Finis!

Bloom is done!

My daughter's favorite color is green. She actually picked out this yarn before we decided what to make out of it. I thought Bloom would make a good choice to show off those varigations.










I think it's pretty cool :)












And here's another teacher scarf I finished.

Bloomin' knits

Here's progress on Bloom. It's coming along and I love the slow color changes. It's been sitting under the end table all summer, but now that it's chilling off outside I figured I'd better get busy on it.









Here's a tube sock I'm making for Caitie, too. Super easy to make.


and here's a scarf I just finished. What a great deal this is. The yarn is Feza Fiona, it does that all by itself, and there's enough in a $7.00 ball to make 2 scarves. It's just garter stitch on size 13 needles. Voila! Teacher gift!

One down, 12 to go.

Here's another ball in shades of brown. My local yarn store Stitches 'n Scones, only had these 2 colors in so far, they were samples, but they're supposed to be getting more.

Destiny?

I have this yarn...

And I can't figure out what it wants to be.

See here is the story: last summer I was dyeing yarn and my then 7 year old daughter wanted to "help." Figuring I knew what kind of help she would give me, I ended up giving her this super fine, greyish whiteish blah wool yarn that I was given that I didn't think I'd ever use.

I really expected her to make something that turned out brown. But no, she made this fabulous, gorgeous blue/green yarn. Now I wish it had been something useful.

So, now what do I do with it? DD can knit, but she's never going to knit with laceweight yarn. There's no nylon in it so I really don't want to make socks out of it. I'm stumped.







Speaking of socks...

Here's where I am now on my current sock. This is the first one. The yarn is Lana Grossa Meilenweit Fantasy (4750). I kind of based them on Thuja but my gauge is much smaller, so they're modified a great deal.

I love them. They make me hope it gets cold soon so I can wear my new woolen socks. With my Birks. I might even finish the second one for the occasion.

STRIPES!

The striped sweater is finished!



I designed and knit this sweater last year, and loved it, except that I didn't like how the ribbing around the arms came out. My tubular bind off sucked and the ribbing was too short. I think I wore it twice and then stuffed it away.


It is a huge PITA to take out tubular bind off, by the way. But I got it out on one side, and then I needed those needles for soakers and then I (avoided) didn't get around to finishing the darned thing because I was dreading taking out the second side.



Here it is finally finished, though. I love it :)