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At this point, I see no reason why I couldn't get this done by the end of the month.
Tomorrow is the Chesco Stitch n Bitch first yarn crawl. I've been saving my pennies and my calories (as we'll have lunch at the Sly Fox Brew Pub). I'll try to keep both in check, but I plan on enjoying the day!
Source: Twists & Turns
Yarn: Cascade 220
Color: Dark Green Heather
Needles: 5''s & 7's
Gauge: 20sts x 28 rows to 4" in st st
Source: Twists & Turns
Yarn: Cascade Sierra
Color: pink
Needles: 7's
Gauge: 20 sts to 4" in moss st
The sleeve isn't quite at the elbow yet, but I don't really have much left to do with this. I have to say I love the pattern, but hate the yarn. After working with Galway and the Cascade 220 that I'm still working on with the Cables 101 Vest (back is at the armhole shaping) the Rowan Magpie with size 7 needles is just really hard on the hands (and it's really hard to manipulate one of the cables).
October is flying by and I'm running out of time to finish up the 3rd project. I really can not believe that I haven't started a new project in almost a month. I hope I can finish one repeat on Inishmore today.
In non-knitting news: my sister has started blogging. You can see her blog here.
Source: Family Circle Easy Knitting
Yarn: Patons' Classic Wool
Color: Taupe and neutrals
Needles: 6,7, 8's
Gauge: 20 sts to 4" in fair isle pattern
Lauren
Leigh
Nicole
Rosie
Susan
Crowing Ram
for the button.
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It blocked beautifully and I'm glad I did make a deeper neckband. I have about an oz. of yarn left.
I will say I loved working with the Galway and I love the way it blocked. I see a new favorite yarn for my cable knitting!
In some non knitting news: I finally broke a weight plateau (again, all the details of that are in my Fitness Blog). I'm loving my new workout with Yourself!Fitness. I have never worked this hard before and yes, I'm very sore and stiff, but in an odd way, it feels really good.
The funny thing is I mentioned the cows (but sadly no sheep)in the background in one of the enviroments and the guys that wrote the code left me a comment that he had sheep modeled to add, but ran out of time! Maybe the next one will have sheep!
Anyway, I'm really enjoying this program and I think it really opens up the game consoles to more than just gaming. It's a truely interactive DVD.
Yep, finally finshed up the Cables & Garter Pullover last night. Here's Matt modeling it (pre-blocking).
I'm sure you're dying to know what changes I made. Well, actually not much (for me). I did go down a needles size for the ribbing, and actually 2 sizes for the neckband (mainly because I couldn't find my 16" 5 circs)
I made the size small, but added length to the body as if for the medium and I had to add 2" to the sleeves.
It is currently blocking on my wooly board and Matt should be able to wear it tomorrow (if he wants). He's thrilled with it (tho' there is still some thought that he may want the neckband to be a little deeper). As for yarn: I had very little left, but enough to do a deeper neckband if he wants it.
I'm going to wait for the blocked version to add it to my knitting gallery.
So now I can get back to me Cables 101 Vest knowing I don't have to worry about finding more yarn for the Cables & Garter.
Oh, and since I was too lazy to download the Monday Morning Pet picture yesterday, here's a Tuesday Morning Pet Picture:
I have not cast on a new project since I started this project September 24. I even got new yarn over the weekend! (I snagged some of the Jo Sharp Silk Road Aran to make Matt a sweater). I think I'm going to extend my due date of "3 Finished Projects in October" to November 9th (that's when Halo 2 is out, and all knitting will come to a complete halt so I can play 16 hours straight... and don't think I won't).
While I was showing Matt a couple of ideas for that lovely Jo Sharp yarn, he subtly hinted that he wants a fair isle (specifically, "whatever happened to that neutral multicolor sweater that you showed me that one time") hmmm... I show Matt a lot of patterns to see if he likes them. After some questions on what it looked like, it was the sweater from Chesapeake Collection. Instead of working that one right now (I don't have the yarn for it yet), I'll concentrate on finishing up his Natural Beauty Fair Isle.
If you've been reading my blog over the last 2 years, you'll know that I don't do a lot of Fair Isle knitting. I like doing cables and texture knitting. I've started a couple of fair isles, but the only one I've ever finished is the PW Kool Aid Colour Your Own (and it is one of my favorite sweaters), but Matt has now mentioned a couple of times he wants a 30's style vest or sweater (we watch a lot of Poirot). So I'll have to work the Natural Beauty back into the rotation again.
Wow, this was a long post. Here's a cheating Monday Morning Pet Photo. It's the "outtake" from last week's great picture of Jake. Some times you gotta make sure the camera isn't a food item.
