A little bulk...

 My friend, Angela and I decide to start another knit-a-long in our local group where you had a month to start/finish as many bulky projects you want.  This decision was made because I needed to work on something a little bulkier amid all the fingering or lace weight yarns I've been using in my current projects. 

 This light pea green color looks like it could be a cotton yarn but it's actually wool, angora, and nylon. One hank gives you about 73 yards to work with.  I love how the moss stitch looks with this yarn.

 The pattern I chose for the yarn is the Robin's Egg Blue hat which is a pretty popular hat pattern on Ravelry mostly because it's stylish and mostly because it's a free pattern.  The pattern was easy to follow and took me about a couple days to finish.

This hat barely took two hanks of this Reynolds Contessa yarn.  I love instant gratification projects!

Project ADD

Fingering weight sweater

Spinning up some fingering weight yarn

Knitting with lace weight

An FO - finally!

Kids sleeping = car knitting

The WIP that doesn't end!

Fini!  Glam shots and details to follow!

Oops!

Long, lost WIP :-(

It didn't take me too long to figure out what to work on when I realized that my poor Hitchhiker was being very neglected in a cute little project bag.  I ended up ripping out what I had so far because I lost my place and that's how I roll.  I am at ten points and love the yarn.  It's the second hank of yarn that I dyed two years ago at the Yarn Cupboard retreat using the Holiday Yarns FlockSock base.  I love how the colors are working up and the pattern makes it fun to see what the next point will look like next.

That moment when...

Need to weave in ends and block but it's DONE!

A rainbow for my head

....you've finished your deadline knitting and can't make a decision on what to do next with your WIPs.....  Happy Friday, all!

So close!

A sleeve has commenced!!!

Little things

Baby mitts for baby #3

Starting a Calorimetry!

Playing with fiber

Plying on the traddy!

More practice with some vanilla fiber

Spindle spin with lovely colors!

Overdue FO #2

 This was an old COA project from last summer that was finished about four months ago.  The purplish gray yarn was from Rainbow Dyed Yarn - my first ever trip to Rhinebeck back in 2009.  That was when I really didn't know what I was doing as a crocheter, let alone as a knitter.  I do remember that the woman who sold me the skein warned me that I may want to purchase two for a bigger project.  She was kinda right because the yardage was just enough where I couldn't really make anything more than a fairly long cowl for myself.  The creme accent yarn is from the Lion Brand Fisherman's Wool that I always manage to keep in my stash, just in case.

As predicted the sleeves are already getting to be too short for Haze, but I will probably pull them out and make them shorter sometime this summer or fall and keep it that way.  I figure, she will definitely get a few more years out of the garment this way.  The iridescent purple buttons came from my favorite local yarn store, Yarn Cupboard, and were absolutely perfect for the sweater!

Baby Hats!

 I've been making baby hats with leftover balls of Manos Maxima that I used for other projects.  These hats are based off of the Baby Football Hat by Jessica Marini - sans the brown yarn and laces.  These hats will fit a baby's noggin up until 6 months.  The green is for my baby #3 and the bottom one is for my friend's baby #3.  Have I mentioned how squishy and yummy this yarn is?