Wow - I have been a bad blogger for a few months now. Sorry about that (you know, to any of my faithful readers who have been leaving all those comments about my quietness...).
This month has been tough. It's had some really high highs, and then some really low lows. And the in between has been closer to the low than the high. So I'm definitely looking forward to October.
There has been knitting this month - lots of knitting. And you guys haven't seen any of it, so this will be a knitting post, for those who are uninterested and just check to make sure I'm alive - you can go about your business now.
First, I really should show you what I finished in August.
The
Presto Cardigan. I love it! I wear it every chance I get. I think I might need to make another one in a different color. And I really should get a better picture, that one just looks goofy to me.
Onto the September knitting. I started a little sweater that I've had my eye on since the pattern was released,
Goodale.
It saw a lot of knitting time on the road trip at the beginning of the month, and then it kind of sat for a little while, and then it just kind of slogged along there at the end (never ending purl rows will kill a persons will to knit, I tell ya). The above picture doesn't look all that fantastic I know (it's closer to the true color), it's not blocked yet. But look what happens after it's blocked:
So cute. A pain to block though. I love knitting cardigans and sweaters in general all in one piece (so nice not to have to seam) but I hate blocking them. Oh well, you can't have everything right? Tonight it should be dry enough to finish up (it might have been dry by now, but I only just managed to sew in the ends before Mom and I left for the Chicken BBQ yesterday). So I need to make a trip to JoAnn's to find some buttons, and tomorrow I should have a finished sweater, maybe I'll even get back on later this week to post about it - how crazy would that be?
I also started my "crazy project" for the next little while. I talked about it before - the
Corrie Fair Isle Vest. I'm (amazingly) at the 25% mark (I told you I managed to get in some knitting this month), and I think it's looking really good:
And fun. It's fun to knit too, but I'm weird like that, fair isle will amuse me forever.
A little closer so you can see the colors better. Ignore the bumpiness, it needs to be blocked. I haven't worked on it much in the last week (as I was stuck with the slog of the project previously talked about), but I'll get back to it soon. The trick is to just knit a few rounds a day, and pretty soon your 8 inches into it.
I was overtaken with an urge to knit a pair of socks this month too (why no, I didn't finish the plain pair of socks that was started during two-a-days, I'm a grown up and can knit what I want).
The
Sleepy Hollow Socks. So cool looking. I mean, look at the leaves!
Something else that will endlessly amuse me, little leaves in my knitting. I really am a simpleton. But I'm at the heel on the second sock, so it shouldn't take too long to wrap these up. Ha.
And then this weekend, I fell into a little black hole. I had to start this project. And then I had to keep going on it.
I mean, isn't it cool? What? You don't see the cute
little owl?
It's adorable. But will be more so when finished. I don't know where my obsession with owls came from, but I love em. I may or may not have purchased yarn to do one for me in different colors...
And then there are 2 other projects this month that aren't shown. I finished the Tammy Wrap (a new pattern from
KNOTS owner, Kate Jackson) but haven't gotten any pictures yet, hopefully today. And then there's a sekrit project. Not sure how long it will stay sekrit, now that I'm back at home, but we'll see.
Probably see you later this week with some updates and finished projects!
The Goodale:
The Sleepy Hollow Socks:
The Horned Owl:
Two pictures for that one because it's little horns wouldn't stick out like they were supposed to, they folded down (probably due to me picking up stitches wrong) so I had to tack them back.
The Presto Cardigan. I love it! I wear it every chance I get. I think I might need to make another one in a different color. And I really should get a better picture, that one just looks goofy to me.
It saw a lot of knitting time on the road trip at the beginning of the month, and then it kind of sat for a little while, and then it just kind of slogged along there at the end (never ending purl rows will kill a persons will to knit, I tell ya). The above picture doesn't look all that fantastic I know (it's closer to the true color), it's not blocked yet. But look what happens after it's blocked:
So cute. A pain to block though. I love knitting cardigans and sweaters in general all in one piece (so nice not to have to seam) but I hate blocking them. Oh well, you can't have everything right? Tonight it should be dry enough to finish up (it might have been dry by now, but I only just managed to sew in the ends before Mom and I left for the Chicken BBQ yesterday). So I need to make a trip to JoAnn's to find some buttons, and tomorrow I should have a finished sweater, maybe I'll even get back on later this week to post about it - how crazy would that be?
And fun. It's fun to knit too, but I'm weird like that, fair isle will amuse me forever.
A little closer so you can see the colors better. Ignore the bumpiness, it needs to be blocked. I haven't worked on it much in the last week (as I was stuck with the slog of the project previously talked about), but I'll get back to it soon. The trick is to just knit a few rounds a day, and pretty soon your 8 inches into it.
The Sleepy Hollow Socks. So cool looking. I mean, look at the leaves!
Something else that will endlessly amuse me, little leaves in my knitting. I really am a simpleton. But I'm at the heel on the second sock, so it shouldn't take too long to wrap these up. Ha.
I mean, isn't it cool? What? You don't see the cute little owl?
It's adorable. But will be more so when finished. I don't know where my obsession with owls came from, but I love em. I may or may not have purchased yarn to do one for me in different colors...