Finished WIPs Round 2

Hello,

Here are some more of the projects that recently got finished!

Project: Feet Eater Slippers
Started: January or February? 2012
Finished: April 1, 2012
Pattern: Feet Eaters by Anna Hrachovec
Yarn: Various Scraps of Bernat Supervalue

Project: Hexagon Pillow
Started: April 2011
Finished: April 9, 2012
Pattern: Hexagon How-To by Lucy of Attic24
Yarn: Various scraps of Tahki Cotton Classic (from my Hexagon Blanket)
Hook: 4.00 mm G

Project: Guernsey Tote
Started: May 29, 2010
Finished: April 1, 2012
Pattern: Guernsey-Style Bag by Debbie Bliss from Debbie Bliss Knitting Magazine Spring/Summer 2010
Yarn: Debbie Bliss Eco Cotton in Red
Needles: US 7

Project: Garter Cardi
Started: February 21, 2012
Finished: April 2, 2012
Pattern: Garter-Yoke Baby Cardi by Jennifer Hoel 
Yarn: Knit Picks Felici Sport in Seaside
Needles: US 4
Mods: I knit the whole sweater in garter stitch.

Project: Tiny Baby Cardi 
Started: Febuary 21, 2012
Finished: April 12, 2012
Pattern: Baby Kit for Melker - Cardigan by Anna and Heidi Pickles  
Yarn: Knit Picks Comfy Sport in Ivory
Needles: US 5
Mods: Due to my guage being very, very off on this, it turned out super tiny, more like a doll size.  I'm going to keep it for my future children to use for their dolly.  I knit short sleeves instead of the long sleeves called for in the pattern.

The two baby cardigans don't have buttons, since I haven't had the chance to search through my button box yet, but I'm sure the perfect ones are in there somewhere.

I have two more projects to share before I am caught up on my recent finishing spree, but both need to be blocked.  I will try to do that once I'm done this post and then hopefully I can blog about them tomorrow.  This is my last week of work, so soon I should have more time for blogging about the actual work-in-progress part of my projects instead of just showing the finished object.  Anyways, I hope you are all having a great start to your week, and I will be back again soon!

xoxo

Socks and a Hat

Hello there,

So I've been on a bit of a finishing kick these last couple of days.  Over in the Itty-Bitty Group on Ravelry there's a thread for working though your WIPs and I thought that since I was beginning to feel a bit of stress regarding my current pile of WIPs, and they were kinda getting up there in number, I might as well join in.  It's always nice to have some extra support and encouragement as well as motivation.  I got three things finished yesterday, one was the February socks I shared yesterday.  Here are the other two:

Started: January 22, 2012
Finished: February 27, 2012
Pattern: Ribbed Socks for Bigger Feet by Susan B. Anderson
Yarn: Online Supersocke 100 Sportive Color #1165 - This yarn was a Christmas gift from from my cousin TL. Thanks so much TL, this yarn was awesome to knit with!!
Needles: 2.75mm Clover Bamboo DPNs

These were my on-the-go socks.  I started them when I went to a Anniversary dinner and they have traveled around with me in the car.  This yarn was great to knit with, I enjoyed watching the colourx change all the time, and the rib pattern was a nice break from the plain vanilla socks I had been knitting lately.  Although I have to admit that my fingers are itching to cast on a new plain vanilla sock....there's just something about them.  I still have some things to finish up first though before that can happen.

Started: November 2009
Finished: February 27, 2012
Pattern: 04 Cabled Beret by Debbie Bliss
Yarn: Cascade Eco Alpaca #1517
Needles: US 5 & US 8

As you can see I started this one a long time ago.  It was knit flat and I got tired of all the purling.  I picked it back up last year and finished the knitting part, but it just needed the seam sewed up.  I dislike sewing seams, so I bribed my Mom into doing it for me last night.  It turned out quite cute, and I'm very happy to have it done.

Now I am on to working on the Granny Stripes Blanket.  It's coming along really well and I'm enjoying it immensely.  I'm so excited with the prospect of having it finished soon so I can snuggle under all those colourful stripes each night.  Makes me happy just thinking about it!

xoxo

A Pattern, a Prom, a New House and a New Project

Hello Knitters,

Happy Memorial Day to all you Americans out there! I hope everyone is having a lovely weekend full of fun with family and friends and lots great weather! Today it's a bit rainy looking and much cooler than it has been for quite a while, but that's alright with me, we desperately need the rain here. The wind just picked up and I can smell rain in the air, so I'm pretty sure it will rain soon.

I do have a little something for you my dear blog readers. If you look on my sidebar under "My Free Knitting Patterns" you should see a spot where it says "Fairytale Knee Socks Pattern" that is the pattern I wrote up over the weekend for the knee socks I made a while back. It's a super easy toe-up pattern and you don't have to make them knee socks if you don't want either, you can end the sock at whatever height you'd like. I hope you all enjoy that pattern, I know I had fun knitting them! If you find any errors in the pattern please contact me and let me know since I wrote it up a while after I actually knit the socks. I used Knit Picks Imagination yarn which you can substitute with any sock yarn you would like to use, however, I thought I should mention that there are five new colours of Imagination that came out last week, so there's a very nice selection of colours. Click here for the Ravelry page for the Fairytale Knee Socks!

I do have a few things to catch everyone up on. I wanted to blog for the last so many days but all sorts of things have kept me busy so I didn't have time. First off, during the middle of the week my Aunt asked me if I would like to make a corsage with silk flowers for my cousin's girlfriend. Their prom was on Saturday. I said yes and then got to work. Her dress was white and black so that was the theme. Here's the final outcome:

On the weekend we moved some of my sister's things into her new house. She is going to be moving in very soon once the appliances arrive and everything is ready. She said I could come and stay with her sometimes since she'll be the only one living there until after the wedding when her fiance (well he'll be her husband then) will move in. I think that would be a lot of fun. She's usually super busy with work and then by the time she drives the hour it takes her to get home, she ends up going right to bed, so we don't get to spend much time together. When she lives up there, she will be able to come home from work earlier so if I stayed up there sometimes, we'd get to hang out more. I'm actually looking forward to it. We haven't really hung out together much for the last eight years. She was away at school for 5 years and then when she came back home, she started working and has been busy ever since. It'd be really nice to be able to spend time with her these last few months before she's gets married and starts her new life. Her house has some very lovely flowerbeds and even a garden plot, which I'm very excited about. She also said they will have high-speed and even wireless, so I can blog much quicker! How cool will that be?!? We only have dial-up here, so it takes me forever to upload pictures and download things and just use the Internet in general.

For news on the knitting front, after finishing up some special knitting, I cast on for a new summer bag. The pattern is the Guernsey Style Bag from the Spring/Summer 2010 Debbie Bliss Magazine. The yarn I'm using is Debbie Bliss Eco Aran in red. I'm enjoying the pattern and yarn so far. I thought it was a perfect summer project.

I'm also still working on the rainbow socks for my Mom. I'm almost done the first sock, and then I need to start the second one. I really like how the stripes worked up, they're so pretty!

I haven't done anymore dyeing lately, but I do have some blue yarn I hope to share with you all soon. I just have to throw it into the wash to make sure all the dye is out.

Well, so much for my prediction of rain, the sun is back out and looks like it's going to be another nice day! I guess all that wind blew the storm clouds right away. I think I better stick to my knitting and not weather predicting! I hope you all have a great day!

Happy knitting!!