Shared Yarn

A friend's mother passed away, and they've been going through her things. He brought me a big box and a big bag of yarn, knowing I like to knit and stuff. I in turn sorted through, and took most to the thrift store, keeping what I could use. I've been finding skeins of wool yarn here and there at the thrift store lately. Well, in this bunch he brought to me, there was this:



I like seeing vintage labels and things. And 100 per cent wool yarn. This is "A Golden T Product," "snarlproof," 100 per cent virgin wool. The price on the label says $1.29, a red TG&Y sticker has $1.17. I just find all this very interesting. :)

Sock ... Seeing the Light at the End of the Tunnel

At knitting group yesterday, my teacher led me through picking up the second side of stitches for the gusset, and got me started on knitting that challenging-looking triangle shape. (Actually two, one on each side.) Then when I got home, I worked on it more and finished the gusset. Now to just KNIT on the foot portion to a certain point. Exciting!

Restart

In the previous post, I was starting a blanket for "Project Linus." Well, I hit a snag, messed up stitches, made it worse, couldn't fix it, so .... "riiiiiiip." But I like the pattern, so may tackle it again another time, and just work on it when I'm NOT DISTRACTED.

So, I saw another blanket pattern on "Pinterest" for a simple knitted blanket. This shows the beginning of it. I'll still use leftover yarn in a similar way, but this will be wider "chunks" of stripes. (The original pattern has narrower stripes.) The two rows between the colored sections are the "seed stitch," so that gives an interesting pattern there.





Here's a link to the pattern on "Ravelry:"

http://www.ravelry.com/projects/EraLunaris/noahs-blanket

Project Linus

Recently, I received in the mail the current issues of "Knit 1-2-3" and "Crochet 1-2-3." I highly recomment BOTH of these magazines - they're relatively inexpensive, and chock-full of projects. These issues, each one featured an article on "Project Linus," an organization that provides blankets and quilts for needy children and babies. Each magazine also featured a project that a person can make and donate. I decided to start the knit one. It features two main colors, but I decided to do one main color, and then vary each "knitted" section with a different color.





Project Linus Home Page link:

http://www.projectlinus.org/

Stringy

After starting on it a couple of years ago, then putting it away for a long time, I finally finished a spring-colored shell throw the other day. BUT, I have all these ends to weave in! I've done a few ... but a ton to go.

In the Works

A few projects in the works:

A while back, I finished the back for the second "Mitered Pillow," in "Mauna Loa" color.





A week and a half ago, we had an ice storm. Our power went out from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m., plus a phase problem that finally got fixed around 6 p.m. So, one thing I did that day was sit by the window and work on the "cushy" baby blanket.



Sock updates -

On the green (secret) sock, I had to undo and start over.



But about a week and a half ago, I got the heel flap done on the brown sock ....



.... then at this week's knitting group (this last Tue.), my excellent teacher walked me through "turning the heel" and starting to pick up the side stitches for the gusset. Wow! It's starting to look like a sock!

Socks ... Still Going ...

After three starts in the last several weeks, the brown sock is finally coming along! My teacher at knitting group has been anxious for me to get to the heel flap, and I'm glad to say that this next time, we'll be at that point.

Brown sock with two inches of ribbed cuff, and four inches of stockinette stitch, now ready to start the heel flap.



Brown sock closeup.



And, the "surprise" green sock (that my teacher doesn't know about ... yet ...) is coming along, and has the two inches of ribbed cuff done, now ready to start the stockinette stitch.



Green sock closeup.