One Project Down

I finished the Hobbit Cowl with Highland Handmades  quaking aspen sock sea glass colorway yesterday.  Its a nice colorway and pattern but with my fat head, I should have cast on at least 10-20 more stitches to get past my ears.  😒

Its not the best art shot on the lichen chimenia. 

Next project is Simple Yet Effective fingering edition shawl made with Mosaic Moon "Wonder Woman" sprinkle in a talisman fingering.  Wish me luck.

The Stripes Keep Going

I am almost halfway through the Fino Circle Scarf  with a month to do 3 feet.  Having the school year done will help me get through the last half.  I have hit a snag though.  I have found a slipped stitch about an inch down and have to figure out how the bloody hell I am going to fix it without it totally noticable.

I will probably send this image for help on Ravelry.  I really don't want to strip it back that much and then redo it.  

I did go to the Caba Classic Alpaca show, that was fun.  The web link is  http://cabaclassic.org/  . 

Best bet is to cut and paste.  I really wanted to see if I could stick some in the back of a Suzuki hatchback.  But I doubt that that will happen, plus I think that my next door neighbor would call animal control on me.  I didn't realize that Alpacas live to be 20 years old.  

Aren't they sweet?  Tried to do the nasal sounds they give off but they just looked at me like I was off my rocker.

Well need to work more on that blessed scarf.  

Adios.

Wine Does Help

Trying this from my kindle fire, so be patient so be its my first time in my tablet.  This is about 2 feet of 6 feet of the Fino Circle Scarf by Jocelyn J. Tunney.  It's from Yarn Rescue (now Yarn Hero) in the Compliments colorway, light fingering.   I am using us 6.  But I am so glad I have 4 skeins of this.  My math seems to be off.  I thought I would use 2 skeins but almost done with  a skein for under 2'.  I am trying to work on it when I can work on it with washing and blocking by June for my mom on this cruise we are taking. Keep your fingers crossed.  But today knitting is helping me keep occupied so I'm not obsessing over a family illness that's not disappearing.  I am also doing this pattern in the Hottentot Teal colorway by HighlandHandmades, which looks more like turquouse but I'm only a couple of inches in. Which is hopefully being my airplane knitting, that's if I'm not lucky and get that done in 2 months.

Goodnight.

Just a Quickie

Found that Lisa from Fibernyph Dye Works is dying up a special yarn for hurricane relief.  I actually bought a skein of it.  It is called Overcome.  She is doing preorders for another round.  I decided that I am going to order another skein of the of the bedazzled version.  Its nice and squishy and speckled.  If I can find other indie dyers doing the same thing, I will let you know.  I believe theres a $5 donation to the Salvation Army with each purchase.

Fibernymph

The above is a link to the main site.

Squeal!!

If you have ever seen Steven from Dramatic Knits podcast talk about his yarns?  Well somehow I went to his shop today at work and it looked like there was a sale.  I was so OMG that all I wanted to do was go into a corner and just shop from my phone.  But got home, with no surprise alot of his stuff was already sold but snagged some stuff.  Leading Men Fiber Art is the link.  Find something that is still there, type in birthday in the promo code option. I actually save almost $20 on yarn.  Did a little happy dance.  Going to run back and see if there are any sock blanks left.

Have a great night!

PS.  The Hobbit Cowl is going well, didn't take it camping.  Of course I didn't have the right needles for it but its a fun knit up.

Biting Off A Bit To Chew, Maybe

I am going to cast on yet another project(s) for camping.  Even though the Icelanding Lopi Lace 22.5* would be perfect because I will be camping somewhere that will probably not break 70* F but will be a little damp, I figure so I wouldn't want to ruin the lace yarn.  So I am going to be knitting a couple of the grandmas dishcloth but also try the Hobbit Cowl by Suze Vitale in Highland Handmades Quaking Aspen Sock weight yarn in the Sea Glass colorway and also possibly in the Fibernymph fingering weight in Autumn Harvest, thats if my mum likes the pattern.  When I started to wind the Sea Glass into a ball, the color scheme just took my breath away in a pale blue and green and white colors and the feel was just wonderful.  Its kind of like getting bored with one pattern and just have to start another.  Wonder why I just cant be monogamous and just finish one thing.  I even got a couple of balls in the dark heather grey color of Lopi to continue it a bit more before I even finished the other balls I had gotten in the first place.  And funny thing is that I am only going to be camping for 4 nights/5 days.  We will see.   But this seems like something I can create at a good pace.  I am also trying to keep up with a friend on the Mary O'Reilly mystery books on my kindle.  So that adds extra challenges with the knitting.

Have a good night. Sweet dreams.

Possible Babble

Well, I have slowed down on knitting because its been a little bit hot.  Was camping in the high dessert of Bend, Oregon in May, thankfully May.  Even though it was in the mid 70s, it felt much warmer.  I had brought along my 22.5* project along, I'm knitting with Icelandic lace weight Lopi yarn (which I had to do a bit at a time-and not much of it-since me, wool, and the desert don't really agree-but got some rows in).  I also have about 10 or so balls of cotton yarn.  So I brought some of that along for car knitting or late night knitting of Grandmother's Favorite Dishcloth. On and off I pretty knit two of them.  I have all these balls of cotton  yarn and I am definitely over my chenille kick, so I am going to knit a vanilla washcloth with the chenille.  I will probably donate them to a homeless place and hopefully they can hand them out.  Since Portland has a goodly amount of homeless, so maybe someone could use them.

Ice cream truck is going around the park and am trying so hard not to run after it!

I am also have a big thing of nylon baby yarn, so I think I can get through two Hitchhikers with it.  I could have made more with a couple of other big balls of yarn, but that bag of yarn made an early departure to Goodwill!  Well thats life and my dumb luck in not pulling out the big things of nylon  yarn.  Maybe when I have decreased my hoard of fibernymph and highland handmade yarns I will buy some and make some more hitchhikers for a donation bag.

Well I think thats it for now.  Have a happy 4th or Bastille day, or have a good week.