Well Meh!

here we are again nearly 4 months since i last posted, no excuses just an overall mehness. I could use the whole getting married thing as an excuse but well it wasnt all that stressful realy, when i get around to it i'll post some photos (expect that arund january)

I suppose i should show you what i have done this year, i think this is almost everything i have knitted since about February! Hopefully nothing I have shown you before but if so i apologise.
Rather than bog everything down with lots of images here is a natty flickr mosaic of everything with links to the bigger photos!

FOsaic
Originally uploaded by bumblefee.

1. P1010075, Sedum Cardi for me. Ravelry

2. DSCF2089, Sheep Yoke Cardi for soon to arrive baby. Ravelry

3. IMG_6663, Aeolian Shawl for me. Ravelry

4. P1020069, stripey cardi for above baby. Ravelry

5. P1020066, Cabled drops cardi for same baby. Ravelry

6. P1020060, Imagine Sweater birthday gift for MIL. Ravelry

7. P1010940, Pirate mittens for me. Ravelry

8. P1010938, earflap hat for me. Ravelry

9. P1010826, Vinnland socks. Ravelry

10. P1010823, foray into crochet #2. Ravelry

11. P1010822, foray into crochet #1. Ravelry

12. P1010818, Dr Horrible style wristwarmers. Ravelry

13. P1010813, Batman jumper. Ravelry

14. P1010811, Lacy gloves. Ravely

15. P1010775, Lacy hat. Ravelry

16. P1010761 Aran Jumper. Ravelry

Not a lot to show for close to 9 months knitting but there we go.
Have also added twitter widget, I seem to manage to update in 140 character or less more often.

Hey look, its me again!

And once again i completely brainfart on the blogging, I can make excuses: wedding planning, work etc but really its just being lazy.

I have been knitting tho and in an attempt to not get overly picture heavy and get more than a post every 3 months i shall blog things individually.

without further ado: Mittens!

You may remember somewhere in the mists of time i knitted the full length bellas mittens for Katy, well they were so well recieved that her mum wanted a pair in black in a more regular mitten length and thus:




Its Bella's mittens (again) in lambs pride bulky in onyx (i think, black anyway)
Ravelry deets herererere.

Winter Woolies!

Whats this? Knitting something that isnt a cosy for some form of electrical device? Shocker!

However I havent quite managed to escape the knitting for others tho.

After we went to see the film that shall not be spoke of my dear friend Katy decided that she musthave the mittens in it thusi was set to task, a quick ravelry search yielded multiple patterns but i went for the freest and the chunkiest as i felt them truest to the original, yarn was ordered (i had actually hoped it would be darker, boo to monitor colour shindiggery). Yarn arrived and 2 days later Katy had mittens:
I do not seem to have escaped the knitting for others loop as now her mum wants a pair, thus i have to find a nice black chunky weight yarn...
Details: Yarn is patons Inca and the Pattern is Bella's Mittens from here. Rav it up over here.
It was a good pattern to knit and cos of the chunkyness quick quick.

I have managed to fit in some knitting for me! Its cold and the only hats i have are either a touch big or a touch smAll and tend to compress my hairto the point that i cant see thus a new one was in order...

Front:


(excuse the emo hair it needs cutting)


Back:Its Meret by Wooly Wormhead, the first time I've tried one of her patterns and I must say it was a very pleasent experience, it was a super quick knit, only a couple of evenings simple but not boring and the end result is ace, it also gave me a good reason to trymy new blocking boards.
The yarn is Arawhatsit nature wool solids and apparently neverending, i started with 2 balls, knit a pair of quite large slippers, then this hat and still have over half a ball left! What next?
Rav details.

3 In a week!

Anyone who has been paying attention will have noticed an absent project from yesterdays WIP line up, that gentle reader is because they are no longer a WIP


Convertible mittens:Finished sometime in the wee hours of Sunday morning during an all night transatlantic intercontinental gaming session, that was all a dream!
Pattern is Convertible Mittens, yarn is Per Trving something something that i inherited from somewhere (Yorkie?), knit 2 at once on a 32" circ. Rav stuff.

As they go they are alright, bit wide in the hand and i got bored of the flap so its a little short but bearable, I suspect there are also a couple errors in the pattern that i didnt notice til i had knit all the hands which means that the beads are in differnt places on the 2 mittens but they will do the job and the ladybug buttons are cute.

I also managed to kill my windows install today (I blame facebook) so I am on borrowed computers til an XP disc can be located.

Weekly WIP (W)Update

I went out in the freezing cold to take advantage of the last vestigies pf daylight to try and get vaguely colour accurate photos.

In no particular order.



Backyard leaves scarf, half a side done.



Blue sweater which is going along nicely



Mermaid socks that i dont think i have touched since last week



$5 in Vegas, which is actually turning out nicer than i thot


Mittens, finished the ribbing and done a repeat and a half of the cable pattern.

Thats it for this weeks update, hopefully I can keep up the FO a week output

NaKniSweMo progress: 11"

WIPs on Parade

Ok, so after essentially a week of casting onthe WIPs are as follows, in order of casting on:


Backyard Leaves scarf in Knitpicks Andean Silk in Leaf (or Lettuce I forget) has been cast on for sometime admitedly and is now half way there.


Coupling Socks in Attain Gold, thats right people SexSox!

$5 in Paris, or as i like to call it $5 in Vegas due to the sparkly Noro Aurora yarn.

Convertible Mittens in Per Trving, too much rib on too wee needles!Some variations on the theme of mermaid socks in opal Hunterwasser (or whatever its called)

Purple Sweater (which is blue) in Knitpicks Cotlin in Dessert.And most recently cast on (save super sekrit NaKniSweMo project) fetching the remake in cygnet superwash DK, I like these ones better as they are a bit bigger and smooshier.

So thats it, FOs as they come!

First Mitten Syndrome?

woo look 2 posts in as many days!!

Everyone has heard of Sexond Sock Syndrome, but i think i had the lesser known condition of first mitten syndrome, mitten number 1 on the right took 5 months, mitten number 2 on the left took a smidge over a day!The palms, funs!
And of course it wouldnt be stranded colour work without a shot of the floats, pretty neat no?
But yes these were my first real attempt at stranded colourwork so I'm quite pleased, I really dont know why the first took so long, too many other things got done in between times, I think finishing the first gave me motivation to do the 2nd so 3 or 4 discs of Season 2 of the Gilmore Girls later here we are! Pattern is Anemoi Mittens and the yarns are Cygnet 4ply in Raspbery and Phildar Lambswool in Camel. I likey them they remind me of Windwaker!

And talking of things taking forever and second sock syndrome, I finally got thru the first entrelac sock:wheee, I had to make the top a bit wider for my fat legs. Now i need to work up to casting on for its partner, which will be a different colour!

This will of course most likely be my last post before i leave the country for 3 months (I dont see anything exciting happening tommorrow) so hopefully that will mean my life is more interesting and there is more to blog

I know, I know

Again with the sucky blogging but in my defense I have been busy

I had to give my presentation on my project last friday and i needed something to wear thus i pushed to finish the sweater i had been working on:
DNA! fitting no? Its the DNA shell knitted in knitpicks cotlin in morrocco


Talk went ok i think, Ellie took pictures of me recaffinating afterwards:slightly better shot of the DNA

Then being as how we were having a heat waave i decided to knit me some gloves...

First on Sunday i knitted these:

A variation on the theme of Irish Hiking mitts, in Patons SWS which is quite nummy. I took out one of the cable else they were gonna be giant and i knitted in the round and made them a bit longer.


Then on monday i made these:Eowyn from some Rowan booklet in Debbie Bliss Soho, and er yeah thats not a trick of the light, of the 3 balls i had i decided not to use the 2 that were the same dyelot oppsie!
Modelled, i suspect they will be put away til its chilly.

I also made my Sobe "scones"

the inverted commas are there because really these are not entirely scone like, well they are scone but they have things not commonly found in scones, like jalapenos and bacon! still quite tasty tho

For the love of Yorkie...

Once again Yorkie came to visit, well eventually after Fifi the whore tried to get her to walk to Lanark!

As is tradition she came bearing goodies and yarns!
goodies! note the HH for father who is quite taken by it!
Yarns! lots of yarns! inc some rather nice Noro...

She also brought me my xmas pressie!
Avast!!

On Saturday we went to the creative stitches and hobbycrafts show at the SECC. We saw knitted gingerbread house

We generally perused and reeled in horror at fun fur sweaters
This turned out not to be the instructional manual we thought it might be
The embroderers guild had some displays including this which we both agreed resembled a certain knitties husband...

Throughout the whole thing i was very restraint and all i got was:
Checked fabric that will ultimnately become a shirt.


There was knitting too!


The bag of the beads is finito!
PAttern is Saturday morning market bag (again!) yarn is patons grace, beads are hama esque which my father spend an evening threading for me so muchos props to him!

After Yorkie departed we did a very Sunday thing and went to garden centres where i got a seed tray andf got my first load of seeds planted up

So we shall see how they grow!


Finally a little artists impression for Yorkie...

Friday: FO and Fibre!!

I finished something!! Shocker!! In a bout of knitting ADD i decided to cast on something that would hopefuly be fairly quick just to have something finished. I think knitting time this took about 3 days but they were spread over about as many weeks so!

I give you Saturday morning market bag:
(see as well as being useful for bringing me snack foods he is a dahhhaaalink knitwear model hehehe). Its a bit of an odd shape almost triangular.

When filled with goodies it stretchs out quite a lot:
Still not the regularist of shapes tho.
The reason for the odd shape?

slight yarn shortage, this was all i had left...

Pattern is thus, I modified it quite a bit, first i knit the main bit of the bag in the round and did a 3 needle bind off for the bottom seam, I have no idea how many pattern repeats i did just til i felt the need to stop, then cos i was running out of yarn i only did 2 ounds of garter round the top and made the handle quite short.

Yarn be Ella Rae Kasbah in teal.


And since i was getting stuff from Scottish Fibres anyway i got a few wee bittys for myself (well mother (we) just got a double treadle kit so there will be much spnning to do)
Linen tops stuff
Ronaldsay, sheepies from some Islands up north that eat nothing but seaweed so makes the wool different, we shall see what its like when we spin!