Finished!

I finished hat #3 of 3 for apple green photography! It's been alot of fun knitting these hats, and a huge learning experience! These were the first brimmed hats that I knit and it took me realizing that just because a brim looks cute in a picture doesn't make it practical for every hat, and through that learning experience I ended up trying about 3 or 4 brims before finding the one that I fell in love with and used for my 2nd and 3rd hat...


The first hat I strictly used 1 pattern, the second hat I modified a pattern, and the 3rd hat I took inspirations from about 3 or 4 different patterns to come up with my own... it's the first real pattern I've ever come up with on my own( I really can't count the socks that I knit, because even though I didn't follow a pattern, I still used a basic sock "outline" ) and I'm going to write it down and share it soon, because I really like it :D It is very similar to the second hat I knit, but by the time I was done with it it was so far removed from the pattern that I based the 2nd hat off of that apart from similar looks(remember the 2nd hat was already modified) and a similar brim, they're two very different hats.

Right now I'm blocking the hat... I realized after I was done that I have one kid with a head too small to model the hat, and another with a head too big to model it, so it will have to go unmodeled for now, and you'll just have to be happy with this picture!:p



I'm so so happy to have been able to have the opportunity to knit the for things I did for Apple Green Photography...the timing I realize wasn't Ideal, otherwise I would have knitted these alot sooner, between having Faith...getting used to raising a baby with a preschooler, to adjusting to my husbands deployment... it's been an interesting time, but I feel that it makes these projects mean that much more to me! I've been through so much over the past three months, and these hats have made that journey with me, lol ^_^

Next, I'm going to take a break from knitting for other people for some personal knitting, then in about a month or two I'm going to start working towards getting things set up for my etsy shop! You can visit it at http://www.etsy.com/shop/kitnknits! I still have alot of work to do with it, and the banner I just made real quick using Microsoft paint! haha... but I hope by the end of the year that I can have it up & running with a few items listed, but mostly I want to just focus on custom pieces ^_^ The biggest thing though, is that I've still got alot of learning to do.. there are way better knitters out there than me, atleast in my opinion, but I only started knitting last October, and I have alot of room for growth....I know it's along shot, hoping that anymore people might be interested in my work, but you never know... and besides... I'm mostly doing the etsy shop to keep myself busy while Matt's away.

While you're away...

So my husband's been gone a little over a week now, and I'm still trying to get back on track...

It's not that things have been exceptionally difficult for me, I mean, I miss him to pieces, but I've been doing ok.... it's just the kids that have been difficult... Izzy misses his daddy so much, they were so close... it breaks my heart to hear Izzy talk about him...

Jack has been doing pretty good over all.. he's been a big big help with the two little ones, but has been slacking pretty bad on his chores from time to time... over all though... it's mostly been a very messy room that seems to never get clean.. apart from that he's not doing too bad.

It is a bit of a shock to realize how much DH does day to day... and I feel like it takes him leaving before I could truly appreciate it...

Anyways, I don't really have any new knitting updates... I've been talking with a friend about possibly designing a new Soaker pattern, with ribbing in the butt area only, rather than all through the crotch or using short rows... so I'm hoping to work on that as soon as I finish this last hat for Apple Green Photography.... I've finally made some progress on it! I had to completely scrap it at one point, and then frog back a few times... finally I had to put it down and work on something else for a day before going back to it... now though, it's coming along well, only another day or two of work, and I'll be done...

That is as long as I actually have time to knit..lol.
There have actually been a few days since DH left that I haven't picked up my needles at all...
Today for example I was so exhausted from not sleeping well, and from a crazy intense workout this morning, that I ended up falling asleep on the couch with Izzy(The fact that both the little ones were asleep at the same time was a huge blessing! lol)

I also just started reading the book of Job... DH and I wanted to have something we could both talk about while he's deployed, so every month we're both reading a book(or series of books) of the bible "together" this month is Job...which I think is an inspiring book to read during hard times... I've read it once through before years ago, so it'll be good to read it again..
But that also has been taking away some of my knitting time...but I figure, spending time in God's Word way is more important...if I thought otherwise, than that would be making knitting an idol... and I really should be reading my bible more anyways... usually the most reading I'll do is when I go over my bible study for my sunday school small group.. and that's not alot really...


Anyways, that's my update for now, I'll probably be updating this alot more now that things are getting back on schedule :D