Almost Back to School!

It's August, and my lack of blogging is due to the fact that I've been at school getting set up for the new year!  I'm so excited for this year.  As of right now, my class has doubled in size from last year (from six to twelve!), which I think is great.  Sometimes six is great, but sometimes it limits what you can do with a class.

Because I've been at school, I'm spending less time crafting, and spending less time on here.  I'm sure that I won't be as frequent as I was once school starts, either.  I will be able to start posting some school ideas, though!

One thing I tried was putting magnets on the back of those 3M hooks instead of one of the sticky strips.  In theory it was great!  In reality, though, they weren't strong enough to put anything on.  I wanted to hang my coin chart on these, but the magnet wouldn't hold it.  I will do this, though, if I can find stronger strip magnets.  Here are some pictures of the basic idea:

My fingerless gloves are moving along slowly.  It's not usually a good idea for me to not put a deadline in a project, yet if it's not really for Christmas or another event, deadlines won't mean anything to me.  That's a mindset I really should get over.

I'm past the gusset on the first one, and am working on the palm.

Please excuse the flowery couch.  You'll see it a lot in this post!

I've also started a new project.  Surprise!  My boyfriend's sister is about to have a baby.  I felt bad that I hadn't started something sooner, so I decided to make the baby a stuffed animal.  I've never made one before!  I'm knitting a cute elephant.  The only change I'm going to make is to make an i-cord bow to put around it's neck.  We still don't know if the baby's a boy or a girl, so once we know I'll pick either a nice blue/green baby yarn I have, or a little bit of the pink yarn I'm using for the fingerless gloves pictured above. 

I started the elephant using a pretty light blue yarn that I have, thinking I'd just go pick up another skein the next day.  Unfortunately, they had the yarn but not the right color, so I had to buy new yarn!  Here's a lesson:  have ALL the yarn you need right away!  I'm saving the two panels I finished, though, because I'm going to check for this color yarn every once in a while, and if I find another skein I can make another elephant with what I have completed already.

I'm trying a new bread recipe tonight.  It's already puffed up nicely!  I'll write more about it after the boyfriend has tested it later this week.

Emily