Oh and my Knitting...

This is what I have been working on for the past few weeks, it's a commission for a special girl's birthday, so I can't tell you who it's for, but it is my own design. Made with Knit Pick's Main Line in...I think Harbor View is the color name, on size 6 needles. I am very pleased with the result. He had seen me making a sweater for another commission and said, that would be perfect for her b-day! So I did a variation on that sweater. The fact that her birthday is in the middle of july was overlooked when we decided on this sweater, but I hope she likes it regardless.

In the past week I have managed to lose my knitting pouch. In it i keep essentials, like my tape measure, little scissors, yarn needle, markers, cabling needles, the perfect size crochet hook for weaving in ends, stitch holders, ect. I knit the outside, my first cabling project and sewed in a lining and zipper. It was also the first thing I sewed on my sewing machine. So in addition to all the notions (I do have a couple back ups lying around) it had a certain amount of sentimental value, even though it wasn't the prettiest thing.

So if I'm going to make a new one it better be cute. I have a littel crush on this "little birds" stitch, and like that this strawberry red mercenized cotton is a complete turn around from my blue acryllic pouch. I had the yarn in my stash, just one ball because I liked it but wasn't sure what I wanted to do with it. Not sure if the stitch is ideal for such a high use item, but it will be adorable. Might have to follow it up with a matching cardi, how silly would that be!?! I just truly love this.

Been at this one a bit longer, I'm up the armholes. This being my first foray into steeks, it's pretty exciting. I'm not sure how I will reinforce because although it is a "hand wash" merino, it doesn't seek very grabby. I may only hand sew, machine stitching would make be feel more secure. But I know that you can end up with puckering with machine stitching. hmmm.

The pattern is from Interweave mag. Been loving it for a while, so even though I don't have enough yarn to do the whole thing (this yarn in discontinued), I'm just going to do it as a vest. Very sporty.

Lastly this is a lace scarf out of knit pick's alpaca cloud in tide pool. I doubled the yarn and am working on size 5 neeldes. This is a long term project, it was a sweater I frogged halfway through. Which had taken me a little over a year to do (on and off and off) and just wasn't going well. So now it's a sure thing for this yarn, even if it will prob take me another year to knit it.

Here's a close up of the stitch pattern, which was taken from some random place. i love it. like berries, or polka dots or something. It only took a few days to memorize the stitch pattern. even better.

If you hadn't noticed a big goal for me this summer is to knit from my stash. I want to decrease it majorly before moving day in September. So all those someday projects are moving on up the line.