Can't Stop Knitting

I don't know how many of you are similar to me when it comes to creating. I will get urges to create late at night, or so early in the morning when I am forced to do something else after little sleep. I think it must have something to do with my sleep cycle :p

So anyway! I have a spent a large proportion of my evening knitting because python decided to get error messages *boo* and I felt a little sleepy all evening. And I am currently working on my first proper design from scratch, it is for the fashion line I am creating. Watch this space.

But my knitting was pretty casual. Nothing too strenuous, literally k1p1 in the round. No biggie. So I was watching various tv shows online before I remembered. It is my birthday next month and I want a sewing machine. So I started looking at different sewing machines and thought I would see if I could find the one from The Great British Sewing Bee... I may have found it. I am not sure. But I will have a look again tomorrow. And then I remember one of the girls who i follow on youtube has a video about her sewing machine, thus, following this train of thought, I ended up on youtube. However before I made it to her channel I was distracted by a video.

This video was by the lovely Tiny Owl Knits. She is my knitting inspiration and for that I kinda love her. I have been knitting and been passionate about it before I knew about her, but there is something about her spirit that is just captivating... I don't know. But everything I end up watching her videos, I just want to watch them all, knit all her things and create. She also reminds me how more in tune with nature I would like to become. That will be a habit I will try and get into over the next week so I can try to embrace it a lot more fully in May.

Some of you may how who she is just by her most famous pattern, The Beekeeper's Quilt? This is something I have been meaning to make, but I only want to knit it with really nice yarn, i.e. no 100% acrylic blends. The dream to become a knitting snob and only mostly use fancy yarns... But when I found this video I was just mesmerised by her and her joy towards knitting. Her excitement is what you want to see from someone who is creating! I remember my ex came over while I was watching her videos, he didn't quite get her, but he knew it was clear that something about her was inspiring me.. I cannot remember the term he used, but knitting inspiration, knitting guru... You get the jist?

the beekeeper's quilt from tinyowlknits on Vimeo.

Nevertheless, The Beekeeper's Quilt is beautiful and I very much intend to start it once I am back in the UK as travelling with all those hexipuffs would probably be a little bit of a nightmare, but it will be good to have a background project constantly on the go for awhile!

I am not sure I even.. OH YES! Basically my point of writing this! I feel like I am in the zone. I am over half way of the first section of my knitting and want to see how far I can get if I keep going this evening. Though, it is pretty late... And I should go to class tomorrow!

I will do some more posts about knitting soon! But all my finish projects reside in the UK right now, to which I am not! I will probably talk some more about Tiny Owl Knits...





p.s. If you ever read this, you being creator of Tiny Owl, I guess this is like the Helena Bonham Carter moment, awkward fangirling but coming from the best place! Haha >_<