More August Finishes

I finished two scarves. The green one was started in January and saved for times when I needed easy knitting. A shop hop trip with my guild provided the time for finishing. The yarn is Noro Matsuri. I also finished my Swiss Cheese scarf. This was a guild KAL, using a rayon blend cone yarn that I bought a long time ago because it was pretty.

My daughter asked for fingerless mitts for running, but she wanted her thumbs covered. The chosen yarn, which has purple in it, is Patons Stretch Cotton Socks. I then used Wool-Ease for short covers for cooler days. I figured that if she is running in even colder weather, she has something else to wear.

A new great grandson will be joining the family in September. He will get a new hat, since he can wear the sweater I knit for his sister. It looks like a tomato. The patter is Ann Norling's Fruit Hat pattern.

Final finish is a pair of Lucy Neatby's Fiesta Feet. They've been on my to-do list for years, and the challenge for the Ravelry SKA was stranded knitting. The feet of these are stranded. Last night someone counted up how many patterns there are on the socks (6). The woman is crazy, but I think we suspected as much.

I have shown in progress pictures for some of these (not the tomato, which was knit in one afternoon), but threw them up here anyway. I already have credit for an August finish. It was a good month for finishing.

52 weeks KAL May update - progress and finished

First part for May is this little hat, that I did yesterday when I had to wait for a very long time.

It is made from a pattern by Ruth Sorensen, who does cool things I love and I had some Estonian wool laying around, very much like Kauni or Evilla, same producer. Estonians seem to prefer woolen to worsted.

There will be a picture again, when the hat is blocked and looks far better than now. I think now it resembles my legs. If I could block them too?

42g = 336m, for a start.

One day later:

O my, correction on this: .42 x NM8/2 =168 m .

The yarn yields 400m/100g, not 800. I couldn´t imagine to have knit so many meters in that time and had a more closely look at my figures. So sorry,but there will be enough meters to show for this month :-)

Progress & an FO

I knit a cowl for my daughter and I didn't post progress pictures. So this post is going to have the progress and finished photo of the cowl. Hopefully that is OK. I also have a progress shot of a double knit hat I'm making for her.

First up is the progress shot of the cowl.


Here's a shot of the finished cowl.


The cowl fits great and my daughter loves it. I used the Darkside Cowl (Ravelry link). The yarn is Plymouth Galway Paint and the yardage used is 126 yards. The only mod I made was to take out one pattern repeat to make it a little smaller. The cowl is about 8 inches tall.

Here's a progress shot of the hat.


I'm using Doubleknitski using Plymouth Galway Paint and The Unique Sheep Foot Prints. I wasn't sure how well the two yarns would work together for this hat since the Foot Prints sock yarn is only sports weight but surprisingly enough it's working very well. I wanted a softer yarn for the inside of the hat.

Lucky 7 Hat

Lucky for someone, but not for b-day brother. I should've gone up one or 2 more needle sizes 'cause it's a bit too snug to be a small adult hat. This will probably got to my cousin's 12 yr old or to dd1's male friends.


Details:
Lucky 7 Hat
Mission Falls 1824 Wool in Raven (black) - approx 1.4 skeins (50 g per skein) = 119 yds
size 8 KP circs
no mods

Since the hat was too small for b-day brother, he opted to keep the Maine Morning Mitts. Darn! So I've started another pair from another orphan Noro Silk Garden skein. This one screams uber-pink, so I'll gift it as well.


Maine Morning Mitts
size 8 bamboo dpns
should take the 1 skein like the previous mitts I've made

One done...another cast on!

Easy projects = quick knits! But I am amazed at all the lovely finer knitting being completed and posted by otheres! So here are my humble offerings: a completed "Seaweed Cowl"-I made it a tad bigger and will be adding a button to it. Obviously, my gauge got a bit loose 1/2 way through, but I made up for it on the other half, so at least it kinda evened out! So weighing in at 72g., and this yarn running 216 yds/100g, I think I can safely say this is a 140 yd project.

And a baby hat is started but-doh!-it is knit with a 16 stitch repeat, NOT 8...so now, as I start the cables, I am realizing it either gets frogged or a new 'design element' will occur. I will choose the latter, cuz I'm not digging the idea of frogging it!