Loom: Schacht Flip Rigid Heddle

Reed: 10 dpi

Yarn:  Yarn Pirate - Icicle – Merino Tencel from the Yarn Pirate Booty Club.

I thought about doing a lacier pattern with this, but in the end went with a plain weave, and the colors worked out beautifully.  Used the yarn for both warp and weft and just went the flow.  Took a few nights in front of the TV, once I got the warp on .

Also off the blocking board:

Pattern:  Gust by Anne of Knitspot

Needles:  Addi Lace #6′s

Yarn:  (drumroll please) 100% Mohair and it’s my handspun .

This was a quick and easy lace to learn, remembering to pay attention to it thought proved to be difficult, I tinked as much as I knit because I kept socializing while trying to knit this one, oh well it’s done, and yes I may even do it again.  This one is destined to land at Mom’s since it was gifted to her on Mother’s Day complete with needles, then taken back so that it could be finished.

Once it’s dry I’ll take better pics, between the blocking board and the color varigation, it didn’t turn out so well in the pics.

Stats:

Pattern: Wings of Fantasy by Hazel Carter

Yarn: Claudia’s Handpainted Yarn – Silk Lace

Colorway: Midnight

Needles: Addi Lace #5′s, (I wondered where those disappeared to)

What can I say, I loved knitting this, I had no problems with the pattern, it was an easy read for me.  I love the yarn and I love the FO, an all around pleasure for me to knit.

Pattern: Calorimetry by Kathryn Schoendorf

Needles: Options #8

Yarn:  Handspun by Moi on the Victoria and Plied on the Lendrum. Cashmere & Wool blend, dyed by Chasing Rainbows, I don’t remember the colorway, silly braid bands disappear as quickly as the ball bands.  Navajo Plied to retain the color progression without minimal muddying.

I needed a “bar” knit for a b-day party I went to last night.  This really is a quick knit, I cast it on and did the first row before leaving for the bar, came home, sewed on a button and wove in the ends.  Done did deal.

Pattern:  Earl Grey by none other than the Yarn Harlot

Needles:  #2 circular needles 10″ with a stretch cord and KP 2.50mm DPN’s.

Yarn: Dream in Color Smooshy but the ball band got away and I didn’t note the color in Ravlery so I don’t know what the color is, but it’s a beautiful slightly variegated brown, perfect for a pair of socks for DH.

Thoughts, this was a fun knit, well except for those needles (the circular not the KP).  The little needles were surprisingly easy to knit with, and I liked the stretchy cord, however, I didn’t like the join, it caught every stitch and was rather a PITA to deal with.  I’ll probably never use them again, the entire experience would have been a complete joy had the joins just let the knitting slip right on by.

I tripped on the socks and look what came off my needles…oh wait, it jumped on my needles last night, while I was studying for work.

Pattern: Calorimetry by Kathryn Schoendorf

Needles: Options #8

Yarn: Filatura Di Crosa 127 Print Colorway 14

Just doing some stash busting that and this will be the perfect last minute B-day present for a co-worker.

Here’s Thelma showing off for the camera. Ain’t she sweet?

Pattern: Shedir by Jenna Wilson (Knitty Fall ’04)

Needles: Addy Turbo 16″ #3 & Knitpicks #3 DPN’s.

Yarn: Rowan Calmer Colorway: 479 – Slosh 2 balls, well actualy one and just a bit from the 2nd.

Cast on 1/1/08

Cast off 1/31/08

Yes I know I rarely actually know how long it takes me to knit anything usually it’s just an estimate of how many days, weeks, months, years it’s taken me if I post even that much, but this was for my OOP’s GKA (group knit along) for January, so I know when I cast it on, and my goal was to finish at least 1 of my January KAL’s in January, this was much easier than finishing the Sleeves on my EDC, which I will get back to tomorrow.

The pattern calls for 1 ball of Calmer, and I knit to gauge, others have been able to just get by with one skien, but for some reason, I ran out of yarn in the first ball with 20 or so rows left to go. I really had honestly thought this was the only ball of Calmer in this colorway in my stash, so I was very worried about running out of yarn, so I did what any knitter would do and knit faster, but alas the ball ended and I still had 20 or so rows left to knit.

I went on a stash dive, hoping and praying that I was 20% wrong when I thought I was 80% sure I didn’t have a 2nd ball of this in my stash. I found 1 ball of Calmer in a cream/white, and seriously thought about finishing this with that ball. I figured found 1 ball, there must be another, so i went in again. This time I came up with 1 ball of Calmer…hot pink, not exactly what I was looking for, so back in I went. Came up with yet another ball in hot pink again… back in I went. Wait there’s a 2nd ball of hot pink, it was in the back, so into the cotton shelf I went again, this time I went deep and low and behold what was hiding in the very back bottom corner of my cotton shelf (btw, it’s 5 shelves up, so just above my eye level) there I found another ball of Calmer, not only in the same color way, but from the same dye lot. This hat was meant to be, or so I thought.

I went off to meet with one of my knitting groups, fully intending on finishing this hat, only to find while I brought the new found ball of yarn, and the hat and a sufficient number of DPN’s, but no pattern. I was at knitting, so I knit on DH’s sock, which btw is still not done, but I still have a few hours to finish that one, he’s off for some Superbowl testerone bonding, so I bought myself some time. Hopefully he’ll come home to a completed pair of B-day socks (Happy B-day DH). But I dirgress. Left knittting early that night, so I could finish Shedir in January. I came home an knit, and twisted stitches and decreased then wove in my ends and finished at 11:12 on January 31.

I must knit, I am on the heel of the 2nd Earl Grey sock, and I have until DH gets back from his SB activities to fnish.

Now onward to DH’s 2nd sock, Sunday deadline on this one, it’s ok if he reads it here, he’s already seen the first one, since I needed his foot before I started the toe decreases.  I’m knitting it top down, which is unsual for me, and even more unusual, I knit the first sock before the 2nd sock instead of at the same time.

But first, the need to become one with my bed.

Pattern:  Wonderful Wallaby by Carol Anderson, of Cottage Creations

Yarn:  Berocco Comfort 2 skeins

Needles: US 4 & 6 Addi Turbos

Modifications: Seed stitch for the boarders of the pocket and around the planket and hood.  I also went down 2 needles sizes from the recommended 6 & 8 to make this a smaller sweater than the smallest size (2) in the pattern.

Thoughts:  This is a fun quick knit.  The yarn was simply wonderful to work with and the pooling was perfect for this size of sweater.  The pattern is knit in the round from the bottom up, no seaming as it’s a raglan construction, even the sleeves were done in the round.  It actually took me about a week and a half to complete this one while still working on my other projects.

OTN:  I cast on the SotS II last night, can’t finish one without starting another now can I.  On the EDC (Everyday Cardigan) I’m done with the back and right front and about 1/3 the way up the left front, I’m not sure where in the ranks I am on this KAL, I do know that one sweater has already been completed.  Lima, is half way up the back.  Shedir, well I’ve fallen way behind the front runners in this KAL, I’m only through the 1st repeat and there are quite a few in that KAL that have finished already.   I need to focus on the Earl Grey socks DH’s B-day is just around the corner, but I so want to finish the EDC before Madrona.  Luckily for me, Madrona is about 2 weeks after DH’s B-day.