Real Busy Weekend Here Knitting, Sewing, and a million other things too...

Real busy weekend (not in any specific order)!

Spent Sunday struggling to learn a new pattern in knitting this hoodie sweater for my 7yr

old grand daughter. (for Chanukah...not much time left!)

This is about as far as I got. Never ripped out so much in my life before!

But with great frustration, help from Knittinghelp.com, real people there who explain things in writing,

and videos to watch I mastered/well I learned pretty well to make this lace pattern

at the bottom of the sweater just above the ribbing (which I know how to do).

 Close up of the holy lace...hoping she won't count the holes as they are NOT all there!!!! LOL

 Then FINALLY having finished all the knitting for my grandson's gift sweater for same occasion, I soaked it and blocked it and put it out to dry. Well it didn't dry, even though the sun WAS shining when I put it out it was not hot out. So now it rests on top of the washer and dryer indoors. Maybe three or four days from now it will be dry and I can knit the parts together into a sweater/jacket for him.

 I also laid out and cut out another scarf from T-shirts. This one is yet to be washed so the cut parts will curl up. It will be for sale at the Davis Pence Art Gallery Holiday Market later this month. Hopefully I'll get a few more done by then. The two I already made are for gifts.

 And just in case you think THAT took ALL of my time...

 I also made DINNER last night! This is usually the job of my DH, but he was feeling less than par so I took over. Besides he would never dream of cooking a squash! It seemed to take forever but it was delicious none the less!!! (And DH is back to normal today! He can cook dinner tonight!!! (I still have some left over squash in the fridge for me!)

Wow, knitting, sewing, cooking...I'm a regular little domestic art goddess!

I hope you had an equally productive or at least enjoyable weekend where you are!

My Weekend!

I don't know about you, but I was pretty much glued to my TV set this weekend watching the news coming in from Japan. I can knit and watch TV at the same time so I felt productive, while sad and overwhelmed by what I was seeing. As you can see I am at the ninth of 13 stripes that go around the outer part of this baby blanket! Still knitting in the round!

I also made a few more yo-yo flowers from my

silk necktie collection! ♥

The bright side was receiving a photo of my kids (front) and daughter in law (back)

from Oregon from my son's IPhone. My daughter traveled there with her daughter to celebrate the kids step brother's 50th birthday.

Sweet for me to see them together.

♥

And seeing an elderly Japanese woman and two companions rescued from their car 20 hours after their tsunami ordeal this morning also warmed my heart. ♥

Move Over Ms Em I'm Coming In...

Yesterday I had some free time and I dropped into the local library where this new knitting book jumped off the shelf into my hands... I was attracted by the colors and designs of this wonderful artist Kristin. I had maybe tried something in Fair Isle knitting once a long time ago, failed miserably and put that idea out of my head. But I found the cutest artsy baby blanket of hearts and bright colors in this book so decided it was time to give it another try. I learned a lot from reading and doing and making mistakes. This Wonky looking square is wonky looking because I pulled the yarn that you

drag across the back while changing colors too tightly. The author said there is nothing to be done to fix it...but I think this one will at least become a journal quilt to capture my first attempt.

I'm pretty sure I can do this...so will keep practicing until I can get some fairly even squares with fairly flat hearts.

But in the meantime don't you see the artiness of this one? I'm also thinking that I might have to make a fabric backing for the blanket like I'd do on a quilt to hide those loose strands of yarn. Or can't you just see a baby getting all tangled up in them? Maybe I'll only have to back each square! Oh the ideas they are a flowing now.....