Colourful Socks

This is one of the latest finished objects. A pair of socks, made in the eyelet pattern. Taiyo yarn from Noro, a blend of wool, cotton, silk and nylon. The colours are exquisite.

Yep, sock knitting is definitely addictive!

Awake....

My blogging mind went on a long hibernation coinciding with the Wisconsin winter. Now that spring is here, I hope to keep this up more frequently. But I did manage to complete a few projects in the last few months. Here is one of my favourites. The Lacy-Leaves Tunic designed by Lorna Miser. It was published in the September issue of Creative Knitting.

Vest for Hubby

Here's a picture of my serenity sock. The first sock is about 60% done and hopefully the pair will get completed by Christmas and maybe will be a nice gift for someone!

Last week I had picked up the yarn for the vest I wanted to make for dear hubby and did some work on it last weekend. It is being made with Comfort from Berroco Yarns. 50% Super Fine Nylon and 50% Super Fine Acrylic with size 8 and 9 Needles. 210 yards per skein. It is a super simple pattern from Carol Sulcoski which was on knitty.com. Here's the link to the pattern :
http://knitty.com/ISSUEfall04/PATTpetrol.html.
This is the first time I'm posting a link and hope it works.

Almost Complete

Woohoo, my sweater is almost done. Finished the back, front and a sleeve. The second sleeve is about 1/4 done. And my first attempt at block the parts has worked out so far. I'm so excited about this project.

A simultaneous project I'm working on is a pair of socks. The yarn is called Serenity from Deborah Norville Colletion from Premier Yarns. It is 50% superwash merino wool, 25% bamboo and 25% nylon. I'm just doing a simple ribbed sock. Almost got to the part of turning the heel on the first sock.

My next project is going to be knitting a vest for my dear hubby. Just bought the material from Monterey Yarn last week where Julie was so helpful in finding just the right type that I needed. It's going to be a combination of black and white.

Work in Progress - III

A little over 25% of the project is done. The back is completed and I've started to work on the front. Here's a snapshot of the back. Not very good, I'm afraid. The picture I mean, not the sweater!

Below is the yarn I bought last weekend. It is Pure Merino, 100% Extra Fine Merino from Berroco, 50 gm, 92 yards. I think I'll make a pair of fingerless gloves and a cabled scarf with this.

Work in Progress - II

Last night @ the dance class, we did two continuous hours of swing and cha-cha and I hurt all over. Everything hurts, all those muscles that I didn't even know that I had. :-( :-( So much for being fit.
On the brighter side, the back of the sweater was completed last night. Even with those aching muscles crying for relief, I still wanted to complete the last two rows and bind off. Just so that I know that progress can be measured.
On Saturday, another day trip to Milwaukee. Visited a yarn shop in Glendale, called "Ruhama's Yarn and Needle". The visit was far too brief, I needed another couple of hours of fiber therapy, but in spite of having decided that I wouldn't buy anything until this project is complete, I gave in to temptation and bought six skeins of yarn. Consolation : it would make a wonderful scarf and may be a pair of fingerless gloves. :-) :-)

Work in Progress - I

Ok, this is work in progess as it stood last weekend. I think I just fell in love with knitting.... again. The smell of the yarn and the texture...is about to send me into raptures. If I didn't know better, I'd think I was crazy. I did knit a little more, last few days but haven't taken a picture yet. Hopefully I'll get it done this weekend.