Bits and Pieces

Here are a few pictures of some recent goings on in my knitting world.

Here's a scarf that I finished. It was my standby 15x15 scarf with boucle yarn.

After I finished that I decided to try a patterned scarf so I'm doing two scarves with a ribbed pattern. They're both just knit 3, purl 3 with a total of 21 stitches on a row. I'm using size ten needles with worst weight on one and size 8 needles with cotton worsted on the other. Here's the cotton yarn.

I really like working with it, which is good since I bought such a HUGE thing. I originally envisioned myself making dishcloths for people, but I actually think I'll use it to tackle my first ever blanket.

The day after Thanksgiving I went to Hobby Lobby and bought two sets of circular needles and some great neutral tones of yarn so I could make some scarves for my boys. Here's the beginnings of a scarf for my son. I decided to use the circular needles so I could get some practice. I'm not using a pattern -- just knitting every row and I'll stop when it's a good size.

I've finally done this enough to know that I really enjoy it and I don't feel bad about building up a stash of yarns and patterns. I can always find a few minutes a day, and I've gotten enough practice that a few minutes can actually yield a good amount of progress. Knitting is cool!

Bah -- my computer is being weird and won't upload the pictures. I'll try again with them tomorrow. :-)

Finally!

Yep, I'm finally at it again! This is my Thanksgiving Break and I vowed to finish up a couple of projects and get going with the whole knitting thing again. I finished the red and black scarf for my daughter and put together a lime green one for myself. I also decided to do some scarves for the boys so I bought a HUGE thing of variegated blue cotton yarn and will get those started soon. I found a skein of really cool blues and greens that I had and am working on a ribbed scarf out of that. I'll probably give it to a niece for Christmas . . . or maybe a friend. Who knows?

It's funny how I set this aside when life gets busy. It really doesn't take a lot of effort to pick up a bag with needles and yarn and take it along when you go somewhere. I finally did buy a "to go" bag so I can carry smaller projects along with me.

I'll put some pictures up soon. I can't find my camera (don't ask) so I'll have to use my daughter's. But I'll post pictures of my new bag, some finished projects, and the ribbed scarf in the making. I think I may challenge myself to a larger project too. Maybe an afghan? That would require the purchase of some new needles, but I'm always up for that!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I'll see you soon! With pictures!!!

Someone HELP me!

So... I think I have a real problem! I at least recognize it and wanted to share this with all of you. These pictures are not staged and that's why I think that I truly have a problem... Why I need all the yarn on the bed (who am I kidding... this isn't all my yarn)... I don't know... but I figured you all might could relate! LOL! Check these out: NOTE: What I think I'm going to do with the laptop while I knit, I DO not know! LOL! ENJOY!

Here are my latest.. these are contributions to our church bazaar for this weekend... I'm not very generous! I want to keep everything I knit!

This is my favorite one and I really hate parting with it. I hope it finds a good home! LOL!

Here's a close up... this was made of hot pink, red and burgandy variegated cheap "Red Heart" yarn coupled with a nice same sort of color ribbon yarn that I got for a steal from one of our church members who was going to sell it in our bazaar.

This is one of the scarves I knitted for our church bazaar (sp?) this weekend... it's pink and white cotton variegated! I thought it turned out ok for a "run of the mill" scarf!