Another April entry to share: Jeeves socks for Chris

Our friend, Chris, has been helping Fred make me shelves to store lots of yarn so I decided to thank him with another pair of socks. I love making this pattern in DK wt. Fast, easy, yet interesting and when Fred tried them on, he asked for a pair right away. I know I'll make many more using this free pattern from Sarah Wolf on ravelry. It is definitely a winner. I weighed the finished pair: 130 gms of Bendigo Luxury 8 ply with 3 full leg pattern repeats. I'll use 4 repeats for Fred since he likes the leg a bit longer.
I'm thinking of knitting it using 64 sts with fingering wt for me (after a few wips that need finishing).

April 12m/12p/12boy Progress

Here are my 2 Works-in-Progress this month:

The top one is a Booga Bag knit in Fisherman's Wool in Natural Brown and the bottom one is Pembroke Vest in Cascade 220 superwash. I've knit 400m of the Fisherman's wool so far and have about 200m more, then felting.

I am nearly halfway through the vest front then I have to sew it together and do the neck and armholes. Both are gifts, so I am doing them simultaneously in hopes of finishing both!

Jill (jaerrt on Rav)

12/12/12boy April start

Hi, Watch out, sunglasses needed! Here is the pair socks that I am making this month. I am using Opal yarn double stranded. The pattern is Rhode Island from the 50 socks 50 States cd! I like this so one much. It sure is bright!

April Start

Another toe-up sock. Trying the Judy Becker cast on and the Andersson heel on this pair. Patons Kroy color 54565 - stash diving is fun! Next sock, I'll probably go back to my usual cast on - no advantages with this one and a lot longer tail than usual.

Regards to all, aj

Newby!

I am still trying to figure out how things work but I will get it. I am hiukkaknits and my country is USA. I am not sure about which kal to join. I think I am late to the party for some of them. I just want to knit and I am currently working on the Luna Moth Shawl that I started 3-31. I do enjoy all of the finished items and hope to add mine shortly. May spring bring you inspiration!

Market Bag - April Project Finished

Here is my finished project for April. It's amazing the knitting you can get done when you are off of work! This one only took me 5 days to complete. This is the "Fantasy Naturale" pattern off of Ravelry and was made for my Knit Bits swap group. My partner said she liked the color purple. I used three balls of Lily Sugar'n Cream - One in Hot Purple and Two in Violet Veil Umbre. 300 yards total.

I had never tried to make a market bag before and am very happy with the results. It has a really solid garter stitch base and then a simple lace pattern for the body. The handles were made with a bind off/cast on method and are strong. I tried a very heavy bottle of wine in it and it did just fine. My Mom is holding the bag in the one photo with three extra large skeins of yarn in it.

April finish

I started these socks on March 1, but other projects took precedence. Finished on April 3.
Yarn is Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock in Jeans color.
Pattern is Fiber trends Walking Away Socks in the Reflections variation.
Needles 2.5mm

12m/12p/12boy - April Finished- Brenda (Owlsrook)

April Project Completed - CPY Panda Wool - Red Lacquer Socks - estimated yardage
340 yards. I did these magic loop with 72 stitches using size 2.25mm needles.
- Now onto to a new project - something in Mini Mochie

Brenda in Alberta
Owlsrook on Ravelry

April projects

I'm working on two very different projects this month:
the In the Woods shawl in Bayou colorway (so mine is In the Bayou), perfect for a Louisiana knitter.













and the Lotus Blossom tank for my daughter:
I hope I can finish at least one this month!

12m/12p/12boy - mlj1954 - March projects

This weekend, we drove from our home in Northeast Ohio to my sister's in northern Kentucky to celebrate my niece's 8th birthday and Easter with my sister and her family.  It was a good thing.  I worked on dishcloths for my daughter for her wedding.  But, I forgot to post these pics before we left.

in process . . . on the foot.  This is LionBrand.  Kind of scratchy

on the needles

I thought I had a better picture of how the heels matched. 

the Lorna's Lace pair.  Very soft.  Softer than the Lion Brand and these are really the same size.  Even though they look like different sizes. 

And both pairs.  And see, you can see in this pic how nicely the heals on the brown and blue pair match. 

Start of a scarf

(the yarn used is CPY Kid Merino)

The start of a scarf is visible on the image. I had this yarn at home for quite a while now - and no matter what I tried - it did not want to be knit into something difficult. So for a change, I tried a simple pattern on this, with a nice effect. The needles are quite heavy though - Alexa purchased me a pair with built-in lights a while back. The batteries in the end of the needle are making the needles heavy. But I like the progress thus far.

Start of an April project

The long weekend has given me some extra time to knit, so my April project is going well. I'm knitting Cookie A's Sam socks with Mountain Colors Crazyfoot in 'Moose Creek.'
I hope I'll have enough yarn.

April Started

This month's project is about getting ready to sell items at the farmer's market in May. So I am making a bunch of dishcloths.


So I finished this first dishcloth. Someone else had done this windmill pattern in this group and I wanted to try it. It looks cool, but I am not crazy about the sewn seam in this dishcloth. I might look for another pattern to do.

Finished March Project

I found this pattern on Ravelry and was really taken by it. It is the Mystery Sock '09 from Through the Loops. I had made a pair of socks for my Mom and my Grandmother demanded a pair so these are for her.

I really, really, really like this pattern. The small cuff detail, ropes down side of foot that continue down heel, the foot pattern that ends in an almost heart on the toe. This pattern is fantastic. I highly recommend it to everyone.

This is also the first time I have used the Panda Soy yarn from Crystal Palace and I am in love with it. It is my current favorite (sorry Malabrigo!). It is unbelievably soft and silky and the pattern dapples wonderfully. I used two balls of the Hazelnuts color (about 360 yards). Fantastic project that I am extremely proud of!

The foot model is my Mom by the way. She is in town visiting after my hospital stay in March and for Easter. I have to watch her like a hawk so she doesn't snatch them!

12/12/12 April entry: Haruni in my fav ultramarine CPY Panda superwash

Pattern by Emily Ross (free on rav) was very well written and a joy to knit with my favorite yarn for shawls. I had 26 gms leftover from the 3 balls =150 gms. The only change I made was to use a 2mm crochet hook and single chain 8 sts instead of 6 between the leaf tips for the crochet bind off (which was easy and a clever method). The drape of the yarn in this pattern is perfect and I love the way it feels. :)

12m/12p/12boy - April - Brenda (Owlsrook)

12m/12p/12boy- April Project in progress - Socks in CPY-Panda Wool - Red Lacquer -
the pattern I am using for the cuff is from a Wrist Warmer Pattern - which I thought would look nice in a sock. I started these yesterday afternoon, and should finish sock one tonight. This is a nice quick pattern, and an enjoyable knit wth Panda Wool. I should be able to get a couple of projects in this month - I have some mini mochi calling my name.

Brenda in Alberta
Owlsrook on Ravelry

Easter Beans.

May as well get April over and done with. As others have posted I knitted socks from sock madness. Pattern came out while I was on a beach in Southern Calif. Very Very hard to sit inside and knit when the beach, the waves, the sand, the speedos (yep that one is for you Adrienne) keep calling you outside. So here they are. The Start. Yes, I did colorwork 2 at once. Twisted balls yep.


Here are the finished socks. To the woman on the flight from Calif that complained about me "somehow getting knitting needles on a flight". Worry about the man next to you with the ink pen. I am not wasting my needles on injuring someone. Did not tell her about the other needles in my carry one.
Being I had to pack what I may need before I left, don't think I did to bad on my colors I took.
Oh and did I finished before Miss Froggy?

March wrapped up

Haha, get it? "Wrapped" up? Yeah, well. I try. This is a lot of mohair/acrylic that I dyed from lemon to poppy. Random bobbles were requested... and delivered. Sorry about the poor quality of the blocking shot (really, it's about as good as the blocking itself).

Last Minute March Photos

It's a bit last minute, but here are my WIP + finished project photos for the 12/12/12 KAL.

I ended up focusing on crochet projects this month, though I've also started the Evenstar Mystery shawl, which I hope to finish this year. (I'm more than a bit behind already.)

Anyways, my first project was the neck ruff from a recent issue of Crochet Today:

And the second is a 'vest' from Contemporary Crochet, which I used 2 skeins of sock yarn for instead of the recommended mohair yarn.

Sorry for the blurry photo and the lack of photos of the projects actually being worn!

March 12/12/12: Hang on kiddies, this is a long one!

Okay you ready for all the crap I did this month? :)

First I made a Tit Bit out of Naturally Caron spa. I figure it's 40-50 yards or so.

Then I finally dug out the skein of hideous looking Lion Brand Alpine Wool my mom gave me and made a hat (Foliage) out of that, which was promptly gifted to the new product manager at work. I used the entire skein of wool, so that's 93 yards for that project.

Then I dug out some more yarn left over from other projects and knit Gargantuan melon, only I cut it down to 60 stitches. It's done in Lion Brand Chunky and I figure it's 75 yards or so. The pattern has a bigger yardage but I find it hard to believe I used that much.

After that I still had yarn left so I went on to mitts. Except I didn't have enough for the mitts so I had to buy MORE yarn. ::sigh:: Anyway, these are the Susan Mitts and I figure I spent another 75 yards on them, because I made them longer, added more thumb, and used smaller needles.

And last but not least, the Artistic hat, made out of Lion Brand Jiffy and taking a whopping 100 yards at least. I still have some yarn left over, so I'll probably do something to go with it later, I think.

So that leaves us with about 384 yards total of knitted goods this month. And that isn't counting the shawl or scarf I started. Oi. :)