I'm Knot Kidding

What to Do when it is Sunday night, you're really wanting to create something, and you have a whole bunch of yarn: teach yourself how to knit. With YouTube and Pinterest, it should be a snap!!

A year or so ago, I had a whole knitting kit: a book, two sets of needles, yarn, different darning needles, the works. But, I got so frustrated at my inability to learn to knit I tossed the book. Now, just recently, I decided I was finally going to put my needles and excess amount of yarn to use. With YouTube and my tools, I got to learning.

     Pinterest helped me find good tutorials on casting, the actual knitting, and binding off. It took the use of a few different videos for me to fully understand technique and whatnot. I'm still no expert, by far! I know how to do knit stitch with and without a purl bump, as shown in the picture. The no-purl bump stitch requires me to use my left hand for knitting, which is quite hard! Again, I'm still not the best, but it's just a nice little hobby to do when I've got nothing better to do.

     Well, I just wanted to update you guys on my crafting. I'll be including knitting to the different DIYs I post about now that I am able to knit. If I get a good project going, I might do a tutorial post about it. you never know.

If you have any questions, just drop them below in the comments.

     I guess I can leave links to the videos that helped. Here you go, future knitters:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/47569339787980619/

http://www.creatiknit.com/blog/knitting-tutorials/how-to-knit-purl-and-rhymes/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIo-m6vfd-U

Pinterest Perfect Pincushion

Pinterest is a place that provides me with much inspiration. One thing that I have seen several times before is the pin cushion on a jar, genius! You have a place for your pins and a cushion where you can safely hold them until they are needed. Every time I would see it on my home feed, I'd pin it. Finally, after getting the perfect sized jar, I decided it was time to make it.

Making it was super easy, the hardest part was deciding what fabric to use. After deciding to use the floral fabric, the rest just fell together. All you need is cotton balls (I used some polyester filling), fabric, a jar with a mason lid, and a hot glue gun (I used Elmer's glue, I definitely suggest using a hot glue gun). You don't really need a tutorial to make your own. I had a tutorial pulled up, but all I ended up using from that tutorial was how big to cut the fabric.

     Anyway, this is a functional and adorable piece of sewing equipment that every sewer should make for their next DIY project. It's easy, not expensive, and takes little effort to put together.

If you follow me on Pinterest, I'll be pinning this. Also, if you are viewing this on yo computer, there is a Pin button at the bottom of this post so you can pin this directly to your Pinterest Board. I hope that this inspired any of you sewers to create something similar!

Psychopathic Reads

YES! I have finally gotten the book I've been waiting for: The Psychopath Inside by James Fallon. I've been awaiting this book for a while, I can't finish up a psychology post I've been working on until I read this book. It's not too long; not even 250 pages. It shouldn't be long until my psychotic post comes out!

I got the book for my birthday, and I am super excited to get to reading it. This post isn't a book review, I haven't read the book yet. This is just a post to show my excitement and hopefully get you guys ready for my super-long upcoming post called Psychopaths in Our Midst. Okay, just wanted to let all you people know what's up with my blogging and how very super happy I am!!
Now, go get the book and read it along with me hehaha. 

Socks Full of Stars

 Kind of a short post

Details about this look:

Grey, dotted shoes~ Keds

Knee-high consolation socks~ Xhilaration

Black skater skirt~ Candies

Grey tee~ Kohl's (not sure on brand)

Chill, vintage shades~ idk, 'twas a gift

Also, I was messing around with a new photo editing app I got, so that's why I have the fancy blurréd background.

And here is a better pic of just the socks:

They are much cooler when the lighting is just right. The constellations shown are real ones, too. I just love these socks!