Phew!

It is way past my bedtime. But my Sugar On Snow has been 90% finished for over a week now. The whole hat part was knit, I just needed to make the I-cord and pom poms. Holidays/life and I confess, a fair amount of procrastination kept me from finishing it until tonight. But it would be such a shame to come that close and not make the deadline. So I sat my butt down and finished, though I really wasn't feeling like it. =) Because of the cables that pull in, this is one of those projects that looks WAY better when it's actually on the body, as apposed to lying in a tight squished up blob. My daughter is not available at this hour to model it, so I borrowed her Barbie make over doll.

I'll be putting together a more detailed post about this project with better photos on my blog Monday or Tuesday, if anyone is interested. Goodnight. =)

I missed October BUT...

I am doing new things this month! Last month I was busy knitting (and reknitting) a demo for the local yarnhouse I work at. Turns out that the published pattern is just full of errors and I had to email the designer for the corrections as the company that published the pattern (Plymouth Yarns) never returned my email inquiries. Little stinks. But now that it is finally done, and knitted correctly, I am moving on to creating spa kits for gifts this year. This includes knitting dishcloths...something I never had the desire to knit up till now.

So I knit the pink "I Love You Mom" dishcloth for my mum and I am also knitting a Dolly the Dolphin cloth along with soap sacks, wash mits, and handmade MP soap! The soap is being made at the moment and the wash mits have yet to be knitted.

Finally something to share for November

I'm finally caught up with most of the posts. Everyone is doing some amazing stuff. I went missing in action around September when I got my Ravelry invite. What an amazing place. I started focusing on my many crochet wips that my knitting took a back seat.

After I finished up my crochet stuff I finally finished my very first knit project, a Harry Potter Scarf.



I made it for dh. I think he looks very brave in his Gryffindor Scarf don't you! I used the free pattern on atypically knits and did the Prizoners of Azikaban style. I used Plymouth Encore yarn.

Then I finally tackled those dang short rowed heel socks. This has a bunch of first for me: first pair of socks on magic loop, first short rowed heel and first toe up sock. It's my own pattern too. In the sense that I did a gauge swatch a figured out what I needed in gauge taking into account some negative then cast on and knit.



Other specs:
US 1/ 2.25mm 32" circs - I used two circ. needles with one sock on each using magic loop
Most of the ball of Sockotta

Thanks for looking.

Two Birds With One Stone

I need a project for November. My daughter needs a new hat. I've never knit cables before. Problem solved:

My November project is Sugar On Snow from the Fall 2006 Knitty. I'm going to try to make time to swatch in the next day or so.

Knitting with beads

My November Odessa is finished!
Knitting with beads was about so difficult as I thought... I had to frog several times because the beads did not want to stay in the front, but when I got the hang of it - it was fun!
This is unfortunately for me a Christmas gift, but I will make myself another one cause I like it!
Hey Knit - what about yours?

November's Project

I will be working on Patons' Hobo Bag with Cables along with my House Sweater, since row after row of stockinette on size 6 needles is going to kill me.
I haven't decided what yarn I'm going to use yet. This will be my first bag.