Month: February 2006

Knitting last night at Java Station was just jammin’! Everyone was happy, talkative & the majority of us were wearing at least one item we had knit. Some of us, 2 items. I got cold, what can I say!? It’s not strange to wear 2 sweaters, it wasn’t my plan but the weather dictated it once I got in the coffee shop & sat down with my back to the open doors.

I got a whopping 50 rows done on the Brocade sweater yesterday. Woohoo!!! My goal is to finish the back today, it’s about another 15 rows to the armhole shaping then another 30 rows from there to the top. I love it! Once the back is done I will post a picture.

With the weather change & it finally becoming winter here I am so excited to wear sweaters! And legwarmers and wristwarmers and scarves and hats and shawls, etc. etc. The kids are home from school today so we are having a knit-in. Well, I am having a knit-in. THey are playing barefoot out in the freezing cold! Lots of olympics & knitting, that is my day!

 

This was our first charity blanket of the group. I just thought I would share it again!

We had 9 8inch squares left over. If anyone would like to continue to donate squares using any washable yarn in a cream color please feel free to bring them to Thursday night knitting.

I think the next blanket we do should be about 6 squares by 10 squares to make it a nice crib size instead of an infant size like the blanket above.

Have fun & try patterns that you haven’t ventured into knitting before! Cables, cables, cables!!

 

Over on the hello yarn blog I have found the inspiration to make my first sweater from the Norsk Strikkedesign book.

 She had a link to some of the sweaters made from the book and I found this

I do think that the colors are a bit more what I want. I love the modern black and cream but the brown & cream really scream out to me. My goal is to have the ribbings all a bit more fitted than in the picture above. I ordered Knitpicks merino style in these colors

 Main color

 Second main color

All of the highlight colors

I do think it will come out the way I have envisioned.

First I need to finish Brocade,

 then I can cast on for the norsk sweater! My progress on brocade is nill since I first cast on & knit about 5 inches on the back. Today is the day it comes out of hiding & gets some new life put into it!

I got all the ends tied in (ok you caught me, I am not sewing in all those ends on the inside from doing ‘peabrain’ in intarsia) and the peabrain sweater blocked last night.

After finishing the Angelica I felt guilty for not having peabrain completely completed. It is done & today may just be cool enough for me to wear it! Yay!

Peabrain front

 

Peabrain back

 

Peabrain neck closure

I really wanted a better fitting mock neck that I could actually get off & on so I just opened up the neck instead of keeping it in the round, crocheted on 2 buttonholes & added 2 big funky buttons.

 

I am pretty happy overall with how it turned out. I could have done much better on the intarsia work but I also knew that this wasn’t going to be a masterpiece so I didn’t take a whole lot of care with it.

This is my new comfy sweater!

 

Totally finished!

I did 3 things differently than the pattern called for.

First, I decided on short sleeves for our down right warm weather here in SB.

Second, I did the increases on the bottom ribbing a little differently than in the pattern to get a bit of a leaf look to them.

Third, I used one small button instead of one large button like it called for. I thought a more dainty look with the short sleeves was called for.

I love it! It’s snug, not too snug I hope! After it’s done blocking I will see if it needs to be stretched with more blocking. I don’t knit my sweaters so fitted normally so it’s a different feel & I must say I dig it!

I do believe I will be wearing it on Thursday JS knitting!

 

 

I decided to go with a handmade card this year for my man. So I took some cascade 220 quattro in pinks and knit him a card with a mohair heart in the center.

 Then I glued a silver cardstock back on & voila, a valentines day card! We don’t typically celebrate this holiday due to the fact that in December there is my birthday, then Christmas. January is our anniversary. Then we come to this overdone day that tends to make more people upset than happy. I show him my love by telling him that I love him, taking care of him daily and being the best woman I can for his sake. I am of the opinion that valentine’s is a daily thing, not annual thing.

I express my love today to all my friends and family!

Suzanne has a beautiful poem posted today, I strongly wish you all to go read it!