Knitted Fall Hat

I made Sylvester a fall hat that hopefully he'll be okay with wearing by then. There's about a 50/50 chance he'll wear a hat when I ask, but I'm hoping that once it gets colder it will be easier to keep one on him.

I plan on adding ties to it because it's a little bit big right now. When I made these Mom wanted a shorter cuff, so I used the scraps from her Sugar Maple Socks.

This was my first pair of TAAT sock knitting. These were made cuff down, so I can't speak for toe up TAAT sock knitting... But, that being said, I wasn't impressed. Maybe I'm just too attached to my DPN's. I found it very awkward to work and had some minor issues with ladders. 

Granny Squares Galore!

I've got a ton of projects to post about but I think first I'll show you some Granny Squares I made for my Mom. She was making this blanket as a trade for a painting, great idea if you ask me! Here's the squares I made for it:

So many pretty colors! The mitered square grannies were my favorite to make but they also took the longest. I would love to make a whole blanket it out of these squares, maybe in fall colors, light gold in the center to darker red on the outer rows.

Only Two Yards Left...

I've been knitting for years, off and on, but I've always had sweater knitting anxiety. I only know a few people locally who knit and they always talked about sweater knitting like it was the holy grail. You either ended up with an ugly Christmas sweater or a crop top.

I finally decided to face my anxiety and joined a KAL and make my first sweater. I used the Atelier pattern and Elsebeth Lavold Wools. This pattern is very easy. I knit long sleeves instead of 3/4 using the modifications found here. The thing I liked most about this sweater is that it's seamless. Yes! I hate seaming with a passion. You did have to seam the pockets, but that was pretty easy once I got started.

I finished my first sweater with only two yards left in the 6 skeins I had planned on using. I still have two more, I bought them as a bundle, but I've got no idea what I'm going to do with them.

Sky Scarf Week: 20, 21 and 22

I didn't realize how long it had been since I posted pictures of this scarf, oops!

See all that blue and white? Yep, summer has arrived.

And just because I'm always curious about where people knit, here's where I usually do my knitting. Lovely, isn't it?

Sky Scarf: Week 19

Happy Mother's Day!

I wish I could convey how soft and squishy this scarf is. I can't wait until it's done.

First Weaving Project

My Mom got me the Martha Stewart - Knit and Weave Loom Kitfor Christmas last year. I finally pulled it out last night while we watched a movie (Chronicle, I don't recommend it) and made a hotpad for the house. I used this coaster pattern off the Lion Brand site.

The hardest part was setting it up, I wasn't understanding the directions, so I had to look up some extra info online. But once I got going, it was easy to make. It seems like an awesome way to use up extra cotton yarn.

Do you see my booboo? Whoops!

Sky Scarf: Week 17 & 18

I didn't get a chance to post this last weekend, it's been a crazy couple of weeks, but things are settling down now. Sly is out of that review course and graduated, yay!

Here's a picture of the last couple of weeks.

And a little something else I've been working on today.

My first pair of toe up socks. The pattern is easy to read so far. I'm a little nervous about the heel, but I'm sure it'll work out. It was my first time using the Judy's Magic Cast-On method, and it's definitely not my best knitting, but it'll keep my toes warm none the less. Once you've read the the directions for the cast on it's surprisingly easy to do, knitting the first row on DPN's was awkward but not undoable. 

Sky Scarf: Week 16

My scarf is 1/3 done! Yipee! This year is creeping by and flying by all at the same time. The first week of May is going to be crazy, hopefully I can still keep up with all this.

It has been a cloudy, but mostly rain-less week. We finally got a bit of rain (and some thunder) last night. Hoping for a bit more rain today, my plants could use it. Plus, it cools it down, which is lovely!

Sly has Tuesday off, which happens to be both his Birthday and probably the last day off before he graduates May 5th. I'm hoping the weather will be pretty so we can do something fun.

Sky Scarf: Week 15

Quick post today, we're having a no nap day. Yay.
I decided to measure my scarf and it's about 16.5 inches, unblocked.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

Sky Scarf: Week 13

Have you played Hanging with Friends? The reason I ask is the animation happens to be floating in the sky as  you play. I'll warn you, this game is highly addictive. Sly and I sat for two hours the other night, watched TV and played this... sitting across the room from each other.

This last week has been a week of pretty blue skies! It brought some very warm weather with it too, but that's okay. Yesterday was a little greyer, but the days before that were all blue. Kind of boring for this kind of knitting, but it meant less untangling of all the other yarns.

Do you ever notice something you'd change one you can see the pictures on your computer? I would have pushed the center down so you could see the stitches evenly.

P.S. Happy April Fool's day! ;)

Button Band Hat

... In pink. These hats are so easy to make. This one literally took me 2.5 hours, while watching TV. Sadly I didn't make Sylvester model this one for me. ;)

The two of them together.

I used seed stitch for the band of the first hat and just garter stitch for the pink one. I highly recommend this pattern if you need a quick gift. The pattern says that two skeins will make 3 hats and I can easily see that. A pretty button, 3 hours and you're done.

Sky Scarf: Week 12

I was really bad this week. I sat down yesterday and caught up with all my days. I hadn't knit on this in 4 days. It didn't take long to catch up, but that's beside the point. It's not that I didn't stop to enjoy the sky, it's that I spent too much time enjoying it and not enough time knitting!

Quick picture taken as the sun was going down. It was pretty stormy weather yesterday, more then a little scary. Hoping for sunny skies so Sylvester can play outside on his new toys!

Button Band Hat

Day before yesterday I saw this pattern on Ravelry and decided I'd make one (or two). This has got to be the quickest hat I've ever knit. It's done with a size 6 (bulky) yarn and I ended up using size 15 needles. Here's a full view of the finished hat.

Hat modeled by Sylvester.

I was going to start on the pink one last night but I decided to paint my nails instead. I used the China Glaze Hunger Games collection in Harvest Moon. (also the title of my favorite video game series.)

The Amazon picture doesn't do this polish justice, at all. It's probably the prettiest gold polish I've ever seen. And Amazon's price on this polish is great! I wear Fast Track from the same collection for a few days too, Sly really liked that one. 

Can't beat that price either! $1.95? That half of what I paid for it and it was on sale when I got it.

Sky Scarf: Week 10

It's a chilly Sunday morning, Sly is home from work and school this whole week, and Sylvester slept through the night. Life is good.

I will have to order some more of the yarn I'm using for the blue sky, Plymouth Baby Alpaca Lace 1620, I still have quite a bit left but I've refilled those bobbins twice already. 

Preemie Hat for Charity #1

I need to take a break from the never ending TAAT socks I'm making, so I decided to knit a quick hat for Trident Hospital's NICU. They took care of Sylvester after he was born and they were all together wonderful. I want to make a few more of these this year, just to say thanks for what they did for us.

It came out to about 12 inch circumference, I hope that's small enough for a preemie! :)

Sky Scarf: Week 9

The weather has been so weird this winter. I went out to take these pictures yesterday morning before the rain started, at 8am it was in the high 60's to low 70's. Then it started to rain and rained all day. None stop. We got over an inch of rain by 6pm and it rained into the night (past when I went to bed at 10pm). Thankfully it's only supposed to rain until about noon today, so I can at least take Sylvester out shopping. I think by then we'll both be tired of being cooped up in the house!

I got a new camera, yay! It was already very cloudy and overcast when I went out to take these, so the color isn't great, but the camera is sweet.

Sky Scarf: Week 8

Two months done, ten to go! I'm debating doing something funky in it for the Leap Year, I just can't decide what. I don't know if I should keep it simple and do a stockinette row or use all the colors in one row. Decisions, decisions.

Offset Cobblestone Back Scrubber

Offset Cobblestone Back Scrubber

Materials:

Sugar and Cream Cotton

Size K hook

Blunt needle

Body:

Chain 36 stitches

Row 1: 1 SC in second chain from hook and in each across (35 stitches)

Row 2 & 4: Chain 1 (counts as first SC), turn. 1 SC in the first ST *1 TR in the next ST. SC in next ST.* Repeat across. (35 stitches)

Row 3, 5, 7 & 9: Chain 1, turn. SC in each ST across.

Row 6 & 8: Chain 1, turn. 1 SC in each of the first 2 stitches, *1 TR in the next ST. SC in next ST.* Repeat across. (35 stitches)

SC around border, tie off.

Handles:

Join yarn one stitch from short edge, chain 35 stitches, slip stitch one stitch from end of row, tie off. Repeat for other side.  

Please email me if you have any questions or if you find any errors! Enjoy!

Sky Scarf: Week 7

It's hard to keep up with this project some nights because I will forget until it's bedtime, but I'm still enjoying it. I took Sylvester outside yesterday morning before the dew was even gone off the plants and grass to play. It looked like it was going to rain so I wanted some outside time, while it was still semi-sunny, before it got bad.

You can see my ever present helper in the corner of the photo. He wasn't sure what to play with, the needles, yarn or phone.

I hope everyone has had a lovely weekend! Back to the grind tomorrow?

Sky Scarf: Week 6

Um, brrr? Why did it have to get so cold so suddenly? Or at all really, I don't like the cold, it could have stayed away. It was 24 degrees when I woke up this morning, so needless to say, these pictures were taken inside where it's a tad bit warmer.

I'm using a lot more white in this scarf then I thought I would. I guess I never realized how many days we have that there are clouds floating around in the sky. It's not cloudy every day, but more often then not, there's some hanging around. Usually big fluffy white ones!

P.S. You'll also have to excuse the phone picture, my camera finally bit the dust. :'( I got some money for my birthday, so I'll be looking at getting a new one ASAP. I'd love a DSLR but I don't think that will happen, so can anyone suggest a good point and shoot?