He Loves them!

It's cold and rainy here in Forks, WA today. Alfred who usually runs around in thongs when he's not in his hiking shoes asked me to get his socks out for him. I put them on him and rubbed his little toes
He says he's in heaven!  This is the basic Woodsman Sock pattern by Elizabeth Zimmermann in Knitting Around. A fun, easy knit.

PiR2 Growing.

The colors in this shawl match much of the colors the leaves are starting to turn now. It will be a perfect Fall Shawl.

Knit On!

The only real way to get a perfect fit in your hat
......knit it on!

Hether models while I try to see if CeCe's hat is big enough. I think we have some tinK-ing to do.

CeCe's Hat

Ok, poor Cecelia has been waiting paitiently for this summer hat. I'll probably get it finished just as it's starting to cool off. But it will still be usable and she can wear it through the winter and again next summer.

I started with another fiber and it just wasn't working out. The pattern is EZ's tam which works up so simply in wool, but try to find a cool weather fiber and you're going to have trouble. I was at a LYS last week and saw these divine fibers. I couldn't decide which so I am using a combination of both. The green is slubby and cotton and the copper is 3 strands of linen. The linen softens up like silk. It is still not working up like wool does, but I am designing as I go trying to keep the basic tam pattern intact. The rim here is a garter stitch rim which is flexible. You can't get cottons to function in ribbing, so this seems to be doing the trick. I'm ready to increase the stitches for the fuller part of the tam now. More as it develops.

Fini !

I was putting so many projects on needles that I decided I was going to finish a few. The Woodsman's Socks (pattern by EZ Knitting Around) are finished. I even wove in every last little end. This is a four ply so I split the ends and wove them in ever so nicely on the back. You can tell that this wool will full a little and all the ends will stay nicely put. I want to wash and block them just to feel how soft the wool turns when I've done so. We'll see how that goes. :) DH loves them as is.

Possibilities!

Why is it that we have to try the stuff we're knitting on....everywhere? I could have leggings, a jacket. Just finish the other leg, Maureen and put it on your Granddaughter! (BTW, those toes could have used some nail polish.)

Round 4-PiR2

I've started on the 4th increase. I'm keeping the same pattern throughout. I can see that it doesn't line up with the original pattern, but I"m not going to fret about it. Catherine saw me looking over an area where I'd noticed a mistake in the pattern and she looked at me crosswise as if to say....NOBODY is going to see that! :) She's right. Just me. HA! I knitted this section onto a pair of Knit Picks needles so I could leave the cable in as a "lifeline". I had the opportunity to compare the KP needles with the Inox. I have to say I like the Inox much better for lace knitting. (see my note on knitting the DK Swish with the KP Options below)
The fine lace yarn slips too easily for me on the Options needles and drags a bit on the cables. The Inox work just the opposite with the needles giving you just enough drag to feel like you don't have to grip the needles to keep the stitches from falling off and the Inox cables slide very nicely. That being said, I still like the Options a lot for Magic Loop and general knitting as the heavier weight yarns aren't impeded by the Options cables (which are very nice and flexible, not to mention the color is going so well with my Petal yarn.

It Grows

This is the cuff of the pants I'm making with the Elizabeth's Year yahoo group. We're knitting the September nether garments. I'm adapting the pattern to make a pair of pants for my granddaughter SeraGita. Look at that crazy cuff!

Start of Pink Frilly Longies

More fiber! This is the Swish "Petal" DK that arrived in the mail today. I had the eyelash stuff in my stash. I'm working on the nethergarments chapter of EZ's Knitters Almanac. I've decided to knit SeraGita a pair of winter pants. The eyelash stuff will be on the cuff only. I purchased a few KP circulars too. I got 3 different sized cables and size #6 needles. The neat thing about these is that on the pink swatch you can see that I've been able to leave the cables in the work and take the needles off. I'm using them in what you can see on the right is the start of the cuff of the pants. I'm using the magic loop method and it works great with the size #31 cable. Not to mention these needles really work great! I love 'em. The Swish is a nice fiber too. Really knits up easy.