Tuesday, August 02, 2005
Happy August
I know my posts are few & far beetween, but thats only cause i'm always busy either knitting, or taking care of boys & the house.
My sock was torn out completely once, back past the heel once (after completing it), and now I am finally satisfied with it & about to pick up stitches & knit the foot (finally). This third time of doing the heel was much easier than the first two times. Haha. I will start the second sock after I knit up the foot & close the toes on this one! There were a couple of areas where I had to cut & tie the yarn because of unacceptable knots, and i'm a bit worried about making it match because of those. Not sure what I'll do about that. As of right now I didn't cut off the tied ends, I can turn this sock inside out to see about where they are at, and figure out what i'm doing when I'm working on the other one.
I just finished winding my first center pull ball. I used a toilet paper tube. And I didn't listen, have to learn things the hard way, and got it all tangled up when I started a few days ago. Oops. But untangling was actually kind of relaxing, and the end result is awesome. I'll be doing the rest of the yarn over the end of this week. Only. I'll use the back of a chair instead of just placing the hank of yarn on my lap!
Baby girls sweater is coming along nicely. I am on the second sleeve. It's so very very pink. I allowed myself to buy the yarn for the hat this past weekend. Thursday I'll be buying another set of wooden DPNs for the socks (I broke one of the others and have been using a metal one, but it's just not the same. I want the Brittany needles instead of the handmade birch ones I bought last time, they can be my spares). And possibly one skein of yarn, we'll see. Friday I'm going to a different yarn store for some Berrocco suede for baby booties. I'll have to post the pattern here sometime, I have it bookmarked. They are just the cutest things. I haven't decided what color to use yet, possibly pink. Or maybe a pair of pink trimmed in brown & brown trimmed in pink. One skein makes two booties, and i believe there is a little leftover so that would work for the trim part.
I bought a bag at hobby lobby when I went to get the metal needles last week. It is working much better than the small dollar store bag I was using. I have also found a knitting group, who meets Thursday evenings, changing to tuesdays soon I believe. A couple of the women live nearby & we've been exchanging emails quite a bit. It's nice to have VERY local knitters to talk to!!
Im sick so it's off to bed for me. I said that over an hour ago and then got involved in untangling & winding. Oops. ¶ 8:31 PM
My sock was torn out completely once, back past the heel once (after completing it), and now I am finally satisfied with it & about to pick up stitches & knit the foot (finally). This third time of doing the heel was much easier than the first two times. Haha. I will start the second sock after I knit up the foot & close the toes on this one! There were a couple of areas where I had to cut & tie the yarn because of unacceptable knots, and i'm a bit worried about making it match because of those. Not sure what I'll do about that. As of right now I didn't cut off the tied ends, I can turn this sock inside out to see about where they are at, and figure out what i'm doing when I'm working on the other one.
I just finished winding my first center pull ball. I used a toilet paper tube. And I didn't listen, have to learn things the hard way, and got it all tangled up when I started a few days ago. Oops. But untangling was actually kind of relaxing, and the end result is awesome. I'll be doing the rest of the yarn over the end of this week. Only. I'll use the back of a chair instead of just placing the hank of yarn on my lap!
Baby girls sweater is coming along nicely. I am on the second sleeve. It's so very very pink. I allowed myself to buy the yarn for the hat this past weekend. Thursday I'll be buying another set of wooden DPNs for the socks (I broke one of the others and have been using a metal one, but it's just not the same. I want the Brittany needles instead of the handmade birch ones I bought last time, they can be my spares). And possibly one skein of yarn, we'll see. Friday I'm going to a different yarn store for some Berrocco suede for baby booties. I'll have to post the pattern here sometime, I have it bookmarked. They are just the cutest things. I haven't decided what color to use yet, possibly pink. Or maybe a pair of pink trimmed in brown & brown trimmed in pink. One skein makes two booties, and i believe there is a little leftover so that would work for the trim part.
I bought a bag at hobby lobby when I went to get the metal needles last week. It is working much better than the small dollar store bag I was using. I have also found a knitting group, who meets Thursday evenings, changing to tuesdays soon I believe. A couple of the women live nearby & we've been exchanging emails quite a bit. It's nice to have VERY local knitters to talk to!!
Im sick so it's off to bed for me. I said that over an hour ago and then got involved in untangling & winding. Oops. ¶ 8:31 PM
