Where Have I Been for 3 Months

It's been a while since I have posted but here is my last 3 months in review.

In August we took 2 of our granddaughters camping in Destin Florida for a week.  Had a great time - lots of laughing, shopping, and walking on the beach.

Finished my Camp Loopy Project #3 - Elfe.  Loved knitting this top so much I want to make another but add sleeves to it.  I knit Elfe using Dream in Color Smooshy in Butter Peeps and Malibu Sail.

Finished 3 quilts.

I had surgery on my foot in mid September

Finished a pair of socks I started in July.  The pattern is Double Eyelet Toe-Up Socks by Wendy D Johnson and the yarn is Trekking XXL

Started and finished knitting a cardigan - all done except blocking and adding the buttons.  The pattern is Woodstove by Alicia Plummer.  This is a great pattern, I love the texture on the back.  The best part is that the button band is knitted along with the body of the sweater and its knitted top down - no seaming, no picking up stitches.  The yarn is Malabrigo Rios in the Ivy color.

Also did a little weaving and finished a few of scarves.  The ones I chose to picture are a couple colorweave scarves, the rest were plain weave in solid colors.

And that is the recap of my last three months.

Mary

Weaving on Wednesday

Thought I would share a couple of scarves I finished recently.

 

The first one is an orange scarf I made from three different shades in a plaid plain weave pattern.

 

 

The next scarf is woven from a painted sock yarn using waffle weave technique.  Love the feel of the scarf - so soft and thick feeling but still an open weave with pooling of the yarn colors.

 

 

 

Happy Wednesday!

Mary

 



On the Needles Friday - July 17, 2015

I feel really accomplished this week, I finished my Campside shawl on Tuesday with the exception of blocking.  I used all but 14 inches for my yarn, a total of 720 yarn was used for this shawl.  I know I have never used that much yardage in 2 weeks - my new record in knitting.  The picture is after I finished the ribbed border.  I highly recommend this pattern if you are looking for a big cozy shawl to wrap up in.

 

 

Since I'm in-between Camp Loopy Projects I revisited my Socks on a Plane.  Only a couple more inches of the leg and I can call these done.

 

 

My yarn came on Wednesday for my Camp Loopy Project #3.  I will be knitting Elfe using Smooshy from Dream in Colors.  The colors are Butter Peeps and Malibu Sail.

 

 

Take a minute and stop over at Patchwork Times and see what others have on their Needles.

 

 

Mary

Weaving on Wednesday - July 15, 2015

Been a little bit since I have done any weaving but back at the loom today.

 

More than a month ago I started a plaid plain weave scarf done in 3 shades of orange.  Normally I have a sticky note pad with any notes of how I started and a count on how many inches I have woven.  Can't find the pad, so I'm guessing. I'll just weave in color sequence until the end but then I will have to unroll to see how I did the hem stitch and how many rows I wove in the beginning.

 

 

Should be finishing up today then on to twisting the fringe.

 

 

Happy Wednesday!

Mary



On the Needles Friday - July 10, 2015

I'm making great progress on my Camp Loopy Project #2 - Campside Shawl.  I really have fallen in love with this yarn (Mrs Crosby Carpet Bag), it is so soft I can hardly wait to wrap up in this shawl.

I finished the 3rd set of charts today with one more set to go before the ribbing.  I am finding the pattern easy to follow but I was a little apprehensive before I started knitting it because of the comments is Raverly but happy I am making it.

 

 

Take a minute and stop over at Patchwork Times and see what others have on their Needles.

 

 

Mary

On the Needles Friday - July 3, 2015

Once again it's been awhile since I posted anything on my blog but here I am again.

 

On the needles now is my Camp Loopy Project #2 - Campside Shawl.  I am using Mrs. Croby's Carpet Bag yarn, love the feel of this yarn and gives great stitch definition to the garment.  This morning I finished the first set of eyelet charts and moved on to the next set.

 

 

Last Sunday I finished Project #1 - Dream Stripes.  I liked the pattern except that I am not happy with how each row starts with a slip stitch, it seems to pull too much with the color change every other row but blocking helped.  For this shawl I used Lorna Lace's Shepherd Sock (Andersonville) and white Loopy Solid Series yarn.

 

 

Take a minute and stop over at Patchwork Times and see what others have on their Needle.

 

 

Mary

On the Needles Friday - April 24,2015

WARNING!

This post contains some seriously white legs.

 

Making progress on my Loopy Academy projects this past week.  I started my Clog-n-Soc last week.  The felting is done, it took 3 trips through my front-load washer to loose almost all of the stitch definition.  They still feel big around the foot but my guess after they are washed a couple more times they will tighten up.  First picture is before felting and the second is after.  The only thing left to knit on them is about 5 - 6 inches of sock.

 

This morning I started Sleeves for my striped project.  I have wanted to knit Sleeves for along time, I think this sweater will be very well used now that we are entering the A/C season.

 

 

I finished my socks last week for the slipped-stitch project - Dalekanium.  The pattern is easy to knit up but the socks are still a little bigger than I like with even going down a size.

 

 

Take a minute and stop over at Patchwork Times and see what others have on their Needle.

 

Mary

On the Needles Friday - March 27, 2015

Been along time but I am now feverishly working on my Semester 2 Loopy Academy Projects.

 

My first project I started is Dalekanium socks for my Slipped Stitch Project.   Love the pattern, simple to follow but if you decide to knit it knits up big.  This is my second start for the socks, I chose the size according to my foot but ended up way to large so after 4 inches I restarted with smaller size and a much better fit.  The yarn is Zitron Trekking, love the little pools of color.

 

 

For my Striped Project I will knitting Sleeves by Martina Behm.  The yarn is Loopy Solid Series in Caramel, Lake, Ice, Silver Sage, Apricot and Strawberry.  I've been looking at this pattern for awhile, thought Sleeves would be great for those cool summer nights or indoors when hubby has the air too low.

 

And for my Felted Project I will be knitting Adult Clog-n-Soc by Bekah Knits.  I am using Cascade 220  in Turtle and Pumpkin Spice and 220 Superwash in White for the sock part.  Hope these turn out and I will definitely be making more for next winter.

 

Take a minute and stop over at Patchwork Times and see what others have on their Needle.

 

Mary