Not sure I will make Stage One

Hey everyone....how was your week?  I had a great week!  However.....I am not sure I am going to finish my socks for Stage One of Tour de Sock.....Yikes!

Yes, I took them to the lake house to knit on....but my great friend Rosanna bought this kit to make this shawl for herself....it was for the Stylecraft Blog Tour 2017

This kit is knit and she crochets so I told her I would make it for her.....she not only gave me the kit with yarn and pattern to make for her...she gave me and Darlene enough yarn to make the pattern for ourselves!  Here is her shawl started:

and here is my yarn I picked for me:

Rosanna also gave me an amazing wrap that she made....it is so warm and wonderful...I used it as a lap blanket last night as I was knitting.

I also got an amazing shirt from Darlene when she went on Vacation.....she says her and Bruce get lots of looks when they pull up to a Harley dealership on their Honda Gold wing bikes.....LOL!

So, back to my socks.....I did work on them.....and am getting close.

They need to be done by Wednesday at 4 pm.....so knit, knit, knit......

I also worked a little on my Five sweater last week.....I took it to the lake house but only worked on the socks and shawl at the lake house.

Well, that is really all I have this week.....we had a few cancellations.......Darlene had to buy a new truck:

Tami was sick but she made 2 hats while at home

Melissa was able to make it and made a HO!

Tenia finished her hat and started a "part shawl part cowl" with her prize from Knitter's Gotta Knit Podcast :)

Rosanna worked on a blanket and also a new shawl

 

and some pictures....I did not get too many this year.....sorry!

 

Have a great week everyone!

Happy Happy Happy Knitting!

 



All Alone for 2 weeks

Hi everyone!  How has your week been?  Mine was fine till today....it is my first workday without Darlene.....Yup, she is on her 2 week vacation with her husband....they are riding their motorcycles to Canada this year......but she has been texting me daily and I can track where she is via her iPhone.....so I guess I will survive....but I miss her!

On to my knitting/crocheting.....

This past week I finished Mom's socks:

And I got a little bit done on Paige's socks (Darlene also knitted a little on them on the podcast):

I also worked on my Augusta Shawl....

And then spent all day Sunday trying to catch up my Temperature blanket....I made it to the 22nd....so 10 days worth took me pretty much all day....LOL!

Now, I really shouldn't work on both of these crocheting projects in the same weekend.....I found myself doing about a row and a half of double crochets on the blanket when I should have been doing half double crochets.....but I am not ripping back

The new dogs are doing fine.....and Max got to meet Jaz.....they played a little, but I am not sure Max was impressed.....Jaz is just so big she does not know her strength.

I got their new collars with their names on it.....I did not get a picture of Max's, but here is Purl's....its a little hard to see in the picture, but you can see it much better in person in case any of my babies get lost.

This next picture is all of them on my lap taken Saturday morning (before their new collars came in).

Jaz also sat on my lap and got some loving, but it was getting crowded so she went the floor...but not till she deposited tons of hair on me...LOL!

My last thing of the week is that Darlene and I started a new project......and NO, we did not buy yarn for it (but I was ready to).  Darlene had enough yarn for the both of us.  We are making a sweater called Five by Nicola Susen .  We are each making it with 2 skeins of Wollmeise LaceGarn.  I am doing Red (Little red riding hood) and Darlene is doing a beautiful turquoise.

That is all I have.....Have a great week everyone!

Happy Happy Happy Knitting!