Kids Camp and Finished UFO

I've been working on designing, writing the patterns, and knitting sample projects for kids camp at Green Planet. I will be teaching several of the camps.

These are bracelets I designed to use beads. The green one is very easy and the pink one requires a bit more skill because of the picot CO and BO.



This bracelet is a pattern from SWTC. I knitted up the sample for the camp.


This is a felted bag made with Knit One Crochet Two Camelino yarn (90% merino and 10% camel). I love how it came out.



Also I've been working on finishing up some UFO and have finished these 2 scarves. The first one is argosy made with Trendsetter Dune. The second on is Inside Outside scraf from Knit One Below. Made with two skeins of Universal Poems.

What I'm working on

I making the Easy Lace Jacket by White Lies Designs. It is easy. I have the back and both fronts finished. 

I'm using Fibranatura Mermaid (mernio, cotton, silk, and seacell). This is wonderful yarn.

I'm also making this sweater, which is the Newport sweater by Kim Dolce.

I bought my pattern at Bobbins Nest and it's available on Ravelry.

 

Again, I have the back and both fronts finished. I'm making mine out of Rowan Colourscape Chunky.

Catching Up III

This will be the last of the Catching Up posts. Thank goodness.

First some socks. As many of you know, I don't really like to knit socks. Some of these socks have been on needle for years! The way I finally got myself to finished these is to take only a pair of socks on the plane when traveling. It was either knit on socks or nothing. Ta Dah! They are done. I don't have any socks on needle. (But I do still have a bit of sock yarn. Sigh!)

These socks are made with Opal. I bought the yarn at my first Stitches West in 2001. NO I didn't cast them on in 2001, but yes they have been on needle for several years.




These socks use yarn from Ellen's Half Pint Farm. She made this yarn only one year. Can you see the sparkles?




And these are made with Regia. No big deal but I did get the stripping to match.




And now the REALLY big stuff - Sweaters

This is a sweater I made for a friend. I will be sending it to her soon. It's made with Rowan Tapestry yarn.





This is Diagonals in Flight from Iris Schreier's book Lacey Little Knits. I used her
Artyarns Silk Rhapsody for the sweater.




This is my first aran sweater. It's the Must Have cardi by Patons. I used Queensland Collection Kathmandu Aran yarn.




This is the Rib and Lace cardi from Vogue Holiday 2008. I used Nashua Handknits Grand Opera yarn. I wore this to the Student Banquet this year.




So I am now all caught up. *&^&**&^ happy dance #%^&%$#

Stitches West 2009

I'm taking a break in the "Catching Up" posts to publish what I got at Stitches West 2009. I had to wait to do this post until the yarn I ordered at Stitches arrived.

Well it is all here now.

I bought two lace shawl w/bead kits from Just Our Yarn.

This is the River Run Kit. The yarn is 100% tencel.



This is the Lily's Shawl kit. This yarn is cashmere! The color is very had to get a good picutre of. You must see it in order to see the various colors that make up this yarn.



I also bought these 2 skiens from Miss Babs.



I bought these (thanks Catie for helping me pick these) to go with some yarns I already owned for this vest pattern. I know Catie, Julie, Fae and I bought this pattern. Did anyone else buy it? Want to do a knit-along?



I bought one skein of Araucania Ruca from Seaport yarns , which is make from sugar cane. What will they use next!



And at the Student Banquet, I won 3 skeins of Malibrigo Chunky yarn in just my color!



I also bought the Knit One Below book and renewed my Knitters subscription.

I enjoyed Stitches as always but went to the market only Thursday evening and for a couple of hours on Sunday before class. I took Beading on the Edge class, which was good. I really liked the teacher.

Catching Up II

This is some of the charity knitting I've been doing. I don't have picutres of all the items, but this is most of them.

EZ Baby Surprize Jackets.

These are some of the premi hats I did. Notice they are crocheted.

And a few of the baby booties.

These are bed booties.

Catching Up

Well my life has settled down and I feel like getting back to blogging. I am still unemployed and will be for about 3 years because I've decided to go back to school and get my AA degree in Ultrasound.

So now I go to school, study, and teach knitting at Green Planet Yarns and for Adult Education.

The next few post will be the projects I've finished since August. First some scarves.

This is Luce from Norah Goughan Vol. 1. It's made with Berroco Pure Merino Nuance. I gave this to Vicky (a friend of Cate's because she liked it so much. I loved this yarn. It's super soft and I love the slow color change. When adding new balls, I did some splicing so the color change would continue correctly.




This is Parallelograms Scarf by Lynn Barr from her Knitting New Scarves book. It's made with Wool in the Woods Dunluce.



This is my favorite scarf. It is so soft and I love the color. The true color is shown in the picture of the yarn. These are All the colors I love. The yarn is handspun and from www.alltheprettyfibers.etsy.com and the pattern is the Drop Stitch Scarf by Christine Vogel.




This is a crocheted scarf. It was a crochet-along monitored by Diana. The original patten had beads only in the fringe, but I added beads all through the scarf. This is the La Mer scraf by Sheryl Means done in Fiesta Yarns La Luz Multi, which is 100% silk and just wonderful.





This scarf is knit with Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks that Rock - Heavyweight. The pattern is Bias Scarf by Maia Discoe. Again the true colors are shown in the picture of the yarn.

Friends

I haven't blogged in a long time because life has been throwing stuff at me and I just didn't have the heart to blog. In August my husband of 25 years moved out and in October I lost my job. I felt like I had been punched in the stomach then kicked in the teeth. That's all I'm going to say on my blog about what's been going on because it's personal and not information for the world.

With so much being taken away from me, the one thing I could count on was my friends. I've always treasured my friends. But I never REALLY understood the healing and supporting power of them until now. Through all of this I have felt wanted, cared for, and loved. All due to my friends. They listen to me, hug me, cry with me, treat me to lunch and theatre, call me, invite me to things, and are THERE for me. I don't think they REALLY understand how much I need and depend on them. I know I appear very strong, but much of the strength comes from knowing absolutely that I am NOT alone, I am loved and wanted.

And then . . . after all they give to me they did this




Words just cannot express how deeply touched I am.

I can feel the love within the afghan.

Each square was designed and knitted by a friend. Then Nancy the wonder spinner/knitter put it together.

This afghan is jaw dropping beautiful. Every square is magnificent.

You can see each lovely square here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21555712@N07/sets/72157612353640303/

Thank you seems so inadequate. I say thank you when someone passes me the salt. So I thought I could give the words more power and depth if I said THANK YOU in several languages.

So my friends, thank you Thank you THANK YOU
gracias
merci
danke
grazie
obrigado
tack
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