you all. I think it is a really cool crochet project though and some of the things about it can be transferred to a knitting project! Okay, now onto the post!

I participated in the Freshstitche Halloween CAL (Crochet-A-Long). Here is the link to her blog post about it: It's a Halloween CAL! For the CAL you could make any Freshstitches pattern, but make it Halloween themed!  Since I  currently don't have the budget to purchase patterns, I decided to make one of her wonderful free patterns! The pattern I decided to make for is Howie the Holiday Penguin pattern. The pattern is for an adorable penguin and a Santa hat for the penguin. I knew I was going to need to change somethings to make Howie a Halloween penguin.

The first thing I did to make him more Halloween themed is I went with a different color scheme. Instead of using normal penguin colors, I used purple for the body, black for the belly, and a cream/tan color for the nose and feet. I didn't use orange or yellow nose and feet because I didn't have any orange or yellow yarn. Once I decided on the colors, I crocheted him. He was really quick to make!

I decided he wasn't Halloween themed enough. So, I made him a wizard hat and a broom! I made the  wizard hat so it could come off easily and stay on easily.

I made loops to go under his wings to keep the hat on his head.

I made him his broom and I wanted to find a way to make it look like he was holding it. Then I realized the loops could keep the broom in place as well as the hat!

I placed the broom through one of the loops and twisted it around. 

Then he was finished!! I am really happy with how he turned out! I named him Wizard Penguin! It is not the most creative name I have thought of, but I can always change it later :)

Happy knitting (or crocheting) adventures!

The Adventure of Pandle and the Lacy Keyhole Scarf

Hello everyone! It has been a while since I shared with you my knitting adventures. I haven't had many since school started, but the ones that I have had have been epic! I think they have been epic at least :) The first adventure was making the Lacy Keyhole Scarf. Then my even more daring adventure: making Pandle (A.K.A Pan). Okay, they weren't that dramatic, but we can pretend they were!

Making the Lacy Keyhole Scarf

This adventure started out when I was on Ravelry looking through the forums and I saw someone had posted that Craftsy was giving away free classes for people who had never taken a Craftsy class before. For everyone who may not know, Craftsy is a website where you can take online classes. The classes are videos, and there is a place for you to ask questions and the instructors will answer them. It is really great! I got this class called Knit Lab. It was really great!
When you get the class you also get patterns that go with the class. The class had step-by-step videos on how to knit the scarf! Whenever I had some difficulty I could just go to the video for the part I was on and it would teach me what to do!! I did not have a lot of trouble with the project and I learned a lot from the class!

Here is a picture of the lacy part of the scarf. The picture was taken before I finished the scarf and before I weaved in the ends. The color showed up pretty well in this picture too.

Below is a picture of the scarf when it was finished!

Making Pandle (A.K.A Pan)

Making Pandle was a great adventure! I used the Maddox the Mischievous Monster pattern to make Pandle. The pattern is by Rebecca Danger. Here is the link to the pattern on Ravelry: Maddox the Mischievous Monster. Here is the link to the pattern on Rebecca Danger's Etsy shop: Maddox the Mischievous Monster. I would like to say, any problems I had while making Pandle had nothing to do with the pattern. The pattern was great! I am just new at knitting still and make mistakes. :)

I knit Pandle on DPNs (Double Pointed Needles). Instead of making Pandle all one color, I decided to give him a few stripes! I had a very interesting time making the stripes because I had never done stripes in the round before and I wasn't too sure about how to carry the yarn up. I am pretty sure I carried the yarn up incorrectly, but the way I did it worked so I am happy. I had a hard time with my stitch count as well. I kept getting off more or less stitches than I was suppose to have. When I was working some of the plain rounds I just let the stitch count be off until I started decreasing then I tried to get the correct number of stitches (I think I was still off though haha) Next time I make this pattern I will use an actual stitch marker instead of yarn to mark where my end of the round it because I think that was part of my trouble. I will use a row counter next time as well.

I am really happy with how the stitches turned out! I think they are pretty consistent. I am also really happy that there wasn't gaps in the fabric from moving between the DPNs.

At first I wasn't sure if I wanted Pandle to have arms. I finished him and left him without arms for a while to see if I liked him with out arms. The picture below shows the yarn color really well.

The next weekend I decided to give him arms because it just seemed like he needed some :)

I made his arms out of the same color yarn that I used for his stripes. I am really happy with how he turned out!!  I snuggle up and watch Doctor Who with him. He is my Doctor Who watching buddy and I love how he turned out!


What knitting adventure have you finished recently?
Happy Knitting Adventures everyone!!

An Update!

Hello everyone! I am sorry I have not posted in a while. School started and then it seemed like I had no time for anything! I have had a little bit of free time here and there which has allowed me to finish some projects.

Here is a little bit of an update about what I have been up to. School started in August and that takes up most of my time. When I haven't been doing school work I have been crocheting and some knitting. Recently I have started having problems with my left wrist hurting more. The bones in my wrists rub against each other. I had to have surgery on my right wrist for it a little over a year ago. I haven't had any problems with my left wrist hurting until recently. I have discovered that it hurts less when I am knitting than when I crochet so I will be knitting more often. That means of course I will have more knitting adventures to share with you all!

A more positive thing that has absolutely nothing to do with knitting is that I have started watching this show called Doctor Who. I had trouble getting into the first season so I skipped to season 4 and I love it! It is my favorite show now!

Getting back on the topic of knitting and knitting projects, I have finished one or two since my last blog post. I will talk about them in a different post so this one isn't extremely long!

I would just like to say thank you to everyone who follows my blog! I am actually not really sure if anyone follows this blog, but if you do THANK YOU!

Happy knitting adventures everyone! :)