jaunts around town

in our jaunts around town today we went to the dollar store, ocean state job lots=where i bought the plush yarn, 3 of each for $2 each. and worked on the booties for the hospital while in the car. went to get a lottery ticket and also to the grocery store for bread and english muffins.

contest, pattern, knit, prayer shawl, flowers, seashells

http://www.crochettoday.com/ enter a square for the chance to win. i won't show the one i'm submitting but i've sent an email to them allready.

this is a knit prayer shawl using bamboo sample from Granny's Garret in Austria. There were many different stitch patterns there that I thought would make a good shawl. http://www.grannys-garret.com/

notice i have two landlines, even though it's not a lacy pattern if you do miss a yo here and there the whole thing gets messed up.

spring has arrived in RI. it's way early LOL Some parts of TN are getting snow today, it could be us but storm goes the northern most route for past week or we'd have 3 feet of snow now.

More flowers to come, can't wait to see the tiger lilly tulips.

sea shell pencil holders. these are fun to make, even getting the shells on the beaches. the problem was what to use for the putty stuff. some stuff i had bought never hardened. this stuff does and i do have spray to use to keep it shiny. hope it doesn't discolor and turn yellow. We got reservations to goto the island for the 15th.

new and ongoing projects, charity, knit, crochet

ongoing projects: crochet contest, hospital charity booties, more patterns to check out, another prayer shawl (maybe using one of the new stitches) a cockatoo bird to put on an afghan: note fluffly yarn to bottom right and feathery type yarn that will go on top. bird shape itself is to left of all that.

finished knit prayer shawl, ripple pattern

. this is the back of the shawl.

prayer shawl, knit, crochet, charity

3 prayer shawls, one on bottom is knit every row. next one is a crochetted one (my own pattern of 3 dc clusters), and next is knit ripple.

wrap around sweater, charity, knit

my wrap around sweater, this one, is done finally, after bout 6 attempts. i'm happy with it now! now that i have 3 different one i'm all set for myself for another year or so.

got pattern from mason/dixon bok, pattern: after dark robe very easy to convert into a wrap around sweater. using simply soft from caron it just drapes perfectly.

will work on charity things this weekend : hospital booties and prayer shawls, maybe start an afghan for navy relief.

knit, prayer shawl, charity

this is the start of a prayer shawl using k3, p3 pattern, reversed on opposite side.

finished shawl, not sure if you can see the columns of pattern here.

a woman on the island, Edna Conrad who wasn't able to knit any longer but attended the knit and sewing groups once a week gave the donation of money to the head person to find someone who would knit shawls and the money was to go to pay for the yarn. i had just bought a bunch to make poncho's but the order hasn't been paid for so i thought i'd use some of the yarn. Edna just recently was taken off the island by ambulance and was hospitalzied and died a few days later. She will be missed by all on the island :{

progress on projects, new projects

knitting on wrap around sweater, its slow going as each front section starts out with 96 sts. up to decreases now but thats' just below the waist.

working on some booties for charity=newport hospital.

gotta make a 'fred' cuckatoo for the top of an afghan.

elephant afghans, have made a bunch of these, now we concentrate on a teddy bear shape but having a problem with a round shape for ears. so easy if i was to crochet it.

checked out numerous sites on round dishcloths, potholders, etc.

Charity, wrap around sweater

Booties for local hospital.

to left is wrap around sweater, slow going due to size of the needles used.

knit irish fisherman, wrap around sweater

gregs hat to match his sweater, this is the back















this is the front, also made a braided cable hat for gregs mom while visiting with her on sunday.

re-re-re-restart of wrap around sweater

worked on this at docs on monday. there were 2 other women sitting there knitting on their projects.

back section is all done now

pattern

scallop edging along baby afghan.

start with * 3 dc in one space, skip one space, slip st in next, skip one space, rep from across, work corner according to pattern

baby afghan, layette finished

baby afghan and layette with extra mittens all done

finished project

one poncho finished, 5 more to go with hats.

Listened to a book on tape: Stitches in Time by Barbara Michaels the tale of a quilt as it's traced through the century to the owner and maker. Cool mystery, only 2 hour book.

finished projects

added a knit meter so you can see how many miles i've knit alllready this year. i started late and will not back track to jan 1.

also have 10 of the 14 angel dishcloths done.
also have the baby layette done, working on the afghan that goes with that order.




back view




side view of the irish fisherman sweater.






yep it fits.










gregs sweater almost done, just not neck, til he tries it on again.

one side of reverible poncho

other side of reversible poncho

knitted cap with sun visor, done

projects finished

got cap with visor done,



gregs irish fisherman sweater done



sunday i finished a yellow baby layette but left it on the island for this summers craft show.



started on a knit poncho, as i have 6 of them to make. this is a reversible poncho, can be turned to either side.