100 Days of Making: Day 124

Vacation yarn!

100 Days of Making: Day 124

#day124 of #100daysofmaking: I finished a sweater! My second ever! Kakomu by Kirsten Johnstone in Lindy Chain @knit_picks yarn in the Celery color way. My seaming skills are terrible and I may have ended up with a size that is smaller than I had wanted due to swatch confusion but it looks pretty great regardless of all that. Also this makes me 2/3 of the way to my #stashdash2016 goal! 3K is in my sights! #projectsweaterchest

100 Days of Making: Day 123

#day123 of #100daysofmaking: I can post this now that it's been gifted to my cousin, a "layette" set of an edged flannel receiving blanket (for which I redeveloped a method of crocheting tiny circles and this time I figured out how to tack them down on two sides so they will stay put better after washing-I will post the pattern and hopefully a video tutorial if YouTube will cooperate on my ravelry page soon), a Newborn Vertebrae sweater in Plucky Primo which was coincidentally the same color as the blanket I chose, and a Checkerwork hat by Vexy in KPPM that I found that matched the other two. Made a cute combo despite no initial intention to make the set match.

100 Days of Making: Day 122

#day122 of #100daysofmaking: Knit pucks order of all the needles! Got a few rainbow wood to slow down some slick yarn projects with silk in them. And I couldn't not order some yarn - Hawthorne in Poseidon. Planning on a sweater vest for my son.

100 Days of Making: Day 121

#day121 of #100daysofmaking: I started a Newborn Vertebrae from the leftovers of some Plucky Primo and while laking it for the 4th, I got to the end of the body. Concerned I may not have enough yarn for the sleeves, I examined it closely to realize I had increased on the front when I wasn't supposed to. I could leave it but probably not have yarn for long sleeves. Or I could rip back to row 6 and increase only in the proper places. Based on pic 2, guess what I did?? What a bummer waste of knitting time.

100 Days of Making: Day 120

#day120 of #100daysofmaking: Still not much knitting progress. I took #hitofudecardigan to the park and got half a row done in the blazing heat while the kids climbed up slides. I put two rows on my Inky brioche shawl. But child number one refused to nap and my wrist felt funky after half a row of knitting so for the evening knitertainment, I reorganized my stash that I finally took out of my son's room and moved to the basement, went through a random stack of magazines and added them to my Rav library, and drooled on my just arrived @muststashsheep Woodstock yarn with 20! stripes.

100 Days of Making: Day 119

#day119 of #100daysofmaking: I haven't posted knitting in nearly a month. I have been knitting but not nearly as much as I wish I could. My probably carpal tunnel keeps flaring and I am trying to limit my knitting time (and my yoga) due to pain in my wrists. I would rather do small amounts of knitting and rest every day or two then push it and end up in so much pain that I can't knit at all (or pick up the kids, or type my documentation at work, or do things around the house.... Wait, I can live without the household chores). This is my third Hitofude from @pluckyknitter Lodge Fingering. It's easy to pick up and put down, the pattern is so easy to memorize. I'm still on the sleeves and nearly done with my first (of 3) ball of yarn. It won't be finished as quickly as my first two.

100 Days of Making: Day 118

#day118 of #100daysofmaking: A little bit of car knitting on the way home from the lake. I haven't been knitting much this week - I think I'm beginning to develop some carpel tunnel problems from using laptops at my new job. Knitting doesn't help the situation. So should I quit knitting or quit my job? Tough decision....

Inky by Susanne Sommers in @hedgehogfibres Monarch and Villain

100 Days of Making: Day 118

#day118 of #100daysofmaking: My birthday gift from @czrakes reads "Watch me knit... Watch me crochet..." Since I'm super uncool, I did not catch the hip cultural reference. I only understand yarn and fiber art references. 😝

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100 Days of Making: Day 115

#day115 of #100daysofmaking: I bought myself some Mother's Day yarn today, an eye searing skein of pink Mad Tosh sock to match the Hedgehog Fibres skeins I got recently. Because brioche. This will become Inky by Suzanne Sommers when my Askews Me is off the needles

100 Days of Making: Day 113

#day113 of #100daysofmaking: My new Plucky Lodge Fingering arrived... I wanna cast on for my third Hitofude so bad....!

100 Days of Making: Day 113

100 Days of Making: Day 112

#day112 of #100daysofmaking: I am finally blocking some things since I found my blocking boards (after a year MIA). It's pretty amazing what cleaning out your closet can result in.
Four hundred shawl by Lynette Meeks in @buffalowoolco Tracks in Acai colorway from January installment of @erinlanebags Indie Yarn Carnival Club.

100 Days of Making: Day 111

#day111 of #100daysofmaking: Hitofude and mini-Hitofude. Blocked. Now we just need mommy/daughter pics.

100 Days of Making: Day 111

#day111 of #100daysofmaking: Hitofude and mini-Hitofude. Blocked. Now we just need mommy/daughter pics.

100 Days of Making: Day 110

100 Days of Making: Day 109

#day109 of #100daysofmaking: The yarn from this month's @erinlanebags Indie Yarn Carnival club was DK weight and so gorgeous. I have been itching to try brioche which seems to do a little better in thicker yarn but all I stash these days is fingering. So I thought this was a good opportunity to brioche it up and contacted @lydiayarn to see if she would do another skein or two and a contrast color that matched. Angela came up with this gorgeous pinkish speckled yarn. I wound the yarn the day it arrived and cast on for @westknits Askews Me shawl shortly after but there's a bit of learning curve to brioche as my first three attempts and frogs show. Some YouTube videos later and attempt number 4 finally got past the complex brioche garter tab opening and it's looking so good!

100 Days of Making: Day 108

#day108 of #100daysofmaking: You are hereby witnessing a knitting miracle. I had two skeins of @pluckyknitter Lodge fingering yarn (which by the way is my favoritest yarn ever ever ever right now (may have bought more tonight 😳)) to make a #hitofudecardigan. I added some length to it and I didn't think I was going to have enough yarn so I ordered a third skein. This is me binding off with a minuscule amount of the end of the second skein. I was sure I would have to break into the third skein for the last rows of ribbing and/or the bind off but people, I bound off every last stitch with 8 inches to spare! With another whole ball of Lodge left, I am making calculations on how to miniaturize the Hitofude for a child size version for a mommy/daughter set!