Ring of Lace

Pattern:

Ring of Lace

Yarn:

Schaefer Yarn Company/Toni Morrison colorway, purchased at Sophie's in Louisville.

9/23/09 used knitted cast on. Beautiful color, and I will have enough yarn to make two of these! 10/7/09 BEAUTIFUL!!! Love the color! Have to block and then will post pic. Great pattern. 10/11/09 As beautiful as this yarn is, it’s silk and just doesn’t block out like wool does. It’s pretty, beautiful colors, but all that lace work need to show up and silk just doesn’t have the memeory that wool does. I’m not loving this and won’t make a second one in silk, I’ll make it in wool….I’ll find something else to do with the rest of the skein.

Side to Side Skirt

Pattern: DROPS Skirt

Yarn: Brown Sheep Cotton Fine, used almost all of two cones (big butt)

Easy pattern! Saw a great modification at: http://www.ravelry.com/projects/Lilia/115-41-skirt-in-fabel-knitted-from-side-to-side-with-shortened-rows Love it and I’m going to use her idea! I added 6 stitches to waist band for a casing for elastic, I don’t like skirts without a waist band, and this pattern doesn’t have one….WTF? I will still have the opening with buttons at the waistband, but elastic will keep it in place. (NO wardrob malfunctions here!)

9/27/09 Sewed up the side seam, will sew the waistband tonight and insert the elastic, have to find buttons and then done! 9/30/09 Finished!

Simple Yarn Scarf

Yarn: Louisa Hardin Cinnabar/3 skeins, purchased at Dee's Craft in Louisville, KY

Pattern:

CO 21

K every r for 6 r

R1 K

R2 K2, P across to last 2st, K2

R3 K2, yo, k2tog across to last st and K1

R4 K2, P across to last 2st, K2

knit till end of 2nd ball and then Kevery r for 6 r BO loosely

Cut and attach fringe, block, sew in ends. Look fab-u-lass!!

3 pair of socks for the guys

Pattern: Tow up/short row heel/4x4 rib

Yarn: ONline Supersocke 100, purchased at Stitch Niche in Lexington.

Cast on 5/8/09 finished 8/21/09

Doug's Hat

Pattern: Jackyll & Hide

Yarn: Lion Brand Wool-Ease from Dee's

8/5/09 Cast on! 8/14/09 Finished! Easy knit, he loves it. And that’s really all that matters.

Aguona Laptop Bag by Knit Picks

Pattern: purchased as a kit from Knitpicks.com
Yarn: Knit Picks Telemark

Bought the kit from Knitpicks. Had trouble getting guage, knitting is very tight and still can only get 24 stitches to the 4” instead of the 26 recommended. I’m beginging to see why so many have posted about making this into a pillow instead of laptop bag….I’m thinking about a slite ‘felting’ of the bag, may help with the floats on the inside and will help with the extra inches.
5/24/09 - row 30
5/25/09 - RIPPED OUT! Starting over with #3’s.
6/4/09 - at the half way point!! Still large for my laptop, thinking of felt/fulling, if I do it inside out, may help with the floats…. 6/9/09 - almost done, still too large. If I had a sewing machine I’d sew it and cut the excess off, but I’m afraid my hand stitiches wouldn’t hold and the yarn would unravel. Still thinking of felt/full for this, my only reason to hesitate is the white/red combination, which will bleed into a lovely pink/red. When I finish, I’m going to swatch what’s left of the yarn and see how bad it bleed and felts….will keep you posted. OH yeah, and I’m doing an Icord bindoff.
6/9/09 the knitting is done, and have finished the swatch to try felting…just haven’t gotten around to it yet.
6/28/09 My friend Kim had a GREAT idea, since I had a laptop ‘sleeve’ already, just sew this bag over the sleeve….perfect! Takes up the extra space ‘cuse NO ONE can get gauge on this thing, adds padding for laptop safety-gotta have that, don’t have to worry about lining the bag since you know the laptop would snag all those floats in the inside no matter HOW good you are at it. YEAH!!

Aurora's NOT PINK Blanket

A friend is expecting a new arrival next month. And the MIL is buying everything in PINK. So this is NOT pink. It's a nice white and tan.

Pattern: Lions Brand Diagonal Comfort Blanket

Yarn:Lily Sugar'n Cream Confectionary Colors Twists.

Very simple pattern, mindless TV knitting.