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!!

Sock Sadness

Why oh why do socks hate me so? I love knitting socks, and I have started countless socks, but they always look like crap, so I frog them. I wonder if I need to try a few pairs with the cheap RedHeart SportWeight Yarn that I use for all my trial and error projects because it seems like when I try to knit with the thin sock yarn the fabric ends up being loose and the hand feels like it wouldn't be comfortable on the foot. (HAHA play on words... I am one funny gal...)

I am currently making a toddler size sock just for the heck of it to see how it turns out and although it started with a funky cable on it, the kids/dog/unknown tore out part of it so the cable had to be frogged. Anyway, tomorrow its back to the sweater most likely, but I am a sad girl because my sock making sucks.

Toe-Up Socks

I've been playing around with my new Addi Turbo, and trying some Toe-Up Sock patterns. I haven't actually made any socks, just been doing the cast-on and making some toes. Let me tell you, the Turkish Cast-on makes some CUTE toes!! I will gather some good links that explain this, and hopefully make one I'm not ashamed of and post a pic of my own hahaha!

So Charles has decided he wants to start watching 24 so we are renting Season 1, four episodes at a time. I was really bored with the 1st episode, but we are starting episode #3 right now and I am sort of intrigued as to what is going to happen with his daughter. The idea behind this show is kinda cool, I suppose, at least its original. (And they don't have to spend much time and effort on costumes since the whole season takes place over one day...)

Very nice sock chart

I had seen this a few months ago then lost the link. I finally found it again today - its very helpful.

Enjoy!

Basic Sock Pattern

Sock Lovin'

I couldn't just let my cute new sock yarn sit around yearning to be "yarned" into something... So I looked up the Socknitters Mini-Sock online. It's so darn cute! It knitted up in about 1.5hrs - while watching Wife Swap and half of Supernanny haha... (I knitted this on sz0 dpns, and it even was finished with a Kitchener Stitch, but the only needle I had was GIANT so it is a little bit wacky.) We did discover that while the sock did not fit Barbie, it was a perfect fit for Ken. :-)

And finally we have a picture of the inside of my "super-handy-dandy-never-leave-home-without-it-gotta-have-it-or-i-will-die" supplies box. Yes, it looks messy, but its really not, everything is neatly arranged in Ziploc baggies. I also always have 1-2 WIPS with me at all times in case I get bored.

Sriped Sock Update

I got a few more rows done so far tonight - I've started the heel flap.

UPDATE: Trey got ahold of my sock and pulled a needle out... So I have to repair a little before I can go on. *sigh*



UPDATE #2: 9pm Saturday:
Getting there...

Magic Stripe Horrors

So I am knitting away on my sock, right? WTF? The yarn is cut... ok, grudgingly tie a frikkin' knot. OMG!!! It's cut again!?!?! Ok... something is wrong here, let's unravel this sucker a little bit... yeah, my kids have definitely gotten ahold of it. I had to tie it like 5x. I didn't wanna skip the cut parts because then the stripes would have been screwed up... *sigh* The scissors were locked away too, must have happened a long time ago.

On the Needles:

I just finished Trey's hat. I am less than thrilled with it. The yarn is just cheap RedHeart but I hoped it would be cuter... The "winging it" didn't go as well as planned either, next time I will stick to a pattern.

The socks are my first "real socks". I'm using Magic Stripe yarn, and its not stretchy at all and I'm afraid the socks will be less than comfortable, but we'll see. There is a pattern/texture to the stitches, but it doesn't show up too well with the stripes, and that's ok.

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