You know how Wednesdays are….you look forward to the weekend! This week has been a good knitting week. On Monday night I finished the body of my mom’s Bob sweater. So now I have one sleeve & about a third of a sleeve left to do. My guage isn’t exact so I am hoping that I have done the calculations exact for the sleeves. I am pretty sure I am right on. Let me just pat myself on the back. This sweater was really fun to make, I found that knitting it in the round was really rather satisfying instead of finishing the back & then realizing your only half done. Of course short sleeves are a blessing because of how fast they go!!
I also finished 2 of my blanket squares. I did a simple leaf lace pattern with seed stitch as the border. I also did a cable pattern with garter stitch border. I will post pics of them. My digital camera is full from our trip & I can’t seem to get the pics downloaded. Inspiration**I will get it done now.
I am using 3 patterns from my Big Book of Knitting
I have to say that I am happy with this book, it is a good reference for altering patterns. I tend to do that, change the crew to a vneck or change the shape of the sleeves. Or just make up a sweater all together. Although I would really like the sweater book that Summers has. The name has totally escaped me & I thought I had it on my amazon wishlist but I am not seeing it anywhere.
I decided that Rogue is coming after the holidays. I would like to use my cascade 220 but I am not sure that it will get the guage. I have swatched it and it was right on in flat knitting. I just need to swatch it in the round to make sure it’s correct or if I need to use a different needle size in the round. I am hoping it just works.
So here is the list of christmas gifts left to make:
*Bob sweater- almost finished with first sleeve, only one more to make, then the sewing party.
*Dad gift- I am thinking that I will copy Suzanne and make him the irish hiking scarf
*Finish the circus sweater for a neice- it just needs a hood.
*Finish another sweater for the other twin neice- it’s woolease striped heathered pinks knit in the round
*Felt a bag for my son’s teacher (multi colored stripes with black plastic handles) & my daughter’s teacher (solid brown messenger bag)
*Finish the absolutely fabulous throw for my parents (even though my mom stated that she was tired of knit & crocheted blankets, she will eat her words!!)
Um…. I would like to make my hubby a sweater also but unfortunately he is on the backburner for the time being. Of course I will feel bad for not makind the kids something for Christmas but maybe some socks can fly off my needles. Whew!! Who knows if I can actually get it all done. Not if I am screwing around out here!! The pics are next, then off to knitting!