Calorimeters and Locker Hooking

Lately I have been knitting calorimeters pattern by Kathryn Schoendorf, from knitty.com. The small pink one is for my Grand Daughter, I used JoJoland yarn and felted it up some. The other colarmeters are knit with 127 print.






I also made a locker hooked rug from our group of spinners for our new local yarn shop, that I just had to show off, The Village Knittery, the owner is such a sweet person.

Haven’t posted in quite sometime

Well, I made a couple of hats and sent them to my grandbabies.

Knit a pair of socks from Interweave knits Bacchus socks by Alice Bell. My daughter put them on backwards. The branches go on the outer side of the legs.

Spun up some yarn, and beaded a few bracelets from the Bead and Button book. Other then that I am not doing very much lately, I do plan on making a shawl, not sure just yet which one I will make?

Sockcess

Finally, I completed a pair of socks on one circular needle without having to take one sock off and put it on a holder. Last week I decided to make my husband a pair of socks from the toe up.
I have several books with instructions but just could not figure them out and remembered I loaned one out to a friend. So I went on the internet and did a search for instructions and found www.cometosilver.com 2 toe up socks tutorial, which has great directions with plenty of photos to help with the explanation of the directions. By the time I got to the heal section I realized they called for a short row heal and I wanted a gusset heal. So I went back to the internet and found Glacier Lake Toe up Sock Pattern. The site had the kind of heal I wanted to make. This is usually the place that I end up taking the second sock off the needle, but not this time. I think the way this heal pattern is written is why you can’t make a mistake. The socks are a little bit bigger than I wanted them to be but my husband says they are great, well of course he would. I put them in the wash and ran them through the dryer. They did shrink a little bit, the next pair I make will be better. After making the heals I used a pattern repeat from the 365 Knitting Stitches a Year Calendar, September 29th, Moss-Stitch Parallelograms. When I finished the 6th row of the pattern I realized I had to change the pattern to knitting all rounds, duh. Anyway, I left the previous rows in then changed the pattern to knit every round and continued on. The yarn is from Ball and Skein, I think the color way is End of Winter color?

New Addition to the Family and a Pair of Socks

Just have to say it has been quite awhile since I have posted. I have been back up to Maryland for the new addition to my family, Baby Madelyn. I did manage to knit a pair of socks for my grand daughter Lily.

You can see her sporting her new socks here.

The pattern is Emily, from 2-at-a-Time Socks, I used Schaffer yarn.

I need to admit I had to take a sock off and put it on hold, and later put it back on. I just can’t quite get the technique down. Maybe someday!

Ripple and Weave Socks and Unfinished Objects

Well, I have several projects that are waiting to be finished. I can’t find my Luna Moth Shawl. I took it with me when I went to Maryland and now I can’t find it here at home. If it didn’t make it back with me then it’s gone for good, if I haven’t lost it then that means the house swallowed it up and one day I will come across it. I hope.
I did finish a pair of socks though. The ripple and weave pattern from Vogue Knitting magazine, fall 2006. I bought the yarn to make the socks a year and a half ago, and the house had swallowed it up, luckily it spit it back out. I love the yarn color. I just can’t remember who I bought the yarn from. I am pretty sure I bought it on Ebay.

The socks are not perfect, I did a search on the internet for pictures of the socks and found out from another blogger that the pattern had errors, after I had knit half of the socks. So, I made the changes to the pattern and kept on knitting. After knitting them and washing them I found that I had dropped a few stitches on both socks in the same area? So I'll have to fix them. I did try to knit them on one long circular needle and had to take one sock off several times, I just couldn’t figure out how to move one stitch over, and when I was turning the heel.
I don’t know when I will get back to the other projects I have posted, but for now they are going to have to wait because I am going to be knitting a stole with Anna from knitandknag.blogspot, she has posted a new KAL, the Mystic Meadows Stole. The yarn I am going to use is merino/Tencel fingering weight that I dyed myself with three different colors of blue. The Tencel makes the yarn shine. I might add beads? Not sure just yet. If I do I think I will add orange beads. Here is a photo of the yarn and the swatch.
I have to say Happy Birthday to Sarah and Lily Bean. “Happy Birthday”

Mystic Light Shawl Completed

For the past few days I have been knitting my fingers to the bone. Just joking. I will be busy for the next few days spinning at Middleton Plantation and will be driving up to Maryland on Monday to visit family, and go to the Maryland Sheep and Wool. So I really wanted to finish knitting the Mystic Light Shawl before leaving. So here are some pictures of the shawl drying.

Thank you Anna for this beautiful pattern.

Beading and Knitting

I have been busy beading lately. I made a pair of earrings which my daughter claimed, a necklace the photo is a little blurry.and a rosary for my step son.

I am still knitting the Mysticlight shawl kal pattern, and it is just beautiful and easy lace knit pattern.