I'm a huge experimenter with my knitting. I could say that I like to look up patterns, and then tweak them to make them my own. But it's probably more truthful to say that I sometimes goof a pattern, so I'm likely to switch it up -- in the immortal words of Bob Ross, we don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents. So sometimes I end up with a weird little thing I wasn't intending to make, but I've learned something about my craft.
Usually, my happy little accidents or experiments find their way to my little sister. She's the best baby sister a girl with too much knitting ambition could hope for. She's always accepted my gifts with grace and sweetness. We're 12 years and 600 miles apart, since I've been living in Oregon for the past 5 years. It's tough for us to stay close, but especially now when she's going to be graduating high school and going off to (gasp!) COLLEGE, it's top priority for me to be the big sissy she needs. Oh, I'm making myself tear up!ANYWAY, for the past couple of years, I've been making her special projects with themes on her favorite movies and TV shows. She's a HUGE Harry Potter Fan (it's something we have in common); last year for her birthday, I made her a sweater in the style of the ones Molly Weasley makes for Harry and Ron in Sorcerer's Stone.