I will have pictures soon I promise!

Well I have been away from my computer for a good portion of the week and just haven’t had the time to photograph my work. At the rate I am knitting my scarf it will be done before I get a chance to photograph it. I am a good ways into my scarf [...]

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started the scarf and 2nd sock

Well I started the scarf made out of the Worsted Malabrigo but do not have pictures yet. I also started my second sock which is dragging along slowly as I am bored with the plain and simple sock pattern. The first sock turned out well for my first sock I would have to [...]

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new yarn and borrowed US2 DPNs

Well I got some new yarn that I ordered a while ago and was back ordered. It is Malabrigo Merino Worsted in the colorway Autumn Forest. I have 2 skeins of it and will be using it to make a scarf for myself.

I also bought one skein of Fearless Fibers 100% Superwash Wool in Fingerering [...]

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new fingerless mitts

Well I was having trouble with the pattern for the fingerless mitts that I was making so those were frogged. The pattern was not very well written and I couldn’t find the abbreviation for one of the things in the pattern in any of my books so those are gone. I started a [...]

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Broke my size 2 DPN

Well yesterday was a bad day in the sock knitting department. It started off ok with some work on the foot of my sock in the morning. Then last night I went to start knitting some more and realized that I had lost the 4th needle that I was working with, luckily it [...]

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heel and gusset done

Well I am finished with the heel and the gusset on my first sock. It wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be thanks to this site here: http://www.cometosilver.com/socks/ . This site is an amazing help for anyone who is learning how to make socks and is fairly new to knitting. It has beautiful [...]

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easy mitts to ease the pain of turning heels

Well I am a little nervous about turning the heel of my sock so I started an easy project with some leftover Malabrigo Worsted Merino a minute ago. I am making Plain ‘Ole Fingerless Mitts which you can find the pattern for free here http://www.hartandsole.net/knit_me/Fingerless%20mitts.pdf. I found the pattern of Ravelry while looking for [...]

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Well things have been kind of crazy this week. On New Year Day my husband shattered his ankle and had to have 3 screws and a plate put in to stabilize it so I won’t be buying anymore yarn to knit with for a while since he won’t be working. However I had a job [...]

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Well things have been kind of crazy this week. On New Year Day my husband shattered his ankle and had to have 3 screws and a plate put in to stabilize it so I won’t be buying anymore yarn to knit with for a while since he won’t be working. However I had a job [...]

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