Onward Sweater Soldier

Well...I've managed to finish the bottom half of this sweater and a bit of the top (see pic).

So far, so good. I've only made a few mistakes, and they're minor so I will try and fix them when the sweater is complete. I really like working with the misty alpaca baby alpaca. I think it will drape really nicely.

The color looks a bit strange in the photo, and well, it really is a bit strange. An ode to the 1970's days of avocado shag carpets. I think I really dig it. It brings back memories of hamburger gravy and simple days of my childhood spent outside playing with "chalk rocks." It also reminds me of the color of many of my grandma Gilmer's afghans. I didn't know until she was sick with cancer and on her deathbed that she had actually knit those green and orange afghans. Also, she had taken up knitting when she was going through a bad bout of depression, and after making her way out of it, vowed never to knit again. How sad. Knitting is what takes me "out" of my funk. It's such a great pallette cleanser.

Well, here's to knitting pulling everyone out of their daily funk n rolls.

Doing Loop D Loops

After many months of coveting the Teva Durham book "Loop D Loop," I went to Silver Creek Cabin and bought the book. It is such an AWESOME knitting book-chez punk! I've began the Leaves and Lace sweater with some really nice Alpaca yarn in 1970 something pea green. Teva calls for something a bit more asparagus colored and I've heard from some reviews online, about more scratchy than what I'm substituting. I'm using a bulky yarn from Misty Alpaca. It is soooo soft. I really like this pattern so far because it uses some new (for me) techniques. It uses a twisted stitch, where you knit or purl into the back of the stitch and you get to knit most of the sweater in the round, and then graft it together. Can we say NO SEWING (well, just a little sewing...) this also makes me very excited.

Y'all should check our her website www.loopdloop.com her stuff is way too cool.

Ciao.

I'll post some pics of the SIP (Sweater in Progress) when I can.

Give Me Some of That Ole Fashioned Knittin'

Still procrastinating...and my allergies are kicking in full swing. I always know it's August when eyeballs itch so bad I want to rub them out of my eye sockets!
Here are some cool old images of knitters I found via the web.

Larry, Moe, and Me (Curly)

Inspired by many a red head with curls, I went to Target the other day and bought some old fashioned sponge hair rollers and gave them a "go" today. Adam says he can't get over how different I look, Sage says he hates curly hair...except when it's his sister's golden locks.

Tonight I got around to finishing a few projects...I'm in full Wedding Video Procrastination mode, which is why I'm blogging and knitting of course! I sewed the petals on the "lazy daisy" purse, threw my "tree hugger" bag into the wash, and I am attempting to sew up a pillow I knit about 3 months ago! I don't think I'll get to Sage's dog tonight. It will go on looking like some sort of alien pig for a few more days.







Sage and I finished reading the first Chronicles of Narnia book: "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe," and started the next one tonight at the dinner table. I'm sure he will be the only one starting kindergarten who has finished 4 Harry Potter books, and is listening to C.S. Lewis! What a kid! The Potter books were getting a bit advanced for him, so we decided to take a break (Mum and Dad that is, Sage would LOVE to read more.)






Adam received his new camera today and we played with it a bunch tonight. It's crazy how different one small upgrade can make in the quality of photos.


The new camera was a nice excuse to get Adam to take a bunch of photos of my knitting. Rock on!

A Wee Briget...

Well, it's official-my cousins Nicole and Blake are finally getting around to joining me in the "Parents of Small Children" circle. So....in honor of their newest expecatations I will attempt to knit, drumroll please, a BABY AFGHAN.

I found a really cool pattern in the book, "The Knitting Goddess" by Deborah Bergman. It is a circular blanket knit from the inside out. It is called the Brigit Baby Blanket Pattern and is based on the Pi shawl. "The Pi shawl is a modern innovation in knitting designed by the beloved master designer and knitter Elizabeh Zimmermann that allws you to start in the center and work your way out into a circle....Symbolically speaking...the circle is a mystical symbol of wholeness, and when we take the roundness off the thing and give it four equal sides we make mystical wholeness tangible and physical" (Bergman 229-230).

I'm going to go through my yarn stash and find some soft things to use, and lots of color! Nicole's baby shower is on Sunday, and I doubt I will finish the project by then...so I will knit up one of my classic easy baby sweater patterns (see below photos of Violet in Noro, and cotton sheep sweater and hat). I can usually whip one of these up in about a day. I think I will add something punk...any suggestions? I'm a bit burned out on the old jolly roger.

Back to the ol' movie making....still have yet to finish up the WIP's. Tomorrow is another day.