Birthday Time

Yes, I am thirty two. It is time to show you what I have scooped.
Future projects that will be started soon.


#1 Wool for A mobius basket from my mom. Colours match decor, and new technique will be a notch on the belt. I plan to buy ivy for displaying.







#2 Silk fingerless gloves from my sister. I will find useful for those days in spring when the breeze bites the backs of hands. Very fashonable with the youngins.




#3 Lots of retro velour from my sister-in-law. I plan to use for a shady hamock shawl. Perfect for those sunburn lazy days. I will have to find a book report.





~Daughter #2

Unravelling thoughts

There is only one solution for knitting trauma...aka the lumpy mitt thing, and that is to go shopping. I had heard of this store in another town so on Saturday I ventured forth in the sunshine to "check it out". Well, it was a bit of a hole in the wall but the lady was very nice and we had a chat. A lot of the stock was mill ends and I did find a bag with about 2500 yds. of 90%wool 10% angora, lace weight for $8.00!! She had cones of the stuff. all the same colour a medium aqua. Hmmmm Now I have to come up with something to do with it. Oh and I got 2 ginormous cones of white #10 crochet cotton. I have ordered my self Marianne Kinzel's 2 books on lace knitting. I had them once but lord knows where they went. I want to knit a tea cloth for my circular table. I had intended to buy #20 but all she had was #10 and all that for $10.00. so I will just use a 3mm needle. Tension is not a criteria with a tea cloth.

The Celtic stole is finished! Well, the body of it anyway and I have picked up all the stitches all the way around and will now start to knit the border watch the bar for progress. No sense in showing a picture at this stage it just looks like a big pile of "wrinkle."

The new Vogue knitting is out with the sweetest little sweater on the front. I am going to check my stash I think I have some bamboo that is aran weight..maybe not. Why oh why do they knit these things with aran? What is wrong with dk? .....I just checked the bamboo yarn it says 4.5 to a 5 mm needle but they say 27 stitches. Nuts whatever that is. Then I found some Punto that is lime green and white, not sure it it will be too busy but I will throw on a swatch. The picture doesn't do the yarn justice.

Monday morning calls I had better shift myself.

Unmitigated Disaster

Lumpy mitten #1 is done. There will not be a #2!!!! The needles were too small hence the lumpies. It barely fits my hand. I hate it. GAG. I refuse to make something I do not like! I held out hope that maybe blocking would help. Nadda. Nothing is going to help. On to better things!
~MuM

Moving right along!

The pneumonia vest are finished. The yarn was from my late Auntie Sandra. She saved every ball left from what she had worked on. I have about a hundred. I am sure she would like the fact that it has gone to needy children for warmth.


The yolk sweater has been a learning curve. The pattern had to be increased by four repeats. Yet the yolk is too small from the neck to the under arm, so I am adding another row of snow flakes. I finished the body and the arm to long. That means I have to go back and pick up stitches and snip, unravel, then graft back together. All goes right you will never see it. This is the second attempt at a yolk sweater for hubby. The first one is going to his son. Christmas has come and gone and the present still lingers.

Just because she is the best school horse. Goldie she taught 7 year old kids how to ride and on the weekend she took me around Checkmate Horse Trials we placed third. When cross country was done I threw a red and black crochet cooler on her. Thanks

~Daughter #2

Lumpy Knitting...

I hate lumpy knitting. I like smooth stitches all lined up in perfect little rows.

GRrr I am knitting mitts in 2 colours on 4 needles and I have lumps. Damn. I have taken them out umpteen times. I know, I know they are just mitts and she will probably loose one anyway. {Unless I put them on an idiot string.} At this rate I may only knit the one and she can put her other hand in her pocket. Now there is an idea! Crap and I spent a fortune on the Alpaca yarn too....... Weeping and wailing........ They don't look too bad from across the room....I wonder how long her arms are????? Maybe if they are far away she won't notice. Ah shoot, I may as well knit the other one but now I am afraid I will run out of yarn cause I started them 3 times and wasted a bunch of yardage. Oh if I have to buy 2 more balls to finish them I will really be cranky.

I am not having a ZEN moment over these mitts.

The yarn, Misti Alpaca, is very nice to knit with though. Very soft and cosy.

~MuM

Easter Buffet

It's my birthday next week. Being that I live more than a hour away, Mom fed me and presented me with wool for a moebius basket. I do not dare start until trying the beginners pattern.

Yes, I am offically on the blog. Expect to see some book reports and the trials of my often "off the beaten path" projects.

I have been known to knit sweaters for people as gifts accordingly to how well they turn out and who will they fit. Swatch what is a swatch? And what is it for?

~Daughter #2

"Other daughter" is here!!

Today we are adding daughter #2 to the Mother/Daughters blog. Watch for upcoming news from Kincardine!!

Now that's a swatch!

If one must swatch then you might as well get them all done at once. Although I think I may need to do more ribbing to get a proper count.

I think there is enough of Madil Yarns Denim in my stash to do the whole thing. This stuff is a Cotton/Acrylic blend that feels like a t-shirt. It should wash well too.

With the amount of planning and math I'm going to have to do for this one, he will wear the finished product whether he likes it or not. LOL

I did have a thought while working on this monstrosity of a swatch. Wouldn't this make a cool pair of knee socks?

~Daughter

"Why can't you just make me the same one again?"

The title was uttered by my husband when I asked him about patterns. It's been over a year since I made (started) a sweater for him. Apparently the Steelers blanky doesn't count.

His favourite sweater of all time is a blue and cream fair-isle I made a VERY long time ago. It is a drop shoulder with fair isleing along the shoulders and around the top of each sleeve. It did turn out gorgeous if I do say myself.

He wants me to make him the exact thing again, just in a different colour if I want. **rolling eyes** BORING!!

I found a pattern that he thought was OK but then I suggested a couple changes and he has Agreed!! WooHoo....of course this means I have to create the pattern myself.

Sheesh.

Let me clarify that I happen to think skulls are the coolest clothing accessory ever LOL I'm the only mummy at my girl's school who has black runners with little white skulls over them.

So here is the inspiration for Chris' sweater:






Pub Crawler by Debbie Stoller from her book "Son of a Stitch'n Bitch".
This pattern is made out of aran, but hubby wants double knit...ok so we will have to start with a swatch.










Instead of the simple cable running up the sweater I will be working this ultra cool skull motif. The swatch shown is in bulky and mine will be in DK.... *sigh* another swatch.











The fair isle skulls here will be a replacement pattern for the arm band. Another pattern from "Son of a Stitch'n Bitch"

There is another really cool pattern I have found on Ravelry. I haven't decided which I'm going to use. All depends on the *sigh* swatch.







I don't want to do this in typical black and white. Mainly because I have been avoiding making him a black Steelers sweater by saying black is a bitch to knit with. (ssshhhhh) Also he will want to wear this to work, so I'm thinking a nice gray and cream. enough to make out the pattern but keep it subtle enough that he doesn't look like a 36 yr old trying to act like an eighteen year old.

Wish me luck. Any suggestions on yarn?

~Daughter

Speaking of the Stash

Me thinks I need to go on a yarn diet.......sigh....with some it is cigarettes, alcohol or drugs...... mine is fibre.
I spend some time working on a double knitting swatch last night. "By George I think I got it." Now I have to decide what to do with it. I am afraid it might entail the purchase of some yarn..oops