Stitch n' Bitch

This is what T says I do when I knit. I stitch, or drop a stitch rather, and then I bitch! The swear words come FLYING out as I figure out how to make things right again.

You see, I am a very novice knitter, I never really learned how, I just watched a friend do it and started doing it. Bored with the idea of a simple scarf I dove right into a baby hat project with tiny little needles and thing gauge yarn. It was kind of a nightmare to make but I thought the hat turned out really cute! I only had to stop into our local knitting store about 5 times for advice to get the hat finished!!

What I realized about knitting is that once I have spent $30 on some organic, free-range alpaca yarn :), an unqunatifiable amount on needles, markers, and stoppers, plus 60 precious hours of my time, this silly hat is worth like $500! Also there is a 100% chance that if I made the item for myself, I won't ever wear it.

So why knit???
I don't know if its the snowy weather, or the fact that my friends just had a baby or if I am simply channeling my 70 year old self, but these patterns have me itching to start stitching!

Hat for new baby N:

http://acechick.typepad.com/knitchicks_patterns/2006/01/strawberry_bean.html

http://www.p2designs.com/pdfs/ptn-froggyHat.pdf

http://www.spudandchloe.com/blog/2009/10/apple-hat-free-pattern/


Fingerless glove for me:

http://knitting.about.com/od/mittenpatterns/p/fingerless.htm

http://www.straw.com/cpy/patterns/mikado-gloves.html