New fun going on!

While I am still knitting on my sweater made with Molly, and my new knitting class of squares for an afghan there is more fun to be had!

We are having a yarn crawl this weekend, Sept 26-29th.  We have four days to visit all of the participating yarn shops/fiber stores in San Diego County!  My friend Tammy and I have been planning this weekend for weeks.  It is our Birthday weekend.

First we are dying our hair, hers will be purple and mine will be blue (of course).  Then we have mapped out all the stores by days so we will get to them all.  Except for Sunday when we will go to church, have a pot luck there and them Cake and Ice cream at her house after.  My birthday is the 28th and hers is the 30th.  (Sunday is in the middle so a great day to celebrate!

I have never done a yarn crawl before and am looking forward to it!  Pictures to follow for all to see.

Working on an Afghan for a hand knitting class

I signed up for a hand knitting class this semester.  I have wanted to do this for a long time.  I just kept putting it off, and now that I have someone who wants to take it with me, I am taking the plunge.

The project for the class is a pattern stitch Afghan.  Which means it is 42 squares in different pattern stitches put together to make an afghan.  I haven't even got to go to the class yet. But my friend Kelly did and brought me the directions and I have started knitting the squares.  We are 5 squares behind.  I missed the first week because I was still working and then my dr's appointment was last Wednesday.

The idea is to knit 2 squares a week to keep up with the class.  That is fine, except I am also going to spin all the yarn that it will take to make this thing.  I have so much wool and it is silly not to use it.  Besides, when I am done it will be very special indeed. 

I am spinning Isabella (Columbia Sheep) and plying it with "Cotton"  (Moreno).  It should be pretty cozy.  They are both white, really a cream color and it will show the stitch definition really well.

This is the first square.  Four more to finish by Wednesday.  I probably will not catch up the first week.  I will just plug away until I am caught up.

Knitting the Circumnavigated Cardigan!

     This has been such a fun summer.  First off I got to go back to work at the Races so that was fun.  Getting to see all the people I have worked with before and a few new ones.  It was a pretty uneventful season and went way too fast!

     Then we started knitting the Circumnavigated Cardigan as a knit-a-long with my spinning group so I was truly motivated to finish one I had started two years ago.  I did finish it and am moving right along on my new one started this summer.

     The first one was knitted out of Encore, an acrylic/wool blend that I truly love to knit with.  It is machine washable and always looks great.  I usually make the kids slipper socks out of it.  This one was a tweed in Navy Blue. 

 

The new one I am knitting is from Molly's Wool and I am spinning the yarn as I go.  I have part of it done and love the way it is turning out. 

 

The knitting went slowly because it is so much finer that the yarn I used in the first one, but then it will be a lighter weight sweater.  The thing is it is wool so it will be warm.  It does get cold enough to wear this at sometime during the winter so I will enjoy it when that happens. 

 

I did work on a third sweater this summer that I started sometime last year.  It is all kinds of yarn put together to make a stripped sweater that is knit sideways.  I am not sure it will fit me, but it will fit someone.

 

That was pretty much it for now.  I am taking a hand knitting class this semester so I can learn to do better.  We are knitting 42 different stitch patterns in squares and then putting them together in an afghan.  I am using My Isabella's wool plied with My little Moreno "Cotton"  Should be pretty. We have to knit two blocks a week so I will probably struggle to keep up.