Blue Capelet

A bit more catch-up:

Last summer I went (virtually) to Camp Loopy. While there I learned to knit cables. Turns out they are not difficult at all!

Last fall I kept seeing the Cranberry Capelet all over Ravelry. I decided put my newfound cable knowledge to work and make one. I used Madelinetosh Tosh Vintage in the Nikko Blue colorway. I got it at a discount from Loopy Ewe because I bought the yarn as part of their Fourth Quarter Challenge. That Sheri is a smart woman. She creates these fun and loose KALs, gives you a discount on the yarn, and it's hard to resist.

This capelet was a very fun thing to knit. I'm really happy with the results.



Crazy dog! Wow, she's really big, isn't she?

I liked the capelet so much I had to put one of my own personal labels in it.

December

More catch up:

The name of this scarf is December. That's also the month I got around to blocking it. When did I knit it? you ask. I'll tell you. Last February. February 2011. I did it as a KAL with the Mystery 220 group on Ravelry. I'm really not sure why ten months passed between knitting and blocking.

It's really light and airy and pretty. The yarn I used is Ella Rae Lace Merino which I liked a lot.

Yesterday Chan wrote about her blocking block. I bet none of her to-be-blocked items are ten months old.

Pei

Catching up...

Back in November Brooklyn Tweed introduced a new fingering weight yarn called Loft and a collection of patterns to knit with it. I was intrigued. What better way to try out the yarn than buy a skein and the one-skein infinity scarf pattern called Pei? That's what I did.

My friend Ariel joined in the fun. We had a two-person Pei KAL. I knit most of this over Thanksgiving weekend. I blocked in early December. I am just now getting around to posting photos.

I chose the colorway Truffle Hunt which appears to be brown. But it's so much more. There are many different shades of brown, some white, even flecks of blue. The yarn is rustic while knitting with it. Once it's blocked it just blooms. It's beautiful yarn.

Here's my Pei!

Susanna IC KAL

I love all that Ravelry has to offer. I belong to some groups that are associated with favorite designers. I like reading other knitters' tips and seeing their finished object pictures of whatever it is I am making. It's kind of like a KAL.

So I was happy to see an actual KAL in Susanna IC's group. She is the designer of some of my favorite knits: Abrazo, Annis, and Hawthorne.

This would be a mystery KAL. All I knew was that it was a crescent shawl made of lace or fingering weight yarn and included nupps and beads. How could I pass this up? All I had to do was find a pretty skein of fingering weight yarn (out of my many, many, many choices in my stash), buy some beads, and wait for the clues to begin. The first clue arrived January 8. I cast on and began. Every Sunday for six weeks I'd wake up to a new clue in my Ravelry mailbox.

This is the result.

It's called Diantha.



The only thing I would do differently next time is pick beads that are not so close in color to the yarn.

I'm very pleased!

Is there something wrong with my dog?

Every month I get the Orvis dog catalog. It's filled with beautiful images of peaceful sleeping dogs on lovely dog beds. They lay so prettily. But this is the reality in my house.

Ascot for Mom

I've fallen behind when it comes to posting my finished knitting (and one quilting) projects here. So rather than catch up in chronological order I'm going to post this latest one while I am thinking about it.

This is an "ascot" I made for my mom's Valentine's Day gift. I think of it more as keyhole scarf, but the pattern is called Day Brightener Ascot. It's from the special issue of Interweave Knits Accessories 2011. I think it is meant to be one-skein worsted project, but I didn't check gauge and had to buy a second skein to finish. Luckily the yarn store still had the same dye lot. The yarn is Plymouth Select Worsted Merino Superwash and the color is #6 which I just call blue. (The second picture is a more accurate representation of the color.)


I think the design looks like two stacked hearts. That's appropriate for Valentine's Day!