more scandinavian mittens!

The first pair are from Knitting with a Smile a swedish knitting book. Its a beautiful book with many tradtional swedish patterns. I knit them is Briggs and Little, the black is regal and the ecru is tuffy. The second pattern is from Folk Mittens, called Lapland Mittens. The Laplands are the northern most parts of Norway, Sweden and Russia. I used the same black and cream, the purple is called mauve, from Briggs and Little. I feel that the picture doesn't do it much justice. The colors match beautifuly. Both pairs will be christmas presents to family members and friends, or to however calls dibs on them first. Currently they are on display at the Falconer Yarn Loft, my favorite LYS. Jane, the owner, has a large selection of Briggs and Little, Noro, and Debbie Bliss yarns. I can'twait to go there on thursday when I go to my parents house. She said last time she was ordering a large amout of Briggs and LIttle. Woohoo new colors!

trying to catch up...

I finally got internet at my apartment! Now I can post all the stuff I've made in the past oh 8 months I havn't blogged. I will start with "Fetching" from Summer 2006 Knitty. I made them in Debbie Bliss cashmerino aran. This took one ball, literally, I had two feet left when I was done. I bought the same yarn in a grey to knit a pair for my cousin's birthday. Fetching is very fun to knit up and quite quick. The kitty in the background is Winston Eugene. He loves yarn as much as I do! Although for very differnt reasons. I got him a few weeks ago from the Chautauqua County Humane Society. He had been there since March 10th. Poor little guy. He is so happy to have a home. I'll write about him a lot, if you knew him you would too. Ok , I'll post another project tomorrow ( in theory).

The change found in the car....

This wool yarnn came from and Jcrew sweater i found at AMVETS for $3.95. It was a mens large so when i unraveled it there was a lot of yarn. This was the first time i had ever tried to unravel a sweater for its yarn. I found it to be very easy, but time consuming. After i had inraveled, wraped, washed, and let dry. Jen and I tryied koolaid dying for the first time. Now that was fun! And so cheap too! For one night my enitre house smelled like koolaid. Since we had never done dying before we dyed a lot of colors to see what they made. We took the change that Sean leaves in the door of my car and bought all different colors of koolaid. And this is what resulted!!!! Different shades of blues, greens, and PINKS!!! The dark maroon at the top is a bright red yarn dyed with grape. I am in the process of making them into a bag. I will be posting pics of that as soon as it is finished.

Sean's Hat

Well it would say Sean's hats...but i didn't take a picture of the other hat i made him. Anyways this is made with Wool-ease quick and thick in, cranberry, pewter, and sky blue. The pattern is #5 in Knit1 fall/winter 05. It is knit on size 13 double pointed needles. Sean liked his hat so much he wore it all weekend and never took it off. Well it is really really cold in his apt but I'd like to think he didn't take it off because he liked it so much. He asked me to knit him another hat in black so he could wear it to work and not get it all dirty. I used the same yarn in black and just did a simple k2p2 rib for 6 rows and then stst for a while. I think it turned out great, I'll have to get a picture of it. I love it when he asks mem to knit him somthing.

How sad....

I have not blogged in two months because of school. Thats just sad. Anyways.... here are some things ive been knitting. The navy and gold scarf is for my dad. He picked out the colors from knitpicks.com. The yarn is Andean Silk in navy and yarrow. I knit it in a broken rib:
row 1-> p1,k1 *p1,k3* p1,k1
row 2-> *p1,k3*
row 3-> *k1,p3*
row 4-> k1,p1 *k3,p1*k1,p1
I did 8 reps of this before switching to a differnet color. I looks great on both sides.
Then I made the red and cream mittens. They are a pattern from Folk Mittens , Lopi Mittens. They are patterned after a cardigan from Iceland. I made them on too little needles so they came out for small hands. Then i made them for normal hands. The first pair is going to Sammy and the second to Jamie.
The stair-type-thingy is my new yarn storing trunk. Sean made it for me. It serves many purposes. I can now get on and off my bed, I can store yarn, and it is Aimee's perch, where she sits and watches TV.
I also made a baby blanket which took FOREVER to knit, but i forgot to take a picture of it before i gave it away. Also i made fingerless gloves that have a mitten flap to fold over, for Sean. I will get a pic of thoes when i remember to. Now I need to study for a test and work on a presentation. I will try to post more as my christmas present pile grows.

Here is the baby poncho that i finally finished. My mom will be happy she can give it to her friend who had the baby a while ago. Also my Christmas stocking! I'm very excited about this cause it has beads knitted into it and I've never done that before. but I'm not really sure how to put my name on it...

and so school begins...

I have not had very much time to knit since i have 6 classes and tons of work for each. However I did manage to finish the orange baby alpacha sweater although I don't like the bottons I need to figure out how to put them on better. I also need to take a pick with it on me, it just doesn't look the same on the floor. The shawl is gradually growing. I don't really need it done at a specific time cause its not like I have anything to wear the dress to. But it would be nice if I did have somewhere.