=O I’m doing it and I think this hat is going to take awhile to finish. I’ll post a pic soon.

Alright, I’ve arrived at a dilemma. For my beekeeper quilt, should I buy mini skeins so I can have a variety of colors and yarn types, or should I just get larger and fewer skeins? I mean, I’m looking around on Etsy and seeing a bunch of groups of mini skeins that usually make up into 2-4 hexipuffs. So a typical lot will give me about 12 hexipuffs, for about $10-$18. That’s kind of expensive really. I can’t do that for a whole blanket’s worth of them. I mean, I guess I can get a hand full of cheaper Knit Pick’s Palette colors and just use them. I don’t want to end up having a bunch of fingering weight yarn left over. Ack. I don’t know. Halp.

So, I started my next crafting project, the hexipuff Beekeeper’s Quilt (pattern from Tiny Owl Knits & found here), yesterday. I’m a bit excited about that. So far I have 3, and it takes me about 2 hours to make one. I’m hoping to get faster, so maybe I can pop out more than one a day. I don’t know exactly how many I’m aiming for, I’m just going to see how it goes. I’m using the rest of the left over Palette yarn from my Skyrim Scarf and this one random skein of Mini Mochi in Lakeside (I think that’s the colorway name…). I’m using U.S. size 4 (3.5mm) Knit Picks’ nickel plated 8 inch dpns. These motherhuggers are SHARP. I mean, really, really pointy! Beware! I feel armed and dangerous wielding these things. Also, I retain my earlier opinion that dpns are evil torture devices. 

I know I have to do a finished project blog on my Skyrim Scarf, maybe even a vlog (gasp!) but I’ll see.  

Anywho, maybe I should just aim for 365 hexipuffs? One a day for a year? Sounds cool right? Yeah, why not, lets give it a shot.

3/365

Wish me luck, for I feel I will need it in this hexipuff madness…

Day 2: What is currently on your needles?

Well as of now I’ve got two projects going, both of them knitting. I started a Skyrim dragon double knitted scarf back when I was in Japan, based on this chart found on Ravelry. I’m using Noro’s Retro in black and a dark indigo color, using 4 balls of the stuff. It’s going to be a wedding gift for a friend I made over in Japan when she gets married… in a year or so. It may take me that long to finish. But! I got some major progress done on it this past summer, the last time I measured it it came to 40 inches long! 

The other project is a personal one, another dragon themed Skyrim scarf, but this one involves shadow (illusion) knitting. I’m using this chart, which is based off of this chart. I’m using Knitpick’s Palette Yarns in Black and Mist. I started this project as a sort of break from the double knitted scarf, I just needed something that knits up a bit quicker before I can go in for the homestretch on the double knitting one, you know? Plus, I need a scarf for winter. Seriously, I don’t have one right now.