Sock Yarn Art Scarf 151/365

In another valiant attempt to use up a portion of my sock yarn stash I made this really cool scarf. It could theoretically be the start of a baby blanket but I'm not that ambitious at present. I used a multitude of colors of sock yarn and THIS BLOG to make the scarf.

I'm too sexy for my scarf, too sexy for my scarfffffffffffffff!

The Long Long Scarf Experiment 40/365

I pulled some yummy yarns from the infamous stash box here in my studio.Didn't know what I wanted but I cast on until the first piece of blue boucle yarn was used up. 165+ stitches give or take. I pulled out my trusty Barbara Walker Knitting Treasury book and found a lace pattern I liked.

I only ended up with enough yarn to go 7" wide but this sucker is 140" long with fringe! I love it!!!!!!

LadyK's Jewel Tone Scarf 34/365

Does anyone here play Zuma Blitz on facebook? I do. I'm not addicted I can quit anytime I want. Yeah uhm...anyway.

LadyK is my top competitor along with my daughter and son in law. She also plays guitar and knows a lot of the same people online that I do. She asked for a scarf with purples, blues and a touch of hot pink. I can do trhat! It's soooooooooooooooooooo pretty I want one for my self.

So here's something I am finding myself doing....I am making notes of which yarns I would really like to replace when I get to buy stuff again. Maybe I'll start a journal with samples n stuff. I like the purple fuzzy stuff in this scarf.

A Skinny Scarf for PK 27/365

Pk has a leopard skin cape. I made her a brown and gold skinny scarf to wear with it or not with it.. I'm throwing in a scarf for her daughter Doodlebug too maybe the daisy one? Yes, the daisy one!

Blue Scarf with Daisies 13/365

The daisies were made and put on the blue scarf which came from the pile of  blue yarn. Somehow the pile of blue yarn is no smaller at all even after several projects. This is why I have Mt. Stashmore. I should contact National Geographic and see if they will come do a photo essay on this phenomena.

Same basic scarf recipe, alternate rows of garter stitch, colors, textures. Crochet some basic daisies and tie them on with the ends. Add pearls from massive bead stash for centers. Cute cute cute!

Knitting Victories

I stand before you victorius! After struggling with this pattern for months I finally finished my cabled Riding Jacket from Teva Duram's Loop D Loop book. I wore it yesterday and got several compliments (Thank you Thank you..I made it myself!)

I also finished a couple of other projects...I'm busily working my way through almost everything I had on the needles plus some (got some orders for more doofy hats...interesting colors, we'll see how it goes)

My friend from high school, Cheryl, came to knit group with my new BFF Leslie and me at Knitter's Kove yesterday. I got her started on a stunning orangey/fallish soft scarf. She's actually knit sweaters before so she picked it right back up quickly...Go Al Barr! Dang I wish I had taken her picture while we were there. maybe next time.

A Work Scarf for Jack

I have a great husband, Jack. He can cook, clean, fix cars and stuff around the house. He works hard for his money and love him to pieces!

Last Friday he got snowed out of work. I had asked him before to go to the yarn shop, Knitter's Kove, (omg one of my most favorite places on earth!!) to pick out yarn for a cabled riding jacket I want to make. He really didn't want to but since he wasn't doing anything else, he agreed.

Once we got inside he was MOVED by all the yarn...he turned around in a circle looking at it, touched different skeins to see what they felt like and basically got caught up in the beauty of it all. (I know how he felt. That happenes to me all the time) Finally he said, "I need a scarf."


Huh? You're actually asking me to make you something?!?

He really did want a a scarf! He's asked me to make things before but for other people, not him.

We talked about color, size and feel and I asked him if we could shop my stash for yarn because we weren't finding what he wanted there in the store . (I promise to buy the yarn for the cabled riding jacket there...we both agreed on a greyish blue wool mohair blend for that)

When we got home I grabbed a couple of yarns I had stashed, let him feel them (they had to be SOFT), got measurements and did my swatch. He fely it and decided it was a good weight and feel and gave me the go-ahead.

After I knit a few rows I realized I probably wouldn't have enough to finish it so when we went to Hobby Lobby I grabbed a couple of things on sale to add to it. I ended up not using one of them...too GIRLY!! But all in all I am very pleased with the results...It's gonna be spectacular AND warm!!!!

PS I took it to knitting group with me and got their nod of approval...I told Jack his scarf had woman knitter cooties on it from all the fondling :)