KAL Continued

I am really loving this yarn! It is beautiful to work with and creates amazing fabric. It’s not going quite as quickly as I’d hoped because I am really trying to finish up the top down sweater. (1/2 a sleeve left, need to figure out what to do for the collar, block it and finished!) It had better be wearable by the holidays! That is my goal.

After an afternoon of knitting the KAL vest, I confessed that I was considering using a contrasting yarn for the collar to show off the seed stitching. With a little help from Anne at Needle Rock, she led me the Ritratta yarn to add some sparkle to the seed stitched collar. Splurged (again!) on a ball of it. I can’t wait to finish this project! Excitement.

I finished another cowl that I absolutely love and have been getting tons of comments on it. I didn’t add it to my Ravelry queue since it started out as another test of the needless cabling. Cotton, so it’s stretchy, but soft, and again, just beautiful with my new knee length down coat.

Sparkly Collar Yarn               Favorite Cowl

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Cableless Cable Needle Cabled Beanie

Finished! Love it! Love being able to cable without a needle. Super fast, even cables. Can’t wait to start on the next cabled project.

Does a needleless cable make it less of a cable?

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Knitting notes

Just finished swatching Cath and Abbi’s KAL. Gauge was supposed to be 12 sts and 19 rows = 4″ on #10. Mine came out 16 sts and 26 rows. How is that supposed to work? It’ll be too big width wise, but too short lengthwise? How do you overcome that.

The other fun thing that I did yesterday was with cabling the Super Soft Beanie. I didn’t use a cable needle and came up with a much nicer stitch. Guess what I did this morning?? You got it; frogged it. Luckily, it’s one of those two hour projects, so should have a new beanie before the end of the day!

Swatch, not so happy, swatch

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Whoooohoooo! Two-ups Fini!

Summer became too much for me to follow my knitting. Between work, Town Council and reading great books, my knitting totally slid by the wayside.

I’m so excited to have it cool. I’m actually working on 4 projects right now.

Anyway, I finished Dad’s two-up toe-ups and I love them. I tweaked the pattern to create a simple 2×2 ribbed work socks. They really were quite easy to make and I can’t wait to find time to knit myself a pair!

THE Two-Up, Toe-Ups!

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