Ready!

 Finished and ready to go for our anniversary!

coming along

Knitting along on DH's sock.  I need to check how many rows for the foot.  This ball of yarn feels light so I hope I have enough.

Anniversary socks

Cast on a pair of anniverary socks for DH last Friday.  Our anniversary is in February so I better get cracking.  DH received this yarn in his stocking for Christmas and he really loves the purple.  Opal yarn, usual sock recipe.

Socks!

I finished DH's Anniversary socks!  He is very pleased with them and is impressed by how they match.  I did not do this on purpose-it is totally the yarn!  Yarn was Supergarne Aktiv Sock yarn 4-ply superwash 100g/459yd Bergen #377-78. 

Anniversary

I'm knitting a pair of socks for DH.  Our 20th anniversary is coming up.  I'm trying to knit these without him noticing so my son started calling them Illicit socks!

Anniversary Socks

Finally finished DH's anniversary socks.  It took forever to knit these!  I started a new shawl immediately after I stitched up the second toe.
I'll post a pic of that after I get a little farther on it.

Anniversary Socks

Our anniversary is coming up so I asked DH to pick out some sock yarn.  He's been hinting and rather pointedly asking for a new pair.  I was on Christmas break for two and a half weeks and, although he had picked out the yarn, had not told me what style of socks he wanted.  I used to knit his socks on 72 stitches but he really likes them to be snug.  So I told him to look through his socks and pick a pair where he really liked the fit.  He finally did-the night before I went back to work!  So I cast on and began knitting during a very long meeting on Tuesday.  This yarn is really handsome!!

Finished Quilts!

This is the Happy Camper quilt I made for DH. I bought it as a kit last year at the Houston International Quilt Festival. I'm really glad that I finished it before Festival this year!
This is the backing for the quilt. I just love it's retro goodness!

Isn't this quilting beautiful? Karen the Quilter did a great job. I love the leaves. I asked for brown thread and I really like it because it spruces up some of the bland white/light tan blocks.


This is the Shades of Blue bluebonnet lap quilt. I was hoping to finish it in time for my dear friend's brain surgery but she got the jump on me. Unfortunately she will be having another surgery, so I will save it for then or give it to her for Christmas.

I was trying to show the great quilting here.

And here is the back. Love that bluebonnet batik. I even went back and bought a couple more yards of it. You can really see the nice quilting here.

Happy Birthday DH

Sock woes.

My sock is in time out again. I had successfully turned the heel, picked up stitches for the gusset and was merrily decreasing along when I realized that my stitch count on the instep was off.

Way off.

8 stitches off.

Apparently I had cast on 72 stitches instead of my intended 64. I only worked the heel on 32 stitches. So the sock, if I continue working it this way, will look really odd and, perhaps more importantly, feel really odd when worn.

This sock has been sent to timeout and I am pulling out my backup project that I keep at work and knitting that instead.

Stupid sock.

What I did on my vacation

The first thing I did on my vacation was to finish the Happy Campers quilt top. DH really likes it. I didn't realize that it would be so big-it fits on my queen sized bed. Now to purchase and make the backing!
Then I started on my Pennsylvania Dutch BOM. I hadn't finished a single block for this BOM and I was about to get Block #9! I cut out all the blocks that I had received and finished these four. I'm about halfway through another block but I got stuck-may just move on to another one. I got Block #9 in the mail Thursday so I went ahead and cut that one out too. That's the one I'm stuck on and it looks so easy! I can't get my four patch squares to come out to the right size. I may re-make all of them a little larger and just cut them down. I also spent a lot of time with my kids-took Red to swim lessons and Tig ran a fever for three days so he stayed home with me. Also had a pedicure with Magpie and my mom. Then we spent the weekend camping and swimming. It was great.

layout

Sorry for the dreadful pic. This is DH's layout for the Happy Campers quilt.

Happy Campers

This is the kit I bought at the Quilt Show last fall. It's a snowball kit with American Jane's Happy Camper fabric. I *love* the Happy Camper line and so does my DH. This quilt will be for him. I'm making this quilt 10 blocks at a time as it gets a little tedious sewing all the corners. I'm stitching each corner twice so that I will have a HST from each corner to use in another project. This is going to be a cute quilt. I bought it from Plain Janes. I just googled the address and found she's going out of business. What a shame!

Something is wrong here. . .

Here's the sock that I have been knitting, in desultory fashion, since February. Looks good, huh? Take a look at the stitches on the needle. Looks like a lot, doesn't it? I thought this sock was taking an inordinate amount of time to knit so this morning, while waiting for Red to finish speech class, I counted the stitches. 108 stitches.

I normally knit socks for DH with 64-72 stitches.

*sigh*

rip-rip-rip-rip