Gentle Rain Shell

 I have started a new project.  It is going to be a shell and I have already knit the first 16 rows.

 This shows the first 32 rows plus a garter stitch band.  I really do have the holes but my knitting is compressed because I am once again doing the front and back at the same time. 









                                                   I will work both until I get to the neckline and then I will have to work each separately.  But I have a while to go before I get to that. 

This is the yarn I bought.  It is so soft.  And it is quite "nubby" with a lot of different thicknesses.  I think this is going to make a very interesting sweater.

I am showing the label because I would like to know what this yarn is made of and I don't read German.  Any help would be appreciated.

This project is going to be a studio project because at least while I am knitting the last 16 rows of this band, where I have to do a lot of counting and I need to not have dogs jumping on my lap.  After this I have the garter rows and then flat stitches until the neck.  There is a little shaping but I am not concerned about that part so it may be brought back to the house and evening knitting.  I guess we will just have to see how it goes.

And now I am off to clean off my craft table so I can learn how to use a new toy.  When I have mastered it, insert laughter here, I will review it here.

Have a great weekend.  We will be visiting with our grandson, his wife, and their terrific son, one of our great grandchildren.  Should be lots of fun!   Gari

Happy Anniversary

It is hard to believe but this sweater is finally finished.  I had all the parts knit by the end of October but panicked when it came time to seam them together.  But last week I decided that it had to be completed as I wanted to wear it on our anniversary, which interestingly is today.

 

And since we have been having cold weather I decided I needed a cowl to go with the sweater. 

 

I still need to block these and then decide if I am going to put a closure on or not.

 

 

I paid a visit to my local yarn shop where the owner is beginning to dye her own yarn “exclusively” for her customers.  I found this skein of yarn and a pattern called something like “rib error.”  The funny thing is that this is not what it looked like so I guess this is a rib errors error.  Anyway I really like how this turned out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So much so that I made a cowl to match the hat.

Of course all that meant that I was out of that yarn: what’s a knitter to do?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So I bought these two recently hand dyed skeins of yarn.  I said I wanted to knit bright socks so how’s this?

 

 

Well, and this is the yarn I decided to use to begin a new pair of socks (yes, I bought three different skeins). This is the milder of the three but I am working myself up to BRIGHT.

 

 

 

 

 

I need to get back to the short sleeved sweater but

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I had started these socks before I bought the above yarn so I want to finish them first.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So what do cool people do to celebrate their 54th anniversary?  Yes, they go to see Paddington.  As I said, our anniversary is today but we celebrated yesterday.  Having given it some thought I decided that Saturday would mean a theater full of little children but Friday might not.  And I was so right.  The movie was great: we will get it again to see at home.  And afterward we did some antiquing, ate out and finished our day in the big city with a stop at Dunkin for coffee and, of course, donuts.

 

 

And now we are back to our daily lives and beginning our 55th year.  Yay!!       Gari

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EDIT: 1/23/15

 

Since I only have one additional photo I decided to amend this post rather than write another. 

 

As you can see these socks have grown some this week.  I have been either sewing or gadding about more this week so there has been less knitting.  The orange socks have also grown some but not enough to take time for another picture.  I hope to have more next week.   Gari