A New Project--52 Week Challenge

This is the start of a pair of socks. These are "You and Me Socks" designed by Debbie O'Neill. I started these on January 25, 2009, using Trekking (XXL). These are certainly not the first pair of socks that I've ever started, but they WILL be the first pair of socks that I've completed.

Now, here's my question: Do I need to finish these by the end of January in order to count towards the 52 week challenge? I don't now about doing that!!

UFO 1 update...sock yarn blanket

I did not have much time to knit yesterday. So I worked on the sock yarn blanket... with 500 stitches still on the needle, I am at 90 cm height. 1.10 meter still to go, and then see if the blanket is big enough... otherwise I have to knit side borders. We'll see...LOL!

Maizy Sweetie Pie socks finished

This is a fast and easy pattern which was a lot of fun to knit. Many thanks to Kala Hotakainen for sharing it with us. The color doesn't show up properly in these pics; it is quite a lovely shade of greenish blue--kind of like a light teal green. The color of the yarn is Sea Gray. I did 12 repeats of the pattern for a 7" cuff. Fred calculated the yardage for me at 277.4 yds. I weighed the pair of socks at 68 grams with 32 grams left to knit toes and heels on some other pair in the future. This pattern was perfect for this yarn. I actually enjoyed knitting with it unlike the last time I used it with much smaller needles. I'm going to use it more often now with the 2.5mm needles :) I started this on 1/10 and finished on 1/27 with the YFM socks in between. I still need to take a pic of them finished and will try to post them tomorrow.

ufo KAL - Intense Rainbow Hexagon Blanket

I started this blanket on January 21st, and have begun working through it faster than I would have thought. It's crocheted using Mini Mochi, in Intense Rainbow, using a size E crochet hook. I'm not much of a crocheter, but am having a lot of fun with this project.

Right now, I've got 39 hexagons done, and have used a little over 2 skeins of yarn (I took the picture after I finished the 2nd skein). I'm not quite sure how big I want it to get. Originally it was going to be about baby-sized, but I'm not so sure anymore. I'll have to see how 'done' I am with it when I run out of yarn.

Long Month

I finally got some pictures taken of what I did make. I did a bunch more items but they left before pictures were taken. I have spent this month taking care of my Dad from having a valve replaced in his heart on Jan 2. Dad is now getting around very well on his own. Many items I finished were given to family members after working the ends into them.(the items not the family members).
Here is the start to the Inner Truth scarf. This is knitted on size 6 needles with Panda Silk DK. Love the color and how well this worked up.
Here is it all blocked for its glory. Yardage.....300 yards for this. This was one of the nurses favorites that I made.

I also decided to do Theknitter's December Sock of the month. Yarn is Cascade Yarns Paints. Pattern is Cozy Up Bed Socks. These were knit with a size2 needles. A very quick knit that only took 3 days to finish. Very washed out photo, but being I had a hard time getting pictures of items I did this will have to do.
And I just finished it about 15 minutes ago. This is closer to the red. 213 yards used.
Whew...so I do have a total of 513 yards that I can document. Getting in just under the wire.
I hope everyone enjoyed the start of a New Year. Looking forward to Feb and all the wonderful projects you will do.

One and One, but not Two

Over Christmas and New Years, I had visions of non-stop knitting, crescending waves of knitting mojo, and - well - lots of time to knit.

Reality set in, and we spent most of the time working on our place in the Mountains. It's not so easy to find time to knit when you're scrubbing out the Fridge of Horror.

So, instead of driving back to the Frigid North from my trip in the Sunny South with a nice warm layering of newly knitted goods, I only had two things finished . . .. . . a wonderful glove, my first, from Knitting New Mittens and Gloves. I used Caron Simply Soft because it's so soft (heh heh) and indestructible. I always wondered what the fascination was for fingerless gloves, and now I know.

Knitting five fingers in the round is. a. pain. in. the. arse.

Secondly, a sock. After frantic Christmas-present knitting, I really wanted some instant gratification, and self-striping sock yarn is as close as it gets. Plus, the bright and cheery colors have the added bonus of helping me beat the winter blahs.

I am knitting a basic sock on size 0 needles (yes, I know, that's insane, but gauge is important. I'm going to keep lecturing Flipflopping Mama on that until it hits home.) The yarn is Fortissima Colori Socka Color, one of my favorite sock yarns. Tons of fun!
So, one hand and one foot is warm. Too bad it's a whopping 9 degrees outside today.

Suppose I need both feet? I'm tempted to just wear the sock as my other glove.

(I have half done on the sock, and half done on the glove)

52 wk progress for Jan

Hi, I finished the dish cloth, wintery cowl so far. The Noro scarf is proving to be a pain for me. It is so deceptively simlpe that you lose track of rows and stitches sometimes. This project makes me so over their colorways! Part of the reason is too that in the middle of cool colors the put in plive green (see where the pen is?) So, I have ripped out this easy silly thing more times than I can count. I will also need to use 2 more skeins because it should have been 3 feet for two balls and it "so WAY isn't! My LYS says I am competing for most perfectionistic and person most likely to be in the frog pond!!!!! Here I come Adrienne! I hope to post the mitts and the dish scrubbie done by the 4th of Feb.

I used 250 yards with the next size up neddle for the cowl.

The dish cloth was 50gr. but no yardage on the ball band.

The scarf is already 200 meters (no yardage on band either.) Two more balls to go.

Jody

P.S. Knit On! Is it posible to change the fingerless mitts into fingered ones? My niece changed her mind yesterday. I have never made gloves. Is it easier to start again with a pattern than do the math?

Jody

Getting things finished

I haven't posted yet this month, but since I'm finally getting somewhere with this sweater, I thought I'd better!

I'm about 2/3 of the way through, as I've finished the body, but still need to do the sleeves and the neck edging.
I'm knitting this out of Briar Rose SeaPearl, on size five needles, and I've used about 800 yards so far. The pattern is something that I'm winging on my own.

In January, I also knitted the second socks for three pairs of socks that were languishing OTN from before the holiday madness. The first pair was for my younger daughter. (All the pattern links and yarn links are on my Ravelry page.)
These are Kicking Leaves socks, and I think the single second one took about 100 yards of Old Maiden Aunt yarn.

I also finished a pair for me.
These are the Woodsmoke Socks, and I used about 150 yards of STR lightweight to finish the second sock.

My older daughter also got a pair out of the deal.
I made up the pattern for these as I went along, and knitted them out of Chasing Rainbows Dyeworks Willow yarn, in the Forest colorway; that second sock took about 200 yards.

And I just remembered that I also knitted a sweater in January.
It's the Dofuku Kimono from Knit Kimono, and I used 1200 yards of Knitting Notions classic merino sport, plus a little bit of some of my handspun.

There it all is! I'll post when the sweater is finished with the rest of the yards I used. Off to knit now...

Red Socks Progress

Here are red socks, again for my eldest, in a pattern from a Japanese magazine. They will be finished by tomorrow, I hope.

This is the beginning from Monday morning, at breakfast. Pictures will improve, someday.

I have no idea how to place pictures and text in a satisfying way. That could improve, too, someday.

the progress pics

these are initial and final pics of the princess nadia FLAME mini-mochi sweater. you can see it on her in a post below.

i did actually share these progress pics for my ufo with adrienne and others previously, but don't know if they count.

if you are looking, you can see that i changed the sleeve lace and made it match in the red section- the skeins are sooooooooo generous that it was easy to snip and go find the color i needed and start again.
remember you can join a break by knitting one or two st. with 2 strands. trust me, it won't show,
but you do it at a side edge not in the middle of the front.

52 Week Challange - Debbie (Grandma 07)

Hi, I have finished my first project for this KAL. I knit this pair of socks with the new Mini Mochi yarn in the Violets Rainbow colorway. The lace pattern is a mix of patterns from the book Socks a la Carte. I must say that I LOVE this yarn!! It is sooo soft and easy to knit with. It was hard to put this project down because I was so fascinated by the way the colors changed.

These were cast on on Jan. 21 and cast off today...Jan 27. I'm guessing they took about 350 yards of yarn as that is what most of my socks use. Oh, the leg is 5.5 inches from cast on to heel.

52 Week Challenge - Brenda (Owlsrook)

In progress photo - Ladies Medium Size sock - using Online Yarn - Hiking Colour #969 on 2.00mm dpns (U.S. Size 0). These are just basic socks with a 5 inch Ribbed Cuff.
As the yarn is so "busy", I decided plain basic socks would be best. Hope to have this pair finished before the end of the month.

Regards,
Brenda (Owlsrook)
Jan.27/09

52 week challenge

Hi, A little late than never. My Dad is now in rehab after his head-on car accident. Praise God there were no internal injuries. I knit a little. But, I was overwhelmed by the yardage totals. So, I started crocheting then switched back when they were changed. Here are my progress pictures. I will give specifics by the end of the week. They are a wintery cowl, two-row scarf, coffee cozy, fingerless mitts and a dish cloth/ scrubbie set. I hope to finish them all by the end of the week. Jody

52 week challenge

Well, I started something else last night, I'm not sure if I can finish it before next month, but that's my goal! It's a scarf for the Orphan Foundation, they're collecting scarves at the Knit-Out and Crochet next month so I want to have one ready to go.



I'm using stash yarn, some Caron Simply Soft in red, and some blue Caron Simply Soft Eco. I'm really loving the color combo, red and turquoise are made for each other!

-Kala (vegancraftastic)

Marrakech socks are done

Yesterday I finished the Marrakech socks. They fit Alexa perfectly. Used needles: 2.75 mm (US 2) Used amount of yarn: 400 meters in total.

mini-mochi baby sweater

this is the new baby sweater in flame mini-mochi i finished recently, on Susan's DGD princess Nadia .
i washed it and blocked before sending and no color issues.
deliberately made a larger neck so it could be put on easily and worn "over".... and she's sooo cute in reds!
i did do some careful matching to get lace at bottom of fronts and back to be closely similar.
pattern will go up on CP site soon.
i finished it about jan 7, and had started in dec, so it is my first ufo.
except i'd have to go scout for progress pics... i think i had posted some, but does a start in lace that you frog count?
oh, it used most of 3.5 to 4 balls of flame MM. have enough left to make a matching hat

You wouldn´t believe it!

Due to an unforeseen stay in hospital I had the opportunity to knit my heart out on my daughter´s sweater. I may call it finished now and my daughter is happy. The pic is poor as she had neither time nor equipment but wanted to give me a pic to demonstrate the finished status. If I may do so, I would very much like to post a better one later on, perhaps with my daughter in it :-)

This is my project for Jan, 52 week KAL, and would you believe it I am very proud of it. For the records: It will qualify for the obligatory 350+ yards...., it´s size L, 650g in Nimbus.

Have cast on for a pair of red socks with a pattern from a Japanese magazine. Pictures of progress will follow when I am back home. Looking forward to seeing your great knitting. That always gives me a boost to persevere. Now off the net again, but soon to be back home.

May all of you have a great weekend coming !

Kerry Knits

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52 posts this year....

Would be amazing. Of course, I've already blown it, but what they hay!

This has been a nutty sort of week. Okay, all my weeks are nutty. This isn't for submission, but for what I've been up to. On top are a few crochet for charity hats (they really look much cuter on the head than they do on the couch) and they are skirted by a towel (to be part of a set) for my cousin's wedding!

Have a great weekend.

52 Week Challenge - Brenda -

This post is to update my Post of January 21st, which shows that I actually did knit two socks. Don't know what I was thinking about when I post the picture with just one completed sock. This is just a basic sock, ladies size medium, 5 inch ribbed cuff, done with Sisu Yarn - 348 yards.

Brenda (Owlsrook)
Jan. 23/09

52 Week Challenge - Brenda

Jan. 23/09 - Just completed my Noro Kureyon Sock Yarn - Feather & Fan Scarf, total 456 yards (420 Metres) I posted the in progress photo on my earlier post. I still have one full skein of this yarn, don't know what I will make with that yet. The colour repeats are long, and although this is Noro Sock Yarn, I'm not sure I would like to do socks with it. It is a single ply wool yarn, goes from thread thin in one spot to almost worsted bulkiness within inches. Makes for a nubby look as you can see on the close up picture. I don't think this would feel very comfortable in a sock. Perhaps the other ball will become a hat or wrist warmers.

So now it is on to my next project, socks I think. Hope to get another project completed for January.

Brenda(Owlsrook)
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