You know, when you haven’t posted on your blog in forever and you finally just have to do it really fast so it won’t hurt too much? Yeah, sorry about that. I’ve been so busy that even my neighbors who are very good friends of ours told me she was happy to see me the other day because she hadn’t seen me in so long. And they live across the street! Things are great. Just unbelievably busy. It’s ll good stuff though. I’ve been doing a lot of photography shoots and am really loving that. Here’s one of my favs from a recent shoot of the twins who are now 9 months old.
It just takes a lot of time to shoot/process/etc. I have three pretty big jobs over the past few weeks and have even more stuff coming up on the horizon. Super seekrit stuff that I can’t talk about though. But at some point you will all be able to see what it’s all about. And look! I got a makeover!
Isn’t it super fabulous? What else has been going on? I’ve been busy stocking the shop. The new Namaste Zuma is the cutest bag I’ve seen a long time. I’ve already restocked them once. See the post below for links. Everything else is stocked in the shop too. With less than a month until Christmas and Hanukkah I won’t have much time to restock again so get things while I have them!
Knitting? What’s that? I can’t believe that even with the cooler weather I haven’t been knitting. I guess I’m just so tired after working 12+ hours every day I just want to veg out and watch stupid TV. However, I always like to see what everyone is working on or if there are some super cool new patterns out there I have yet to see. It seems like I do this contest yearly to see if something will call out to me and inspire me to break out my needles. So let’s have a little contest!! Please spread the word too. Show me what you are knitting. I want links to pictures and/or patterns. Or, you can just leave links showing me a cool pattern you want to knit. I will keep this up until December 4th and will pick two people to win these brand new fabulous books with the random number generator.
and
So inspire me and win a book. It’s that easy. It’s always fun to get a whole bunch of ideas in one spot so make sure and tell people to come play.
I hope that you and yours had a great Thanksgiving (if you celebrate it). I’m all confused as to what day it is. I just realized it’s only Saturday morning. So have a good weekend too! I can’t wait to see what everyone has up their sleeves.
ETA - Bloglines is out of control and it stresses me out to not be able to catch up with everyone. I’m clicking refresh. Please let me know if there’s something I’ve missed that you’ve written about. (whether you think you’re on my Bloglines or not!!) I love to hear how everyone is so tell me about you too. m’kay?
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For what I’m knitting you can come have a look at my blog, whatever is currently on the needles will show up in my nifty progress bars gadget, you can also see everything I’ve knitted this year in another flash gadget!
I queued the Coin Lace Scarf pattern from Elann.com today. It’s here: http://elann.com/ShowFreePattern.asp?Id=314024
I’m actually knitting another Elann pattern, the Crest of the Wave top, for myself, but the only pictures I could take are really horrible, so I shan’t inflict them on you!
If you considered crochet, there’s this Marquise top by Julia Vaconsin which was published in Yarn Forward in Spring 2008, which was my first ever top for myself.
All of these are on Ravelry, of course.
My blog shows my current projects, too — or at least ones that are done enough to look vaguely recognizable in a picture.
The one that’s not on there yet is the Drivers Gloves from Robin Melanson’s book “Knitting New Mittens & Gloves.” Great pattern and really a quick knit. It’s just that I got interrupted and need to get back to them! 
I love the new sweater in the Winter issue of EasyKnitting magazine - it has a row of leaves running down the left side of the sweater. Very chic!
Right now I am into hats , neckwarmers and gloves! Quick , easy, simple and can use right off the needles.
Check out my blog and see all the recent winter gear I have knitted up.
Click on the photo and enter my Flickr account.
Have fun!
http://www.butterflyknitter.blogspot.com
butterflyjones03 AT Yahoo DOT Com
Right now, I’m putting the finishing touches on some fiddlehead mittens for me (bad cameraphone WIP photo). LOVE THEM. These are my first mittens ever and now I feel a need to knit a million other mittens - thinking about the anemoi mittens and definitely EZ’s mitered mittens.
Those are going to take a backseat for a bit, while I knit a pair of simple socks for my sister and a pair of Dashing for my husband for Christmas.
I’m working on a shawl for my sister. Here’s a pic:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8234840@N07/3061969770/
and here is a detail: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8234840@N07/3061128269/
The stitch pattern came from Ysolda:
http://ysolda.com/wordpress/2006/12/10/ariel-scarf/
I’m using Malabrigo laceweight in Pearl Ten. I’m in love with this color and pattern. The question is, can I have this done in time for Christmas?
Thanks to Ravelry there’s a huge list on my blog of the stuff I’m currently knitting on. Call me crazy! It’s Winter over here (finally, and nobody knows how long it’ll last us) so my crave is for hats and scarfs and thick sweaters. So I keep casting on!
Plus I’m knitting socks for my family for Christmas!
I’ve been working on a number of shawls (see Rav), but I’m really looking for ward to the Garter Yoke Cardigan from the new knit.1… okok, and the new hat from Jared, and the gloves and the … yeah…….
totally self promoting here: I just finished designing the Sugar Plum Cowl, made out of Noro Silk Garden. The pdf will be available on my blog (www.fiddlestix.typepad.com) and on Ravelry by the beginning of next week FOR FREE!
why can’t I link?
I don’t have any photos of my in-progress knitting, so heres at least one link.
First, the Mockery Socks - http://live2knit.com.au/store/index.php?main_page=document_general_info&products_id=175
Second, the Halloween Mystery Stole (running a bit behind, obviously) from Goddess Knits - Ravelry link to http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/halloween-mystery-shawl-08
Third, Chevron Scarf from the Last-Minute Knitted Gifts book - Ravelry link to http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/chevron-scarf
It’s fun to see what everyone else is working on, although I think it might cause me to start even more stuff!
What wonderful timing! I am just starting to get my knitting mojo back after a several month hiatus and just this week started and finished a pair of fingerless gloves for my mother. I’m also working on a pair of socks for her using the Coriolis architecture from Cat Bordhi’s New Pathways for Sock Knitters: Book One, and a cabled sweater for my dad (but he doesn’t know it’s for him!) for Christmas. I’ll be posting pictures of the gloves and sock-in-progress to my blog later this afternoon, and there are some past posts with pictures of the sweater. I also have Ysolda’s little mousie pattern and plan to knit him up with some handspun as a quick little project in the next couple weeks.
I’m in the middle of designing socks, so I can’t show you those - but I can say that I want to knit the Feb Lady Sweater as soon as all my deadline knitting is done. (EZ’s february baby sweater but adult version!)
The envelope I sent you got sent back to me not sure why, so I’m taking it back to the post office to re-send since I already paid postage!
I’m not knitting anything. I suck. I take that back. I’m working on a hat for a friend and a Chevron scarf for me, but they both have been on the needles for months. I’ve lost my knitting mojo.
In other news, I am now the mom of a 10 year old.
Which means that SuperBoy will turn 10 soon too. Eeep, where did our babes go?
Happy T-giving - belated! Im sewing a crapload - pants - toddler pants and Im addicted! But I did just finish a mini cobblestone for Gangles (pics on my blog when its done blocking) and Im still festering on a hemp short - OY my aching hands!
I’m knitting the striped socks I dyed in your class at Knit One One. Check em out! I’m kinda in love with them.
http://www.ravelry.com/projects/ChickenKnits/universal-toe-up-sock-formula
Other than that, everyone I know is pregnant. So I’m hip deep in baby knitting!!!
I, too, have twins! 2 boys age 4 1/2. I recently finished Updated Old Classic from Custom Knits. You can see it on my blog, http://wippich.com/bellarosa/. Currently working on Tang from the book. It’s a gift for my sister.
Needless to say, it’s tough doing stuff other than taking care of the twins at 9 months old so I commend you. I remember those days although I was always tired!
I’m knitting the Hanami shawl that is featured on Ravelry. It is a beautiful shawl sea silk.
I’m just finishing this
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/a-noble-cowl
And then I’m on to this
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/wavy
Oh man. Right now I’m working on a non-pattern ski cowl for my brother’s girlfriend. But I am totally about to start a scarf for me:
http://atimetoknit.blogspot.com/2007/10/holding-hands-feeding-ducks-pattern.html
Glad you ripped that sucker off!! A pattern I am so close to casting on is from the Custom Knits book - I want me an Ingenue!
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/ingenue
Oh how cool!
I am working on Christmas presents; a hat for my best girlfriend ( http://www.headhuggers.org/patterns/kpatt18.htm ) and a hooded scarf for my mom ( http://www.lionbrand.com/patterns/BK4K-0701008.html?noImages=0 ) slightly modified.
Thanks for such a great giveaway!
Well, right now, just before I commented, I was working on a cabled hat for my Uncle for Christmas. I also have the Lenore socks in my sock bag and a Zetor scarf in my Namaste bag. I also just finished a Trellis and Pear scarf (BW Treasury No. 2) and a Kearsarge sweater (from A Fine Fleece). I’m thinking of casting on either Camelot mitts (from Knotions.com) or Saltkrakan socks(http://www.ullaneule.net/0308/ohjeet_saltkrakan.html) as soon I figure out how to read Finnish.
What’s not on the needles right now! There’s just too much going on. Eunny’s Endpaper Mitts (http://www.eunnyjang.com/knit/2006/11/endpaper_mitts.html) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/7946064@N05/3069919134/) and when those are done Anemoi is going OTN (http://www.eunnyjang.com/knit/2006/12/anemoi_mittens.html), plus I’ve got to get back to my Druid Mittens (http://brooklyntweed.blogspot.com/search?q=mittens) in a more appropriate yarn than originally chosen. Then there’s a couple of Charlotte’s Webs with 3 out 5 colors chosen, a Manos Silk Blend neck warmer using the lazy daisy stitch (http://www.flickr.com/photos/7946064@N05/3016487312/), and a couple of things that just need finishing up: Baby Surprise Jacket (http://www.flickr.com/photos/7946064@N05/3056682481/) and Twist & Shout (http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEfall08/PATTtwistandshout.html)
i just cast on the newer jared flood hat: turn a square.
i just cast off leslie’s pattern for “toasty” (http://www.scoutj.com/files/TOASTY.pdf)
and a birthday cowl (http://novamade.typepad.com/novamade/files/birthday_cowl.pdf), and the mitts and the cowl are in coordinating malabrigo!
you can see a photo here: http://flickr.com/photos/sheepishone/3065738211/
i just cast on the newer jared flood hat: turn a square.
i just cast off leslie’s pattern for “toasty” (http://www.scoutj.com/files/TOASTY.pdf)
and a birthday cowl (http://novamade.typepad.com/novamade/files/birthday_cowl.pdf), and the mitts and the cowl are in coordinating malabrigo!
you can see a photo here: http://flickr.com/photos/sheepishone/3065738211/
I have been on a hat making frenzy…for me and for gifts.
I have to take photos but there are a couple of me on ravelry in the star crossed slouchy beret which I loved knitting and really like wearing.
I also knit, which Barry has taken off with, keeps his bald head just warm enough. I reknit B’s hemp hat as well but it’s just a regular old beanie.
I then made Robins egg blue hat, which was a fun project and I put an antique pansy pin on it as a closure. Right now I am knitting my 5 year old daughter a pink hat with purple stripes. Hats have been my thing this fall
Ooh ooh, I’m going to knit Sylvi (rav) featured in Twist Collective. I’ve already purchased Cascade Eco Wool in a mango color although I later read that this yarn is known to knit up at a tighter gauge. Now if I could just finish my darned Xmas knitting so I can do some selfish knitting!
Not new, but it took me untill now to cast on a Februrary Lady Sweater( http://www.flintknits.com/blog/?p=151 ). I love that pattern already as it is easy to memorize and I can knit it why I travel etc.
I also just finished a Gretel hat (http://ysolda.com/store/hats/gretel/).
Sorry, can’t help you much with newer patterns
I have been making cowls 6 so far and need to finish 3 more before Christmas. Here are some of the cowls I have made:
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/sources/knit-2-together (favorite so far)
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/quickie-cowl (knitted flat but still really like it even if I have to seam!)
These are just my top two you can go to my Ravelry site (I am KnittingKnot) and see all the others I have done!
Right now I have two projects on needles - Braided Pullover from Interweave Knits and Magic Mirror MIttens from Knotions.
http://www.knotions.com/issues/winter_2008/patterns/magic_mirror/directions.aspx
Since Thanksgiving I have been knitting the Turn A Square Hat by brooklyntweed… I’ve knit 4 hats since Thursday. I love the pattern, it’s a quick knit and the colorways of he Noro Sik Garden make every hat different.
I am knittting the Easy Drop Stitch scarf. It is so much fun! Here is a pic… http://www.flickr.com/photos/slam889/3065920876/
I’m knitting a beautiful wrapover sweater in KidSilk Aura called Odette but it does take a lot of concentration.
http://bp0.blogger.com/_V8rjtNWznCE/RvR8DLQq3KI/AAAAAAAACD8/SLt3LcXbNX8/s1600-h/Library - 6045.jpg
I am knitting the new sweater from ChickKnits..that talented Bonne Marie- Cassidy. http://www.chickknits.com
Also knitting an HP sweater (no link) just winging it! Great contest! Pick me!!
Here is one of the lastest things. Bounce using Noro Silk Garden. http://www.flickr.com/photos/11696625@N08/3043744305/ and then I made my first gnome. http://www.flickr.com/photos/11696625@N08/3063066227/ Isn’t he cute?
I’m knitting Monkeys with my October Scout’s Swag. I LOVE how it’s coming out. I’ve been meaning to email you and show you a photo collage I did with the yarn skein/yarn ball/WIP/and a Bird of Paradise. The day my yarn came I had been taking photos in my yard. It just so happened that when I downloaded my photos…the one just before my October yarn was of a BoP in my yard. The colors are exactly the yarn. I was so excited. I’m loving this WIP even though I haven’t had much time to knit. My blog is sadly neglected too. I’m working nights and weekends to make up for the hard blow the economy has thrown us. It’s all good though. I still get to spend my days with my super great kids. I’ll post the photo to my blog SOON…just not tonight…I’m heading out to work and I’m there until 11pm.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/keanalee/3043159781/
I am working on a cabled hat that I just can’t seem to get right in the decreases but it has to be done soon!
I just knit two Turn a Square Hats by Jared Flood. The first one was too big. The second one is blocking so it’ll hopefully fully cover his ears. Otherwise I’m just stash busting, choosing balls that strike my fancy and knitting cowls. A ball of Noro Shinano met that fate last night (no pics yet, involves 5.5mm needles, 72 stitches some seedstitch and stockinette) and I’m trying to finish a heavily mod’d pair of little gem mitts– I want mittens with peekaboo finger exits so I can crackberry and pay at the farmer’s market and stuff.. It’s all about stash busting so I have room to store more fibre.
I soooooooooooo want to knit the February Lady Sweater. Badly. I made the baby version a little while ago, and I liked it so much, I wanted to make one for myself!
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/february-lady-sweater#
I really, really want to knit Kim Hargreaves’ Tess - http://www.kimhargreaves.co.uk/acatalog/TESS.html.
I am currently working on the Modern Log Cabin baby blanket from the first Mason Dixon book and a pair of Retro Rib socks for the husband from Interweave Knits Favorite Socks book. I always like to have one big and one small project on the needles.
I’m knitting the Stripey Travel Rug from Sublime Yarns (see my blog). I wish I were knitting BSA’s Knot Hot (http://blueskyalpacas.com/pattern_detail.php?patterns_ID=92) out of some of your yarn, though. I’m bored. Would absolutely love that Custom Knits book. I’ve been coveting it.
I’m working on some plain mittens to use as liners for another pair of mittens. Working on some secret holiday stuff. And thinking about the February Lady Sweater…
I don’t have pictures yet because I just started it this weekend but I’m knitting the ribbi cardi -
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/ribby-cardi
Which I know you’re a fan of Bonne Marie’s.
I’m using this skein of Twisted in Rooky for the sleeves
http://www.ravelry.com/people/redheadskydiver/stash/twisted
And Cascade 220 in a dark dark charcoal, almost black but not quite for the body. I think it looks awesome so far!
I started on the sleeves this weekend and I’m almost finished with those which I’m knitting in the round. Pictures should be up on my ravelry soon.
I am knitting up two pairs of these cute and practical items for my best girlfriends: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/grown-up-booties
And I jutst finished one of these in a soft cashmere for a godo friend:
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/lana-and-clark-ascot
Finally, I am crocheting a ripple blanket for my cousin and her husband. Tis the season!
I’m knitting the ubiquitous February Lady Sweater but I only just started for the third time so I have no unboring pictures whatsoever!
love the pictures of your munchkins
my projects page on ravelry is http://www.ravelry.com/projects/bhuidhe
and if you look at my queue you can see all I would love to knit.
Thank you for such a wonderful blog and swag.
I am currently working on ruffled garden socks. The pattern I have is printed out from MagKnits, so I have no idea where a person could find it now…maybe on ravelry?
I’m also about to start a blanket based on a purse pattern. It’s on my ravelry if you are interested. Radioactivegirl is my ravelry name.
I’m knittinghttp://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/rainy-day-scarf started on a rainy day of course! It’s going pretty fast with Malabrigo is the gorgeous Emerald Blue colorway.
I’ve been working on small/simple projects.
Which have been 2 palindrome cabled scarves:
http://www.cometosilver.com/patterns/palindrome.htm
For my two friends (which happen to be a couple) that moved to the east coast just a few months ago. I miss them and one is in New York and the other is in West Virginia. So I’ve made them each their own scarves, same pattern but different colors. So that they can have matching items when they are so far apart. (Acrylic yarn so that they can throw them in the wash when needed, I doubt either of them will have the time to hand wash their scarves.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3136/3062177991_2a737a4aa1.jpg
Andrew’s is Olive
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3199/2990184879_48c63c67f3.jpg
Adrianne’s is in Burgundy
Plus an improvised crocheted pouch for my mother’s new cellphone headset, for the car. This is the first cell phone she has loved and so I want to encourage her to use it and make it as easy for her to use it in the car safely.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3138/3069721120_e319b94a55.jpg
With of course a penguin pin I bought her at Anime Expo this past summer, she loves the penguins in the Madagascar movies.
I’m knitting my own interpretation of the cardigan from the movie “Music and Lyrics”. I have one sleeve done so far and it looks like a crumpled mess of heck, since it’s lace, but I have high hopes. No photos of my own yet, but here’s a link to the inspiration: http://www.celebritywonder.com/wp/Drew_Barrymore_in_Music_and_Lyrics_Wallpaper_4_1280.jpg
Hi There Scout:)
Glad to hear from you and love your makeover girl! This weekend I was busy working on my mom’s christmas gifts.
1 of these: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/sideways-grande-cloche
and a pair of these that I bound off last night: http://www.ravelry.com/projects/Marisol/chevalier
I also recently completed this awesome hat for myself that I am wearing as I work on my gifts this year:
http://www.ravelry.com/projects/Marisol/santas-ho-ho-ho-hat
I’m doing quite a bit of erm, slightly last-minute christmas knitting. Right now I’ve got Branching Out on the needles. http://www.ravelry.com/projects/Zemestani/branching-out
And I’ve gotten it into my head that the two new babies in my life need some cute little knitted toys. So I plan on making a couple of Elefantes[http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/elefante] and probably a couple Fuzzy Mitten Lambs. [http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/fuzzy-mitten-lamb]
I don’t have pictures up yet, but I just finished a little felted bag [http://www.ravelry.com/projects/Zemestani/little-felted-bag] and a Knitted Bunny [http://www.ravelry.com/projects/Zemestani/knitted-bunny].
Oh, and the twins? Adorable. I love how striking their eyes are in the photograph.
I just finished one of Ysolda’s hats, Verity, and 2 Mousies. Her store is here: http://ysolda.com/store/
I really like her toy patterns. They are easy to read and so cute.
I’m taking a brief sock break using some Black Friday yarn that I scored for $3.49/skein. I should be working on the sleeves for Tyler’s Christmas cardigan and potholders for Grandma. Oh! And I’m working on an Odessa for a beaded class sample. I’m using Cashsoft DK in “Poison” with some iridescent beads. (Colorway: http://www.yarnmarket.com/generate/big_photo.cfm?image_link=/images/CDK-513.jpg&width=442&height=551&my_title=Cashsoft DK Yarn 513 Poison)
Cardigan: (#981 is the one I’m doing) http://www.knittingpureandsimple.com/kids.html
Potholders: http://myboringblog.wordpress.com/2008/01/23/crochet-potholder-pattern
And I’m contemplating something for myself with this yummy yarn I bought from Exclusivelylindalee.etsy.com.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sampowers/3069504901/
I am about to start a pair of gloves for my sister in law. Knotty Gloves.
I am also slowly knitting a hat. Not sure for who yet. Selbu Modern.
I would enter but I already have wendy’s book (so wonderful) and I don’t needle felt… good luck to everyone though!
I am currently working on a toddler sweater (daisy cardigan) in a lovely pink alpaca from baywood yarns as well as some marvelous mitts (fair isle) using some art yarns. The fair isle fingerless gloves would be a perfect project to use up some ever growing sock yarn stash.
Hey, Scout!
If I ever get around to it, I’m going to knit Terra Bear (http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/terra-bear) or this Just Like a Peasant Cap (http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/just-like-a-peasant-cap). Happy contest! Erin
I’m currently working on the Hurricane hat. The link is here - http://stringinmotion.blogspot.com/2008/04/hurricane-hat-copyright-sunshineknits.html
I have 3 more rows on the colorwork chart, and then the ribbing on these Winter Twilight Mitts.http://www.ravelry.com/projects/KatieMcG/winter-twilight-mitts
Not much original knitting, but some classic gifts for teachers are making the rounds. Several pairs of Fetching fingerless mitts (Knitty) and three Palindrome reversable cabled scarves http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/palindrome-a-reversible-cable-scarf are also in the works.
I am currently working on a shawl for myself and for one of my grandmother’s for Christmas. The shawl for myself is the Loop Shawl from Sensual Knits (http://www.ravelry.com/projects/LittleWit/loop-shawl). The yarn is gorgeous and I think I like how it’s turning out.
The shawl for my grandmother is the Lace Poncho from IK Fall 2005 (http://www.ravelry.com/projects/LittleWit/lace-poncho). I really really like some of the mods I saw for it on Ravelry and I plan to make one for myself once I finish hers. Grandma’s is being knit in a variegated yarn which is showing up surprisingly well in the lace. Both of these are knitting in worsted weight yarns so they are knitting up quickly. 
I am also madly in love with Adrian Bizilla’s Cable Twist socks. I recently knit 3 pairs of them (2 as Chritmas gifts) and will probably make more in the future. They knit up quick and are super cozy! (http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/cable-twist-socks)
I love the Shag scarf from Knitting New Scarves (Rav link: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/shag-2) — and it’s a free sample from the book, too. I’m addicted to modular construction and I’m planning to cast this on as soon as I finish my Christmas knitting!
Currently on the needles are a ecru xmas stocking (not for this year though) with stars throughout and a silver trim, this lovely wrap/sweater : http://babycocktails.blogspot.com/2008/01/sorry-bcbg.html and this shawl: http://www.knitspot.com/knitting_pattern/whispering-pines-triangle-shawl-p-101.html and a laptop case which will be felted for daughter to use at college , along with various socks in different stages of completion. Been finishing and making fingerless gloves, hats, slippers for xmas gifts as well as mug cozies, ornaments out of leftover sock yarns etc. i love to always stop in and see what’s new! the twins are beautiful!
Here’s my list of Christmas knitting…yes I’m still having delusions of getting them all done on time!
–Pair of plain vanilla socks for my son
–Pair of striped slipper socks for my husband, using the chart from Interweave Knits’ Hidden Passion socks on the leg (http://www.interweave.com/knit/books/favorite_socks/toc.asp)
–Drive-thru sweater for my 6 yr old daughter (http://knitandtonic.typepad.com/knitandtonic/2006/11/drive_thru_aka_.html)
–Offset wraplan sweater for my almost 2 yr old daughter (http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/offset-wraplan)
I am making the Susan shawl. There is a picture here: . This is not my blog, though I wish I was such a prolific knitter!
I’m currently knitting the Camelot Sweater in the knitscene fall 08 issue. I’m using Berroco Cuzco & it’s knitting up fast & beautiful. Perfect for hectic holiday knitting.
This is a great idea. I will be coming back to look through everyone’s projects for ideas as well.
I am currently knitting the Lace Ribbon scarf from Knitty.com Spring 2008. It is great because the pattern is very easily memorized!
I have a picture or two of my WIP on Ravelry…
http://www.ravelry.com/projects/kmophardt/lace-ribbon-scarf
Well, that’s actually not an easy thing to do, since I think I might be drowning in wips at the moment
(holiday knitting and all), but at the moment there are two things that really get attention.
One is my “hvivelstrøm” cardigan (picture here: http://www.ravelry.com/projects/Lykkefanten/hvirvelstrm) and the other is Cymatics scarf (my own design) (picture here: http://www.ravelry.com/projects/Lykkefanten/cymatics)
I don’t know if it’s inspirational to anyone but me (but it IS my 40th on Sunday, so I thought I’d give myself a shot at an early b-day present!). I am nearing completion of my first adult sized sock!!! Check them out - Green Lagoon Socks! YAY! I can’t wait to get to the second one so I can wear them!
(oooh! that’s the first time I added a hyperlink that way… now that is truly inspirational!)
Okay, girlie, here’s my wish for the increasingly cold and windy days here in BoulderTown: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/kyra Go see Sahfi’s solid orange version. I’ve got the yarn for it in a light blue but may overdye it into indigo. thanks for running the contest! hugs to the superkids
I’m trying to get the Celtic Knot stole done for Christmas! Wish me luck!
http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/11/25/418882/Celtic Knot Stole 20080822.pdf
Two things: “Musica” fingerless gloves for my daughter:
http://coalabaer.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/fingerless-gloves-musica2.pdf
and a mobius scarf for my best friend with some gorgeous alpaca I got at the fall fiber festival in Montpelier, VA:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=15536333&ref=em
How about the February Lady sweater that everyone has been making lately. Here is the link to it on Ravelry.
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/february-lady-sweater#
beautiful photo! hooray for lot’s of photo jobs!! nice to see you back here.
I’m knitting an advent calendar, and it’s super cute! Good for movie-watching or TV-knitting, and fabulous for stash-busting.
http://store.tangleonline.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1033
I *just* finished a chunky Koolhaas hat (rav link) and am now going to be refocusing on my pseudo-in-progress (i frogged one last night) Honey Brown Endpaper Mitts. I am considering making this pair with the bird & vine chart though, since it’s my second pair of Endpapers.
I’ve just cast on for the B.O.B. (Button on Blanket) sweater. There’s a Ravelry page for it here (http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/bob-4), but it looks like the pattern author’s blog–and pattern–has been deleted. Thank goodness I printed it out a while ago!
I am knitting these tiny sweater ornaments. A great use for leftover scraps. I have added duplicate stitch snowflakes.
http://everwhelming.blogspot.com/2007/11/tiny-sweater-with-pattern.html
Right now I’m knitting Just Enough Ruffles - http://www.cosmicpluto.com/blog/?p=1027
and I’m looking to work on Galileo Mittens
http://www.cosmicpluto.com/blog/?p=1012
I have made hats for everyone in my family for Christmas. That has been a fun process and has really helped me become a faster knitter. I’d like to push myself to take my knitting to the next level so this winter I am planning on making the February Lady Sweater, and the Bobbled Tam in the Vogue Knitting Holiday issue. I have yarn - now I just need some uninterrupted time to practice the stitches - and then start the pattern! Here is my ravelry link if you’d like to see my basic hats!
http://www.ravelry.com/projects/elliebelle7620
I had planned on knitting the kids socks or slippers from the IK holiday issue, but Hanne really wanted a poncho. So, I improvised for her. Then Alex decided that he really needed the diamonds in relief sweater from the same magazine. So, MUCH larger projects than I had anticipated, but it’s what they want, so hopefully they will get a lot of wear. Thank goodness they are still relatively little.
http://www.ravelry.com/projects/luci99/hannes-poncho
http://www.ravelry.com/projects/luci99/diamonds-in-relief
I’m working on the lovely Old Penny from the Fall 2008 Vogue Knitting.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22364691@N04/3038169407/
I’m working on a couple pairs of Fetching (http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEsummer06/PATTfetching.html) for presents and also on Wendy’s Fair Enough for myself (http://www.knitandtonic.net/knitandtonic/2008/10/fair-enough.html).
I’m currently knitting dishcloths and fairly plain ribbed socks, because I’m focusing my energy on school and I want knitting that’s just something to do with my hands. A pattern I’d like to knit at some point is Hippocampus: http://www.theinsideloop.com/Issue4/Patterns/hippocampus.html
I am currently swatching for a vest in Beaverslide light sport (color: chokecherry heather). I’ll be following the Honeycomb pattern (http://knitty.com/ISSUEspring08/PATThoneycomb.html) with a simple brocade stitch pattern in place of the honeycomb stitch.
I’m making the Lace Ribbon Scarf from Knitty: http://knitty.com/ISSUEspring08/PATTlaceribbon.html
But I’m using the Noro Silk Garden Sock Yarn and the color changes are matching up nicely with the directional changes. Very lovely, and almost done. This one is for moi!
I’m currently loving two projects. Veronik Avery’s Peace and Love Gloves, from Color Style ( http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/peace-and-love-gloves-by-veronik-avery ) is my have-to-think-about-it project. They are warm, and the 4-row chart makes the knitting zoom. I’d never used Whiskey before, and really love it. The yarn is full of color, with strands of many hues making each color. In fact, two of my coworkers were compelled to start sweaters in it after watching me knit the gloves.
For something to knit during movies, I jumped right on the old bandwagon, and started a Noro Striped scarf ( http://brooklyntweed.blogspot.com/2007/04/noro-scarf.html ) , with Plymouth Boku.
I’m working on a mitred square blanket.
See pics:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3238/3057845258_38f6a0bcf1.jpg
I’m making the ubiquitous Hemlock Ring Blanket ( http://brooklyntweed.blogspot.com/2007/08/hemlock-ring-blanket.html ) with some dark brown Cascade Eco Wool. It’s a fantastically satisfying knit.
It is really hard to blog when one has been super busy. I just find myself reading mostly these days. I’m knitting though, knitting this http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/murano-scarf
So far so good, though I did get a little confused at the beging. I’m sure it will work out.
I hope you feel less overwhelmed soon. It’s always nice to be busy, but sometimes a big breath is needed as well.
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