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| wow. I need to keep up.I guess summer got in the way of blogging. I have no knitting to report unfortunately. Been doing a bit of photography - feel free to hop on over to my flickr if you're interested.
Been thinking about knitting....really want to make another skirted soaker. They're just so darn cute. Maybe tomorrow I'll start one....
any requests? I didn't think so LOL
Nope I didn't grow this flower. My famous knitting gardening neighbor Beth did.
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| The bad news - I somehow got another year older....The good news - my compulsive knitter neighbor Beth knitted these gorgeous socks for my bday!
I am inspired. She tells me that WE are going to knit socks from my new socks from the toe up book. I'm askeered!
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| Fluff Factory Auctions start today!Hey everybody - please check out the Fluff Factory Auctions - starting today. I have one soaker up and am going to add a little bag and a pair of shorts today as well.
All proceeds go to Heifer International.
On the knitting front - I was very excited to receive my long anticipated copy of Socks from the Toe Up ! Oh, the book is gorgeous - and since I am going to come right out of the closet and admit that tho I've dabbled in starting socks (casting on, doing random short-rowed misshapen things) - I have never actually knit any. Yes. I am a sock virgin. When Wendy over at Wendy Knits announced she'd be releasing a book of her designs I decided I'd wait and knit from it because really, top down socks just don't make sense to me. I am glad I did as the graphics are very well done and I think I can actually understand it! My neighbor is loving the heart socks. I'm not sure what I want to do first. I suppose plain socks would be best but I am sorely tempted by some of the lacy stuff.
The good news is I already have sock yarn from when I went to see the Yarn Harlot 2 years ago in Atlanta! Let's hear it for the stash!
Many thanks to Wendy for mentioning the Fluff Factory Auctions in her blog.
Here's a pic of the soaker I have up so far. Colors are prettier in person.
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| quickie machine/hand knit bagI think I mentioned in my last post a quick birthday present idea. dd was invited to a classmate's 7th birthday party - I offered to knit her a bag that dd could fill will cool stuff - art supplies, etc...
I cast on with inexpensive sugar and cream striped yarn - think it was 1.25 each for the 2 skeins needed. I did a double bed cast on - then immediately began knitting in the round. I used up one skein, took the bag off on to waste yarn, then put the side 7 (strap) stitches on a holder. I hand knit a garter edge for the rest, then hung the held stitches on the artisan 70d, ribbed until I was sure it was long enough. I ended up pulling out quite a bit, then grafting the edge to the bag. I sewed up the edge where the garter meets the strap and voila! Last step is to tighten up the cast on edge at the bottom of the bag. As always, I finished up 30 minutes before we had to BE there lol. Typical. But it wasn't a rush situation.
We filled the bag with a journal, pencils, stationary pads, a fridge magnet with words to play with, etc...all from the 1.00 bins at Michaels in coordinating colors.
What is it with kids and journals? Lol. dd has a massive collection. Very few are actually full, but she always works her way thru at least 1/2 in one sitting!
The bag was a hit - got a thumbs up from the adorable birthday girl :) It was a very inexpensive gift, which was not the goal at all but a bit of a bonus.
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