Yarn Logic

Ladies,

It's been a while since any of us has posted here... rather boring eh? We're bound to lose the 1.4 readers that we have if we dont straighten up and fly right! We'll do a project update, then I will share with you some words of wisdom I have just found in my new book.

Christmas Knitting & Crocheting:
Tracie's Socks - done and given (woulda been nice to have you show these nice people the pretty sock I knit you! Just saying).
Dad's socks - done
Dani's socks - done
Mom's sweater (mom, no peeking) - done
Jake's sweater - done


Baby projects:
Birthing socks - 1 is done the other has most of it's top ribbing, so it's maybe 1/18 done.
Sean's hoodie - done
booties (sorry, no pics)- done but need buttons
hat (nope, no pics here either)- about half done.

See... Christmas is moving right along. Birthing is moving right along. Onto my new book.

For my birfday, Tracie got me a Barnes & Noble gift card. And since I love her I decided to buy myself something crochet related - and got the 2007 Crochet Pattern a Day calendar. And also because a) I had some left over and b) I would like to become a real knitter someday I got a book called "The Cool Girls Guide to Knitting". Because I want to be a cool girl. Someday. Anyway, I'm in the first bit and it's talking about how knitting got its start and then became out of fashion but is now coming back very strong. It gives many reasons why people knit and where people knit and with whom people knit. I've just run into a few lines that made me laugh. Out loud even.
"Once you start knitting you'll find that you start communicating with your fellow knitters, sometimes pouring out your emotions and you can end up disclosing all your secrets. Knitting is also an excellent way of giving up smoking, as your hands are kept busy and, in any case, you might set fire to your yarn (hehehehe). It's cheaper than psychotherapy (indeed) and who wants to sit on a couch with nothing to do?"

Oh the laughter. Well, you ladies have a fabulous weekend, Dani let Jess know we wish her well in her game tonight!

Cheers,
Brandee

Crocheting and knitting

Ladies,

Last I was here, I had finished both of your socks and Mom's sweater and 1 of Dad's socks. I have now started and finishted a sweater for Jake. Wanna see? Course you do.








I also made a hoodie for the baby, and it is now in the process of getting itself a zipper (no, not by me.) Yes this pic is on a girl doll, sorry!








I have also started my birthing socks. What about Dad's other sock you ask? Yeah, later. No really, once I've finished this one sock I swear! I think. This is the first time I've ever actually done a pattern (aka: fancy knitting) on a sock. It is reminding me that a) I am not a real knitter, b) I still cannot reliably count to 3 and c) I ought not do fancy patterns on self patterning yarn because I like the straight knitting better. Here's what it looks like so far:








As you can see, the top of the sock is the pattern (like 3 stitches down, then a purl row that makes it look like a line. Pretty nifty.)The heel is in a mini-rib thing and the foot has its top as the pattern and its bottom as straight knitting. As you can see the bottom bit shows off the self pattern quite well. Oh well, live and learn, right? But, I do like how they are turning out, even if I cant count to 3 (as in 3 rows... after the heel I completly forgot to do the purl row for like 15 rows. Whoops!).

That's really it for now. Only how many more days until Christmas? Ugh!

Happy Hooking,
Brandee