Every thing is off the needles!

Yep it's true, every thing I was working on is finished.

The afghan that was my first real knitting project is done and sewn together. I like it. There are a few boo boos, but who cares it was my first project and made from recycled yarn.


Sock number 2 is done. I made the foot a little shorter and it fits better.



Because I had nothing to knit I started and finished 2 dish cloths with cats on them. They were made from one ball of sugar and spice that I had in my stash. I used one last night.



I am still spinning away at the brown beast and the white Merino.

The big question is what shall I do next? I am thinking that maybe I will make a shawl next. I would have to go out and (gasp) buy some yarn for it, so we'll see. I also have another dish cloth picked out. This one is a basket weave pattern. Of course there are always socks to do.

Amy came over and fixed the pumpkin hat I was doing for the guild. Thank goodness and she finished it up to the I cord. Now I have to fine the green yarn I put away so it wouldn't get lost.

No Daisy picture this time. I got a new rug for the TV room. YEAH!

Happy Easter

Hard to see but there is an Easter bunny sitting just right of the fallen plastic rabbit among the Easter eggs.

Saturday I went to the Guild meeting by myself. While there I spun a lot of brown wool while gabbing with the other ladies. I also bought some mohair wool blend in white from Julie to mix with the brown that I was spinning.

I am done sewing my sweater together and I am now working on sewing the seams flat. It looks like it will fit. It stretches a bit at the neck maybe I should sew in some ribbon there. The next sweater will be a few more inches higher on the middle piece.


Finished sweater


working on the seams


Daisy wants to help

I finished the blue strip for the afghan and sewed it on to the others. I have started on another white strip and this one might be my last. We shall see after it is all sewn together.


Here is what I have so far


Starting the white strip


Daisy helping with the stitch markers

It's all about the sweater

Yes just as the title says it is all about the sweater. I ran out of the white so I had to spin some more. Thank goodness I had more to spin. The sweater pieces are all knitted and it looks huge. Now I have begun to sew the pieces together. I am putting an one inch seam allowance and that should take up some of the bulk. I love the way it looks so far. If it does not fit me I guess Amy will get a new sweater.


This shows a finished seam.


Here are the pieces all jumbled together.


Sweater laid out and pinned together.

Wheel
I have done some spinning. I started the brown beast to see how it would spin, and of course I spun more white mohair blend.

The brown beast.


The brown beast spun, it has some grey in it.


The white/wool blend.


The white spun.

Afghan
Since the sweater is done I actually knitted a bunch on the afghan. This strip is almost done.

Daisy likes to help.


What do you mean I can't help.


I'm not interested in your silly wool any way.

sweater

Yep, that is just about all I have worked on. The three pieces to the front are done and now I have started the sleeve. I pinned the sweater together and it looks like it will fit. I have made a few adjustments to the sleeve fit and color I am running out of the blue yarn, so I decided to use it for the sleeve and will extend the white wool.





After spending a week dog sitting it was good to be home. Ollie was good, but I missed my cat.





Bob put together the bird house that Nathan and I bought at Rock City 5 years ago or more.

Dog Sitting

I'm spending the week at Amy's house watching their dog Ollie while they are on vacation.


SPINNING
Before I left I was spinning like crazy to finish the white mohair. I plied it on Friday and got 2 balls of yarn, and now I can continue on my sweater. Now that I am using my own hand spun yarn I noticed that it kinks up on it's self to much. I must be over spinning it or have to much spin in the ply. I went on you tube and found several videos on plying. I was lucky enough to find one that showed how to check if your yarn was balanced. Lets hope this yarn is better balanced.

SWEATER
The back of the sweater is finished! I think that it might be a little bigger than I wanted. I am also worried about running out of blue yarn. I might have to punt when I get to the sleeves.


I also started one of the front pieces. There are three, 2 sides and one middle piece.



CROSS STITCH
I have been working on the grey roofs on the cross stitch. I am getting use to the magnifier, it is making things much easier to see.

March spinning maddness

Well I'm obsessed with knitting my sweater. That being said I've had to change a few things. I made the white stripe 1 inch longer, so that I would use less of the blue. I was afraid of running out of the blue yarn.



Since I made that change I already knitted up my ball of white mohair and I am frantically spinning up more. One spool is done and I'm well into the second spool.


The Afghan is coming along, but I haven't knitted on it much.


The sock is progressing nicely. I'm still working on the foot. I think that this heel came out better than on the first sock. Practice makes perfect or in this case better.





Last Sunday Amy, Joe, and I went to Embellish to make a Celtic star chain mail pendent. All three came out great. Joe caught on faster than we did so we teased him that he can't come any more.


Daisy enjoying the afternoon sun.

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