Saturday, June 11, 2016

Slow Project Progress and Super Lucky Lately

I know it's only been a few days since my last post but am trying to get on here more often.  

My "Kick in the Butt" socks have seen a bit of knit time.  The first one is finished and it's twin has completed ribbing.  The Vanilla socks saw no love the last few days.  I've been knitting on my Ziggy Cowl.  I love the way my handspun is feeling.  It's a bit thicker than the pattern called for, so I cast on an extra 10 stitches to make it a tiny bit looser.  

I'm still working on getting the third braid of "Tuscany" spun up.  I'm going to ply the whole twelve ounces at one time.  My next fiber is staring at me from on top of the table where it's safe from Isabella kitty.  Of course, it's in a plastic bag, too.

As previously posted, I won a project bag and stitch markers last Monday.  Well, on Tuesday, while listening to another of my favorite podcasts, I heard my name called again.  This time it was for my sweater spin project.  The prize was a $25 gift certificate from Etsy.  Woot!  Woot!  I'm saving it until something really begs to come live with me and my stashes.  

I was feeling very lucky.  On Wednesday, I had my husband pick me up two Powerball Quick Pick tickets.  I specifically told him to use MY $4 to buy mine on a separate slip.  He goofed it up.  He bought them with his money instead when he got his. Not a single number was right.  My lucky streak is over. :(  

Wednesday night was my knitting guild meeting in which we had a huge Show & Tell.  Everyone brought three items to show.  I brought one scarf, two shawls- "Wine Tasting" Cashmere Scarf,
 "Flamboyan" Shawl, and "Evenstar" Shawl.

Tuesday, June 07, 2016

"Stash Dash" Plans, Another Prize

Every Spring, the Knit Girllls Podcast hosts what is know as "Stash Dash".  The idea is to knit, crochet, spin, weave, or tat your way through as much stash as you can from Lala's last day of work in May until she returns in August.  She's a librarian/teacher and has most of the Summer off to do this.  WIPs count as long as there is some form of stitching involved.  Rules and details can be found on their group page. All items must be measured in meters. There are 3K, 5K, 7K, 10K, and a 15K option to choose from.  I'm not declaring until the end of June when I will see how close I am to the 5K.  I might shoot for the 7K at that time.  

So far I've got 2 pairs of socks, and the sweater spin project finished for a total of 1904.5 meters.  There's 2 more pairs of socks, 2 cowls, a sweater (from the spin project), a shawl, and a pair of felted clogs in some sort of progress right now.  One of the cowls and the 2 pairs of socks will push me to the 3K already.

In the middle of SD is Tour de Fleece.  I'm still putting my fiber choices together for that one.  It should give me a good amount toward the Dash.

While watching one of my favorite podcasts yesterday, I heard my name called for a prize.  I won an adorable project bag with mustaches all over it and a set of stitch markers.  I'll post a pic when it gets here.

Here's a few pics of my finished May socks and the sweater spin.  Vanilla Socks in Cascade Heritage Prints "Iris", and Escalator Socks in HauteKnitYarns in "Spring Has Sprung".The last 2 pictures are my current sock yarns. Knit Picks Felici in "Wizard", and Highland Handmades in "Fruju".  There's also some June Pryce Fiber Arts Merino in the "Tuscany" color on my Minstrel right now.  I'm about halfway through braid number 3 and then just need to do the plying.