Matt went with me to
Matt went with me to the Sewing Academy, a yarn store in Pine Grove Mills, today! And he actually said, "Don't you want to look around some more?" when I said I was ready! AND he said, "Only one skein?" I guess he was in a good mood! =) Bought a set of size 7 DPN's (Plymouth Bamboos, which are SOOOO smooth! I like em!) and a skein of pretty yarn to make into a teddy bear for Matt's Mom for a Christmas present (she collects Boyds). I'm using the doll pattern from www.dnt-inc.com, changing it a little. Looks good! Of course the one skein is not enough, I got from the head to almost the bottom of the second foot, and then ran out. So I have to go back and get another skein.
Running out of yarn gave me an excuse to work on the square for the Phoenix Project using my new DPNs. Almost finished the sweater and decided to measure it. OF COURSE, it's way too big. Oh well. It looks good anyway. =(
[knitting: Matt's Mom's teddy bear, Phoenix Project afghan square]
[fos: none]
[wim's: clothes for the teddy bear?]
I finished the front neck
I finished the front neck of my cowl neck sweater! Just started the back, it feels almost like I'm on the home stretch. (in reality, I'm just about half way done, but I like to delude myself) Didn't really get much knitting done at all today, had other things to do. I think I'll knit my hands off watching TV tonite, as I am not in the least bit tired.
I realized about 5 inches into the front of my sweater that I probably should have been slipping the first stitch at the bottom, so as to have a nice edge at the bottom of my sweater, but by then I was like, "no way am I ripping this much 3x3 rib!" So I kept going without slipping, and now I'm wishing I hadn't. =( I just hope that blocking it will make the edge look neat, I'd hate to have a really nice, dressy sweater with an ugly edge! I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Oh! If you don't know what this sweater looks like, I found this picture of it online (click to see it larger): I'm making my version in Mission Falls superwash wool, in an oatmeal type color. This is now the third neutral color sweater I'm making myself! The next one's going ot have to be bright red or something to make up for it.
PS. The heat's on!!! YEAH!
[knitting: AV sweater]
[crocheting: nada]
[fos: none]
[wim's: a new dolly. . .]
Still working on the AV
Still working on the AV sweater. It's gotten pretty cold here in Central PA, and the heating isn't working. My puppy, Pepper, has been shivering! The poor baby has to walk barefoot on the cold wooden floors. He's been wearing his sweater that I made him inside! Today I added sleeves to go over his front legs so that the sweater can warm him up even more. He looks absolutely adorable in his sweater! Hopefully the heating will kick in sometime this week, Chilli (our hedgehog) will go into hiberation and die otherwise!!!!
[knitting: AV sweater and Pepper's sweater]
[crocheting: nothing]
[fos: none]
[wim's: aother sweater for Pepper, hopefully a blue and white one to show our Penn State Pride!]
I've finally made myself a
I've finally made myself a knitting and crocheting page, and here is my first blog entry! finally! I actually got quite a bit of knitting done today, I had designed a square to use for the KnitU Memorial Afghan and I started it today, looks like it may work out! If the test run works, I'll be sharing the pattern here and on KnitU. This square is worked from the outside edges in, and features girls and boys holding hands around the outside, with hearts, and the word Peace in 4 languages. I really like how it's coming along, even through I'm making it out of Red Heart and it's very rough on my hands. I also got a lot done on my cowl neck sweater from A.V. I worked the neck separation and decreases for the front, and probably about half the front neckline. This sweater is slow going as it's knit on size 6 needles and is all done in k3,p3 rib. But I'm trying to finish it by Stitches East, so wish me luck!
[knitting: charity squares and two sweaters]
[crocheting: Matt's Mom's afghan, sorta]
[fos: none]
[wim's: too many to count, but the rounded cables sweater from the latest Knitter's is definitely up there!]
I've finally made myself a
I've finally made myself a knitting and crocheting page, and here is my first blog entry! finally! I actually got quite a bit of knitting done today, I had designed a square to use for the KnitU Memorial Afghan and I started it today, looks like it may work out! If the test run works, I'll be sharing the pattern here and on KnitU. This square is worked from the outside edges in, and features girls and boys holding hands around the outside, with hearts, and the word Peace in 4 languages. I really like how it's coming along, even through I'm making it out of Red Heart and it's very rough on my hands. I also got a lot done on my cowl neck sweater from A.V. I worked the neck separation and decreases for the front, and probably about half the front neckline. This sweater is slow going as it's knit on size 6 needles and is all done in k3,p3 rib. But I'm trying to finish it by Stitches East, so wish me luck!
[knitting: charity squares and two sweaters]
[crocheting: Matt's Mom's afghan, sorta]
[fos: none]
[wim's: too many to count, but the rounded cables sweater from the latest Knitter's is definitely up there!]
