Great Day

I won yarn. :) Roxanne at Zen Yarn Garden had a contest to guess the number of yarn in the picture on her blog. I guessed 175 which was the right number. So I'm going to get a free month of the Art Walk Yarn . I'm so happy I really love the Art Yarn Roxanne has been dying.

I also finished my Falling Water Lace Scarf. It is truly love the way it has come out. I'll try to get it blocked and photos taken in the next day or so. I really want to get some more HandMaiden Casbah yarn. It is 80% Merino, 10% Cashmere, 10% Nylon and is just wonderful to touch and the colors are gorgeous.

I think I will now go back to my Noro Kureyon Sock and work on the short row heel. I stopped working on it when my Lord Husband went in the hospital because I really didn't think I could teach myself a new technique when I was so stressed out but now things are settling down and I think I'm ready for it. We will see in the next few days.

Only thing was I had promised myself some green Malabrigo worsted yarn but my closest lys didn't have what I was looking for so I will have to adventure off to a couple other ones up north to see if I can find what I'm looking for. Oh the pain having to go to more yarn stores. lol

God Bless and keep knitting

Wow, Best Laid Plans

My newest project is Falling Water Lace Scarf it is being knit out of some truly yummy Handmaiden Yarn. The color is, I think, Nova Scotia and it is Casbah. Casbah is 80% Merino, 10% Cashmere and 10% Nylon and is truly touchable. The pattern is a simple 16 row repeat and is very easy to read so that errors can easily be found and corrected quickly.

The fact that errors were easy to be corrected is part of the "Best Laid Plans" my dear Lord Husband was in the hospital from the 3rd to the 13th. Thank God, he is doing extremely well now and is home again. He had another small stroke with not much damage. So this was the scarf that kept me busy while we hurried up and waited to see what was going to happen. I only had to tink it back a few times.

Harborview has a knitting group that meets on Tuesdays so I got the chance to sit down and do some knitting with some other ladies. Met a wonderful wonderful lady who's Ravelry name is LZKnitta. She runs the knitting group and teaches knitting at Harborview. She helped to keep me sane as I navigated all that I had to in the hospital and outside. If you have any extra yarn and/or knitting needles they could really use them.

Now that LH is home we are trying to get out some every day and for various reasons that I'm not going into I need to spend some money so we stopped by Little Knits. Fulay is a kind hearted and interesting lady. She knows so much about yarn and loves to share it. She also has some of the best deals around. I picked up Noro Kureyon for a Lady Eleanor Entrelac Stole, some Opal Sock yarns, some more Noro Kureyon Sock Yarn, and some Handmaiden Sea Silk for another lace shawl which I haven't decided what pattern to use. I was also given something but I'll keep that for a surprise until I get it finished. :D Don't you love surprises?

Well to sum it up it has been a rough week and a half but it appears to all be coming out well and I'm looking forward to getting back out with my friends and knitting. Also, I need to get some pictures of the new project and yarn. I will try to do that soon. So until later. God bless and Happy knitting.

End of the Year

Well the end of the year has come. I have learned so much and explored so much with knitting this year. I can't believe how much I have learned. Next year I plan to learn even more. I have already gotten the first lesson of Basic, Basic, Basic from TKGA I figure I would rather start with the beginning lesson before I move onto Masters. I hope to have the Masters program started if not finished by the end of the new year.

I'm also planning on learning Continental Knitting. Continental with English works well for doing two handed color work.

Well to all a Happy New Year and many new yarns.

The last of Dr Who and more Zokni Socks

I forgot to add the picture of S in his Dr Who scarf. It turned out well even if I do say so myself. S really seemed to like it and figure it would keep him nice and warm. We all agreed that it was long enough as it was and that it didn't need tassels. So in the end it isn't a real copy more like a adaptation of it.

In other news the Zokni Socks are coming along nicely. I'm really enjoying working with the Noro Kureyon Sock yarn. It maybe a touch scratchy but the colors more then make up of that. The wide strips mean that it can still work well in lace. Of course the picture doesn't do the lace or the colors justice. You will just have to go look at the yarn for yourselves. If you live in Seattle that shouldn't be hard because many of the yarn shops that carry a good selection of Noro have the sock yarn in stock.

I'm thinking I'll pick up some more of it and do some socks with cables. Cookie A has several patterns that I think I would love to work in the Noro yarn. Now I just have to run out and pick another color. Oh such a hard job, going to yarn shops and buying more yarn.

Christmas and Noro Socks

I had a great Christmas. Daughter and BF found my Amazon lists and got me these of it. I especially wanted the Reader's Digest Knitter's Handbook because is it suppose to be a good basic book to used while doing the Basic, Basic, Basic that I'm doing for The Knitters Guild. Doing this so that I will be more ready for the Masters program. I feel my basics are a bit spotty.

The other two books are Confessions of a Knitting Heretic and First Book of Modern lace Knitting both of which I look forward to reading a reviewing. They maybe oldies but I still think they are goodies.

Yesterday after we got home I couldn't help myself I had to find a pattern for the Noro Sock Yarn. I finally settled on Zokni Socks by Mintyfresh. I wanted to do lace with the Noro because I felt the large strips would look good in it. I worked on them to night at knitting but still haven't got all that far but here they are in all their glory.

Late Merry Christmas and I hope everyone got lots of nice knitty stuff.

FO Dr Who Scarf

Finally after a year I have finished the Dr Who Scarf and it will go to it's new home on Christmas. I don't think I want to make another one. I need more challenge then that many rows of garter stitch. Yes, it is 10 feet of garter stitch. I will try to get a picture of it on it's new owner. He had better like it. :)

In the year from when I started it, I have learn so much about knitting and what I like and don't like. I really don't like plastic knitting needles even if they are Denise Needles. Also Denise Needles have some of the worse cords I have ever tried to deal with. I'm not crazy about metal needles although I do like the lace Addi. I think Addi Bamboo are really nice to work with. My favorite though have to be Knit Picks Harmony. They have really wonderful cords, which are wonderfully flexible and nice to deal with. They always feel warm to the touch and have nice sharp points.

I have also learned that DK yarn doesn't just come in just pastel colors. In fact I've learned a lot about yarn weight.

I have also become a horrible yarn snob. I no longer like acrylic yarn no matter how "nice" it is suppose to be. I love handpainted yarns. I adore the indi dyers. It is so nice to know that you have something that not all that many others have. I'll have to do a review of some of my favorite yarns another day. I find that if I'm going to make something I would rather find something I really like rather then settle for something that isn't just what I want.

I enjoy knitting more everyday and am so glad I picked it up again.

Noro Kureyon Sock

I stopped by Seattle Yarn to check out the new Noro Kureyon Sock yarn. The colors are beautiful like all Noro yarn. Of course I couldn't pass up it up. I picked up a greenish skein color S164. It isn't as soft as some sock yarns but the colors are truly lovely. I'm going to have to decide what socks I want to make with it. Most likely I check what other people are doing with it on Ravelry.


After I went to Settle Yarn I stopped by West Seattle SNB had a cup of coffee but no want showed up. Decided that weaving ends in with no one to visit with was even worse then doing it at home so after 45 minutes I went home to be with My Lord Husband and watch "Clash of the Choirs", but stupidly didn't get the rest of the ends woven into the Dr Who Scarf.