My TTL Mystery Socks all done:
and another Darkside Cowl just for good measure:
And now if you will excuse me, I must go knit some cowls :)
Have a great weekend and:
If you didn’t do it already: PLEASE DO NOT FORGET TO VOTE !
Tag Archives: knitting
On a Knitting Roll
Do you think that a knitting frenzy will help bring the autumn to Arizona? It looks like I believe it will, there is no other logical explanation for what is going on here in the knitting arena lately.
Yesterday I joined the TTL Mystery Sock KAL – it is my first ever KAL and the first mystery pattern I follow:
I am using The Woolen Rabbit beautiful Iggy Pop sock yarn I won when I was so lucky to be Margene‘s 29,000 commenter, thank you Margene! I really love knitting this yarn. I finished both cuffs last night and now I can’t wait until next Wednesday!
On Wednesday, I had a sudden and unexplained urge to rip off a weird object that I knitted last year and use the yarn to knit the Birthday Cowl I saw a few days before on Ravelry. I am very pleased with the result. I think it will do a much better job of warming me in cold weather than my weird creation. Unfortunately, I am afraid I will have to be patient for a much longer time than will be needed for my KAL adventure before I will be able to test it. So I need your opinion:
And last but not least: last week I started a vest in Classic Alpaca of the Alpaca Yarn Co in the Borealis Blue colorway. It is a birthday present for Joe’s mother who is going to celebrate her 75th birthday soon:
I am knitting this one from my head and using yarn from my stash. I bought this yarn when we visited Gore Mountain Alpaca, NY in April 2007 on our way from Marlboro, VT to Toronto. It turned out they don’t take credit cards and I didn’t have checks with me, so the very nice owner just gave me the yarn and his business card and asked me to send a check when I will be back home! The check was in the mail box first thing in the morning after we got back home.
Clicking on the photos will take you to Flickr where you can see more photos of each of these projects.
What Is Your Favorite and Who?
When I first saw the chart of Anne Hanson’s new little nothing: Punch and Judy I had to force myself not to drop the pen (I was proof reading at that moment,,,) and go look for yarn and needles to try and knit this pattern, I just love those ssk’s (I think it has to do with my unique way of knitting, the ssk is just flowing in the direction of my knitting,,, )
What is your favorite? oh and how do you call those: ssk, k2tog, yo anyway? knitting commands or instructions or what? it never occured to me that I don’t really know the name of those.
So not long after I finished the proof reading I went to visit my stash, from some reason the pattern asked me to knit it in Casbah but I remembered I have some other Hand Maiden yarn that may be closer in weight to what Anne recommends for this pattern and I found it. I know it has silk in it but I am not sure what it is as it was missing the tag when I bought it in a Village Yarns in Toronto, I think it is Silk Maiden.
and here is a detail where you can see my darlings ssk’s:
I knitted only 2 repeats or so as I must finish first another scarf I am knitting, it is a birthday present for my sister, the Lace Ribbon Scarf of Veronik Avery:
I will give you all the details when I finish the scarf but I must admit I love this pattern and I know I will have to knit it with a heavier yarn too.
And now, before I go to sleep, I must point you to a very eye opening presentation of Obama versus McCain Tax plans I found on Kerstin’s blog. Thank you Kerstin! I hope it will help those of you who are worried about Obama’s tax plans.
So, who is your favorite? I think it is quite clear who is mine!