Let’s just be honest, once I knew last weekend there was no way to get George’s sweater, the Jefferson, done in time for his trip this Friday I gave up knitting full speed on it. I am still knitting it. Actually it is the only hand knit project I am working on at the moment. I have the crocheted granny square blanket but I put that aside in hopes of finishing the Jefferson. Unfortunately the knitting machine has temporarily taken over. Yesterday I messed around trying different yarns, most of which did not work out so well. So I broke out a bunch of different cone yarns to try. I found a super-winner!
100 stitches by 400 rows in just under 2 hours!! Once I get the edging finished I will take a picture wearing it so you can see the size, it’s the perfect large shawl!
Last night Suzanne, Tracy & I met for some coffee, knitting & Ross. Surprise! We ran into Summers & Jayme out for dinner! It was a nice surprise, they had been to Solvang and Summers had on the cutest windmill solvang t~ I am so jealous & getting myself one dammit!
Suzanne came bearing gifts, which always makes me want to yell Yippee!!! She gave me a poncho/capelet that she made and found it was the wrong size. I love it!! And it smells so good, Suz, you always smell soooo goooood!!!!
Isn’t it so pretty with the greens, so many greens! I have never met another with my love of all things green!
My dad loved his felted clogs! They were a tad too big but that is the good thing about felted gifts! They are easily resized.
I need to finish my sisters socks that are a just because gift. I need to get the lace scarf for my mom finished before Mother’s Day. I am making the Trellis Scarf using Knitpicks 
Gossamer in color Red Hat.
Other than that I am free to do whatever I want. I will finish the Jefferson sweater before I start anymore sweaters. It may be tough not to cast on for the Vogue microspun sweater.
Who am I kidding, it’s going to be damn near impossible now that we have warmer weather here! I want to wear it now! I sure am hoping that it’s as cute on me as it is on the model. Right!
The
Kaffe Fasset book comes today! I love Amazon prime, no shipping charges & 2 day delivery! Of course I ordered it on Friday so it takes 5 days in all actuality. But as my kids like to say “Who Cares”!
The
shawl pattern will be the next thing I design & knit. I think it will be relatively easy to come up with. I am pretty excited to get started on that one too! It means more yarn shopping, not sure how I feel about that, I am trying to get rid of my stash not add to it. Huh, we’ll just have to wait and see what I have to work with. I am thinking it may end up being Knitpicks Wool of the Andes or Merino Style. I have quite a few colors of each on hand and plenty of natural in each.
More machine knitting will be done while I have it set up. I would like to get a few more charity blankets done today, they are so quick! I would like to have all 3 bins (full rubbermaid 48 gallon bins) empty in the next few months or sooner. I wish knitting a sweater on the machine was easier. Oh, maybe if I tried doing the
T-sweater from Guideposts it would be easy! Tracy, that is a shout out to you! Help me figure that one out, it’s not hard, you just cast on more stitches for the sleeves, it’s whether or not 130 sts is going to be enough. I will have to look in to that!
