May Sweater finished - Sweater #6 for the year

This was made in CotLin a cotton/linen blend and PERFECT for summer!

May Planning/Progress

Arm/wrist is fully healed... so I am off and running with projects! First my Heavily cabled sweater was finished on the first. Here's a shot taken by my 8 yr old son (so pardon the pic):

Here's a close up on the cabled center portion:

Other items finished: One hat for charity - DONE Baby blanket for Baby Shower - DONE

NEXT: Finish the Crochet Bronze Beauty top - free pattern from Lion's Brand Yarn. I'm doing mine in Navy KnitPicks CotLin yarn. Going quick and fits like a charm. Also in the works: Brioche Scarf done on 2-ply alpaca on BIG needles for lacy-effect. Pair of mini-socks done in Christmas colors & double-knit to test my theory that I can make a larger stocking with after-thought heel. Pair of adult socks for me - fairly simple pattern (tbd) to test out the Cotton sock yarn from KnitPicks to see if I can find a non-wool sock yarn. AND: I'm picking up and re-attempting the TKGA Master Knitters Level 1 program. Expect posts about it directly - should be (I hope) able to finish by End of July. I'm also picking up a top that's been frogged twice that's a Striped-T using Paton's Bamboo/Silk - I plan on starting this toward the end of May and finish by early July. Yes, indeedy - I am back! Now if I could just figure out how to do some glamour shots of myself... lol.

March Accomplishments - April Planning

Well, this was a little light... but I did get some stuff done.

I finished three hats - in total, two knit in Brioche stitch and one knit with the loom. I finished a baby blanket...

And I got started on a super-simple short-sleeved shrug on the loom.

As of April 8th, I've finished my shrug (photos coming) and really appreciated the book I had bought which showed me how to do true stockinette and true garter on the loom. Just in time for my arm to be to the point where I can start knitting again (a little, not too much too fast).

SO - SLIM April Planning so that I don't overdo it!

1. A few hats to make up for my lack of progress so far on my goal of 40 hats for the year.

2. A baby blanket for a shower at the beginning of May - probably will be a super-fast crochet one.

3. Get my Heavily Cabled sweater out of hibernation and work on it so that I can finish it on May 1st.

4. If I get too far too fast with the sweater (well, that probably means I'm not taking it as easy as I'm supposed to - sigh)... then I'll pick up the heavily cabled gloves and try to get them to almost done so I can set them aside to finish on June 1st.

Now to try to figure out what sweaters to work on May/June/July.

March progress

So, from the knitting impaired - so far, I have ONE hat out of the hopefull three I was shooting for:



This was done with a simple e loop - which was the only stitch (besides e loop ribbing done on a long loom BUT knit flat). So, it's a twisted stitch stockinette hat.

I'm also working on the baby blanket that is more than half done... also picked up a book for more 'loom' stitches... which taught me a lot. I'm looking forward to trying something a little more involved.

I'm hoping some dedicated time will get the baby blanket finished by Saturday - it's ribbing, but still done with e loops - so still twisted. I did a panel half pink and tried-to-be-half variegated, but the length of the skein was shorter on the variagated. I'm starting the second panel with variagated; and will add from a third skein to try to get it as long as the pink square on the first panel. If when I'm done, my goal is to have two blocks of pink catty-corner to two blocks of variagated. If need be, I can undo the cast off on the first panel and add more length to it. We'll see... definitely an iffy project.

BUT - good news is that the doctor declares that I should be good as new in two to four weeks. So, I'll spend the time working on a project for me using some of the new stitches I've learned - to be determined yet. And can't wait to start truly knitting again!

And it's just in time too, I have a new knitting class starting up middle of April!

Still quite upset with myself

Stooooopid arm.

I did manage to pick up the needles enough last week to prove to myself that my hybrid cottage industry style/continental style could work even with a broken right arm... exceptionally slow. But enough for the demonstrations I needed to do to teach Thursday night.

Not fast enough to even bother trying to make something. However! The knitting loom? I can totally do that left-handed. And my right arm just acts like a dumb weight on the loom.

New March plans are to make 3 hats and a baby blanket on the loom. Wish me luck, because most of my free time right now is more focused on sleeping than anything else.

March plans (or lack thereof)

Finish my heavily cabled sweater.

Make a new sweater from scratch - from some sort of pattern, from some sort of yarn. Originally had planned an Alpaca long-sleeved sweater 'Ramona'. But a) I'm not sure the yarn is right for it and b) I don't think I want to finish a long sleeved sweater in Alpaca by the end of March (too hot to wear). So, then I was looking at a short sleeved cardigan in a different Alpaca yarn. But my allergies are kicking up, and I'm not sure I want to expose myself too much to Alpaca right now when I have experienced some 'slight' itching to it in the past. My wool allergy used to be slight itching, to major itching has now turned into Hives. So, I'm thinking non-animal fiber right now.

So, still looking at my stash and my queue of patterns I want to make. Haven't made a decision yet.

For non-sweater projects:

I would like to make 10 charity hats (since I didn't finish that many last month).
I want to crochet a 2 hour baby blanket.
A 12"x12" block for another baby blanket.
Finish my Kingdom Gloves I started last month.

Non-sweater knitting progress report - February

Day one - one cat blanket about 18" x 18" done


Get to 50% done on Cabled Gloves - about 30% - so a little behind, but am hoping to have finished by third week of March, so we're still in the game


12 jellyfish hats (< 2 hours each) - 3 done of the 12, no new progress to report, if I can get my project bag finished by tomorrow night, I'll come back and work on these again.

Felted Knitted project bag - about 75% done - have one more panel to go, then seaming, then picking up and knitting the top border and handles.


1 Scarf - changed this to a COWL - done


1 12" Blanket Square - not started yet Decided to do a second cowl instead - love, love, love how quick these work up. done


little Gnome House for my son's stuffie done