This Lady Knits

Let’s start with Friday’s visit from the UPS guy. He brought me a box from Knit Happens and look what was in that box.

Some Jade Company Mongolian Cashmere in a lovely lilac ( 6 skeins to be exact) and some Touch Me in “Burgundy Cream”, it really does look that purple in person (5 balls) I’m pleasantly surprised that the color of the Touch me is more purple than burgundy, I expected more burgundy, but really wanted the purple.

So Saturday morning, I beat the sun up and started knitting The Wool Peddlers Triangle purse for the Knit Off, and got of to a bad start. Apparently, I really can’t follow a pattern in my sleep. So I left for the Domino Knitting class secure in the knowledge that I had completed the 2 side triangles, but we’ll get back to that in a little bit, since before I made that discovery came the class.

Domino Knitting taught by Susanna Hansson. by the time I got to her class, I had been knitting for 4 hours already. I’m not going to show you my practice piece, because it was just that…Practice. It was a fun class, and passed quite quickly. I ended up leaving with 4 balls of Kid Silk Haze in colors I would not normally knit with, but Project Spectrum is represented in my color choices.

Class was 7 hours long and by the time I got home I had already been awake for 12 hours after only having 3 hours sleep the night before, what was I thinking! I looked at the pattern for the Knit Off again, and looked at my triangles, I had increased all the way down one side, but not down the other on both side triangles and the triangle at the start of the body piece. RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIPPPPPPPPPPP!

I only ripped the body, piece and came up with a creative use for the 2 triangles. More on that later.

Sunday morning, I was up again, bright and early to do some more mad knitting before heading out to meet up with some friends for some fiber fun.

I met Sachi at Village Yarn and Tea, and she introduced me to Libby and Christina (They both have blogs, but I have yet check with Sachi to see if I have the right ones in my side bar. Sachi if you’re reading this can you let me know *giggle*. Thanks for the links Sachi1) We wandered around the store, and look what followed me home.

from Yarn Pirate a lovely skein of merino sock yarn, color way is Isobel.

There was this ball of Merino/Tussah Silk roving too.

More Sensational Knitted socks made it’s way into my arms as well.

I’m such a bad blogger, I forgot to bring my camera, hopfully Sachi will post some pics in the next few days, she did get some pics, I know, I saw her do it.

So the 4 of us decided to sit and have some tea and knit for a bit.

Look at the lovely stitch Markers Sachi gave me.

They really are lovely, but I can’t do them justice. Using a flash washes them out even on the black background, and not using a flash make sthem blurry, you see this is Seattle, it’s way overcast and threatening to rain, so no real good natural light.

Off we went To Acorn Street, to get a blocking board, for guesswho, Sachi. I was actually good there, I only bought the new Spin Off magazine and Domino Knitting (the Japanese version)

Then we went to grab a late lunch early dinner because Weaving Works had closed by the time we finished at Acorn Street. It was getting late by the time we were done stuffing our faces, and some of us had a ways to go to get home, so we decided to call it a day.

After a small detour to Fiber Gallery to see if they had the Addi Lace in any #2′s and #3 in anything shorter than 47″ (they didn’t) I headed home and back to my marathon knitting session. And now we finally get to the FO

Pattern: The Wool Peddlers Triangle purse

Yarn: Katia – Jamaica (100% Cotton (219 yards)Colorway – 4009 , it’s the same yarn I used for the last Knit Off pattern, but it does pay tribute to Project Spectrum)

Needles: Addi Turbo #6

Button: I got creative, did a figure 8 wrap loop thingy on my finger double starnded. Folded the figure 8 in half, then wrapped the yarn around the circle, like you would for pompom’s but I didn’t cut it and voila a matched button closure.

Remember I mention the 2 triangles I knitted wrong, well those 2 didn’t get ripped, they got incorporated right back into the pattern for a bit of creative knitting on the other side of the purse, see where the pink and purple don’t match up, those are my mis starts. So it wasn’t a total waste of knitting time.

This last weekend was insane, but you know what, I had a blast. I knit a purse with a lot of pink, those who know me, I don’t like pink, and yes, I actually do like this purse, will I use it, probably not, I’ll give it away after I wash it and throw on another I-cord to give it a sturdier handle. Set too much money, learned Domino Knitting and met some knew knitting/spinning friends. All in all a great weekend.

I’m still waiting for the background check to clear so I can start my new job. In the mean time, back to my regularly scheduled knitting plus 1 Domino Scarf.