Just joined the Walker Treasury Project. This is an effort to knit up color swatches of all the Barbara Walker patterns. It's a huge effort and very cool. Click on the logo to check this out.

Knitting

 

Next to horses, knitting is probably my best loved thing to do! Here are some of the latest projects.

I have been knitting up a storm and even have been doing some design work!

I made a hat/neckwarmer combo that I think are really cute and also did some socks. I need to write up the sock and neckwarmer patterns and get them out there.

I have been very poor at updating recently. Let's just say that life has been BUSY! But here's the latest stuff! My standing work in progress got bumped by my mom's scarf and the scarf for ride to life. For the next couple of weeks, I am going to focus on wrapping up some of these back-burnered projects.

 

Lacunae Hat - Anne Hanson

This is a quick fun hat! Very easy knit and makes a very stretchy and warm hat! Isn't the model the cutest thing?

Started: January 25, 2010
Finished: January 31
Pattern: Lacunae Hat - Anne Hanson
Yarn: Fiberphiles Merino Nylon sock - Black Forest
Needles: US #6 Addi Circs

Baltic Blossoms - Evelyn Clark

One of Evelyn's Clarks beautiful patterns done in Fiberphiles Super Squish - Dark Copper Rose. A fun and quick knit. I need to get some better pics, because these aren't doing justice to the pattern or the yarn! Pointy needles are a must for the nupps.

Started: January 1, 2010
Finished: Late January 2010
Pattern: Baltic Blossoms by Evelyn Clark
Yarn: Fiberphiles Super Squish sock - Deep Copper Rose
Needles: US #3 Addi Turbos and Addi Lace Needles

Maelstrom Socks - Cookie A

I am going to do these toe-up for a fiberphiles KAL. Gorgeous yarn. I actually couldn't finish in time for the KAL, but will wrap these up over the next couple of weeks. I thought it was cool that they are oak colored! LOL I actually frogged these and restarted from the cuff. I was trying to reverse engineer them for toe up and it was NOT working! Updated pics later. These are very nice socks and I love the yarn.

These socks are hibernating right now, but I will be picking them back up soonish.

FINALLY Finished! Very cute and snuggly.

These are obviously just started!


Cat Bordhi's Whirlpool Toe


Goofy progress pic. Yarn color in detail photo is more accurate.


Started: April 17
Finished: December 2009
Pattern: Maelstrom by Cookie A
Yarn: Fiberphiles Squooshy Sock colorway burnt orange
Needles: #2.0 mm Addis

Palimpsest

Another fabulous Anne Hanson Pattern. This is done in Perchance to Knit laceweight - color way Harlot Peacock or something like that. It's gorgeous yarn, hard to photograph to best advantage.

Slow but steady progress. I was working from the pattern text, but switched to the chart - WAAAAAAY faster. I have some mistakes in the first section, but I don't want to frog again, so I think they will stay put as a monument to imperfection.

July - Hibernating. Look for a fall-ish pickup.

 

Started: December 2008
Finished:
Pattern: Anne Hanson Palimpsest
Yarn: Perchance to Knit laceweight
Needles: #5 Aluminums

My Own Vest

This is a sideways vest I am working on. The yarn is Great Adirondack Homespun 50/50 Silk/wool. It is scrumptious to the touch and the eye. I have had it for a while, but could never quite decide what it wanted to be. After I knit the sideways vest for Peg last year, I decided that a variation on that vest would be perfect for this yarn.

This is the first half of a front to back piece. I will knit the second half with a slightly smaller armhole and an inch or so more length in the body and then will have to reknit this half! Sheesh! But that's okay because I am writing this one up and it will give me more chances to capture the whole thing. (See below for comparison)

9/5 Funnily enough, the picture I took this am of this vest looks almost exactly the same as the pic below, only the vest is about 2" longer and the picture isn't very good. So I left this one up. I got a lot done even though it doesn't look like it!

9/20 ummm stalled. I need to get back to work on this. Weather is cooling off!

9/27 Got quite a bit done! Finishing the second front, then will probably pin out and block lightly before sewing up and putting the edge details on. I love the how the texture is popping.

4/26 - snoozing.


So this is version 2, slightly longer - you can compare to the old version below, which would have been too cropped IMO. I hope I allowed enough space for the armscye. I am a little worried about it!

The blue marker is the underarm "seam". This is the wickerwork pattern from BW#1 and it gives just a little drawing in at the underarm and provides a bit of shape to the garment.

Started: June 2008
Finished:
Pattern: My own
Yarn: Great Adirondack Homespun
Finished size: This will be a medium
Needles: #6 Addi circs