Time is running out!

For the most part, I can't show you what I'm working on since its a test knit for a future KAL.  It's an interesting mixture of color and texture but I have to wait till the KAL is done before I can put up pictures.  Meanwhile this is what else I've been up to.

Still working on this purple fiber.  I think I'm more then half way through.  It's from Hobbledehoy.

I added this to my fiber stash.  Can't wai tto see how it spins up!

Added this fun yarn from The Fiber Seed.  It's fingering weight called Funfetti.  No, I don't have a pattern for it yet.

I finished a square for my patchwork triangle blanket!

I need to finish the second slipper and then felt them.

This is suppose to be a Christmas gift.  I have this chart and then the edging to do.

This is one of those vanilla socks with a self striping yarn for my sock collection.  These make great knitting projects to take while waiting for appointments.

Another vanilla sock pattern knitting from a sock blank for my daughter.  I LOVE how the colors are showing up.  You never know from the sock blank just how it will knit up. 

Sometimes You Just Have to Call Quits

I was almost done this sock.  I even had to rip out the heel to redo because I messed up the pattern on it.  It's Riff Socks.  http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/riff-socks  It wasn't hard but I had to start the increase for the heel section really early.  The pattern wasn't going right and I even tried tinking back to see if I could save it.  The nail in the coffin was that it was too big.  The heel was just hanging off the back of hubby's foot.  It's not a pattern you can stop to make a short sock either.  Hubby luckily doesn't like tall socks (he has 11.5 size feet!).

So I ripped it and started this sock instead.  I like it much better.  http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/diamond-gansey-socks-guernsey-rautenmuster  I need to make sure I make the sock smaller because the yarn will expand when its washed and blocked.  I can make this short too.

Plugging Along!

Almost done these socks for my youngest.  Just turned the heels on the 2nd pair.  These are made with  Knit Picks Felici in the colorway Rainbow.  It's done with my go to Wendy Johnson pattern.

This is my first Dee O'Keefe shawl (Ashton Shawlette).  The yarn is by Gourmet Stash which no long sells yarn or fiber.  You can't see the sparkles in the yarn.

This is Watchet by Hunter Hammersen.  I'm knitting it with a self striping yarn so I'm not sure how it will turn out.  Right now it looks cool.

I had hope to finish this for the County Fair but the deadline will be September.  We will see.  I have plenty of shawls and hat to enter.

This is Alivia by Vanessa Smith.  I can't wait till its finished.

I'm almost done this braid.  I can't wait to see how it n-ply.  So far I love the spin!  It's The Big O by Gale's Art.

Getting Stuff Done!

My latest simple sock pattern with striping yarn.  It's my go to pattern from Wendy Knits and the yarn is On Beach Time Tumbleweed Yarn Aurora Fingering Weight.

 My test knit wrap is all done.  It took 65 hours and I still have to wash & block it.  I love Ambah's patterns!  http://www.ravelry.com/stores/ambah

My last Tour De Fleece yarn.  It's about half way through plying.  Good thing since today is the last day of Tour De Fleece.

My last sort of test knit.  I got the pattern free as long as I finish the knit by Aug 30th.  I think I will make the deadline.  http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/anemone-hat-2  I'm getting much better at color work!  It's done with my handspun so that is why you got the differences in color.

Can't Help Myself

I got this neat double knit sock blank from Gale's Art during my trip to Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival.  I couldn't wait to start knitting on it.  Double knit refers to that there are 2 strands of yarn so you can knit 2 socks at a time.  I'm not crazy about knitting two at a time (I can't do both heels at the same time) so I decided to unwind it and separate them into 2 balls.

 

 

It took me some time since the yarn got tangled while I was separating it into 2 balls.  I did finally get them into 2 balls and then wound them up (easier to knit then a ball that rolls around).

 



 

I started on them last night.  I'm using my go to sock pattern from Wendy Johnson.  http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/gusset-heel-basic-socks  So far I like how its knitting up.  It of course looks a lot different then the sock blank. 

Deadline WIP

 





 



First on the list is these socks.  I a bit further then the picture but the 2nd one still isn't done.  They are for someone's birthday and I need to have them done before Apr 8th.

 

Needles:  Size 0 circulars

Yarn:  Plymouth Yarn Diversity in Denim

Pattern:  http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/gusset-heel-basic-socks



 





 

 

This is a KAL which is due in May.  I started it before the KAL but the designer is letting us do WIP.  The KAL is here:  http://www.ravelry.com/discuss/maliha-designs/3398520/126-150#142

 

Needles:  Size 7 circular

Yarn:  Cephalopod Yarns Traveller in multicolor and naked

Pattern:  http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/frieze-shawl

 

 



 

 

This shawl needs to be done before my trip in May since I want to gift it to someone I will be seeing in person.

 

Needles:  Size 7 circular

Yarn:  Cephalopod Yarns Nautilace in Honeycomb cowfish?

Pattern:  http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/perles

 



This is the yarn for a test knit which is due May 2nd.  I had fun digging in my leftover yarn (which I must organized better) for it.  The red will be the main color and then scraps for the lace part of the yarn.

 

 

This is the start of my test knit wrap.

 

 



Plain Socks

I needed some plain striping socks to knit.  They make great travel and waiting knitting.  Something you can stop in the middle of a row without worry.

Needles:  Size 0 circular
Yarn:  Culture Pop S'Wonderful Self Striping MCN in Dolce Bella
Pattern:  http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/gusset-heel-basic-socks

Kitty Socks FINALLY Done

Needle:  Size 0 circulars
Yarn:  Cascade Yarns Heritage Solids and Quatro Colors in bark,  Purple Hyacinth and Tutu
Pattern:  http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/critter-socks

Now I have to make the bird socks in purple.  I hope they don't take me over 2 years like these ones.  Knitting for big feet in fingering weight takes a LONG time.  I had to tink back because her feet grew.

Trying To Wrap Things Up

I started this sock in Aug 7/13.  Socks usually take me a while especially fingering weight ones.  This one is taking me so long because of two reasons.  One, I started working last year after starting this.  Two, the person I'm knitting this for is still growing.  I had to rip out the heel and make it longer.  It's a bit too long but then again it might take me another year to get the second one done.  The pattern is here:  http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/critter-socks  and the yarn is Cascade Yarns Heritage Solids & Quatro Colors.