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August 08, 2004

A Little of This a Little of That

I went to my family reunion picnic today. What's up with this weather? It's so cold around here. This year, instead of painting, I knitted on the sweater sampler while I was there. I found that I had other cousins who also worked with fibers and another who is going to school for art! Next year, maybe all of us yarn geeks will get together and knit in the shade, huh? I did miss my son's presence this year. He is spending some time with his father. But maybe next year he will be able to come.

Sampler Progress

sampler
Well, I worked my way through the sweatshirt pocket, the stripes and the increases. And a few minutes ago, I finished the swag and raised stripe, and it's looking alright. The author explains each step before you have to execute it and that's been really pleasant! I'm really glad I got the book. It gives the impression that later on I will be able to mix and match some of these techniques to make my own sweaters. Yeah!

humble_bag_and_cloth
Besides the sampler I've done a few other little things. Here's the little humble knitting bag I knit with it's first walk around project, a simple facial cloth. I'm going to do a little mosaic hat that I found in the Slip Stitch Patterns. Did I tell you I bought that book? Well, I did. I'm so glad I did! Lots of great color ideas with mosaic patterning.

striped_hat
I also did a good, solid, ribbed hat, working on that whole striping thing that I learned from The Sweater Workshop book. You know, where you have to knit a row before going back to ribbing. The inside looks pretty nice too though that is where I weaved in the ends. I still think sometimes I will prefer the way it looks without that knit row. But it's nice to have the added knit vocabulary. I plan to send this hat to a ministry. Waiting till I fill up that plastic bag first. So far I've got a smallish diaper bag, three scarves, two hats, one pair of mitts, a couple of trinket baggies and I think that's it. I want to do a couple pairs of mittens and a baby blanket before I send it. Hopefully by the end of this year, I will know enough about seamless sweaters to send them some baby sweaters and maybe a couple adult sized sweaters. We'll see...

I also managed to work away some of the ends on Forever. I've been known to sometimes screw up a whole project on that section alone! But so far it's going pretty good. I only do a few sections at a time. It would just be project overload for me to do that all in one sitting!!

Happy knitting!

Posted by stacey at August 8, 2004 01:28 AM

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