Peacefully Knitting

I’m so excited!!!!  The yarn my the sweater project arrived this week and I can hardly wait to start.  I found out from my friend via email,  that they most likely will be going to China sometime in November to bring home Lydia.  So I have a month to get this completed and shipped off.  My goal is start knitting today, Saturday and have the sweater completed by next Saturday - of course fingers are crossed.   This sweater will be fairly quick and very easy to knit, and I plan to post my step by step progress as I go.

I  ordered 9 skeins of Lion Brand Landscapes Yarn in color shade 271 Rose Garden for this pattern and will be using size 10 US needles for this project.  Again, I choose the pattern called “Quick n’ Cozy Baby Sweater and Hat” and you can find this pattern on the Lion Brand site by clicking http://cache.lionbrand.com/printablePatterns/50733A.pdf.  I can’t wait to see the end result and know this will be toasty warm.  I just hope to have enough yarn left over to knit the matching hat.

There are many times that I love to spend my Sunday afternoon on the couch, knitting up a storm while my hubby watches a football game.  I am not a sports fan at all, especially when it comes to football.   My husband feels bad that I don’t have an interest and tries to find something to watch with me so I’ll stay in the living room with him.  I came up with a solution – instead of leaving to find solace in my knitting,  I have learned to put the headphones on and listen to a book on my Palm.  We both feel much better about this arrangement and we are still sharing our afternoon together.  Needless to say, I  love to make many visits to “Audible” (www.audible.com), choose a great book, purchase, download and transfer to my Palm.  Isn’t technology wonderul!   While surfing the web today,   I discovered ”Knitting Out Loud” at http://www.knittingoutloud.com) that carries nothing but audio books on knitting.   I can’t wait to purchase a few of the books I found today as I have a feeling it’s going to be a very long football season! 

Happy knitting to all!

While my hubby is busy flipping stations between football and golf, I decided to join the world of bloggers and create my very first and only weblog or blog page.   I find this world of blogging a very intriguing past time of not only the American population but all those abroad.  It’s strangely unique and I find that bloggers post the most interesting information.  So, hopefully mine will be just as intriguing and interesting as everyone else.

I am a knitter, a very passionate knitter, who is highly addicted to yarn.  I can’t go into a yarn shop with without walking out with a bag full of yarn for my soon to be next project.  As all knitters know, there are lots of “soonto be” next projects in the works.  I get so carried away with my yarn stashing that once or twice a year I need to detash by selling on Ebay, every knitters yarn delight.  I’m not a expert knitter but I feel that I am very good at what I do.  I have sold many of my handknits to friends, family and folks I don’t even know.  I’m truly excited about trying a new idea of selling items again on Etsy – a wonderful place for all us handcrafters to sell our wares (http://www.etsy.com/). 

My idea is to create hats in many colors and sizes, similar to the one to the right, that I knitted several months ago.  This hat was a fun and fast project and I had enough yarn left over to create a great scarf to match the pattern.  This particular hat was created using two balls of Cleckheaton Gusto 10 with size 10.5 double pointed needles.  I love knitting hats and scarves, as they are fun and very fast projects.

Last year I had the pleasure of joining “Charmed Knits for Charity Knit-Along” at my local yarn shop Sophies (then Louisville KY).  The project consisted of knitting as many hats possible to send to a wonderful organization called Warm Woolies (warmwoolies.org).  I was able to knit 10 hats and received 2 hats from colleagues.  It truly was a wonderful feeling to be able to help in donating hats to such a worthy cause.   The theme was geared towards the latest Harry Potter movie that was coming out and the pattern was used from Alison Hansel’s book, “Charmed Knits” , House Hats – using all the colors of the houses in Harry Potter.  I think I might do a bunch of these hats and just send them - Harry Potter is always popular!