Because you can never have too many projects OTN...

I went to MassAveKnits tonight to pick up the scarf pattern, and I went to Greenwood to the Goodwill before I went home. I picked up a really cute kelly green wool Old Navy Sweater (that I started picking apart in the bar at Olive Garden while waiting on my carry-out). Before I left Goodwill, I strolled through the back "crazy aisles" just to glance around and if there wasn't a skein of yarn lol. Ok, nothing spectacular, just some acrylic - nooooooo it was WOOL! And upon further inspection there were three skeins. It's REALLY old and they are three different dye lots of the same color, but I bought them anyway, because I could hahaha. The yarn is a dark burgandy color, kind of like wine. Long story short, when I got home, I looked up a felted bag pattern that I'd been eyeing and cast on my 4th WIP this week!! LOL Can you say Knitting ADD??

Future Project Idea
Pattern: Felted Purse
Yarn: Any 100% wool (not superwash)
Needles: US10 circs, and dpns

I also picked up some Cash Vero Yarn while I was at MassAve since they didn't carry Debbie Bliss Cashmerino, Susan (the owner) said this was a good substitute. So........... I will be adding another pair of Fetching to the list this week, too.

Let's see, that means I have the following OTN:
a. Syd's sweater
b. Skull illusion scarf
c. Trey's socks
d. Felted Purse frogged due to wrong circ length

and e. Fetching waiting patiently to be CO. LOL Wow, I have a lot to do this week!!

Sweater Update

Well I finished the first sleeve today. Its all looking cute. This picture is of the back and the sleeve.

(And my daughter broke the Flash card reader on my printer last night!!! I'm SO mad! At least the cord to the camera still works so I can upload the pics, but its not as easy as just inserting the card... *sigh*)

Sweater progress

I'm really enjoying making this sweater. I got really burned out really early making Syd's first sweater attempt, but this one is holding my attention and seems to be going much faster, I can really see my own personal progress as a knitter in the 2 mos since starting Syd's other sweater. Anyway, I'm just a few rows past the decreases for the armholes, but I have to stop for a few hours and clean a little - well 30 min anyway hahahahahaha... Like I said, I'm using Fibonacci numbers for the stripes and I'm really liking how its turning out.

I also put a picture of the 2 dishcloths here to show the difference between the same pattern/yarn with a different size needle, the one on the right is sz5, the one on the left sz6.

"Raspy" by Denim People

Ok, ok, ok, yes, I agree my posts lately haven't been about your "run of the mill" knitting patterns, but trust me, I'm not your "run of the mill" type of gal. One day a few weeks ago I was at the library reading knitting books (can you say super nerd??) and saw this really funky sweater. It was two shades of green - kind of lime and olive - and had what looked like "runs" in it (stitches that appeared to have "fallen out") and then also gaps that were held together with safety pins. It was very unique and really punkish and just all around cool. Well, I can't really check books out at the library (LOL long story - includes kid losing books and big fines... *sigh*) but anyway, I have been looking for something like it online and have had NO luck.

UNTIL!

I saw this... LOL Yeah, its the same skull in case you were wondering. And there are no safety pins, but the dropped stitches are there around the collar, which she called "Raspy-inspired", so I Googled "knitting raspy" and found the pattern (Raspy by Denim People) - which is so expensive I'll never buy it but the idea is pretty simplistic I think.

UPDATE: oh oh oh I found the book! (I'm not sure if I'm a "hip young thing" but the book still has some cool patterns LOL.

Finally!!!

This is Trey's sock. This particular one is the 1st one I made and its actually wrong, but you can't see it in the picture. I accidentally made the foot of the sock 20rows instead of 16rows so this sock is about an inch longer than the other one, but he doesn't care. And the 2nd pic is my Cascade Fixation sock (and my very first sock on dpns). It is MUCH smaller than I'd hoped. I made it for Syd, but while making it realized that it would never fit, so thought I'd make it for Ally... well, it barely fits her either but she plays with it anyway. Notice how the cuff is so big? I'm trying to solve that problem on the current sock I'm knitting but we'll see how that goes. (Yup, you guess it, only one made so far...)



Ally's mitten. (No, I haven't knitted the 2nd one yet - I can't find my sz8 needles ANYWHERE...) I just love this cute little baby bootie. (It also uses the sz8 needles that I can't find, so there is only 1 made so far)... (I suffer from SSS severely lol).



The next two are of Syd's sweater. It's a WIP, but I have had to put it down for a few weeks because I've screwed up part of it and frogging an inch or so isn't appealing to me right now so I'm trying to think of a way to hide the error without frogging. Unfortunately each time I grab the sweater I stress out about it so it's on hold. The stitch is called something like "stacked blocks" but its hard to see in the photos.



This is Ally's fuzzy hat, she adores this hat, its just so "her"! :-)
And this is the hat I crocheted last night, cute huh?? Maybe not as cute as my AC/DC hat I got for $5 at Wal-Mart, but still very cute. :-) It's kind of hard to really see his hat in the picture because of all the open areas.



Last but not least and totally OT, but this is Athena, our Rottweiler, with my super cute AC/DC hat (and somehow my toe...) LOL