FO, WIPs, and YARN!!!!!

All kinds of good stuff to share with you all! I have an FO that I finished last week to share first. It's the Couvercle hat from Knitty. I love this hat and I know I will be making many more.

A little better lighting for the real color of the hat.

This is a hat that I started last week but frogged while at work on Saturday. I wasn't pleased out it was coming out. I restarted it the same day and finished it last night. But the BF took it before I got a picture... I also started a new hat in NOTRE DAME colors last night and it's almost finished already.. I think I will be making at least 2 more of these after I'm done. Brother, Dad and BF are getting hats for Christmas!

These are basic socks for my mom. I have been slowly working on these during some of my doctor's appointments I've been having.

These are my Sailor's Delight in Dream in Color Smooshy. I really like these socks, but after a whole summer of nothing but socks... I'm got a little bored.

Noro Sock KAL with my girls Wendy, Stacey, and Chan. We are all knitting the Anastasia pattern with noro sock yarn. It's a great pattern, easy after I figured out how to do toe up and fast with the Noro.

Wendy had this crazy sock yarn in her stash, Tofutsies. I knew she would never use it, so I was trying to make the Charade socks with it. I will need to rip and restart because the cables are all wonky and pulling the sock weird ways, but I might see if it looks okay on my sock blocker first...

OH MY GOODNESS. When I opened the package from my Secret Swap Pal from the Summer of Yarn Love swap, I SCREAMED!!!! SOCKS THAT ROCK! I have never even seen a skein of this in person and there it was in my hands, my very own skein. I was very lucky to have a great swap partner!!! :)

Here are the colors on the back... LOVE IT! It's called Chapman Springs.

I got this excellent sock yarn from Eat.Sleep.Knit and I love it! It's Unique Sheep in Cherry Blossom. I am kind of obsessed with cherry blossoms, so I knew I had to add this to the collection. I am still working on getting a tattoo of a cherry blossom branch on my foot... I can't wait.

Next I am flashing some of my stash.. Just because I finally got it all organized and it's so pretty... :) And at least 1 more hat! :)

WIP's

I have finally taken some pictures of a few of my WIP's and also almost FO, just need to weave in the ends and it will be an FO.

The first is a washcloth for a friend's DD, Becca. She went to the zoo in DC and she LOVED the armadillos. So, I went online and found a pattern for an armadillo washcloth that she could use at bath time.
















Not the best picture, but I'm going to keep trying my skills with the camera and see what happens!

Next is my So-Called Scarf that I am making out of Cotton Ease from Lion Brand! They brought it back after discontinuing it and I bought 4 skines of the lime green color. It's so nice.




















And finally, my Irish Hiking Scarf in Red Heart Soft Yarn in Grape. Yeah, I know what you are probably thinking, but it's really soft and really nice and easy to knit with.
















Just love this scarf and the color is wonderful.


So these are a few of my WIPs for now with more to come.


I have yet to conquer socks, sweaters, or anything fitted, but that is next on my knitting agenda. I have plans to start my first pair of socks soon with the help of Wendy. Then I could teach her to crochet for her beautiful fall bag!


In non-knitting news, I need to have a root canal and it's scheduled for Monday. Oh, I'm so lucky.. Okay, not really, but we will see what happens! So glad I have some sick time :o)

Off to get some prescriptions filled for the tooth and some other errands!

Doing this blog thing....

So, I decided to start this blog about my knitting and ramblings about yarn, all my WIP's, and probably a little about my weight loss journey as well! It's a place to get to know me, my love of yarn, and for me to learn from other people!

So, I give you.. My self-portrait shot from the bathroom so show off my new haircut. But here you have me :o)

I've been reading other knitting blogs for a little over a year and have thought about starting a blog, but I never thought I would have enough to talk about. Well, I was inspired to start this blog by quite a few people, but the most influential person was Wendy from my WW group! She is great! I have learned a lot from her since we started talking about yarn and knitting! We had a bet, that when I lost 6 lbs, she would buy me a skein of Tofutsies in color 790. Well, I got it last night and I couldn't stop touching it! It's my first skein of sock yarn and I can't wait to cast on! First though, I need ot finish my long list of WIP's! I'm going to work on that list and take pictures of all of them so I can post them on here!

So until then.. Happy Knitting.. And happy Friday!