olympic knitting

Currently I am taking part in the ravelympics on Ravelry, the aim is to cast on during the opening ceremony and finish before the closing ceremony. I am knitting the February Lady sweater for team Mission Possible 2008 (replacing the vine leaf cardi on my list) and a pair of socks for team Scots can do it too. No pictures at present as I cant find the camera, so will post pictures at a later date.

More GAAA squares

Well here are the rest of the GAAA squares I have knitted so far.

I also knitted this wee cardigan in James C Brett Marble in Marble DK for my friends wee girl, the pattern is the Albert coat from 'The Knit Stitch' by Sally Melville.

GAAA

Been knitting squares on the Great American aran afghan. I was hoping to have this finished by christmas so will have to do a square a week.

The Goddess knits anniversary mystery shawl is still coming on slowly, up to row 34 now on clue 4, and it looks like a blue blob. I still have 75 g of yarn left so not even half way yet.

Slowly knitting

No pics today as blogger is playing up on this computer, cant upload pics
The Goddess knits mystery shawl is coming on slowly, on clue D and done 14 rows (out of 96), this will take a while.

I have also realised that I have to dig the Great American Aran Afghan out of hibernation and do a square a week if I have any hope of finishing this year, will post the first pics of my squares next week. (blogger permitting)

Woolfest Goodies

Well, I am just back from woolfest having spent a fantastic 2 days there. Here is everything I got.

Collected my Yarn forward sub , got the skein of laceweight for resubscribing and got 3 back issues as a present for a friend.

Collected my Hipknits project club bag, I asked Kerrie if I could collect it from her at woolfest rather than getting the refund, the yarn is lovely, going to have fun making beads this holiday with my kids too.

Got an Ilga Lega pattern from KCG trading along with a tape measure, and a booklet on broomstick crochet from another stall.

Got 800g deep purple 50%wool 50% acrylic, some of this is destined for the above Ilga Lega pattern.

Various yarns destined to be socks.

Sock yarn from the Yarn Yard (I also ordered 3 skeins of merino tencel in porage but as n only had 2 of each shade at the show, they will arrive later.

3 balls of wool and knitting needles for my younger son, he wants me to teach him to knit. He has already found a project bag to keep it all in. I think I will get him to knit strips then we will make them into a pencil case.

Goddess knits mystery shawl, clue 2

Started this last week, using Cherry Tree Hill merino lace from stash, clue 1 was pattern A, clue 2 was pattern B

Hipknits silk cardi finished

The hipknits project club silk cardi is finished, and heres a close up of the fairisle pattern. I modified it slightly by doing one band of 2 rows on contrast rather than 2 single rows between each fairisle band.