Secret of the Stole II

I did work on my new stole and actually finished Clue 1 in plenty of time. I finished it Wednesday night and started it Tuesday night. I'm using a 70% Wool/30% Rayon blend which I got from Laurel. It's part of her major stash she inherited a few years back. I need to start Clue 2 and hope to do so this weekend.


The Dem Fisher Sin Fru also started today. I am using an Alpaca/Nylon blend (courtesy of Laurel) in Teal for it. As of right now, I'm through Row 25 of the chart. It is going to be gorgeous. I'll post a picture sometime tomorrow.

LSSK/ACK Get-together

We had our first get-together on January 19th. It was a lot of fun. There were a total of 13 people which included some guests, but not the littlest kids.

Here is Cory, with her mom Shayla; Leah; Kri (Shayla's 2 year old), April (a guest) and ACK's fearless leader, Birdy.









Here is Brenda & Peggy. Peggy was a little camera shy and didn't want her picture taken. Next month's meeting will be at Brenda's house.







This is Mariesa. The little one is Shayla's youngest. He is a doll. It's hard to believe that she has 2 more at home!!!








Here is Wendy & Lauren. Lauren is a member of ACK even though she currently lives in PA. Whereas it would be nice to think she came down just for our little get-together, she didn't. By coincidence, she had a job interview here that time period and was able to come over that Saturday night. She persevered and made it despite all the construction & road closures.



This is Laurel & her eldest son, James. James came with his mom because of a side trip in the neighborhood. April is James' girlfriend. Both of them are into fiber crafts. James spins and crochets.

Busy Times

Lots of stuff has been happening lately. Our holiday party was a resounding success. Grandson loved his telescope. Being the evil grandmother that I am, I put socks in the box & wrapped it up. Grandpa put together the telescope while I did that & we hid it in the closet. Poor kid was almost in tears when he found the socks. We whispered to him to look at his cousin Bradley, who held up the telescope. Talk about ecstasy. LOL

I also knitted a couple baby blankets. One for a great nephew who was born a couple weeks ago and one as a Christmas gift for a great niece from her uncle.

This is Wallace's blanket. It's made with Yarn Bee's Mosaic Twist in Terra Rosa. The knitting is done corner to corner on size 17 needles with an increase on the each end of the right side rows, then decreases on the right side rows.





This is Mason enjoying her new blankie. It's the same yarn, just different color. I also did eyelets around the edge on her blanket.

2008 Knitting Resolutions

Dawn had this bright idea to post our 2008 Knitting Resolutions, so:

1. Finish: DH's vest; Handsome Triangle from VLT; Secret of the Stole; any other UFO's in my closet (mainly sewing things together)
   
2. Work on new KALs
3. Do more lace/shawl knitting
4. Make some dresses for niece - knitting or sewing

I think that's enough damage for now. :-D

Design Contest Over

At long last (says she who was running late), the LSSK Design Contest is over and the votes have been tallied. Congratulations to Meghan for her swing dress and JoAn for her Texas Vest (like your daughters, I want one too!!!). I came in second place for my Flower Petal Blanket. (For more information on any of these patterns, please email me at txaes2001atyahoodotcom)


I also entered a purse & cell phone holder. There is a large pocket inside:


In addition, I made an ensemble for my niece for Christmas. I thought it was the right size, but it's not. I went ahead and gave it to her mom so maybe she will get a little wear out of the booties & sweater:


Secret of the Stole: I'm about half-way through clue #6. (Clue 7 was published yesterday.)
Mystic Waters: I've made some headway on untangling the yarn. Right now though, it's all put away. I want to finish SotS and I have a bunch of charity knitting to finish before the 1st.

Stash Enhancement: Yesterday, my friends Birdy, Brenda and I went to Laurel's house. She wanted to get rid of some machine yarn and we needed lace weight style yarn. I'll take a picture of what all I got later and post it.

Untangling update

It is slowly but surely coming undone. I've got two balls working right now. My guess is the smaller one is the beginning and the larger the end.

I haven't worked on Secret of the Stole today. Actually felt good, so I worked on the floors of the house. They desperately needed mopping. This evening, our grandson came over to spend the night. (His dad works in a restaurant and did a double shift tonight.)

Mystic Waters

Whereas the Secret of the Stole is coming along nicely, I had a major "burp" in this one this morning. My dear, darling, lovable, feisty Ashley found a way unto the dining room table in her never ending pursuit of the cat. I guess she got distracted...


At this point, I don't know what I'm going to do. I've managed to get quite a bit rewound and there are still several sections for easy rewinding, but I've hit a major snag. I think I will work on it off & on and restart the project when my Knit Picks order comes in.

I ordered Knit Picks Gossamer in the Caribbean colorway to make another of these. It is currently being processed, so we will see when it gets here.

This has not been a particularly good day knitting-wise. :-/