Celebrate Color With Candy Corn!

I am so excited about these little guys, and I think they're totally adorable. Plus it's really easy to make a bunch of them and put them all over your house.

I'm also officially submitting them for the Celebrate Color contest over at Stitched in Color. If you don't know about this contest yet, you must check it out. The prizes are drool-worthy, and there are some talented people showing off their handwork.

Fall was definitely the inspiration for these guys when I was trying to come up with an easy pattern to submit for my certification. It just made sense to me to make something holiday themed and what better than candy corn?

It's an iconic fall candy, plus I've used them to decorate around the house before, filling jars and vases with the colorful candy and putting them around the house.

So cute! I love them, and I'll share the pattern soon!

Update: pattern shared here.

The Latest and Not So Greatest

Since finishing the baby blanket I have been hard at work completing part 1 of my knitting certification; a requirement for being a knitting instructor at Michael's. First I had to clear all of my needles so I wasn't tempted to work on something for fun because I'll admit, so far getting certified is most certainly not fun.

It hasn't really been stressful, yet, but I have 6 months to complete everything and the tasks just get increasingly harder as I go along. I successfully procrastinated for a month after I received my binder and when I realized how difficult and time consuming things were going to get, I got started and gave myself a deadline of this weekend to finish and mail part 1.

Unless you've taken the course yourself, this doesn't really prove anything to you, but trust me, I'm very close to sending this to my given mentor and selecting a date for my phone test. (They don't mess around at the CYC.)

The good news is that once I get all my swatches neatly organized in the binder I can mail it off, breathe a sigh of relief, and start knitting something of my choosing! Perhaps something from one of Carol's books, or maybe something over at ravelry... decisions decisions... hmmmmm.