You can't see the really beautiful cable/lace details on this sweater, but I posted better pictures of that before. What you can see here is how great the fit is, and how the neckline is wearable. It's a little tighter than I envisioned, but as pretty as the open boat neck looked, it wasn't very practical. This is a sweater I can wear...a lot (thanks for the yarn, Mom!).
A slightly larger and more gender-neutral version of the pink and purple sweater modeled by Noelle. I'm almost finished with this and then it will be off to Dream In Color. On the one hand, I'm awful tired of all this garter stitch, but it is nice how quickly these suckers knit up. I'm almost (almost) tempted to knit up the adult versions, too. We'll see...
When you're a recipient of my knitting, it's apparently feast or famine. Another little project for Doug (I've got yarn for the rest of the family, too). Now that it's finally starting to feel like fall my attention has turned to making sure everyone has their extremities covered.
So....I knew when I started these that the skein is notoriously short on yardage. And I warned Doug about that when he chose this yarn for his socks. Trying to outsmart the yarn (and his ridiculously large feet), I started these from the toe, figuring at least they'd fit his feet and I'd cross the leg bridge when I came to it. Well, I'm at it. By weight, it appears as though I've reached the halfway point of my skein. This sock is going onto a holder while I start the next sock, then I can divvy up the remaining yarn and see how much of a leg I really get.
We don't have many traditions in our young family, but our Columbus Day trip to the pumpkin patch is something I really look forward to all year. It's actually an apple orchard (Honey Hill Orchard) in Waterman, IL. We go on Columbus Day because Doug has the day off and we can take advantage of the lighter Monday crowd. We harvest the pumpkins ourselves, then stop by the barn to pick up apples, cider, doughnuts and honey. The crop this year was totally awesome! Usually the pumpkins are fairly picked over by Monday, but it appears as though they doubled the size of their patch this year. We came home with about 80 lbs worth of pumpkins!
If you have a hobby you love but things like life tend to stand in the way of your ability to participate in that hobby, I suggest involving your children in that hobby. If your genetic influence is strong enough, they may even become nearly as enthusiastic about said hobby as you are. Case in point, Jackson has mastered the knit stitch and does enjoy sitting and knitting with me for a few minutes at a time. Noelle doesn't quite have the fine motor skills required for knitting, yet, but I found a way to plant the seeds: dyeing yarn with kool-aid! That's right, turning her into a fiber junky before she even knows what to do with it.
I've been absent for so long because we had the first day of school this week. You would think with both the kids in preschool I would have plenty of time for blogging, but I've been knitting, instead.
I know, I know, it seems like I only knit for Noelle. This is another pattern that will be available from Dream In Color soon. It's currently in the works in adult sizes, too. I will have many more finished objects to display soon!
Here is the Socialist sweater I was working on. The pattern will be available via Dream In Color Yarn in the near future. I have one on the needles now for Jackson in blue and purple.
I don't remember the last time I had kool-aid. But I took a class last Sunday about how to use it to dye yarn. You see two skeins of sock-weight here. No idea what I'm going to do with them, yet. Ideas?
