I have finished my sweater for the Ravelympics. I finished it last Thursday evening on the way to the library to see a documentary about Wizard Rock bands. (The Wizard Rockumentary)

Ta da!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pattern: Hey, Teach from Knitty.com

Needle: US 9 / 5.5 mm

Yarn: Filtes King Kim

6 skeins = 648.0 yards (592.5m)

Mods: Added an inch to the length and omitted the ribbing below the lace portion.

This knit up in just under a week, started on Friday August 8th and finished Thursday August 14th.

I’ve also worked up two little scarflette/ascot thingies too in the last two days.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These are Tunisian crochet on a size N hook, the brown one is made from some Berroco and the pink one is Araucania Nature Cotton. Both have vintage buttons on them as well. They’re both for sale in my Etsy Shop (click here!)

I’m working on a pair of socks for Mike and a purse right now.

Yesterday I whacked my foot on the side of a hard plastic baby gate and bruised the top of my foot pretty bad, then last night I did it AGAIN to the lower part of the same foot so today I’m pretty much sticking to bed with it elevated.

I’ve got an idea kicking around in my head for a sweater design that I think I might start sketching out and swatching for. 

I am working on the Hey, Teach pattern for the Ravelympics. The Ravelympics run for the duration of the Summer Olympics (17 days), which means I have 17 days to knit this sweater.

You were supposed to pick things that would be a challenge for you. Well this sweater has been a challenge.

First of all I’ve never done a sweater flat to be seamed, because I hate seaming. So I always do my sweaters top down raglan so there is nothing to seam.

Secondly I’ve never done a lace pattern that involves shaping as well. All the lace I’ve done has been a scarf or other flat pieces of fabric that doesn’t involve working shaping into the lace pattern. That has proven to be the most difficult part of this sweater, however I must say that I felt like the Best Knitter IN THE WORLD when I did get the arm shaping to work out without messing up the lace pattern.

I’m nearly finished with the back panel, as of bed time last night I had only four more inches to go on the back. I’ll finish that part today and hopefully get a fair amount done on the first front panel. If I continue in this manner, I’m hoping to have the knitting done by Thursday of this week, so that the seaming can begin over the weekend, for a finished product by this time next week.

If that happens, that will leave me another week worth of Ravelympic time to do the Toe Up Jaywalkers that I had slated to do during the Ravelympics as well. These would be for Mike.

I finished the Express Lane socks that I was working up in the Pagewood Farms Yukon sock yarn that I showed ya’ll in the last post. Since my readers failed me and only one of you suggested a sock pattern, I went ahead and did the Express Lane pattern with that sock yarn, which I ended up gifting to my friend Bethany anyway because she fell in love with the colors in the sock.

 

The beautiful Befany with her socks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The yarn was quite divine to knit with, I will be purchasing more in various color ways. I wasn’t totally in love with these colors for myself, which is why I didn’t mind giving these up to Bethany.

Now I have this sock yarn that needs to be worked up. I’d like a nice fall/winter style sock to work this yarn in. It’s not too stripey, so this is good yarn for lace and cables. Any ideas, ya’ll?

 

 

 

Dream in Color Smooshy

 

 

 

I’m headed back to work on the Hey Teach sweater. Updates forthcoming!

It’s a whole post dedicated to my adorable dogs. The only reason I own a digital camera is because I needed a way to document the ridiculously cute things my dogs do.

Some of the recent cuteness has included Dixie lounging in the pool with her Uncle Josh (Who is also her God father. There’s paper work and everything, if Mike and I die, Dixie goes to live with Uncle Josh.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

She’s obviously quite pleased her herself.

 

 

 

 

Then the other night Mike and I went to get some late night frozen custard at Sheridan’s. Evidently they serve these itty bitty vanilla cones to dogs. So Dixie and Allie shared a cone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Instead of biting it like I thought they would, they licked the whole thing down and then I had to break the cone part in half for them because they wouldn’t bite it from my  hand. What good girls they are.

To further prove my undying love and affection (and sometimes craziness) to my animals I knit Dixie a little sweater that matches the Classroom sweater I just knit up for myself. (As soon in the previous post to this one.)

Here you go, evidence of the devotion/creepiness that lives in my head.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good times at Chez DaniDo.