RECAP. Jan - Aug. 2020

Off the Needles from Jan-Aug 2020

The Love of Spiders- Melanie Berg

Cloudborne Merino Superwash & Elevate Fiber Arts Silky Merino.

Quilted Princess by Me Elizabeth Knits ElizscKnits @ Ravelry

Softee Yarns. 

 

Miss B by Nancy Merchant

Rowan Kids Silk Haze  gray and lavender

Winter on My Mind

by Melanie Berg

Polwoth Yarns Tarndie Homestead

Purple Princes Quilted Jacket in Simply Soft 

Sofia in Cascade Sport by my designs on Ravelry Elizscknits 

Still on the Needles 

Anita's Hoodie my design  released Sept 15th 2020, Cascade 220 Sport 

Hue Shift Blanket-A Knit Picks Kit, 

Windor Jacket- Jane Spice-Smith and her yarns. (my Australian splurge)

#jojiKal2020 Hipster Cowl in Allpaca Village Spinning and Weaving 3 ply prime

The Third Andrea Mowry- A Work in Progress

Began this lovely cardigan for my Daughter on April 28th, 2019.

Pattern: The Throwback
Designer: Andrea Mowry
Yarn:  Quince & Co.  Lark and Spincycle Dreamstate

Spincycle DreamState

April 30, 2019

May 1, 2019

May 2, 2019

May 4, 2019

           Complete  May 27, 2019

The Dude in a Dude

From this :

The Dude

 To This:  Our Dude in The Dude Cardigan

Notice the colors!!!

OHIO STATE

Pattern "The Dude" by Andrea Rangel on Ravelry 

Body knit in the round and sleeves knit flat.   The front band and collar joined to the sweater as each row of the band was knit from right bottom, around neck with some short row shaping and down the left side.   I crocheted around the band to add button holes.  

Stitches West (Part 2) Feb 2018-- The Yarn and Goodies

    Even though I certainly do not need yarn, there is no way to go to a knitting convention with a huge marketplace, and not buy something... I used my lovely daughter as an excuse to shop.  She has taken up crochet and within a year she's gone from washcloths to garments and with her sister in law, has started a on line crochet shop "Cali and Cleveland"  https://www.etsy.com/shop/caliandcleveland and even designed a basket pattern .  So of course she needs some things.

I found a great crochet book for her.  The Complete Crochet Course by the The Shibaguyz
and a beautiful top to knit for her.   

DK weight Hemp for Knitting 

Made from Hemp yarn, from Lanaknits.com. She chose a lovely burgundy color and I'm working on the project now...I actually have knit and reknit it twice..but the yarn has become softer to work with and will wash out softer still.  Lots of markers, lots of counting, definitely not a chat and knit project. 

So now for me  :)  Even though I don't need another project (did I say that already???) 

I did find two items.  Things I've been looking at for a bit.

Knit Picks had a booth this year and I've been eyeing this afghan for a long while.   If you get their catalog, you have probably seen it.  Well the yarn is lovely to the touch and although I hardly ever knit an afghan (prefer Crochet) this is done in a Mitered pattern, which is fun for me.  

It is time consuming, yet it is a pattern that is perfect to knit in a group...it just flows.   The Hue Shift Afghan.  (I'm all about making a Shift, check it out-- lol)

The other booth that interested me was Craftsy.. I have been a fan for a long time and just recently signed up for Craftsy Unlimited.   (but it just seems that there is not enough time in the day to watch all the videos).  
There was a Ravelry Knit-along with Romi Hill and I could not pass this up..never did a knit-along before..so this was new to me and actually got me going on the project right away.   The biggest challenge was choosing the colors.  

This is the Sierra Shawl and the colors I choose reminded me of driving through the mountains to Lake Tahoe and the lake.  As of now the shawl is in it's last stages and I'm almost ready to do an 

i-cord bind off to add something extra to the edge.  

So that's my story and I'm sticking to it.   

Hum... I may have picked up a few tiny things,

 but maybe not.   

A Little Swing Jacket

There are so many designs running around inside my head....

 and I love to knit them, but to get it written down is a chore.   I've created formulas, read about writing patterns, taken classes on the subject,  written patterns and had them tech edited before,  but it just seems that I need to be in the right frame of mind for all of it to click.    It takes time: constructing it, engineering the process, figuring out the math and then editing the work.    

I designed and knit this pattern years ago, but never finished writing it all out...

So last week I picked the draft up and started knitting and writing again.  Today the pattern is complete and was just posted on Ravelry (ElizSCKnits) and Love Knitting....

Pattern on Ravelry  Elizscknits

This is knit top down and in the round.  No seams and very little weaving in of yarn tails. 

Sleeve stitches on a stitch holder or yarn

Dividing the sections of the yoke

Knitting the body and adding the swing

 

 

 After knitting the body and seed stitch hem, it's time to knit the sleeves in the round using two circular needles.   Here I have transfered the sleeve stitches from the holder to a circular a needle and picked up three (3) stitches at the underarm.    The Sleeve will be knit in the round.

Underarm stitches