Welcome Piper!

Piper went to the beach

Cat card

No knitting this Summer. I will have to remember next year how busy Summer can be. My co-workers are the best, they presented me with this card, worth posting here for a laugh!

Almost May

Wanted to post some FOS, humble they are. A simple, rustic scarf made from the hand spun pictured before as a ball. A basketweave stitch scarf made from Dune yarn that is really rather scratchy, the photo is pathetic.

Color work ogling

Haven't made an entry in a while. I can only offer up a link to someone elses pictures:

http://www.knittingbeyondthehebrides.org/color.html

But what wonderful finished works they are!

My current WIP is not a lizard ridge but I am using all of my Kureyon for a plain stocking stitch afgan with a moss stitch border. I keep thinking of it as my "Weasly" afgan as it seems like something Mrs. Weasly would have clicking away in the background at her home, very bold and rustic, almost shocking! I cast on oh, maybe almost 300 stitches on a size 9 60" circular. The thing will be the size of a twin blanket if I ever finish. This initiative was started after I spent a couple of hours one afternoon cataloging my stash. It's currently a 3 page hand written list (that would be legal not letter size!), someday to be converted into an MS Excel file for easy sorting by weight, manufacturer or whatever. My balls of Kureyon numbered in the 20's. I will probably need 30 for this afghan. Maybe I'll sneak in some solids to try and avoid more yarn purchases. I have some GORGEOUS Beaverslide Farm aran skeins. I think cascade 200 would be too light weight. The Ecowool would be the right weight but they are all natural sheepy colors which would look odd next to the vibrant kureyon.

I can only hope to make a dent in the stash which is the other reason for the catalog. If I have proof of all of the potential projects in front of me I will be less likely to buy more yarn.

Along the lines of stash reduction I did finish a St Pattys day scarf made from two long-ago purchased balls of Trendsetter Dune in the forest green colorway. That leaves me with 1 and 1/2 balls left. It's pretty scratchy stuff. Not REALLY the best choice for a scarf but it looks nice. Almost wore it to see the Chieftans in Hartford but another outfit won out :-)

Also finished a simple ribbed scarf made from handspun purchased off of Etsy. Pics are at home, need to upload sometime. Dune scarf was difficult to photograph. Handspun is gorgeous.

Adios

Lame blogger

Turns out I am not the best candidate for blogging. Too busy with the full time job and being a mom. That's OK as I still seem to maintain the blog entity despite not posting.

I did manage to knit a sweater vest as a Christmas gift and here it is. It was a symbolic gift. I don't think sweater vests are the most practical garments. It did however end up being my first sweater, first in the round completed project, first cable project. Yarn is Noro Kochoran, pattern is "Boogie" by Knitty. I departed from the pattern in that I knit it in the round to the v neck then knit the back and both sides back and forth. I had not realized that the neckline includes these dead end corners that sort of flap about. Am not pleased with the color on the right front shoulder differing so much from the left but I did not have enough of the yarn to play with. Used 3 skeins. The yarn had alot of the farm in it which could be scratchy. Hope mom can see the zen of it all LOL. Click on the pics for the big picture and have a great day!





















































And finally some good cheer for the eyes, some sunny homespun that I got from etsy...