I took a whole bunch of pictures and most of them looked too garish and overexposed. Do you think I know how to work my camera yet? Do you think I could find my manual? Anyway, I was busy trying to figure things out, changing settings, taking pictures, tidying up, looking for my manual and I think I went into some kind of time warp. I could have sworn it was four o'clock or so but it was only one pm! Anyway, I'm still not really happy with these pictures but I can't find the secret setting that makes all the pictures come out just right.
I bought this great book, Hip Knit Hats by Cathy Carron. When I first flipped through it I realized that I would make most of the hats in it. There are a few hats done with novelty yarns, which I'm not fond of, but otherwise, I love this book.
See, this purple hat is the one on the front cover and it looks great on. I drastically changed needle sizes for this one. I'm getting cleaver at mixing different yarns to create the proper gauge. This is a good reason to have a good variety in your stash!
Here is the same hat in a different mix. They each took one good evening of TV watching, speaking of which, my favorite show at the moment is The Office.
I've also been working on this beauty, a scarf in Drops alpaca, soooo soft. It's as adventurous as I'm going to get in lace, at the time being. Easy peasy Feather and Fan.
A real quickie scarf in the beautiful Noro. I can't tell you what it is because I've misplaced the tag. It's got these two nice fluffy angora patches at either end. I love this colour mix!
Ok... these socks ( the start of this sock) aren't quite so bright. It's weird, knitting bulky hats then moving back to this. It's like knitting on tooth picks.
So, that's it for now.
I do have some snow pictures and I also want to tell you about the morning smoothies I've been making and you can tell me if I'm getting carried away.
6 comments:
Hi Becky. Glad to see you back again and busily knitting away. Love the socks. The pretty green ones you sent me are keeping my feet toasty warm on these cold nights.
I really love the socks....you did a good job exchanging the yarn on the hat....there's looked a little big....yours looks in good proportion.
Hello Becky I have just found your lovely blog through laughing duck. I was brought to a halt on the post about your Dad and son. It takes guts to write that, and I realise I don't know you but I just wanted to say that someone in england is thinking of you. I will pop back again if that's ok.
yummy projects..I really enjoyed your pictures and colors of what your working on!
Hi Becky. I stumbled onto your blog site this morning. I like your work. I've been in a small project mood lately and have knitted some dolls and scarves using some of my stash. I read about the deaths of your father and son. December 6 was particularly hard because it was the anniversary of my daughter's birhday. She died in 1999 at the age of 27. I miss her terribly. My heart goes to you.
I just bought this hat book. I love every single one of those patterns. But I am confused about something. I don't know if this is the best place to ask - and I am afraid I sound like a dork, but I really need help so that I can move forward making the hats.
I have tried 2 hat patterns so far. Both say to cast on 12 stitches. Then knit round 1. no problem. Then on round 2, k1, m1....for the round. Not a problem, either. Except that if I have 12 stitches and then K1, M1 all the way around, I end with 24 stitches. But I am supposed to end up with 18 stitches. I am sooo confused. How do I do k1, m1 on 12 stitches and get 18? Any chance you can help an anxious knitter? leslipeterson@gmail.com
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