Thus Far

Well I haven't been keeping up with all of my resolutions, and one of them was to be a more regular blogger. Which as you can all see I haven't been doing. One of them was to lose weight, been so busy at work I don't feel like working out (excuse alert). I have been really sporadic about reading my bible, so technically not living up to resolution of reading everyday. But the one thing I have been really good about was knitting more socks this year, in fact I have a hat to show you as well.

The hat follows the NFL Superfan hat from Ravelry. I did not however use cascade 220 for the pattern, I used Red Heart Super Saver and I think that it looks great. I made this for my husband.

These socks are part of my New Year's Resolution, I couldn't find the ball band for these so I cannot remember what the yarn is. So if you or you know anyone who does I would greatly appreciate it. As you can see these are not perfectly matching stripes, but in order to do so I would have had to sacrifice a lot of yarn which I wasn't willing to do so here they are. But I like them as they are.

Well here is the progress so far on the socks that I am making for my mother. They are a little over half way done. I have started the lace pattern on the back of the leg now, you can't really tell since the stitches want to roll back. I am knitting these out of Plymouth Yarn co.'s Happy Feet yarn, color way unknown to me. I am using Wendy Johnson's Dead Simple Lace socks pattern from her first toe up book. I am liking the way they are turning out I thought that the pooling of the colors in the yarn would detract from the lace pattern but I looks very nice.

In other news I started and finished a simple stockinette hat for myself, I was testing a size for the hubs because I want to make him the Chargers Super fan hat and I didn't know what size he would need, so I knitted one up for myself in the same yarn but different color.

I made it out of Red Heart Super Saver multi, can't remember the color. Sorry this picture is so poor, I took a picture of the back of my head. I used size 6 needles or 4mm. I am going to use the same for Greg's hat but his will be striped with dark blue, white, powder blue, and electric yellow.

In other news I got a kindle and I absolutely love it. I thought that because it is electronic that it would be harder to sort of use my imagination to the point where the book would just disappear, but I am not having any problems with it at all. I have been going through some Ilona Andrews books, I read some Nora Roberts on there. I have really been enjoying it. Greg got me a nice LED book light for night time so that I wouldn't keep him awake with the side table lamp on.

I am hoping to get these socks finished before the end of this week and get them posted on the Socktoberfest Ravlery club. I am such a loser, I was hoping that by joining this group that it would spur me into action and I would get a lot of Christmas sock knitting done. Almost one sock later... Oh well I did get sidetracked by a hat and other patterns, and work.

Well hopefully I can post some more progress tomorrow, try to get back into the swing of things and blog more, I know that I keep saying that I will and then I lose track of it all over again. I am still finding time to read everyone else's just not write on my own.

A Hat!

Well Greg asked me for something specific that he can wear out and about when he is at work (the soccer club). It gets a little chilly here in the spring time, especially later in the day. So I knit him up a hat, I like it and now I kind of want to design him something else, so that he can have variety. We chose colors that go with his clubs color scheme. and just did something simple... The c is a little crooked, I need to block it out a bit because its stitches got a little too tight.

My birthday is tomorrow, I am going to be 24 years old. I have no idea what is going on tomorrow. I am going to go treat myself to some knitting stuff while Greg is coaching soccer camp, and then we are supposed to do something that is a surprise.

Well once again we have a sick kitty. My baby Reeses has a got a virus, but they gave him some fluids at the vet and gave him some antibiotics there and for us at home to use. I hate it when they are sick, I don't like seeing them so fragile and non-responsive. My two boys are pretty rambunctious and you can see it easily when they don't feel good. Any prayers or good thoughts would be appreciated.

I have finished my niece's hat it turned out very cute. It sort of has a slanted striping going on. It should go with her snow suit very well. My mother mentioned that my father's fisherman hat that I gave him for Christmas last year is wearing through, so I am making him a new one that is a lot thicker. I have started working on it but I

decided not to take any pics of it til' it is finished. But I will tell you what yarn I decided to use for the project. I am using a Super Bulky Wool-ease Thick and Quick from Lion Brand in Charcoal. I decided to knit it in a k1,p1 ribbing so it is nice and stretchy, I am knitting long so he can roll up the brim to wherever he prefers. That is about all, I will be posting a pic soon.

Well here is the picture of my nephew wearing his new hat this morning. I love the way it looks from above him. His sister absolutely hates hats but she kept trying to rip this one off of his head so we had a couple of fits today. Went to the Shepherd's Market Bazaar today. It was really neat they had so many booths there with handmade goods. My mother-in-law made me feel really good though when we got to the knitting type crafts she told me that I should do my own booth with knitting and quilting. I also like to quilt but I haven't been able to post anything about that seeing as my sewing machine is all packed still. Tomorrow I am going help sew up some new jammies for the kids though. I'll take pics to show you, the fabrics are so adorable.

In other news my mother-in-law absolutely loves anything M&M and today we were at Albertsons and they had a big stuffed Red M&M with reindeer antlers and a candy cane so we got him as an early Christmas gift for her so that she can put him up before Christmas. We took pictures of the kids hugging him (and then later squabbling over him).

There are no pictures of Fallon with the M&M guy because she looked away for all of them and so I had to delete them.

I also started work on my new hat. I know I know I was supposed to finish all other work before I started. Relax I just cast on for it so that I could pick it up when I am done with the other stuff.

Yay!!!

Well I finally finished Greg's black and orange hat. It turned out great. However I could not get him to model it for me in a picture so maybe next time. He said that he loves it. It looks really good on him (if I do say so myself). I used black and orange sport weight yarns. The black was regular acrylic red heart I think so that knit up nicely. Now the orange was a Kid 'n' Ewe (local brand) but I thought it was a bit thready for this type of project so I would suggest using it for things other than that. But here it is.

My mother-in-law liked Greg's hat so much that she asked if I would knit Mattix my nephew a new hat as he is grown out of his old one. She said she wanted lots of bright colors, so instead of choosing all those different yarns I just decided to go with the Red Heart Kids multi worsted weight yarn. It is soft enough that he won't find it itchy, which is great for toddlers. So here is the first side, somehow I got it doing a slow spiral and I just stuck with it.

Here is the second side, which doesn't look as good in this picture because of the brightness of the red. But trust me it is still really neat looking on this side as well. I think that he will really like it. I am not going to waist time on making Fallon a hat because she hates them with a passion.

I am halfway done with the second sock of the Kiwi socks. I am excited I really am on a roll, and I am finally finishing my projects. I have one more after this but it is sort of my travelling project so I am not fussed about finishing that right away. But the next project I want to cast on for is a pair of Wendy Johnson Socks, from her book, "Bavarian Cable socks" or I want to knit these socks from " The Big Book of Socks" by Kathleen Taylor, they are called Diamond Tracings socks. But back to work I go.

Cold hands!!!!

Well I decided to make myself some fingerless mittens so that my hands won't get so cold during the day. I work at home and even when I have the heater on my hands still freeze. I am using the leftover yarn I have from my father and father-in-laws hats. It is Lion Brand Wool-Ease worsted weight yarn in wheat color. I finished G's hat finally it looks great I washed and dried it.

I am watching four kids today all of them are brothers and sisters. They are playing a lego game where they send one kid out of the room, the others build something then the one kid comes back in blindfolded and they have to give him verbal directions to build a copy of the they built. They are laughing up a storm because they keep getting left and right confused.

Woohoo!!!!

I finally finally finished my dad's hat, it was just a simple ribbed stocking cap, but I could never find the time to get anything significant amount done. But here it is finished and it looks, good. I am going to make a twin to this one for my father-in-law.

So now his head won't get chilly when he goes fishin' early in the mornings.

Voila

It took me most of the day to finish but I finally did

and it looks pretty good I was worried that there

was too many things going on in the hat but it looks good. The final test will be what my grandmother

thinks.

I started to get to the top and was worried about the transition from the cables to the center but it seemed to turn out alrignt.

Here is what the top looks like....

Looks good right well let me know what you think!!!