good things!

when i posted last week i only talked about one project that came off my needles this past month.

i would be remiss if i didn't take a moment to mention some of the other objects that are no longer in ball form but now actually have a shape and point of being and are no longer part of my stash - a very good thing!

first up - this lovely headband for my dear friend and god-daughter emma. 

this project comes with a little story and when i'm finished you'll see why emma and i are like two peas in a pod! we were at church about a month ago when during the service i noticed a young woman a couple of rows in front of me that had an intriguing  hairstyle with her hair piled on top of her head. below that, wrapped around her head was a knitted headband. of course, this immediately caught my attention and i found myself spending the remainder of the service fixated on the construction of that headband. i just couldn't seem to take my eyes off of it! after a potluck dinner following the service i was preparing to go home when emma came running up to tell me good-bye and give me a hug! in the course of our hug, emma leaned into my ear and whispered "did you see that girl with the knit headband? do you think you could knit one for me?". and there you have it! like minds think alike!

so here is my take: 

the pattern consists of a horseshoe cable with seed stitch on each side. i started with 28 stitches - 6 stitches in seed stitch, 16 stitch horseshoe cable pattern, 6 stitches in seed stitch. i repeated the horseshoe cable pattern 17 times.

i stitched the bound off edges together and ran a gathering stitch and pulled it together a bit and then knit a band of eight stitches in seed stitch long enough to go around the band to cover the seam. in retrospect, i probably should have gathered it just a tad bit more but, hey, i'll do that on the next one. btw, i used brown sheep worsted weight yarn that i had in my stash! busted!

and here is my dear sweet little emma in her new fashion accessory! she loves it! and she probably would want me to tell you that this isn't the way she really wears it but she was so excited when she opened the package that she had to put it on then and there!

next up: this little number called: here and there cowl

I used one skein of noro taiyo sock yarn - 420 meters. i got the pattern at close knit and knit it in the round to avoid a seam - can you believe that it was NOT written to knit in the round? i can't, but, hey, to each his own! this yarn had a rough hand to it and i can't fathom knitting a pair of socks with it - i think they would be very scratchy and my feet just don't need that!

and last, but not least, is this hat - buckthorn cap designed by franklin habit. the yarn is blue moon fiber arts, socks that rock lightweight in the colorway: it's not all about me Brown  and silkie socks that rock in the colorway: It's about me. It's about me all the time.
this was the october rockin' sock club colorway and one of the patterns.

it involved stranded colorwork shaped like a buckthorn branch. i love the crown shaping and the little idiot cord loop at the top!!

and that's a wrap for this report! and that's a good thing!

falling into fall!

help me, i think i'm falling

in love again!

when i get that crazy feeling,

i know i'm in trouble again!

carly simon

at long last, fall has arrived! we were blessed with an overly long summer that just didn't seem to want to stop! we were still having sunny, warm days that allowed us to continue wearing shorts until way into october - guess that's what global warming will do for ya!

ya know, you've just got to have some of that traditional northwest fall weather to put ya in the mood - the mood for fall knitting, i.e. sweaters, scarves, gloves, hats, etc.! frosty mornings, falling leaves and rain, lots of it! and now, we've got it - rain has arrived!

i started fall off with the following:

this is the third installment in the Miss Babs World Tour 2012. the destination for fall was Sierra Nevada, where the trees are dressed in lovely shades of yellow, orange and brown just like this fabulous yarn! the color in the first two pictures is pretty close to the actual yarn which was a beautiful mix of colors hand-dyed by miss babs.

included in the trip paraphernalia was this northumbria dk - bfl yarn and the pattern for this lace cowl and mitts designed by cecily glowick. this yarn was like knitting with butter - so soft and smooth - an absolute wonder to knit!

that's how one works their way into fall in my book!

head games!

                                                    Head games, in the first degree 
                                                    Head games, yeah, always you and me 
                                                    Head games, why do you do it baby? 
                                                    Head games

well, not the type of head games that foreigner sang about! more along the line of hats, and the desire for a good warm one when fall weather puts a chill in the air!

here are a few:

at the end of september, i took a class in felted hats at Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival (offf). our wonderful instructor, carin engen, led us through the process from beginning to end and this was the end product from that experience! kewl, eh? i think so!

after class, i picked up some merino fiber while shopping in the vendor areas and repeated the process about a week later just to see if i could do it my self and, voila, i think i've got another winner!!

i may have shared this little number in an earlier post but in case i didn't i'll run it by you again. i picked up this roving at the black sheep gathering in late june in eugene, oregon. it is from blarney yarn in the colorway "sour apple II". i used my drop spindle to spin it during the 'tour de fleece' in july. the pattern is "urchin" by ysolda teague. the pattern is at knitty.com. 

 this hat is from the purl soho website and is called the "thank you hat". i had just enough malabrigo rios, leftover from a shawl i knit earlier this summer, to complete it! whew!

this hat pattern is "wurm" a freebee on ravelry that has been on my hit list for a long time! the yarn is twisted from blue moon fiber arts in the colorway: sea scum, sea scum run. this yarn has tried to have a life in several other projects but this, at long last, is where it finally has found a home!

when this pattern, designed by franklin habit, showed up in the deep fall issue of knitty, i knew it needed to hit my needles and sooner than later so here 'tis! it is called 'uhlan' and will be perfect to keep my hubby's head warm as he marches through the brush chasing bambi! (run, bambi, run!)

think i'll take a break from hats for a moment and pound out a few cowls and such! i've got some new yarn from miss babs that really wants to get needled!

oh, by the way, 10/22/2012 - finished! 'nuff said! go beavs!

socktober rocks!

 this is it! the month for socks and i've got a great pair on my needles! well, actually only one since i have miraculously finished the first one this early in the month. my problem now is getting back on the horse to finish the second one, the so-called second sock syndrome!! the orange and black colorway of this yarn is not in honor of halloween but in tribute to my beloved beavers!! the yarn is ebullient by Frog Creek Fibers in the colorway: Go Beavs!. this sock is a combo affair with the leg in the 'tidal wave' pattern; the heel in cat bordhi's 'sweet tomato heel', and the toe is finished in a 'star toe' pattern. this is the first time i've tried the 'sweet tomato heel' and i'm anxious to see how it 'feels' when i wear the socks. it wasn't a terribly difficult heel to knit but it did seem to take longer than other heels.

remember that sweet little hat pattern that i posted several weeks ago? well, here it is on it's rightful owner - trew henry cross! we welcomed 'hank' to our world on monday, october 15 at 12:33 pm. isn't he a cutie? and isn't he handsome in his hat? judging by the smile on his face,  i think he likes it!

it took 'hank' awhile to decide that it was o.k. to come out and play so with time on my hands, i knit this hat for him! i used leftovers in rowan felted tweed yarn, a wonderful wool yarn.  i did a basic fair-isle checkerboard alternating colors in the body and topped it off with a pompom! i hope it will keep 'hank' warm during the cold winter months ahead!

the long and short of it...

is...i'm late! nuthin' new for me as it seems to be my usual mode of operende! time just seems to slip, slide away.

anyhoo, speaking of long and short, here are my socks from the past three months.

july:
pattern: bmfa - "summer of love lace socks" designed by jc briar.
yarn: regia bamboo - 45% bamboo, 40% wool, 15% polyamid

a soft and comfy (thanks to the bamboo) pair of anklets with a fold down top - perfect for a chilly summer morning or evening! these little cuties were knit from the top down starting with the lace border.

 august:
"a manly sock" - a plain vanilla, top-down number with a knit2,purl2 rib. 
a subtle, nondescript sock, perfect for a guy that isn't into anything flashy but wants a sock that feels good on his feet - these are 'the bomb'!
the yarn for these has been in my stash for way too many years! it is brown sheep 'wildfoote' luxury sock yarn (75% washable wool/25% nylon) in the colorway: tom cat. perfect for cattin' around!!

september:
a plain vanilla toe-up sock that just goes up and up and up! i used my favorite gusset heel that i can now knit from memory - thank you very much!! 
i'm really getting tired of small wads of left-over yarn from socks with normal leg heights of six inches, so i threw caution to the wind and decided to knit the entire skein to see what i'd end up with. and...there you have it!! almost knee high but not by the 4th of july!
one small caveat...skeins sometimes don't have exactly the same yardage! surprise! surprise! fortunately, by chance i picked the smaller skein for my first sock instead of vice versa as i had about 5 yards of yarn left over once my second sock matched the end of sock one! i wouldn't have been a happy camper had things gone the other way!
yarn: marks & kattens clown; 45% bomull (cotton), 40% superwash ull (wool), 15% nylon

so...what to do with those extra sock leftovers? well, knit a hat, of course, and make it a small one!!

here's another one for a new baby knit out of fingering weight leftovers from a sock i knit earlier this year. 
this is how i did it:
cast on 90 stitches on size one (2.50mm) needles, place marker and join to knit in the round.
purl 4 rounds, knit 3 rounds; repeat and then purl 4 more rounds. change to stockinette stitch (which is actually just knitting when you are working in the round! a kewl deal!) and knit all rounds until piece measures 3 1/2 to 4 inches from beginning.
begin the top of the hat as follows:
knit 13 stitches, k2tog, pm; repeat 5 times to end of row.
knit 1 round.
next row: knit to 2 stitches before marker, k2tog, slip marker; repeat to end of round.
knit 1 round. 
repeat these two rows until there are 3 stitches. with these 3 stiches knit i-cord for approx. 3 inches (enough length to tie a knot in end), cut a yarn tail approx. 6 inches. thread yarn on a yarn needle and pass through stitches and pull tightly. thread yarn down through i-cord for a couple inches. tie i-cord in an overhand knot.

voila! a toasty cover for a new little head! oh, happy day!

testing, 1, 2, test, test!

hey there, i'm back!! aren't you surprised to see a post, again? wow, two days in a row - now that's some kind of miracle!! don't hold your breath on it happnin' again 'cause your odds are just not that great!!

anyhoo, i digress, as is usually the case!!

i want to share another welcome hat that i knit yesterday to double check my pattern in case you might be interested in whipping one out! it appears to me to be "all systems go" so have at it! it's a fast and easy knit that uses a small amount of yarn - i can't give you a yardage amount at this point because that would involve math which is not my strong suit but i'll ponder that situation and get back to you, or not!

now, you, too, can greet a new little bambino to your world with a warm little topper!! life is good, don't ya think?

once again, i used blue moon fiber arts socks that rock lightweight in the colorway: garden daze - leftover from a pair of socks. i find bmfa str lightweight to be just a tad thicker than most fingering weight yarn which makes it perfect for adding stability to this pattern and creating a little more substantial hat.

knit on and have a happy day!

welcome hat for sweet baby bubba!

my nephew and godson, toby, and his beautiful wife, jocelyn, are about to become parents for the first time in mid-october! yippee! the perfect excuse to knit a tiny hat for the little guy and bust a little stash at the same time - win - win - win!!

here's how i did it:

supplies: needles: size 2 (3.00mm), double-pointed

yarn: blue moon fiber arts, socks that rock, lightweight - colorway: wavelength

gauge: 28 sts/36 rows = 4 inches in stockinette stitch

abbreviations:
pm: place marker
ssk: slip one stitch; then slip the next. insert the left needle into the front loops of the slipped stitches and knit them together from this position (through the back loops)
k2tog: knit two together

pattern: cast on 88 stitches and divide among 3 needles (needle #1 and #2 - 30 stitches, needle #3 28 stitches).

join to knit in the round, place marker, and knit 6 rounds in stockinette stitch (knit all rounds).

change to k2,p2 rib pattern and knit 4 rounds.

change to stockinette stitch and knit until piece measures 3 1/2 inches from cast-on edge.

crown of hat:

round 1: *knit 17 stitches, ssk, knit 1, k2tog; repeat from * to end of round. (80 stitches)

round 2: knit.

round 3: remove marker, knit 1 stitch, pm, *knit 15 stitches, ssk, knit 1, k2tog; repeat from * to end of round. (72 stitches)

round 4: knit.

round 5: remove marker, knit 1 stitch, pm, *knit 13 stitches, ssk, knit 1, k2tog; repeat from * to end of round. (64 stitches)

round 6: knit.

round 7: remove marker, knit 1 stitch, pm, *knit 11 stitches, ssk, knit 1, k2tog; repeat from * to end of round. (56 stitches)

round 8: knit.

round 9: remove marker, knit 1 stitch, pm, *knit 9 stitches, ;ssk, knit 1, k2tog; repeat from * to end of round. (48 stitches)

round 10: knit.

round 11: remove marker, knit 1 stitch, pm, *knit 7 stitches, ssk, knit 1, k2tog; repeat from * to end of round. (40 stitches)

round 12: knit.

round 13:  remove marker, knit 1 stitch, pm, *knit 5 stitches, ssk, knit 1, k2tog; repeat from * to end of round. (32 stitches)

round 14: knit.

round 15:  remove marker, knit 1 stitch, pm, *knit 3 stitches, ssk, knit 1, k2tog; repeat from * to end of round. (24 stitches)

round 16: knit.

round 17: remove marker, knit 1 stitch, pm, *knit 1 stitch, ssk, knit 1, k2tog; repeat from * to end of round. (16 stitches)

round 18: knit.

round 19: ssk, knit 1, k2tog, knit 3, ssk, knit 1, k2tog, knit 3. (12 stitches)

round 20: knit.

cut yarn leaving a 12 inch tail. thread yarn on yarn needle and pass through remaining 12 stitches on needle, twice. pull yarn tight and pass through to wrong side and secure by weaving in yarn end. weave in other yarn end. 

tada, a beautiful newborn baby hat!

tsk, tsk, tsk!!

look at the date - friday, july 13 and i am finally getting to my june post!! my, oh my, i am tardy! please accept my apologies!


and, you might ask, why is this? well, in all honesty, it was the sock's fault!! they just didn't reach completion until july 11th after missing several self-imposed deadlines and a number of rounds of procrastination!  plus, i also snuck in a couple of other projects along with the black sheep gathering in eugene so i can't totally lay the blame on them. actually i think i am probably suffering from a tad bit of burnout with this pattern and type of sock as this is the fourth pair this year!! so, i'll be changing things up next month and making a pair for me rather than for the gift box.

once again, the pattern is wendy johnson's toe-up, gusset heel. this pair have ribbing all the way from the toe to the top. the yarn is another self striping number by on line yarn - 75% superwash wool and 25% polyamid, whatever that is!

fortunately for you, you can't see my studio because you would see that i am up to my eyeballs in yarn and patterns and fiber and fabric and lots of other crap but i guess that is what it is like for creative people, or so they say - sometimes i have visions of  'the hoarders' tv program invading my mind but i try to quickly banish that thought for my own sanity's sake! i had planned on knitting my june shawl with any number of patterns i already possess when this little number popped up in my email box from knitcircus.

the shawlette pattern is 'balm to the soul' by jaala spiro. it called for a dk or worsted weight yarn and required 250 yards so i thought i had it made in the shade with the skein of malabrigo rios (worsted weight) in the colorway 'piedras' i had in my stash. everything went swimmingly until i ran out of yarn in the middle of the final lace chart - argh! i was forced to make a trip to a lys (it was really tough!) to score another skein. the skein was the same color way but it had more blue and green than my original skein but what's a gal to do? i had to punt. since i now had plenty of yarn, i added another go round of the lace chart which the dk version called for and ended up with a larger shawl which was fine by me.

i am very pleased with the results considering my dilemma but the darker colors seem to be fine at the lower edge and it works. the sweetest part was how quickly this knit up - this truly was a weekend knit - start to finish.

here is the skirt that i mentioned i was knitting last month. it has a drawstring waist and an eight inch border of razor lace. the yarn is pima silk in the toffee colorway from frog tree yarns that has been hanging in my stash for a number of years - glad i could use it up!

i also completed this sweater - 'adrift' by carol feller, aka stolenstitches.com. it was exactly the perfect late spring, early summer wrap i was looking for - top down with fronts that drape oh, so nicely, knit in one piece in stockinette stitch. it is knit from yarn that i repurposed from a sweater i picked up at goodwill - light and airy, perfect for those not too hot days that frequent our weather patterns in the great northwest!


off the needles is another lightweight summer sweater that i haven't photographed yet but it was perfect for an evening at our family reunion in early july.


as mentioned earlier, i did attend the black sheep gathering in eugene in late june and took a class in mawatas. what is a mawata? i'll tell you all about it in my next post!! gotta go now as i have yarn to spin - the tour de fleece is in full swing right now and i've got to get my daily spin in!! ta,ta!

ooooops, i did it again!

YES!

and YES! i did it again!

it's a miracle - i am still on task!

and the sun rose in the east today!

(except in the pacific northwest where we awoke to cloud cover) 

another pair of toe-up socks a la wendy d. johnson's book, socks from the toe up. i am terribly smitten with this gusset heel - exceedingly simple but beautiful! i've knit it enough times that i've almost got it committed to memory - yippee! i knit the leg in a k2, p2 rib.  the yarn is ON line supersocke 100 and i used knit picks size 1.5 dpn's. a good pair of utility socks if i do say so myself!

i found the yarn for this shawl at powell's books, of all places! go figure! i was roaming through the craft area, checking out knitting books, when i encountered a display of malabrigo yarn at the end of the aisle. quite a lovely display, really - one that certainly caught my eye (really, when has any yarn not caught my eye). i was forced to pick up a skein of malabrigo lace in the colorway glazed carrots, a color i've lusted after for a long time and at only $9 a skein of 470 yards of baby merino wool, a wonderful bargain for such a luscious hand - a whole lotta bang for a buck! the pattern is emily shawl, designed by mandy moore from the winter/spring 2010 issue of knitscene magazine. it is composed of the fir cone lace pattern, is a quick knit and is unusual in the fact that it is knit from side to side instead of from top to bottom or bottom to top. the beautiful part of this yarn is that it yields a light and soft product that works well as a quick wrap around the neck under a jacket on cooler days or as a lightweight cover up during warmer weather. in our neck of the woods that makes the shawl wearable year round, except for perhaps one or two days when the temp moves above 85 degrees!

i've also got several other projects on the needles including a skirt and a sweater that i will thrill you with pictures of next month - oh, lucky you!

before i go, let me remind you of this monumental upcoming event:

Worldwide Knit in Public Day

June 9, 2012

check out the info at: www.wwkipday.com. 

keep your eyes peeled, you just might see some wild and crazy people 

with pointy sticks hanging out in public! 

you've been warned!

sing it, paul and art!

April come she will 

When streams are ripe and swelled with rain; 

May, she will stay, 

Resting in my arms again. 

June, she'll change her tune, 

In restless walks she'll prowl the night; 

July, she will fly 

And give no warning to her flight. 

August, die she must, 

The autumn winds blow chilly and cold; 

September I'll remember 

A love once new has now grown old. 

i don't know what it is, but every april finds me humming this delightful tune by simon and garfunkel. it was in the movie, "the graduate", which came out in 1969 and starred dustin hoffman, kathryn ross and the wonderful, anne bancroft.  this song was featured at the point in the movie where young, naive benjamin decides that he must have elaine even though he has been eliminated from elaine's life by her father, who wasn't the least bit happy with benny once he found out that he had been bopping mrs. robinson, who was the real bad girl in this whole situation! it turns out ok at the end, except for poor mrs. robinson! 

i digress...back to april and what was on my needles that isn't anymore! 

i did it again - i met my monthly, self-imposed goal! yippee!

here is the shawl...

it is called perennial and was designed by debbi stone. the yarn is the march allotment from the blue moon fiber arts 2012 sock club in the colorway: budding twig. it was a delightful knit that included a little bit of adventure - the edge was first by knitting 54 leaf motifs. stitches were then picked up along the edge and knit in short rows to complete the stockinette area. as is typical, my photos leave a lot to be desired, but the colors just scream spring and those first bud breaks in the perennial garden. the real surprise is that for the first time since i've belonged to the rsc i finished a project before the next yarn arrived!!

my monthly socks made the deadline with just moments to spare as the clock closed out april. i am continuing to destash using these self-striping yarns of which i have an overabundance way too many!! expect to see more of these in the months to come! argh!

once again, i'm knitting the wendy johnson toe-up socks with the gusset heel. i really like the way it turns out in the self-stripping yarn. these are really plain vanilla socks - just round and round and round in stockinette stitch which when knitting in the round is just knit, knit, knit!! i can't believe how many comments i get from non-knitters as to 'how complicated they must be to make'. jeepers, it couldn't get any easier! or boring, for that matter, but why waste beautiful stitch patterns on yarn that isn't going to show it off!

soooooo.... i can pretty much guarantee that you'll be seeing more of these plain vanilla jobs until i exhaust this stash!!

 
here is the sweater that i completed at the end of march. it is called selvedge cardigan and was designed by amy christoffers and was in the interweave knits magazine knit wear.
knit from the bottom up and joined at the arm pits it was basically knit in one piece with a kitchener stitch join at the back of the neck. i also used a tubular cast on in 1x1 rib which was a slick way to start! yarn is noro chunky silk garden.

after listening to brenda dayne from the 'cast on' podcast contemplating whether or not to knit this skirt i decided i needed to give it a try. it is the lanesplitter skirt pattern from knitty.com. after gleaning a ton of info from ravelry,  i did a provisional cast on, knit the parallelogram by multiplying my stitches per inch by the length i wanted and used a kitchener stitch bind-off so i didn't have a back seam. i picked up stitches around the waste with needles a couple of sizes smaller and knit 3 inches of k2,p2 for ribbing. i didn't need to worry about inserting elastic as it stays up swimmingly! i used 4 skeins of noro kureyon. i think i'm gonna need to revisit this pattern again!

also off the needles is the whisper cardigan from interweave knits, designed by hannah fettig of knitbot fame. this was another wonderful sweater that involved no seaming - can it possibly get any better than that? i knit the sleeves and back in one piece, picked up stitches around the edges for the collar and waist, bound off some stitches at the neck and knit the lower body with the remaining stitches! easy-peasy and a wonderfully versatile wardrobe addition - perfect for pacific northwest spring weather! again, i apologize for these pathetic pictures.

the yarn i used in this sweater is cashmere that i recycled from a men's sweater that i purchased at goodwill for $6.99! can't beat that with a stick! 

here's what i did: i unraveled the yarn by picking it apart at a seam and using my ball winder, i made it into single strand balls and slipped them off the ball winder and onto pieces of 1/2 inch plastic pipe. when i had balled up all the yarn on my plastic pipe pieces, i steamed the balls in a closed container over a boiling water bath for 30 minutes. i did this to remove the kinks from the previous knitting. when it had cooled, i re-balled it by combining three strands to make it the weight i wanted - somewhere between lace and fingering - which was the perfect weight for this sweater. i could also have dyed it by making it into skeins but the neutral color was perfect.

that's a wrap for april - tee, hee! let's see what may brings!

march has left the building...

... along with elvis!


march was a wet and rainy month, so rainy that the constant downpours set a record for the most rainfall recorded in the history of records for march - swell!! 


the pot of gold at the end of this rainbow for me was 'lots of rain, lots of knitting'! yippee! my garden called to me each and every day but it seems i have become a warm-weather gardener as the chilly, wet weather just didn't float my boat!


it is was my third month of keeping my new year's resolution i am most happy to report, and no one could possibly be more surprised by this feat than myself. gosh, i hope i don't break my arm by patting myself on the back!


so... here goes:

my socks of the month are another 'plain vanilla' unit, toe-up with a short row toe and heel, again from wendy johnson's book, socks from the toe up. miss daisy mae approves and is dying to start pulling them off!! she's giving me 'the look' that says 'off with the socks!'.

and i did not limit myself to just one scarf or shawl but three!! this is the blossoms by the brook pattern by ilga leja from knitty, spring-summer 2012. the yarn is mirasol 'hacho' in the color way 'peacock' and is a dk weight. the pattern called for a worsted weight yarn so the shawl is a tad narrower due to the lighter yarn but i had enough of this yarn in my stash to pull it off so... voila! i really like this yarn and am so sad that it has been discontinued - it has such a delightful hand. this was a fast knit.

in second place is this scarf (doubled as a cowl) cracklin rosie designed by shannon squire of twisted for the 2012 rose city yarn crawl. the yarn is the sumptuous blue moon fiber arts 'marine silk - fingering', a combo of silk, merino and sea cell. the color is the one and only 'pond scum', the world's most wonderful color!! it is so soft and yummy - did i mention that i love it? oh, yeah, pattern was free with yarn purchase!! really, there is no free lunch!

and shawl #3 (actually it was the first one i knit) is wingspan by maylin tri'coterie designs. i found it on ravelry and it was free - a very good price!! the yarn is noro sock yarn, famous for long color runs. this yarn was part of my stash and i must say that i'm glad i didn't knit socks out of this because it is rather rough and i think it would be way too scratchy for socks - sort of like wearing a hair shirt!! creepy! as a scarf, fine, bright and colorful - just what someone needs to brighten up the rainy spring days we've been experiencing.


oh, yeah, i also knit a sweater but i have no pictures yet so you have that to look forward to in my next post. it is the selvedge cardigan by amy christoffers from the magazine 'knit wear'. i put a big dent in my stash by using noro 'silk garden chunky' in color 3, lot b, which is a combo of green, blue and purple - delightful!


so, i guess the question for april is: shall i be praying for april showers so i can get my knit on or for a break in the weather so i can get my garden on? only time will tell...