So Many Plans, So Little Time

Do I finish it or not? This sweater is for me - well it was supposed to be finished for summer 2007. I just love the colors, and yarn texture but became sidetracked. I refuse to let it become a UFO (unfinished object) hanging around in a knitting bag stuffed in a closet. Even if I don't wear it until next year I'm going to spend the next knitting hours finishing it!! The technique was very interesting - multidirectional - always working with live stitches which means there's NO sewing together! Love the patterns by this designer - Jill Vosburg (JustOneMoreRow.com).



August strip for the SSK (Sample Stitch Kimono). Yes, I am behind, but have finally figured out the pattern to my satisfaction. It wasn't difficult, but summer brought on a brain drain and the words and hand motions didn't coordinate. Working feverishly - the September pattern has already arrived and I'm anxious to be back on track. The SSK is a year long knit-along where you get one pattern per month and the completed project is a jacket. If you want to see the finished jacket, check out http://www.knitability.com/




And here we are with BD's blanket in progress- I'm just loving the colors and patterns. Using Patons Canadiana a worsted weight acrylic (wearable and washable) yarn great for children. I'd made this blanket twice before and was tired of the same stitch patterns, so I've switched the patterns to blocks from Leisure Arts#932 - 60 Easy Knit Pattern Stitches to create Sampler Afghans. Enjoying the new designs and always anxious to complete a few more rows.






JC's "color" blanket on the left, JE's is on the right.

Thinking about Sirdar Pattern 8465 as an in-between jacket for me. Do I dare start it now or will it become a fall pattern which I finish next summer?? I think it would look great in Wendy X-Treme - the color is a purple ,blue ,pink ,green and teal twist which I've had for quite some time. If I use this yarn to "destash" do I get to buy more yarn?

All this computer time will not get the WIPs completed so, bye for now and NEEDLES DO YOUR STUFF!

Here are the photos!

Well, I've managed to download the photos of the completed shrug and the August strip for the kimono knitalong. Thought they both came out quite nice.

We had a bit of a problem with our female kitty Gremlin last night. As I was trying to work on the blog, she nicely sat in the solarium and CHOMPED on one of my Christmas Cactus plants! After frantically checking the 'poisonous plants for cats' website, she was shooed out of the room and the plants were rescued. I've finally gotten them not to DIE and she chooses to CHOMP! I spent the afternoon hanging the pots from hooks hopefully higher than she can jump. Wonder what tonight will bring with this minx!!


Enjoy the photos!

Can it be September?

Can't believe it's September! The weather this weekend was perfect - a hint of cool things to come. We celebrated the weekend with bbq's - Jeff and Connie visited on Sunday and we visited Carolyn and Steve on Monday. Enjoyed seeing our sibs and spending the time with them. Guess I'd better call to have the pool closed before the leaves start to fall.

Knit wise I've made some big strides. Completed the July strip for the SSK (Sample Stitch Kimono) - OK I'm late and should have finished the August also but.. Anyway, I also finished a shrug from a class I took at my LYS. It came out so cute - I'm going to try to download a photo to this post so wish me luck.

This coming weekend is a bday gathering for our youngest grandson BD. Looking forward to seeing everyone.

Trying to keep up with technology - Chris gave me a Samsung I-Poddy type thing so I've been busy downloading some knitting podcasts I found on line. Now if only I could figure out how to pick up messages from my cell phone!

Enjoy the beautiful weather and good health to all. Deb