New and Ribbing Along

Hi folks - I stumbled across this KAL the other day and thought it was perfect - I just started Ribby Cardi ages behind everyone else.

I'm making it in Cascade 220 in a tan and slate blue and have figured out from everyone else that I should make the body at least 1-2" longer. Any other big suggestions?

All sorts of fun deatils are on my blog, and here are the first and second entries dealing with Ribby Cardi. This week is The Week of the Sock on the blog, but I'll still be knitting RC in the background.

Completed Soleil

Finally after putting it in the bottom of a bag somewhere for the winter months. I took it out last week and finished it! Here's Soleil.
I used some sort of yarn from Denmark, Hjerte Diamant cotton/viscose gauge was good in a beautiful shade of blue. Knitted size 42-44
I like the top but a little disappointed with it. Sorry I didn't get a photo wearing it. Dh said it's to short....I even knitted it an inch or two longer then the pattern called for. It's sorta like a belly type top, should be ok during those dog days of summer and kicking back around the house or maybe I should gift it to someone.

French for Black Hole

I know I am not the first person to experience this, but I knit the crap out of this thing - 3 episodes of Veronica Mars, 1 of Doctor Who (the new one) and two of Numb3rs. And this is where I am, just past the first dropped stitch.


Not from cast on, mind you, but I started nearly at the end of the increase section at 8:30 this morning. I added one extra to make it a bit wider. Also, I have 3 (!) different dyelots of the Lion & Lamb Black Purl colorway, but I'm guessing (hoping) this pattern is pretty forgiving in that regard.

Yes, that's a Yarn Pirate tote bag.

Hi!

Howdy all, I have to say this is the best idea for a knit-a-long ever. I've only been knitting for a little over a year - and every time I find something I want to knit I discover the whole world has knit it. But that won't stop me......

Currently Behind the Times on Clapotis (among other things...) and I will post a picture later, but I have a question about yardage and length. I'd like it to be really long, so I bought 4 skeins of the Lion & Lamb. If I knit up skeins 2 & 3 for the straight parts, will I have enough left with only one skein to do the decrease section? (I haven't finished the increse section yet)

Dropping even further behind

I finished the Ribby Cardi. No pictures yet, though. Now, you'd think that a post that begins "I finished the Ribby Cardi" would not be titled "Dropping even further behind," but here's the thing: it's too small. I kid you not.

Good thing I'm a process knitter. My first thought (after I gave up on the idea of blocking the hell out of it or of trying to graft on some solution that would make it bigger), was "well, now I get to order more yarn to make another one."

And it's a good thing my sister is smaller than I am. This will actually fit her pretty perfectly. And I was thinking of making her a Ribby Cardi anyway.

I'm further BTT than ever, but life is lookin' good.

Hi Y'all!

I'm catching up on my "a-longs" this weekend, since I've been a bit MIA since I started looking for a condo, then packing, then moving, then unpacking and blah blah blah. But I have finished a couple Booga Bags that I tweaked so much, I called it my own pattern and posted it on my blog.


That's the only thing I've done since January that might qualify for the BTT. I did make an Odessa, and a few dishcloths (if you like to make those, I highly reccommend joining the yahoo group Monthly Dishcloth Knit-a-long. It's so neat. You do two a month, and get a snippet of the pattern each day for about a week. You don't know until a few days into it what it might be. I just did a shamrock dishcloth and never would have picked that as a project were it up to me. But I'm glad I did it! My first time making an image in purl bumps on a stockinette background.
Anyway, I'm making a pinwheel baby blanket right now. I think that might count for this right? Seems like everyone in the knitty blogosphere has made one except for me. It's for my friend's baby. She snagged my Odessa less than two days after I finished it, to give to her 1 yr old daughter. Either I have a small head, or that child has a big one. I dunno, it's a very stretchy pattern anyway. But the parents have requested a bead-free snuggly out of the same yarn because this child will NOT rest without her Odessa in hand, pressed against her cheek. Now THAT is a knit-worthy baby.
I went and bought the yarn for my Clap yesterday. I originally bought some Red Heart for it, when I was new to the yarn scene, and I knew I'd never make mine until I had different yarn. I bought some Tahki Cotton Classic in color 103, much like the Lorna's Laces shown in the pattern. I love those colors. I may have to hunt around to other yarn shops before I start though. I was only able to buy 4 balls, for a total of 432 yards. But I can at least Knit the width (increase rounds)until I get through one ball, then use 2 for the length, and one for the decrease rounds. What do you think?

A little behind the times

I know that the Lucy bag pattern has been around for quite a while now, I'm a little slow I know but I just completed one for a SP....TA DA!

A little late then never.. Now I'm really liking this bag the more I sit and look at it.. the pictures really do it no justice what so ever. More info & photos on my blog
now off to finish a couple old projects wayyyy late in getting them done too. A Soliel & a Hourglass in progress