Hush Dress

The hush dress from knitty - DONE! I love it, it fits well!!
Happy, happy, joy, joy!!

Finally some finished objects!!

Here is my barbie for the Rocky Mountain News spring design contest - her sweater is knit with Habu black cotton on size 1 needles and her underpiece is knit on size 2 needles with a cotton/bamboo blend on size 2 needles.

And a couple errand hats that I have been needing to post for about a week!

Happy Knitting!!

my only fo this week...

This is my only FO this week - I love it, though!! Very spring-y!! Made with Brown Sheep Cotton Fleece, remaining yarn from Fyns baby blanket from last summer!
More of these to come -
needles size 6, 84 stitches around...

I may have a hat problem...

More hats...
Bunny Hats from Pattern Central...
size 9 needle
Blue Sky Organic Cotton in Wheat
Dream in white
love, love, love these

The other hats are all just finishing up odds and ends from my stash... off to be sold at sunneshine...

Have a good week!

Baby Hat Central

There has been a lot of travel lately and everywhere I go, I seem to get commisioned for baby hats. I love two of these and not the other two, but what can you do? Five more commissioned hats to go....

another ufo and dashing

Dashing from Knitty
Made from 125 yds of handspun undyed alpaca, llama and merino in a chocolate, charcoal, black - love, love, love the yarn....
Took about 4 hours total - easy and fun!

The scarf is my oldest UFO done!! I hate the yarn, it is a basic 25 stitch across stockinette scarf - boring and done!

On to more fun stuff!

for robbie

knucks in cedar green - beautiful color!
for RobbiE

new baby hat

New cotton baby hat - used up the last of the organic pink cotton that I had! There was an organic blue one this week, but it sold before I thought to photograph it. I have to get back on the baby hat wagon, as they are flying out of the store right now. And there are tons of requests for bigger sizes - 6 mos, 2yr - hats!

Have a great week!

knucks!!

Knucks - one for Becky, one for me -- no embroidery.

knit more, learn more

Here is a kid's roll hat that was made while running errands - mostly at the bank, though. Its Lorna's Laces - Georgetown - Shepards Worsted - 88 stitches on size 8 needles.

And then we have my Pi R Square shawl - my first EZ project!! And great learning experience.... details on that at sunnelite. It was knit out of lace weight Alpacawear in charcoal - 250g (almost exactly) - on a size 3 needle. I should have counted the stitches at the end, but I know that I completed 36 rows after the third increase and it took about 70g of yarn to make the border.

layers of texture

So one more errand hat down!! Its just a baby hat out of most the remaining Camoflauge Lornas Laces Shepards Worsted in my stash. It turned out cute.....

Then there is an old UFO that has dropped the U! These scarves never look that good to me off. But they look and feel good on with layers of texture, color and depth!! Not sure that I will make any more of these, but I am really glad to have this one done!!

Have a great week!

Two more off the list....

Here is my oldest UFO, now done! I turned my sample piece of felted fabric into the Kable needle case from Berrocco. While mine used all different wools to see how they would felt, not the alpaca that was called for, I think it turned out quite well. I used some left over philosopher's wool for the inside cables. I am quite pleased and it holds needles nicely! I am waiting to find some more scrap purple yarn in my stash to make straps with, but until then, I sewed some purple ribbon on the outside in two places and it works quite well!
The sweater is my Peace Fleece Cardigan. Done!! It was an easy quick sweater - they were right the size is pretty big and slouchy for a small. I wouldn't wear it to work, but it is great for cruisin' around the house. Super comfy and super warm! Plus, I love that I got to use some of my vintage buttons on it! The details on this sweater are - it was a purchased pattern called the Everyday Cardigan, I bought it from Kpixie it was meant to use Peace Fleece. The sweater was knit out of 4 1/4 balls of worsted Peace Fleece on size 6 and 8 needles. It is all knit flat then seamed. If I were to do it again, I would slim out the arms a bit and knit them in the round, but everything else was perfect on the pattern.

skaska brown warm shawl

The brown cashmere skaska warm shawl is done! Blocked! And ready to wear! I did make a few mistakes on it - so maybe at some point I will knit another, but really I am so happy and proud of it!
It is 8 repeats of 72 rows of lace pattern, knit on size two needles from the pattern that I got in Gallena Skaska's "Russian Lace Knitting" class.
Still haven't figured out the best way to photograph it - oh, well!

errand hat and charity scarf

Here is my oldest UFO's turned into a scarf for charity. Such a learning piece for me at the time. Now I will be glad to have it keep someone warm!

And the first errand hat of the year. It is already sold - so I really needed to get it done. It is on Lorna's Laces camoflague worsted yarn - 75 sts on a size 9 needle!!

made up mitts

Here is my pretty bulky yarn turned into mitts. Since I winged it with the pattern, here is the Made Up Mitts Pattern:
CO 24 st on dpn - join in the round
k 3 rows m1 by knitting the front and back of the same stitch three times
k 4 more rows ( a total of thirteen rows or 2 1/2")
k2tog first and last stitch of the next row
turn work p row
turn work k row (do this two more times for a total of 6 rows, making sure that the RS stays the RS)
Do not turn work again at the beginning of the next row join the round again and start by m1 (knit front and back of same stitch) k row to last stitch m1 - back to 27 sts. Knit 5 more rounds (about an inch). Begin rib k2, p1 for 9 rows (about 2") and bind off loosely.
Easy, fast and fun!

We call them pirates hat

One more down! We Call Them Pirates Hat!! It was a quick knit - the pattern was fun and rhythmic and in two days there is the hat. Mittens are next!!
The hat is made of smart wool from scandinavia - one skein of each color. The inside is lined with elite lavish cashmere (left over from my black cable hat) the lining goes from the bottom of the hat to the beginning of the decreases. (The smart wool was a little itchy and that eliminated that!)

SOCKS!

These are my first socks! They are made from the spring hiking socks pattern from Halcyon Yarn in Wick yarn from Knit One, Crochet Two. The yarn is a soy/polypropeline blend that is supposed to wick moisture away from your skin. It sounds good in theory, but we will have to wait till spring to see how they are in practice!

A tale of two hats...

Working on that FO goal. Here are two of my stragglers. The fair-isle hat is one I started up to about an inch almost a year ago. It is kind of a random pattern on donated yarn. I found it doing my stash clean out this week - however my list was already too full, so it never got listed. It will go to a women's shelter. It was really good fair-isle practice. And quite fun to knit.

The other hat is for me. I made these for all the girls that I worked with for Christmas out of Alpaca and then really wanted one for myself. It has been straggling along and now I will be able to wear it for the cold snap this weekend!

Here's to lots more FO's!!

First finished object of the year!

This is the first finished object of the year for me! I washed and blocked it this weekend, which really did seem to help with the curling. I hope that lasts!! I love this scarf!! It is the possum that mr sunneshine gave me for Christmas knit in the diagonal lace pattern on size five needles. It only took me 5 days of knitting to get it done. Now to wear it for the rest of the winter!! Sorry about the sideways picture, blogger won't let me upload the flipped one - oh, well!

stash-busting - p2

Since blogger is stingy with pictures and will only let me post 5 at a time, this is the second installement of my bust-along post. All the WIP's. So the first photo with the 6 pieces (including the skull scarf) are the 6 WIPs I admitted to the other day. Funny thing, though, as I am going through my various stashes and consolidating yarn there were a bunch of pieces that I found that were to be put together to make a big patchwork scarf and a few other scarves that for various reasons are not finished that I had conviently blocked out. Not sure what I will do with all of them, but best to attack the problem head on and take care of these while I am at it! Then there is the felted fabric that I want to make a needle case out of and a pair of
knucks, that I swear I knit identically, but they are definately two different sizes. Not sure what to do about those, but I admit to them and need to start by weaving their ends in and maybe making two more different sized knucks. They are certainly doing me no good as they are. Finally the last picture is other peoples WIPs that I have been enlisted to fix. One of them is about a month old, and it is not hard, I just haven't motivated to do it, so I put those down, so I would get them out of my house. I will edit my charts on this blog to include all my WIPs - there are 12 or less and hopefully by the time this stash busting thing ends, I will be back to my 6 confortable projects!! And a smaller group of unused yarn!