Wednesday's Fun Project!

My friends and I meet every Wednesday to knit and chat, we have so much fun together. For this week we were able to talk our friend Cally into teaching us how to make her great project bags.

I love the two bags I made! I already have my projects in the one and the other is waiting for me to pick it up and put my knitting in it.

My friend Cheryl's bag turned out so adorable also, she has an Airedale and the fabric has Airedales on it. I have linked her bag on here for you to see, actually you should read her Blog as it is very fun and interesting.

Some of us were a bit challenged in the sewing department, don't worry Stephanie I won't mention any names. There was an excuse offered as to why this person was unable prepare for our class. The excuse was that her dogs ate the instructions for the prep work of the bag, the only problem is the accused dog is a teacup chihuahua. LOL We did not buy it! Anyway, Stephanie was our hostess with the most est, so in the end Cally made a bag for her.

Susan made a really cute bag too, although I have no picture of it. Poor Judy was not able to sew her bag together because her sewing machine was on the blink, she spent the whole time trying to get the tension corrected and finally gave up.

My latest HEADACHE Shawl!!!

My friend, Cally, is a very experienced lace knitter, she is really a natural when it comes to lace, and I have been working on a KAL Shawl called "Gail Nightsongs". I suggest to anyone reading this, as well as their friends and friends friends, to NOT make this shawl. While it is simply gorgeous, it is equally confusing and difficult!

I would have given up many times on this project had it not been for my slave driving friend! She has been figuring out the very poorly written pattern the whole way, and now is working on her edges. I am fortunate enough to be able to glean from her hard work and just knit whatever she tells me will work. LOL Even with that being the case I have made too many mistakes for my liking, but I will persevere and someday finish this blasted shawl, or I will die trying.

I must offer my most sincere thanks to Cally as she carries most of the headache for me to be able to do this shawl. :)

Sorry about the poor pictures, the shawl is not big enough to really get a good photo. Also I believe the varigated yarn does not help, I have posted a picture of it with filtered sun so you are able to see the true colors of my yarn.

Yarn is Panda Silk made by Crystal Palace and may be purchased at Daily Fiber Yarn. I am intending to use 3 skeins.

Baby Girl Sweater Finished!

I am finally finished, I have even woven in the ends on this beautiful little sweater. The pattern is so simple and turns out lovely. I will be shipping it off to my friend for his new little girl.

Ruffled Rose Scarf

Some of my friends and I are working on a group KAL project together, we selected a beautiful ruffled rose scarf pattern we saw at our local yarn shop, Daily Fiber Yarn Company. We are using the Berrocco Vintage Wool yarns in green and natural white and ONline Linie 194 Solo Ruffle Yarn in Red. The pattern is very simple and the results are stunning. Here is my progress so far.

Baby Girl 's Sweater

I have a friend whose first baby girl was born on July 4th of this year, I have been working on a sweater for her. I used the softest yarn I have ever felt, it is made by Plymouth Yarn.



It is Baby Alpaca Worsted Paint, total luxury and can be purchased through WEBS online.

You must check out the Webs site, you will find the most amazing deals on yarns, as well as patterns for knitting and crocheting.



This sweater is such an easy pattern as it has NO seaming...yeah! It is an easy knit item and I can even knit on it at my group without having to go home and tear out mistakes made due to my chatting with my friends. : ) The cable is so easy and really is lovely when it is completed.

I think I am going to try to modify this pattern for an adult size. I really love the yarn and the pattern of this sweater.


More to come soon when I am finished with this item.

FINISHED!!!!

I am finally posting pictures of my finished wrap made from the various yarns that I posted about previously. It turned out fairly well, is a bit bright which is perfect for cooler summer evenings and is soooo soft! I need to find a brooch for this wrap, so I will keep my eyes open at the Thrift and Antique Shops I visit.

Today I was viewing my friend Cheryl's blog and became really inspired when I saw her Magic Yarn Shawl she completed. It turned out beautifully, and completely inspired me to pull out some of my yarns that I have been intending to use for a Magic something.

Here are the different yarns I started with. I really could not capture the true color of the yarn in the middle, it is a beautiful dusty sage green, very soft and a bit fuzzy but not too much so. The yellow/green one below it is my least favorite, however while selecting the yarns I noticed it made the whole thing POP. The solid Teal yarn is actually cashmere, I love this soft yarn but did not buy enough to make anything with it, so it got added to this project. The one on the upper left corner is a type of ribbon yarn with a slight metallic thread running through it, not very pretty on its own but nice with the other yarns. I used the cashmere together with the crazy looking yarn at the top, it is a very strange yarn but looks great with the cashmere. Finally the middle yarn on the right I used by itself and seems to break up the bulkiness of the whole grouping.

I started a pattern for a wrap that I received from a really neat yarn shops in Riverside, California called DESIGNER HAND KNITS.
The owner and staff are very helpful, and they have a small wall of pull-out containers of clearance yarns like the ones I used in this project. Here are a couple of pictures of what I have completed so far. More to come when it is completed.