a rare evening

Had a hotel stay and a front dropped the temperature enough to sit by the pool and knit. It was awesome!

more knitting

trying again

Blergh.

So my plan was to use this yarn from Barnyard Knits in the feather and fan pattern.  Well, look at the pooling!  This isn't going to work and I ripped it out and started anew.

 

Poison garden

This is the Poison Garden by Tiny Modernist. There are six bottles total do do.

Peas & Carrots

Finished my Peas & Carrots!  I really do love the feather and fan pattern.  I cast on 64 sts with size 2 needles for the pattern and then switched to size 1 for the heel and foot.

New yarn

Trying out Barnyard Knits. Colourway witches cauldron. I'm nearly finished with Peas and Carrots so I wanted to have this ready to go.

See what you can do

It's amazing what you can do when you have a clear table!  These are some blocks for the Saturday Sampler at my LQS.

I really like the Judie Rothermel fabrics this year.

Progress!

One of my goals for the weekend was to clear off my cutting table.  It was a total mess and was preventing me from doing anything!

My niece likes to do her homework in my sewing area and DH commented that it was so nice of me to clear off a space for her! LOL

Hot Mess

One of my goals for vacation was to finish these Hot Mess socks.  My son is very pleased and hoping for cooler weather-soon please God!

Peas and carrots

I just love knitting feather and fan socks.  Whenever I see green and orange together it makes me think Peas and Carrots!  This is some Hobbii yarn in a Halloween colorway from last year.  I use size 2 needles to knit the pattern and the switch to size 1 for the heel and foot.

Hot Mess

So I'm knitting away on some Hot Mess yarn for Red. 

CO 68

K1P1 for 13 rows

K2P2 for 71 rows

Heel over 34 sts

This is Hot Mess yarn, specially dyed by Beach Bum for Red.  She even made a custom label for his skein!

Big yellow

Tig prefers all things yellow.  I opted to use a patterned stitch on this yarn because it is so plain.  That made this knit take forever-and he had big feet!  I was touched that he immediately put them on.

I used Opal color #5182 and the pattern is Classy Slip-UP from Knit Socks! by Betsy Lee McCarthy. 

And yes, I immediately cast on for some NBK!

Moving right along

Knitting right along.  I'm keeping the pattern going on the foot.  I really hope this fits him!  I did the foot over 33 stitches. I am continuting the pattern on the top of the foot and have added one plain knit stitch on either side of the pattern to make the transition smooth.  I'm going to knit the foot on 72 stitches.  I hope it works out.

Almost to the heel

Very nearly at the heel. I think I'll do the leg at 7 inches.

Timeout

I was having some cramps in my forearms and my sister put my knitting into a 72 hour timeout.  Not knitting just feels unnatural!

 Here is a closeup of the pattern I'm knitting.

Ready!

 Finished and ready to go for our anniversary!

Yellow enough?

 Do you think this yellow is yellow enough for Tig?  I am using Opal color # 5182.  This yellow has a bit of orange in it that doesn't show up well in the photo.  I am using the Classy Slip-up pattern from  Knit Socks! by Betsy Lee McCarthy.  I cast on 72 sts and knit 17 rows of K1,P1.  You knit one row plain and then start the pattern.  I really hope Tig likes these.  I do kind of want to cast on a pair on NBK socks but I might focus on those socks instead so maybe not!

I thought I had a ball of another yellow opal sock yarn somewhere but maybe I used it for my sister.  She is also a big yellow fan.

playful

I had a mug rug kit out on my table from one of the local shop hops.  So I started playing around after I finished my tree skirt.  It came with these fabrics plus some forest green that doesn't really go.  I'm not going to follow the pattern for the mug rug.  I'm just going to play until I decide I like something.  Or maybe these will go in the parts department.  We'll see.

 

leftovers

 I made this little mug rug using leftovers from my HP tree skirt.  Waste not!