FO time!!!

Guess what!

My Bulky IHS is allllllllllll done!


I wore it to work today and I am so glad I had it.... it was like 10 degrees out, brrr!!!


I am pretty happy with it... could have stood to have it a little longer, but I ran out of yarn :)

Also finished is my beautiful pair of fetching, made from dream in color:


Gorgeous! I want to keep them for myself!!! hmm I do have plenty of yarn left...Maybe ill make some more! :D


Hope everyone else survived getting back to work!

Yarn yarn yarn yarn

So the best Christmas present of all was the opening of a LYS in Fort Wayne... we had been without one for many many months after the closing of Cass Street Depot. But So far, "Knitting off Broadway" seems to be a hit!!!!

I bought some Cashsoft for fetching or other gifts:


And some of this "Burly Spun" from the Brown sheep company, hopefully to make one of the Yarn Harlot's unoriginal hats:


Woot!!!! It is so nice to be able to get fancy yarn and not have to pay shipping again!

I also got a skein of Dream in Color Classy (colorway "Spring Tickle") through Designated Knitter so we can knit gifts for our coworker who bought us lunch:


I am making fetching gloves obviously... its just such an easy & pretty pattern, I guess you can tell I like it! (How many have I made now???) So pretty.... I <3 Dream in Color!

I also got some yarn using a Christmas giftcard I got for Michaels. I got some Bernat bamboo naturals in a light green:


(Sorry it's hard to see the color!)

and also some more Patons SWS because who doesnt love it!!!! This colorway is "Natural Earth":


WHEW!!! So much yarn lately. Well its a good thing that my fiance HAND BUILT me my very own...


YARN CABINET THING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! whoooooooo!!!!

He is so sweet, and the handiest of handymen for sure. Isn't it beautiful??? Better than anything I could ever buy in a store. :-) He bought all the cool little storage boxes for it too. (Of course I added all my yarn soon after he unveiled it lol)

What a good Christmas!!!!!!!! Hope everyone else had a happy one too!
From, Me and the Penguin

Whew

Hey all! Sorry I haven't posted... it's been crazy busy.

I have to finish a pair of fetching by this weekend, but I am 70 percent done, so that shouldn't be a problem. Havent worked on much else though... eek! One of my coworkers just had her baby, so now that I know that it's a boy I can start knitting blue things! :D

Labor day weekend was very fun, I got to go up to a friend's lake on saturday, and got to lay around and be a bum, and get ice cream, and do many fun things! I just wish I had a "real" job so I wouldn't have to worry about making up the lost hours this week... bleh.

Let's see, what else is going on? Well partially why I haven't knitted much is I have been playing computer games again... I had a 10 day free trial for WoW: burning crusade (If you dont know what that is, then congrats: you're not a nerd), so I decided to go ahead and activate it this last weekend... so gotta get my playing in while it's still free! lol.

So now that you all know how much of a huge dork I am, I better get back to work. LOL.

Have a good week!

Fetchingly FO

Finished my latest Fetching!

Turned out pretty nicely...


Still need to block them so the ends don't curl so much.



Woo hoo! Now.. what's next... baby blanket perhaps?

Skully

The recipient of the skull scarf liked it a lot!!! Evidenced by this picture of her wearing the (wool) scarf in 90 degree heat!


Also, got started on a pair of fetching, and I am already halfway done! Here's my finished glove and the start of the second one:


You will notice they look a lot like another blue fetching I made... which they should because it's the same yarn! I love Sublime... cashmere and silk and merino... mmmmmm!

Brrrrrr

Man it has been COLD! I guess when winter wanted to come, it came on strong.

First off: Congrats to the Indianapolis Colts for winning the Superbowl! Heres a picture of me and my friend Alicia at a superbowl party....

We still get along even though her bears lost! ;-)

OK - On to knitting! I FINALLY got Cynthia's fetching gloves done, which I hadn't blogged about because I wanted them to be a surprise. She was surprised!!!!! (and loves them... she wore them all day, even though they still need to be blocked:)

I used the leftover blue Sublime and leftover Cashsoft DK that I had. I really like how my random striping pattern worked out. :-D

Oh, and I am knitting a ribbed hat for my neighbor:


Not much to look at now, but im adding a stripe in a minute!

OK, stay warm everyone....

Misc stuff

I almost forgot to say that I finished the pair of blue fetching gloves for my coworker! Here is a pic of them almost done (sorry don't have a completed pic):

They turned out very nice... really really soft. I used a yarn called Sublime. It has some silk in it, which I think is why it's super luxurious, even more so than the Cashsoft DK. :-)

AND I finished that purple chenille scarf for Megan, and gave it to her just tonight - she loved it!!!!
A really quick knit, and easy! Just CO 10 sts on US15 needles and basically used the whole skein(no fringe). I don't know the brand of yarn, it was a gift from Jessica.

Oh, and I forgot to share, Cynthia invented the coolest thing ever: swatching at work! LOL... I had knit a swatch for my upcoming hourglass sweater, and she grabbed it, went into the bathroom, got it wet, and then at my desk we did this:


Pushpins! Genius, no? That's why she is the most smartest. :-) (the yarn is Knit One, Crochet Too's 'Parfait Solids')

OK well thats it for now, hope everyone has a good rest of their weekends.

Woot!

I went to the yarn store today!!!!!!!!!!! With Cynthia and Angela. Mmmm, yarn. I did good though, I only bought yarn I needed to make gifts for others. :)


A ball of cascade 220 to make a hat for my neighbor, and two balls of deliciously soft Sublime yarn (Cashmere merino silk aran) to make a pair of fetching for a coworker... we are all knitting something for her since she had to put her dog down this week. :( Poor girl, i know what that feeling is like. (Since my dog went earlier last year).

Anyways, happy tuesday, hope everyone's having a good week so far!

Almost forgot:

I made this ballband dishcloth real quick the other week for my friend Alicia. She picked out the colors from my cotton stash, and it knit up pretty darn fast. Just forgot to post it. I did give it to her as an xmas present, so I guess it counts as Christmas knitting that's done. Woot!


Not bad, eh? I also cast on for another dishcloth last night. I hope to have it done by Saturday so I can give it to my Aunt as a xmas gift, especially since she's my godmother and gets ME a present every Christmas.

I checked on my blocking items this morning, the scarf feels dry already, the gloves a bit damp still. Ill leave the gloves sit until this weekend, but I might unpin the scarf tonight so I can add fringe. Mom requested some!!!! I mentioned maybe making a hat out of the other skein, but she didn't seem too interested. She said I could save it to make something else. Now there's a Christmas present! haha.

I was over at my parents' last night to help bake cookies for the party this weekend. It was tiring! Got a bunch done though. (Also ATE a bunch... ugh too much sugar...) I haven't eaten any candy or anything yet today, so yay for me.

Oh, and I have the first green stripe done on the yellow side of my baby hat! I totally am going to get it done in time. What a relief! :-)

OK, back to work (hah)... good luck everyone with your own Christmas knitting. :)

In your FACE, christmas knitting!!!!!

Look!!!!! What's that??? Mark one item off the christmas knitting list!!!! WOOO! Got my mom's scarf DONE.... look at that baby. Awesome. It only used one skein of Manos! So the other skein could maybe become a hat???? We will see.
Check out that sweet progress on my baby hat! Done with the green, and halfway with the yellow! I totally am going to have it done by Saturday. (yeah... I hope!)


Surprise! Remember these? Fetching! I had them done months ago... Its nice to have had one christmas thing done, but next year I need to do that with MORE... heh heh. Anyhoo, giving them a block so the top ends don't curl. I also stuck some highlighters in the thumb holes to try and help shape them.... weird, probably, but I thought it would work.




While I am on my blocking frenzy, I got mom's scarf blocking too!


I considerately pointed out my tools of the trade for blocking. ;-) It looks pretty good! Finished blocking dimensions are 4 1/2 inches by 58 1/2 inches. Perfect! Love that Manos del Uruguay yarn. If anyone else wants to make one, I just cast on 20 stitches and did k1, p1 ribbing. Thats it! Easy as... a scarf. Heh.

SO! Now to finish the baby hat, and if I am really crazy, do some more dishcloths or another pair of fetching. (But that's just nuts! :-))