This past week I've been on Spring Break. For a whole week I didn't have to go to work, so I drove over 600 miles to rescue the remaining yarn stash and my pattern collection from my parent's house in Ohio. I've also gotten a large amount of knitting done on my works in progress while I was at home, gave Dot the Monster a mouth so she could talk to me, and have even started some new things as well.
In fact, I've gotten so much accomplished that I'm going to have to divide up last week's progress into two or three posts. We'll see. I wanted to do nothing but knit while in Ohio on Vacation, but that may have been the 40 degree weather they were experiencing. It was much nicer to knit in than the 8-+ degree weather we are having here in SC right now.
I finished 2 projects on Easter day.
The first was a pair of socks that I started at the end of January.
Pattern:
Nanner Socks by Wendy Johnson
Yarn: Lime & Violet Sasquatch Super Sock in Just Ripe Nanners
Comments: I bought the yarn for these AGES ago back when I first started wasting all of my free time on Plurk. I'm not even sure when the last time was that Lime & Violet were doing yarn, but I know this has been in my stash for ages. So glad to have them done, kinda sad that I didn't make them just a smidge longer. I have fat feet and always will, so I need to remember to make them just a bit longer so that I can actually wear them! These fit. Pull, tug and cram them onto your feet type of fit. Since yellow really isn't a color of mine (and I found 3 pairs of knit socks when cleaning my bedroom in Ohio) I decided to gift these to my little sister. She has smaller feet than me, so she'll definitely be able to wear them.
After casting off the Nanner socks I immediately picked up the worsted wingspan I was working on and finished that off in less than 2 hours.
Pattern:
Wingspan
Yarn: Bernat Mosaic in Waterfall
Comments: This was a great yarn for the price. I picked it up when it was 40% off at A.C. Moore and had to do some ripping at the beginning when I messed it up. I ripped the beginning out three times and the yarn still looks amazing!
I still love this pattern, especially with gradient and self stripping yarns. This shawl will be going to a friend in the future and I may make more for gifts because it's soooo quick and easy to knit!
Before leaving Ohio my mom picked up some felt for me so that we could give Dot the Monster a mouth.
Pattern:
Dot the Dress Up Box Monster
Yarn: Handspun
Comments: Oh how I love handspun yarn. I used a superwash merino for the body (leftovers from another project) and less than 4 grams of a merino/silk blend for the ears and little eye patch. LOVE this monster! I definitely need to work on my seaming skills however.
At the beginning of this month I decided to knit up a pair of socks as part of a Knit-A-Long for the Knitting in Circles podcast. It was a 56 stitch sock so it knit up SUPER FAST and as an added bonus it actually FIT Fiance's feet! He now has a brand new pair of socks in boy colors for him to wear. This I believe is his second pair of socks (the first pair was the Pomatomus Pattern that I knit AGES ago for him.)
Pattern:
Crocodile Rock
Yarn: Knit Picks Felici Sport in Ecology
Comments: This was such a fast knit! I cast them off last night (April 14th) so it was less than two weeks with one and a half socks knit in the last week alone! I absolutely love knitting socks out of sport weight. I think I'll be buying some more and knitting a few more pairs for myself. Especially since sport weight socks means I can make socks that fit me with normal patterns!
A lot of finished projects huh?
Since I'm in a typing kinda mood I think I'll keep on going and make this one epic post!
If you remember, at the very end of March I wrote a post that said "I need to knit my March hat for the 12 hats in 2012 thing!" We'll I knit a hat! I stash dove, I mixed and matched up a bunch of old cotton yarn in the stash and knit a hat that I am quite in love with! I knit it up before March ended and yet I never got around to blogging!
For some reason I was on such a knitting/spinning high I never bothered to blog because it took away time from playing with fiber!
Wanna see the hat?
Pattern:
Grace Lace Beret
Yarn: TLC Cotton Scraps
Comments: I knit this up with some blue and green cotton scraps I had in the stash for years now. I used about 70 grams to make up this hat and since I have tons left I will be making a matching scarf to go with it! Note to self: Start the scarf before you forget.
As far as works in progress go, as of this morning I have only ONE project on the needles! Just one! I made quite a bit of progress on that shawl as well while I was on.
I bought some of the little markers to use to keep myself motivated while working on larger projects. It helps me to feel like I'm accomplishing something because I can see how much I've knit up! From the marker to the end was the amount I knit while on Spring Break. Hopefully we'll see much more progress by the end of this coming week. :)
I've got a bunch of spinning to show and of course a stash update, but I think I will save those for tomorrow. I hope you all have a great week! Happy knitting!
