Okay, well, this really has nothing to do with anyone getting married, but I do have an anniversary-related thing to celebrate–
This little blog is one year old as of today!
It’s my blogiversary!

Boy, it sure doesn’t seem like a year, but now that I look back on the posts from those first few months, I feel like both my crafting and especially my photography skills have come so far.
Here’s to more blogiversaries to come!

I don’t really have much knitting to show you purely because of the combination of not having much time to knit, and not being able to figure out what I WANT to knit right now.
So, I thought I’d show you something I mentioned awhile back (in November) but never actually posted pictures of.

The stats:
Pattern- improvised, sized to fit my extremely well-loved iPod mini
Yarn- The Knittery Merino Cashmere Sock, with small bits of Louet Gems Fingering in Lilac and Cream for embroidery
Needles- Brittany Birch US 1 (2.25 mm) double points

I made this after searching everywhere I could think of to find a suitable cover for my “obsolete” iPod, which I saved up for for months 3 years ago, only to find out a few weeks after I got it that Apple had opted to stop making them (and all accessories for the mini) to make way for the then-new nano. This little blue machine has been a very good friend to me, even through various occasions of slipping out of my hand while walking and getting scratched up on the sidewalk. It is, however, starting to die a slow and sad death, and I’m afraid I may have to start saving for a new one soon.
The things I love most about this iPod cozy are the sweet little details, like a picot hem at the top, a pretty, engraved button, and the love-music embroidery motif on the back (the music note was done in duplicate stitch, and the heart was done in chain stitch). I also made it completely seamless, knit from the top down ending with a 4-stitch saddle style gusset at the bottom, and an i-cord loop that was picked up and then grafted at the top of the back.
Something else that has inspired me recently-
I found this sweater pattern advertised in the newest Knit Picks catalog

Which goes by the same name (the Innovation Mockneck pullover) and looks suspiciously like this sweater from Anthropologie’s winter collection


Image courtesy of Mixed Plate blog

I, of course, would never be able to buy anything from Anthropologie, but they’re always a great source of inspiration, and it looks like someone from Knit Picks must have made a deal with the Anthropologie people, and now us knitters reap the benefits. I would have to purchase the pattern, but it would be great to use as a starting point (I like the original version better) to modify.