WIP: My Website

I know, it's not knitting. But it's still a work (forever) in progress. I finally made my website presentable on Monday, and it's so exciting!

I took a class on web design in the Winter/Spring which covered the basics in HTML and CSS. I had a mostly complete site by the end of it, but I wanted to make a contact form that sent a message through the server and not through the user's email client. And that's where I got stuck, since the class didn't cover PHP or JavaScript...

But after some troubleshooting and starting from scratch a couple of times, I got the PHP script to work and now people can send emails to me straight from the website. Of course, that doesn't mean the website is finished. This is a WIP post because I'm sure it will always be changing, whether it's updates to my resume or additions to the project or craft pages or a redesign of the layout. I know the next thing on my list is to tweak the crafts page...

WIP: My Hope

This really should be a finished object by now. I'm actually much further along than when I took these pictures, but I haven't taken any since then.

And by much farther along I mean practically done. I knit all the cable repeats, I finished the beaded cast off, but I haven't soaked and blocked it yet. Therefore, it's still a work in progress.

Look at those colors, aren't they gorgeous? The yarn is Calypso from Creatively Dyed in the Revelers colorway. I bought it at Vogue Knitting Live last year along with another yarn from Creatively Dyed. The pattern is My Hope by Laura Linneman, and I really hope (that was slightly on purpose) to wash and block it this weekend so I can take some pretty pictures and wear it on my trip to Oregon next week.

WIP: Twin Leaf Loop

I recently bought Alana Dakos's new book, Botanical Knits. I love it, I want to knit everything in it! When I went to Stitches West I stopped by the Becoming Art booth and picked up two skeins of this bulky yarn called Jolie in the Fig colorway.

I promptly started knitting the Twin Leaf Loop (Ravelry link) and am now pretty close to finished.



It's been a while since I've knit lace so it took me a couple of repeats to get the pattern down, but after that it was really simple and so quick!

I've already cast it off and I'm hoping to block it and sew the ends together soon.