Yarn: Blue Moon Fiber Arts Baby Surprise Jacket kit – Sock Candy, 96% cotton / 4% elite, approx 200 yds / 183m, 2 oz / 57g.  One each of the following 4 commercially dyed solid colors: Sunlight, Denim, Madder, and Copper

Needles:  Addi Turbo’s #3

Pattern:  Baby Surprise Jacket from Knitting Workshop & The Opinionated Knitter, (which ever one was handy when I needed it) by Elizabeth Zimmerman.

And now I’m off to make up for some lost sleep.

Pattern: Baby Tulip Sweater and a free hand hat.

Yarn: Dream in Color, I don’t know the colors, I bought a kit.

Needles: Addy Turbos #5 on the sweater and #6 on the hat ( I think, but not really sure)

Alterations: Just in the color sequence, I felt that there wasn’t enough of the baby blue in there, so I used it for the i-cord trim. I had quite a bit of left over yarn so I decided to make a hat, the pattern mimics the color changes in the sweater.

No, I’m not pregnant or having a baby, just had the urge to knit a baby sweater. 

If you’re counting my sweaters for the year (and I know there’s a few who are), this one makes number 11.

 So in the works this week:

 a pair of socks – Marilinda Socks, pattern by Cookie A designed for Sout’s Swag club

a shawl – Wings of Fantasy shawl

a shrug – the same one that I’ve been working on for a while now, I’m down past the arms, so it should get done anyweek now.

Dad’s Golf shirt, is still in the works, it just didn’t make it out the door this morning, and neither did Clapotis, or the 2 scarves from my own hand spun.

 There was another FO, just a small one, that I couldn’t post about since it was heading down to Madgik  She got it safe and sound, you can see a pic here.

 Stats:

Pattern: Sit-ster in Natural knits

Yarn: my very own hand spun

Needles: Options #2 and #3 dpns

First is this beautiful fiber from Sachi’s Purls.

The colorway is Berry Basket and it’s superwash Merino hand dyed by our own Sachi. She’s posted some pics from our weekend BBQ, so go ahead and check them out.

Really there has been knitting around here, and even finishing, and here’s the proof.

Pattern Sahara, by Wendy Bernard, available at Stitch Diva

Yarn: SWTC Bamboo (100 G & 250 yards) color way is 521 SAH

Needles: good old reliable Addi Turbo’ #4 & #6 and Addi lace #4

Mods: The usual to bring it down to a size that would not be way to long. I did screw up a little this time around, I stopped too short and had to rip back the hem and add another 2 inches. I forgot that if one stretches a fabric from side to side, the material has to come from somewhere.

It seems I got so busy yesterday at work, that I forgot my Wed post. So here’s a brief round up of what went to knitting last night.

• Dad’s shirt – it got ignored
• Marilinda socks, a pattern by Cookie A designed exclusively for Scout’s Sock Club. I’m actually knitting these socks on DPN’s. Don’t choke, I really do know how to use DPN’s. The pattern is such that I can’t reasonably expect to knit both socks on 1 circ, heck I can’t even really split the pattern out to knit 1 sock on circs.
• Soy Silk Shrug.

I am half way though Clue 6 on the MS3 shawl. I am simply amazed that there are not only several women who have finished, but several that have finished more than 1.
Yes I am remaining fairly faithful to the projects I’ve got OTN, but I have a feeling that’s going to change in the near future, I have an urge to cast something new on. Oh I did do a quick little project, but I can’t really share that with you until it reaches the recipient. She’ll know it when she gets it, but if she could please let me know, I didn’t realize until after I had dropped it off at the post office, that I forgot to leave an explanation with it or any of the details. She’ll know who she is when she gets it *wink* and I know she reads this blog at least once in a while, hehe.

It’s a Bagsket, hot off my sewing machine. Thanks to Foofanagle for the idea, she had help, go check out the tutorial for directions on how to make one yourself and see who all contributed to this idea . I did make some minor modifications, I used Fusable interfacing which worked great, and also brought it up to 9.5″, and used a plastic needle point thingy in addition to the fusing at on the base but that’s about it.

Clue one for the Mystery Stole 3 is coming along, hopefully I’ll have pics of that for you tomorrow or maybe Thursday, all depends on how tomorrow shakes out.

On one last thing, for those that are local, a small group of us are gathering at the Seattle Center this Sunday around noonish at the Space Needle, to do a bit of spinning, knitting or craft of your choice, everyone’s welcome to join us. Even if you’re not local you’re still welcome to join us, if you can make it. Weather permitting we’ll be finding a spot outside, if the weather doesn’t play and drives us inside, we’ll be in the food pavilion.

Pattern:  Red Sweater Crochet Pattern

Hook: Sige G

Yarn: Red Heart, it’s red, but since I don’t have the ball band, I’m just not sure which red it is .

Yes, I did crochet this sweater, I’ve been really wanting to crochet something lately, and since this pattern is available for both knit and crochet, I decided to kick it out in crochet.  This sweater took maybe 30 min to crochet.  Oh the hook in the picture is an F and is there for gauge.

Pattern: Eris by The Girl From Auntie

Yarn: Cascade Cloud 9 (50% merino/50% Angora)

Needles: Options #4 and 6

This yarn is  a delight to work with, it’s soft, a little on the fuzzy size, but what do you expect, it’s angora.  Splicing this yarn is great, it spit spices wonderfully without any moisture at all.  Do be careful if you use this yarn, I found the dangling ends had a tendency to felt themselves together.  The pattern isn’t nearly as indimidating as the 40 some odd pages would make it seem.  The pattern includes instructions for both a pull over and a cardi, and the charts are different for both, hence the large number of pages. I am already considering knitting this sweater again, next time with less fuzzy yarn and a lighter color to bring out the wonderful cable work, it hides in the black and the fuzz.

Yes this little sweater is complete, it’s a swatch for my Dale, which likely won’t get knit until after this summer, but I thought I’d share, it’s complete with steeks.  Those aren’t as scary as they sound, if fact I rather like steeks.

This concludes this sweater making phase of my knitting year, 6 sweaters 6 months, my original goal was to knit 6 sweaters this year.   So what’s next on the needles, well I finally started the Heere Be Dragone shawl, only to find my mind blown when I got to row 31 and the Horizontal Stitch.  An hour later and a swatch that had been ripped out a dozen times, I finally managed to wrap my brain around the stitch.  This will be a challenging knit, and it’s going to take me a while to finish.

I have yarn and beads for a Mystery Stole 3 KAL that DimSum brought to my attention, Pink Lemon Twist is hosting, so far Mehitable, Madgik are in too.  Join us if you’ve a mind to, looks like a summer of lace for this knitter.

Pattern: Rogue, by the girl from auntie
Cast on 12/24/06, finished 1/28/07, a little over a month, but there were extenuating circumstances, we moved, I knit a sweater etc, etc, etc…
Yarn: Alpaca with a Twist Baby Twist (8.75 oz, 549 yards) I love the way this turned out, I thought the yarn may be a little soft, but cables pop, and the drape is perfect.
Needles: Options #6 and #8
Thoughts: I absolutely enjoyed this knit. While the instructions can be a bit intimidating (19 page downloaded PDF), once you start getting into the charts/cables, it’s a quick knit. I will likely knit this again. The only alteration I made was in the length of the body, I knit one less cable repeat than the pattern called for, but then I have a short torso and it worked out perfectly.

I say if you’re thinking about knitting Rogue, go for it, if you weren’t, go for it.