Knitting.....do you remember last week when I said I 'almost' had a grand slam? Well, I finished those black rainbow socks Monday evening. I love them!
I got a lot of knitting done on my Hiya Hiya KAL socks...this is also in the Dachshund colorway and I friend of mine asked me if there is purple in the sock yarn too (like the purple in the pashmina I got for Camp Loopy)....and there is, it may just be a little hard to see. My boyfriend says it looks like I spilled bleach on the sock on the left....MEN! sheesh!
I also worked on my 'Your Beautiful' shawl....I am only about 7.21% done (yes, you know I have a spreadsheet on this)....and I am enjoying it.
Well, I think that is all I 'hand' knitted on.......but I do have a couple of knitting machines. I have a large one that I have no clue how to use, and I have a small one like for children to use and make scarves and hats and stuff.
I pulled out one of them this weekend to knit a blank!
Why am I knitting a blank you ask? Well, some of my SNB friends have been dyeing their own yarn...so a few ladies were getting together at one ladies house for us to dye yarn. I wish I would have taken more pictures of 'the process', but I had gloves on my hands and microwaves to watch time on and niddy noddies to wind yarn on....... I dyed 2 yarns....a blank and a 'cake' of yarn. The blank I knit to be a gradient from black to silver to orange (of course you knew orange would be in there)....it was called tangelo!
There is the blank:
Here is the yarn after niddy noddy:
and here is the hank
Then, I died a cake of yarn....it was a loose cake and I wanted a chocolate brown on the outside and an orange on the inside....I did get some brown into my orange, but I am still in love with it. I really wish I would have taken a picture of the cake when it was being dyed, but oh well......
Then, there was a lady there that had a knitted blank that she wanted to go from light color (almost all white) to a slowly darker 'rose' color....when this was wet and she was offering it to anyone, it looked a little orangeish...but I can see now it is mostly all dusty pinkish....but I still like it...she was unhappy with it, I thought it was pretty and I just traded her some bare yarn because I did not want it to just go to waste......ha, ha!
Hmmmmmmm, what else did I do this past week.....Oh, I tried to crochet a hat as extra credit for Loopy Academy. This hat is way bigger than I thought it would be, but I just need to do one row of single crochets and make the bow and it is done.
A couple of weeks ago I showed you some cross stitch patterns I had bought (half way down). They were of Shaun the Sheep. Well, out of all 4 there was one on 6 ct white aida cloth (that means 6 stitches per inch). So, since I have not cross stitched in forever, I thought I would start with something quick and easy.....I am not done, but I have gotten a lot done. The other 3 cross stitch sets I got are 14 ct white aida cloth, so, smaller squares! Here is the first one:
I had also been listening to some of the older Suburban Stitcher Podcasts.....I think Dianne used to be a pretty big cross stitcher before she started knitting....anyway, on an episode early this year she was showing a 'cross stitch holder' that her mom had made and she was going to try to make some and put them in her shop. Well, I did not see any in her shop, but I contacted her and she had a prototype to sell me...it was with 'geek' fabric and it was orange.....I loved the fabric (reminds me of The Big Bang Theory).....and here it is....it will hold an 11x11 QSnap, and I only had sizes 6x6 and 8x8, so I ordered an 11x11. I hope it is here soon.
Oh....I almost forgot....I won a project bag and yarn on Instagram! Yahoo! She is going to mail it till late next week because she knows I am about to go out of town for the retreat. Her name is Jennifer and she has an etsy shop called The Ultimate Bag Lady and she paired up with Texas Dyed Wool....I cannot wait to get this......
Well, that is really all I have.....now.....this coming weekend is the Knitting Retreat at my sister's lake house. Here are some pictures from last year...I really look forward to this weekend every year. I cannot wait for Friday to get here! My sister got a new dock/deck built and I cannot wait to see it.
Oh, and Darlene brought me a Turtle Made spindle.....so, I may be spinning at the lake this weekend too! Thank you Darlene!!!
Have a great week!
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