by Kat | Jun 28, 2006 | General
Hello everyone! Ugh, this summer cold is gettin’ me down! I had an email from my SP from SP8, she let me know she had a cold which was laying her low – and yesterday I was certainly on the path of getting the cold. Must be a sympathy cold because misery loves company. 🙂 She is such a nice SP, I did not want her to suffer alone.
I stayed in my office all afternoon yesterday so I would not infect anyone else – in the words of Garrison Keillor – I am feelin’ pretty puny!
Hope you all have a great Wednesday – hopefully it is all down hill from here!
by Kat | Jun 26, 2006 | General
Hello everyone! Well, it is Monday and I cannot believe that next week is the 4th of July! This month has just flown by! The weather has been lovely, but today we are supposed to get some scattered showers here in West Michigan.
I spent the weekend doing housework (yuck!!) and laundry (double yuck!!) and frogging the lace socks – okay, so maybe the third time is the charm. I am through the heel flap and have turned the heel also – they look so much better than the last two attempts. Lacework is fun – but challenging. Also, knitting with dpns is not something I am used to doing. I am not thinking about the “kitchner toe” that I will have to figure out. On this last cast on, I did incorporate a new technique I read about online – I did a 3-needle join on my last round of the picot edge – it looks so awesome! One less step on the completion of sock – I will not have to stitch that down! When my son gets up, I will have him help me post a picture of my sock.
Hope you all have a great week!
by Kat | Jun 23, 2006 | General
Okay, there is a definate pattern here with Friday posts! I will work on trying to update the other days as well. I am working on those lovely lace socks from the spring IK – I cast on and then took them out and re-cast on. This time looks much nicer – no mistakes in the lace pattern!! I am almost to the heel flap on sock 1 – so I am working on them! My SP and I are doing a KAL with these socks! I bet she is farther them me!! I am enjoying teaching classes – but I want to knit for me!!
Have any of you seen the scarves from the latest Rowan book – the ones knit with denim and then you add adornments with bleach – ?? We are all (the ladies from Lizzie Ann’s) knitting scarves right now – then we are having a “bleaching” party! We will all get together with our scarves and bleach them. They are going to be the window dressing for August! I have to have my scarf done after the 4th of July – and I only have about 3″ knit thus far! I really like how the denim is knitting up though – it feels so nice to knit with it.
We are taking off for the cottage starting next Friday – so I can sit in the sun with my daughter and knit!! (She will just be laying in the sun – I cannot seem to infect her with my enthusiasm for knitting!!)
Then – before I know it Lynne – http://iwasknittogetherinmymotherswomb.typepad.com/ – is coming to West Michigan and we are going to get together to knit!! I am so excited to meet her – I read her blog and she is such a great knitter, blogger, person – I am excited to spend some time knitting with her!
Well – I better get moving off to work – have a great weekend everyone!
by Kat | Jun 16, 2006 | General
Wow, I cannot believe that it is Friday already – this week has just sped by! I had another sock class last night with 4 lovely ladies who wanted to learn how to knit 2 socks on one circular, toe up. They were a great group, I am excited to see how their socks look in two weeks. We are heading to the cottage this weekend – and 90 degree weather!
I have been working on some ideas for my secret pal – I am working on the cable footies from the 1 Skein book for her! This has been fun – thinking about what goodies I can send her!
Hope you all had a great week – and enjoy the beautiful weekend!
by Kat | Jun 9, 2006 | General
Hello everyone! Well it is a frogging Friday here at my house. I started to knit the Watercolor top from the spring IK and as I was working the top (after knitting about 17″) I discovered I had made a mistake in a couple of the rows, skipped my row of knit on the “odd” rows. I now know I cannot knit and watch TV and read a pattern AND talk to my husband (who by the way did not notice the new yarn, hmmmmmm). AARRGGHHHH. I like knitting with the ribbon yarn, but it is difficult to tear out a couple of rows and then pick up again in the round. I am taking it to my LYS this morning to rewind the yarn.
Hope you all have a great weekend – we have some rain coming here in Michigan.
We are heading north to our cottage to finish up the painting, see you all on Monday.
