Saturday, February 26, 2011

I Can Wait

    BLUE BIRD STITCH MARKERS


I've had my eye on this little bird.  I think he is so cheerful! It is a set of stitch markers I found at patternworks.com.  It is not available until March 15th, I can wait

Each day, I look outside my living room window, I see a bluebird (bluejay) and a red bird (cardinal) hanging in the tree branches, Spring is right around the corner, I can wait.

I was trying to find project ideas to offer a Knit-a-long.  I thought of  Christmas Ornaments.  When I went on Ravelry, I searched and found a monthly christmas ornament group!  I joined! Then I saw this bluebird ornament pattern.  I had to make it.


It's kinda cute, but needs a few modifications, Like the beak, and the eyes, I'll make a few more. I also think I will make some in red for the cardinal in my yard.   The next one will be better. I can wait.

What are you waiting for?

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

How come I have no knitting done....



Sometimes I feel like I get nothing accomplished because nothing seems to get finished and when it does it is slightly uneventful as I have been working on it for so long. The actual time on a project is not long but, I jump from one project to the next so often that they stay on the needles for months. So, what have I been doing with my time. 

There are the things to do while resting from knitting.  Just made a run to the bookstore and bought the new issues of Knitting Traditions and Piecework.  I love to read about the history of knitting and look at the old patterns from around the world.  Of course doing this gets me thinking about new projects instead of working on the current ones.

 I've also been knitting a pattern for a baby sweater that my grandmother wrote.  The sweater is simple, athe body is all on piece and you pick up stitches to add sleeves. The pattern is clearly just scribbled and guesses are to be made.  She new the pattern by heart and wrote it for someone else to use but at some points in the pattern the directions conflict for example when you start working on the front, you work on the right side firts.  I started with 21 stitches on the needle.  the pattern knit across row to last 5 stiches do a bar increase to make and eyelet.  Continue, increasing on each knit row until you have 12 eyelet, making 30 stitches on the needle.  Adding 12 to the exsisting 21 does not make 30.  Thats okay, I just added 9 eyelets to equal 30 stitches.  I continue through the pattern and start working the other front side.  I do the increases (I'll make 9 eyelets)  and start to notice that the sweater fronts aren't wide enough to meet up and button. Drats,  I will now be frogging the sweater back to the neck line.  I will then add 12 eyelets which will give me 33 stitches on the needle and my fronts will be able to button. 

I have to admit, it is fun doing this pattern and trying to decide what grandma is saying. I had 50/50 shot that increase to 30 stitches would have been correct.  No matter how you look at it I still have the fun of have needles and yarn in my hands...........I just don't have any finishd projects to show.  So what you see today.  The magazines I'm reading and the sweater I'll be frogging.   What keeps you from finishing a project?

Saturday, February 12, 2011

What do you HEART?

I Heart Irisheyesknitters
I Heart my Family
I Heart my Yarn
I Heart my Friends
I Heart my New laptop
I Heart Saturdays Off

What do you Heart?

Happy Valentines Weekend!!!!!

Thursday, February 3, 2011

We Interrupt Your Day.......

If your going to get to know me and follow my blog, I should tell you this up front.  I watch daytime TV.  Some of you might do the same, Oprah, The View, the News then the Soaps. I keep track of the ABC soaps and the Young and The Restless.  Even if I don't watch them, the TV is on and they are playing in the background while I knit. I think the reason I am a little out of sorts today is for the last 2 days, the networks keep interrupting my regular schedule with their not so breaking news.  It snowed alot, okay a blizzard and it's cold.  Very, Very, cold.  But do they really need to keep telling me. Honestly, If I'm home, I'm not out there dealing with the elements.  And if I'm outside, I can't watch the TV and hear what they have to say about. In the meantime, I find it very hard to get anything done and I hardly know what time it is without my shows on.  Give us the news in the morning and then keep with your regular scheduled programming so I can keep to my regular schedule.  Phew, thanks for letting me vent. maybe now I can get back to knitting.  Has your daily schedule been interrupted by this storm?

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Instant Gratification........

Sometimes you just need a quick fix, to just say you finished something.  Well, this scarf was the perfect get done quick fix.  It is the Marian Scarf found on Ravelry.  It uses Twinkle yarn by Classic Elite, which took a few phone calls to find and uses #19 24" circular needles.  I used Addi Turbos.  It took me all of 2 hours to get done.  My daughter is the model in this picture. Do you have any quick knit projects on your needles?  If your experiencing the Monster Storm, today could be a good day to work on it. Now onto my next project....

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