Climbing Vines Pullover

I saw a photo of this in a magazine it was a front tie cardigan. I loved the pattern detail so much that I had to incorporated it into this lovely pullover. I knew it was a pattern design that I had seen somewhere, but the stitch could not be found anywhere when I chose to make this pullover. I took the magazine photo and enlarged to until I could see the detail and work from that point. After the pain staking time of completing the pattern stitch I would the written out pattern. Talk about a day late and a dollar short. I am glad that I finally finished it. It has been sitting in the WIP basket for the longest time. I finally decided it was time I finished some WIPs.

Climbing Vines Pullover $4.00

Relaxing Sunday

Well i did finish the dress in time for the wedding, but it was not dry to my liking during blocking so I did not wear it to the wedding. Went with another dress, which was probably good since I spent the entire time running or carries either one or the other grandson, knitting does have a tendency stretching when handling babies. Not to mention that the shoes I planed to wear with the dress would also not have worked with the reception setting (outside on the lawn, not made for stilettos.)

I have been working on baby hats for the hospital, have two completed so far. So maybe now that I'm finished with the wedding I can work on getting more of the hats finished.

Dress Progress

My dress is progressing very nicely. I have finished the front/back and am one on the back/front, only 13 more rows and i am totally finished with the dress, well aside from sewing it together. It looks like I will finish this dress tonight.

Went out for a bachelorett dinner for Julie's cousin who is getting married on Saturday, for whose wedding I am making the above mentioned dress.

Relaxing

Yesterday was my KIP and it was great fun. There were about 13 of us. We sat in front of the shop knitting under the canopy which we carried to the front of the shop. There was even a reported coverying the event.

Today, I'm just relaxing working on my dress, for the wedding on Saturday. At it is progressing very nicely I hope to have it finished in the next few days. I would like to finish it today, as that would give me some time to work on the baby hats for the hospital. On Tuesday, my daughter informed me that the hospital is low on baby hats. The ones that they have are either to large or way to small.

As soon as I finish my dress I will post photos of it as well as some of the hats. I won't be following a pattern for the hats I will just make it up as I go along.

Here are a few pictures of our KIP

Bit A Lace

This pattern is now available for purchase. It was worked with the lace pattern first and the stitched for the top and bottom portion of this tank were picked up afterwards.  It is work in the round after this point as the lace is joined using either the Kitchener stitch or using a three needle bind off.  I did mine with the Kitchener stitch. 

I also did a crochet edging around the neck and a single crochet finish around the armhole.

I used Queensland Bebe CotSoy in a Plum.  It comes in 4 sizes.

$5.00

Finished

I have finished the Diamond/Cable Lace Tank.  It is currently blocking and i will have better pictures to post as soon as it is finished

Progress

Well I'm finally making progress on my shell.  I'm almost finished with the top half of the shell. I hope to finish today or tomorrow, time permitting.  

As I was finishing the upper edge and attaching the shoulders using the 3 needle bind off I decided to finish off the neckline with a crochet edge. I will post pictures as soon as I finish the edging.

Hump Day

Husband is finally home from hospital.  However, my knitting is not progressive much. I had the entire bottom section and upper section of shell finished, but did not like the way it was looking so I not only frogged the bottom part, but the top part as well. I was almost finished with the entire shell.

Very Long Weekend

Didn't get much knitting done, as i spent most of my weekend in the hospital with my husbands who either suffered another stroke a seizure.  I knitted and frogged the same 14 rows at least 6 times. I finally had to put t he knitting away as i was getting no where literally.

Slow Going

The Progress on my  shell is slow going as I was trying to do 4 sizes at the same time, until this morning a light bulb went on and I realized to do one size and then just for the smaller/larger sizes after i finish ah dah :).

Now that I know this little tidbit I am making better progress, almost finished with the diamond/cable lace panel. I also figure once I'm finished the the diamond/cable pattern the rest of the shell will be a breeze.

New Design

         I started a new design today. It will be a shell with a diamond lace center panel which I will on the horizontal. with st. st. above and below. Most of this project is still in the planning stage, in other words in my head.

Bamboozle Shrug

            

This shrug is worked from cuff to cuff. you start with the left cuff and work the entire shrug until you almost reach desired length of the right sleeve. At this point you place the stitched on a holder and for the lace cuff of the right sleeve. The cuff is then grafted to the shrug.  The lace  around the neck, fronts and lower edging is added by knitting the edging and attaching it to the body every other row.

$5.00 USD

Long Day

It's been a while since I posted anything. Have been busy with new grandson, who is now 10 months, and his big brother.

I have done quite a bit of knitting over the past few months. I have finished

HMS08

MysticStar.

It's been a busy day. It was my husband's birthday had my daughter and family over for knitting as well as her in-laws. We all had a great time, playing with the boys, catching up on family stuff.

Although with all the visiting and entertaining didn't leave much room for knitting. I did manage to finish clue 3 on mystery shawl 12, but was not able to do any work on mystic roses clue 1. Hopefully tomorrow, I will have more time.

The huricane that is my kitchen is waiting for me to finish cleaning (the down side of entertaining). Well if I want to get any knitting done before bedtime, I should go and clean my kitchen.