Multiverse Knits

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So....when I started this blog, I fully intended to make posts at least once or twice a month. Or more. Really any time I felt like writing, or published a new pattern on Ravelry. And then an incredibly unexpected thing happened:




Long story short, my husband and I had been trying to have a child for many years. I think both of us just believed it wasn't going to happen for us, and that kids would come into our lives another way. So when she came along, it was quite the surprise! She is full of personality and I am loving every minute of motherhood, as much as she loves eating her hand.





As an odd symptom of pregnancy, however, I seemed to lose all ability to be creative. I didn't feel like knitting, and as a result of that, I also didn't feel like creating any of my own designs. I finished a few small projects, as well as somehow managed to power through and knit a Hogwarts blanket for my tiny human, but that was about it.




It also took me quite a bit longer to…

A while ago, when I first showed off my enormous staff when beginning this blog, a reader asked if I could do a post that described how I organized it all. I said I would...and then never did (until now) because, to be honest, it wasn't very organized.



I've said before, when I first started knitting, my husband bought me a cube storage thing to use. I promised I'd never have more yarn than would fit in it. That lasted about a year or so....

At a certain point, I just shoved yarn in tote bags and hid it in my craft room closet, because I really had run out of space to put things. It was honestly frustrating. But I am limited by the space that I have to store it, which isn't very much, my budget, and of course the options for storage are limited in a city without something like an Ikea. We do at least have a Container Store now, but even the options there are just more plastic things. I didn't want more tiny plastic things that wouldn't really solve the problem.




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Finally, after some delay due to my inability to math, I am happy to announce that my latest pattern is now available! Introducing, Infinite Cosmic Power:





So thankful that attempt number two came out exactly like I imagined them. All of the beads are perfectly lined up with each other. They fit. The beads are where they should be on the back of my hand.



The Infinity Gauntlet wielded by the powerful Thanos in the Marvel comics/cinematic universe inspired these gloves. I've come across a lot of jewelry emulating the design recently, since the film Avengers: Infinity War premieres this week. I decided that I needed my own version of them, in my own particular idiom.




There might be some of you lovely readers wondering why I didn't just create a more exact replica of the gauntlet. For those that crochet, there is a fantastic version available on Ravelry already that can be found here. And for reference, this is what the gauntlet looks like in the upcoming film:


But when I set out to …

Yesterday, I posted this photo to my Instagram as a sneak peek of my next design I intend to publish:



Unfortunately, later that evening, it all came undone.

I had already begun the picot bind-off on the first glove, when I proudly tried it on for my husband to show off how "amazing" it looked. And then I noticed it. A mistake that I did my best to ignore. "It's fine," I told myself. "It still looks good." But then I kept looking at it and looking at it, and it just bothered me too much to keep going.



If it isn't as glaring to you as it is to me, it's the fact that the large "stone" isn't centered in the middle of the four that go across the knuckles like it's supposed to. So then I tried to do the thing where I just dropped the stitches in the rows that needed to be fixed, but my skill at that isn't the greatest, so it started to look even worse. Now it's back to square one.



I remember the first time I frogged (ripped…

So...long time no blog! I'm not proud of that fact, but unfortunately real life has made it hard for me to be creative lately. It's been difficult for a lot of reasons. I'm not going to go into details in this post (maybe a future one) because I want to focus on my knitting for now. But there is a light at the end of the dark tunnel the past few months have been, so I'm slowly trying to get those creative juices flowing once again. And what better way to get back into the river of creative juice than by releasing a new free knitting pattern?



If you're a fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), then you probably have heard that a little movie called Black Panther opened this weekend. I, of course,, have already gone to see it, and will be going to see it again since the husband is out of town right now, and I saw it without him, because I can't be expected to wait to see a Marvel movie.


I am also the type of person who likes to re-watch the previous films bef…