Progress on many fronts

On my needles right now, I have my 3rd dishcloth, another stab at baby socks and the beginnings of this beautiful gathered pullover from knitty. I've also crocheted up some very easy purple booties for Anne. I just need to attach the felt soles. Yay!

Little to show for my efforts

I seem to always be knitting or crocheting, yet I feel as though I have accomplished very little. I think I may have swatched about 6 different times using a lovely Lily Chin merino. I just can't get the stitch gauge right for the butterfly stitch sweater that I wanted to make. I have given up on it. I've found another sweater that I can make with the yarn, but I need to practice using cables first.

I did knit up a "calorimetry" headband using some pretty Lion Wool Print in ocean colors. It came out very nice. I'm going to try another one, perhaps using double strands of some sock yarn that I have.

I've been developing my own baby sock pattern. It is coming along. My goal is to make baby socks with the least amount of purling possible.

Finished socks for me.

I made myself a pair of simple knitted socks in Lana Grossa Meilenweit. I love the colors. It made a very happy striped pattern. I've also been working on two squares for a top secret baby blanket. My next project is to teach myself to knit continental style. I hope to be able to improve my row gauge and to knit faster. We'll see.

Beautiful blue and gray socks

I'm so proud of these socks.  I used the basic pattern for 7 stitches per inch socks from the book Getting Started Knitting Socks by Ann Budd. I modified the pattern by taking the ribbing all the way down the leg and the top of the foot. And I used a circular needle instead of dpns. So much easier!

  I need to take a better picture.

Flow top is finished!

Ta da!  The pattern was pretty easy.  I learned a lot more about decreases because I had to make so many.  I modified the pattern slightly be doing a crocheted edge on the arm and neck holes instead of picking up and purling a few rows as the pattern instructs.  I'm so glad I finished it while it is still warm enough out to go sleeveless.

A new afghan

I've decided to make a couple of afghans for my daughters. They are to be in crochet because knitting a blanket would take me the rest of my natural life. I've started the Circles in Squares pattern from Lion Brand for daughter Catherine. It is in Vanna's Choice acrylic. Hey, it's cheap, colorful, relatively soft and can stand up the rough treatment a teenager dishes out.

Almost finished with Flow, First knitted sock complete!

Flow is knitted! I just need to put it together and then do the edging. I hope I get it done while it is still warm enough to wear! I've also finished my first knitted sock. I got about a third of the way down the leg of the second sock and had to rip it out because I kept making lame mistakes. I decided to continue the ribbing down the entire front of the sock. It's pretty cool.