LOST, forgotten camera parts, and fair isle gloves

I had a rather eventful weekend.  The hubbs and I have a room mate, and he and his girlfriend are equally as into the T.V. show LOST as we are (maybe more!).  The thing was, that back when the hubbs and I lived in Columbus we started going to a bible study which was also on Wednesday nights.  For a while we were good about catching up on the episodes, but after a while we drifted away.  The solution?  A LOST MARATHON!!!  We began the festivities last Friday and tried to get through all 17 episodes, but we started at about 1:00 A.M- and we only made it until about 10:00 A.M.  For some reason, the hubbs and I thought that we had only seen about 4 episodes... we turned out to be very wrong and saw very familiar episodes up until about episode 13... which didn't happen until this past Friday when we finished the season.  What an ending!  We can't wait until the season 6 premier!

Also, this Saturday and Sunday was National Alpaca Days- an open house event amongst local alpaca farms where you could visit and see the alpacas and speak with the farmers about that lifestyle- and of course, buy fiber and yarn!  Super fun!  I took some really cute pictures, but of course, I forgot my little camera's connector cable in Ohio!  I ordered one on e-bay today, though, so I should be able to post some super cute alpaca pictures soon.  Also, I forgot my Canon Rebel battery charger... so all of the pictures that I have been taking of my latest project to post on here are stuck on my camera.  I took a few photos of my current progress on my cell phone to upload onto here-but obviously the quality leaves much to be desired.

My concern with this is that I haven't really done a fair isle pattern before and this glove really seems too small for me- but the pattern says that once it is blocked it will be a little bigger.  I sure hope so, but just to be safe, I will block this one as soon as I am done with it to make sure that it will be big enough before I begin the second one. 

I will post a link to this pattern also. 

I am still working on the snowboarder gloves- I am done with about 4.5 repeats of the figure.  It is just a very simple pattern and kind of mindless- which I definitely like sometimes, but I need a break from it sometimes also.

Erin's Snowboarder Scarf

I just began my sister Erin's illusion knit snowboarder scarf.

If you are interested, I have posted the link to this pattern in the sidebar, as well as a link to some other shadow or illusion knitting patterns.

I think that I will be trying to cook pad thai.  If it turns out well, I will include the recipe on here! 

SUCCESS!

I finally finished the socks!  It has taken me a long time to get these done.  I always tend to have a difficult time with anything in pairs.  Once I get done with one, I would like to just be done and move on to something else, but since feet come in pairs, it makes sense that socks should also.  I finished the first sock about 6 months ago, and just now got around to finishing the second.  All in all, these weren't too terribly awful to make.  They were more interesting than regular socks because of the argyle pattern, but not impossible to work on while watching a movie or something. 

As for the yarn shortage situation that I was dealing with- I definitely wasn't going to have enought yarn, so I ended the sock a bit early.  Jaimie actually prefered it that way because sock patterns always seem to want to make you have a weird pointy toe-but in the middle of your foot.  Thankfully, I don't think that it is too noticeable when he is actually wearing the socks.

The yarn that I ordered for my middle sister's Christmas gift came in the mail the other day.  Her snowboarding coat is navy and gold, so I ordered matching wool to knit her an illusion knit scarf of a snowboarder (also from illusionknits.com).  She is thinking of buying a gold winter peacoat, so this will actually go with either one.  I will post some pictures once I have some progress made!

A Wing and a Prayer

My husband and I moved here to Maryland about a month ago.  As we were frantically packing for the move (he is in the military and got short notice orders... VERY short notice), I thought that I grabbed all of the yarn that I needed for the projects that I had going.  Turns out that I forgot at least one element from each one- a skein of yarn, a crochet hook, knitting needles of a particular size. 

So I am just finishing (finally!) my first ever color work project.  A pair of argyle socks for my husband.  We graduated from Ohio State-and he is a big fan of the football team, so I wanted to incorporate the scarlet and grey.  My favorite color is green, so I used that as the color using the least yarn in the pattern. 

In the second sock, I tried to carry the black yarn behind the red diamond rather than doing it intarsia style like I should have.  There is a lot of puckering.  Boo.

But back to my forgetfulness. 

I forgot my other black skein and as you can see- I am thisclose to being done with this sock, but I'm not sure if I will have enough yarn.  If I don't have enough, I will be only a few yards shy, which is annoying but kind of funny. 

 

In other news, I ordered some really nice sock yarn for a Christmas gift for my youngest sister.  Last year for Christmas I knit a really cool 'illusion knit' dragonfly scarf in gray and purple for her.  I asked her what she wanted this year and she wants some dragonfly gloves or mittens to match.  No problem, right?

Wrong.  I actually could find only one pattern for dragonfly mittens-and they were not that cool.  I went to the same website where I got the scarf pattern (illusionknits.com) and they DO have a mitten pattern, but it has a different figure on it.  I am going to try to merge the two together, but I really don't know how it will turn out!  More to come on that one when the yarn comes in!

Here We Go

I love the idea of knitting blogs. I enjoy reading about what other knitters are doing and creating.

I hope that this blog will enter into that dialogue and we can all discuss our progress together.

More later.