favorite cpy projects contest #1

here are the entries for favorite cpy projects for the months of january-march. there were only 3 projects from the ufo kal that qualified so we have decided to put them into a general contest. i know that it will be hard to select just one favorite, so i have decided to let you select TWO favorites.

in addition to the honor of being the crafter of the favorite project with all the bragging rights and privileges thereto pertaining, the winner will receive 4 skeins of crystal palace yarn (winner's choice of yarn and colors, subject to availability).

email your TWO favorites to:

carefreekal at gmail dot com

by monday, may 4th. you must be a member of the carefree kal family to vote.

i think i have all the eligible projects. if you think i missed yours, please let me know and i will add you to the list.

1. Baby Socks- Panda Soy ( Cocoa Mint)


2. Sweetie Pie Socks #1 - Panda Cotton (Dotty Lollipops)


3. Lace Socks - Mini Mochi (Violet Rainbow)


4. Inner Truth Scarf #1- Panda Silk DK


5. Sweetie Pie Socks #2 - Maizy (Sea Gray)


6. SKA Mystery Socks - Panda Cotton (Blue)


7. Salida Socks - Panda Silk #3003


8. Inner Truth Scarf #2- Bamboozle (Faded Jeans)


9. Music Socks - Panda Soy (Ecru)


10. Fingerless Mitts - Panda Soy (Positively Purple)


11. Autumn in NY Shawl - Mini Mochi (Autumn Rainbow)


12. Harika Socks _ Maizy (Bittersweet and Meadow Mist)


13. Pothos Socks - Panda Silk (Blue Jeans)


14. Socks - Panda Soy (Cocoa Mint)


15. Sweetie Pie Socks #3 - Panda Cotton (Red)


16. Spring Forward Socks - Panda Cotton (Fuchsia)


17. New Year's Day Socks - Panda Cotton #0413

My April Projects

I have the progress photos of most of the cloths. Had some trouble with my computer and lost some of my saved photos, but this was the best I could do. I hope it works out OK.

The items include:
a Blue baby blanket caron soft yarn 1 whole skein (yards ??)
6 total dishcloths, one I designed as well
5 mini socks
8 towel toppers
1 Cravat

I need to find a better way to document these things and I also need to figure out the yardage for everything. I've been so stressed and stretched these past few months. I will try to be better.

Aunt Kathy

52 Week Challange - Debbie (Grandma 07)

I've decided to use Panda Silk in color 3010 for my May project. I cast on this pair of Glynis socks this morning.

52 week KAL

Hoorah! I got the SFS leisure socks done last night - too late to take a picture, but I'll get one tonight. Made the April deadline, just, LOL.

52 Week Challenge

I'm Baaaack... Here they are, felted but still wet. The orange one was supposed to be a pillbox (based on a few patterns seen online), but I ran short of yarn so it is what it is. The black one, based on the (unfelted) Maltese Hat pattern by EZ and reinterpreted by Meg Swansen, will need some adjustments if I try again. It's for a friend's husband who, when he put one of my unfelted slippers on his head as a joke, made me think of a member of the Mongol Horde, and I knew I just had to try and make him a hat. I can't decide if it looks like a Mongol Horde hat, or something one of the Coneheads would wear! :o) While it looks like two flaps, they are actually connected in the back to protect one's neck as well. I should have gotten a pic to show,but didn't think about it until too late. Oh well, no other way to learn unless I try! At least it no longer looks like a bra, right? Anyway, total knit, about 400yds.

April 52 week KAL

I finished my Sampler Socks for the 52 week challenge:



Started: 4/1/09
Finished: 4/24/09
Pattern: Sampler Socks from knotions.com (knit toe up with 2X2 ribbing at top)
Yarn: Sockina Cotton - color 0005
Needles: US 1 magic loop
Yardage: approx. 260 yards

I also cast on a Bee Stitch dishcloth on 4/26/09:


and I finished it on 4/28/09:


Yarn: Sugar 'n Cream cotton in Beach Ball Blue
US 7 circular needles
yardage: approx. 75 yards

For May, I'm planning to try to the mystery sock by Yarnissima in the Sock Knitters Anonymous group on Ravelry. I think I want to try some of the Panda Soy yarn that I either won or purchased last year, but have yet to knit with!!!

52 Week Challenge

It's been a long month between the weather, the baseball and track, lambing and whatever, but here are my in progress pics of two more felted hats to be, although I know that one of them looks more like a bra right now, lol. Those are supposed to be earflaps; it's based on an unfelted pattern, so who knows WHAT I will find when I take it out of the washing machine! They both will go into the wash tonight and I will take my finished photos then, hopefully that will be soon enough!

52 Weeks KAL-April Projects and New Beginnings

Finally finished and qualifying for April is the cardigan out of yak/merino yarn. Not yet embroidered as planned, because I think it is beautiful now and embellishing can wait for another cardigan.

Here is the proof of two sleeves and room for my global shape.

Bertie socks for my husband. Ordered.

New playful design for some daughter. Not ordered :-)

New sweater for summer, cotton mix, initials will make a clear statement of owner-to-be :-)

This KAL is good for me! I would never have gone for finishing that cardigan as it seemed endless to knit and to sew. Now I am so happy.

Nebula Socks

Yeah I can post these. I had the pleasure to test knit a new Cookie A pattern. Started these April 13 finished April 17 but could not post until the pattern was released. It was today.

This is the progress picture, it shows how one sock twist more than the other on the magic loop.

This is a finished picture. They twist the same off the needles. I kept the twist going on into the toes. Fun, keep ya on your toes pattern.

April socks finished

I finished the socks for my quilter daughter. It's an original design I'm calling little flames.

52-Week for April

Hi here is the last hat for April. It is for Katie because she will not take it off! Katie is actually wearing the hat inside out because she did not like the ridge pattern. So, I took one flat and me wearing it (that was goofy to photograph while wearing it! Not flattering of my upper arms either!) So, 722 yards total. (Not including the two traveling scarves.)

And question for the masters of this site. My daughter is wearing an adult size hat now! I have told her since she was a baby with 90% head size that God gave her too many brains! But, how do I do hats to fit? Is the hat size measurement above the forehead around the back? And if I have to eventually make it bigger- how do I do this on a patterned hat? I want to make the Grace Lace Hat on Ravelry. Thanks, your sock mastery humbles this newbie knitter! (That is why my name on Ravelry is Knit-Frog-Knit!) I spend too much time in the frog pond! Alas, I am entering a sock war for fun and going to knit (re-try) a pair on socks for me. Wish me blessings on even starting the thing before being killed!

Jody

Pothos variation finished

I used 80gms of crockpot dyed Patonyle for this pair of socks. I think I knit them twice with all the frogging involved. My Easter houseguest loved them so I will surprise her for her birthday in June. She calls the ribbing below the leaf section "a cute little waist". I did the usual Anne Hanson heel flap and remainder of the sock.
I plan to finish the 2nd Green Goddess sock for May.

52-week for April

Here is my final hat for this month. (It is one more Phannie hat on Ravelry.) Here is the progress picture. Have a great weekend! This blog is sooo quiet! Is everyone working on the 50 socks book? Or just swimming in the frog pond this month?

Jody

Socks for April

I've been busy knitting my own designs for profit. I have a little time to knit socks for a birthday gift. Ravelry's Sock Knitter's Anonymous had lace socks as an option for March, to be finished by the end of April. Here's what I'm working on. The yarn is Fortissima Socka. The stitch pattern is from a German book.

Start of a hat

What a difference huh... the long DPN's compared to the shorter ones that I regularly use to knit with. These are really old - and once there was a point that I almost had thrown them away. I am glad I did not do that, as they really come in handy when knitting hats. And the set up for a hat is what you see on the other photo... using Mini Mochi 104.

52 Week Challenge - April

Wow - this month really got away from me - I don't know where the days went! I did cast on for a 52 week challenge project. It was a Mystery KAL from Rachel's Knitting Room which turned out to be a table runner. I'm using a 400 gm ball of Sugar n' Cream cotton and repeating the pattern until it is long enough for my dresser.

Round 3

Talias Wings.

I had my yarn and needles ready when the pattern was released at 10 am my time. Well a few choices of yarn just in case as we have no idea what the pattern will be.

I casted on. I was knitting away. Wondering as I was going why my yarn seemed to tangle so much. I have never had this problem. I finished the toes and thought I better look closer. I had casted on 2 socks on one needle using the same ball of yarn. I was using the inside and outside. I cut the outside yarn and picked up the other ball that was behaving.

I am done with them. I finish last night. This was an interesting knit. Fun pattern.


And now may I present my Sock Madness Round 3 socks......


Talias Wings by Yarnyenta
Smooshy - Cool Fire is the yarn
Tired is the knitter.

52 Week Challenge - Brenda (Owlsrook)

I cast on this new lace scarf last night, using Knit Picks "Shadow" Lace weight yarn, which is 100% Merino Wool and very nice and soft. The Color is called "Jewels".

The pattern is "Lacy Green Scarf" designed by Ginger Smith. It is in the Love of Knitting Magazine, Spring 2009. Since the green lace yarn I have in stash is destined for another project, I decided to use the Jewels color instead, which I think should also set off the pattern well. It is a sampler stitch style of pattern, which uses different stitch patterns for each section of the scarf.

I am about to start the second section now. I am interested to see how it looks when finished and blocked.

Brenda in Alberta

52-week for April

Hi, on a hat and scarf frenzy. Three hats finished two Rook and one Phannie on Ravelry. I had tons of Noro around and thought I would use it. Yardage total is 470 yds for all three (rooks 218yds and Phannie 252yds.) I actually used more on each because both Katie and I have "too many brains!" She is eight and wearing my hats! I will definately make more of these but with better yarn. I will post an occasional traveling scarf pic from each group but have them all if you want to see them and give a basic guess-ta-met on a basic one. (Two scarves 5" wide and 50" long.) Totals will be in August.