07.31.06
Posted in baby stuff, booties at 11:31 am by pauline
I casted these on at Logan Airport (Boston) and worked on them on the way back to California while watching Direct TV and munching on snacks. I gave these to Tina at her baby shower yesterday.
Pattern: Variation of my Pom Pom Booties
Yarn: Frog Tree Pima Cotton & Silk and a little bit of Lion Brand Jiffy for the light pink part of the pom poms
Needles: Size 4 US Clover Bamboo Circular ( bamboo needles good for airplane rides and circulars are less prone to dropping … yay!!!)
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07.29.06
Posted in Uncategorized at 2:33 pm by pauline
Being such a lace newbie, everything I come across is soo exciting!
Photographing lace:
It’s so breathtaking when you can look through it and have light peeking through the little holes.
I am just starting to appreciate all the littel comments Margit made during her shawl knitting adventures.
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07.27.06
Posted in baby stuff, sweaters at 10:55 am by pauline
On my “Knit Across America” trip I worked on a baby sweater after I finished the socks outside of Casper, Wyoming. The non-descript street that I’m standing is in Fargo, North Dakota. The place w/ the lights and coffee cup is Caribou Coffee in the Mall of America in Minnesota. The restaurant is Portillo’s outside of Chicago. The ones with the landmarks include: Mt Rushmore, Niagara Falls, Corn Palace, and an amazing yarn store in Bath, Maine.
Here’s the finished sweater, front 
and back 
Pattern: “Judy’s Grandmother’s Baby Sweater” from “Greetings from the Knit Cafe”.
Yarn: Red Heart TLC – sport weight – “white sparkle”
Needles: size 5 US
I knitted it with the measurements of the newborn size but w/ the number of stitches for the 6 month size, due to the guage I ended up with.
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07.26.06
Posted in Elaine, Uncategorized, baby stuff, hats, mrseknstitch, scarves at 1:22 pm by mrseknstitch
I made the baby hat with the baby yarn, because that yarn caught my eye and I said, “I think I need to make something with that.” The scarf is one that was promised to Rebekah because I had made one for her sister last school year. It’s floofy and hairy and fun. Beckah likes blue and she’ll be a senior this year at Valley Christian Dublin.
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07.25.06
Posted in baby stuff, mrseknstitch, sweaters at 11:13 am by mrseknstitch
Waiting for all the details of the Shanghai trip to come together patiently…I finished this “easy” (NOT..for me at least) baby sweater early morning July 25 watching Conan O’Brien, after several trips to the guru in Cupertino to help fix, or get past some “whaaattt?” directions. Stitched up the sides later that morning and sewed on 2 cute buttons instead of 5 – who is it for? undetermined as of this date, but I finished my first sweater!! yayyy!
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07.23.06
Posted in baby stuff, blankets, mrseknstitch at 10:11 am by mrseknstitch
It’s been a hot and arduous summer and of course, the only real good blocks of time to knit and work on projects before the craziness of the Fall season and then the holidays. Sooo, my good friend Jayne’s son and daughter in law will be expecting their second child, Jayne’s second grandchild in November and it’s a little girl! Congrats Justin and Jen and big brother Gabe! I made a puffy pink blanket with a little zingy glitz white yarn. It’s almost done, barring heat rash and dehydration on my part.
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07.22.06
Posted in mrseknstitch, scarves at 1:06 am by mrseknstitch
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I knitted scarves for the Chinn girls and here’s Claudia pretending that she’s part of the British Parliament.
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07.21.06
Posted in socks at 4:31 am by pauline
Somewhere east of Casper, Wyoming, I finished my Sixth Sense Socks. I thought the heels were interesting because it was the first time I ever did wrapped short row heels. Elaine said that they made them look like “real socks”.
wrapped short row heel
original hemmed cuff
They started out with a hemmed cuff but I didn’t like them so I cut off the hem after I finished the first sock and knitted the 2×2 ribbed cuff on it from the top of the leg up. I made the second one with the ribbing from the top down in the usual manner. If you look really closely, you can see that the two cuffs are different.
ribbed cuff
Yarn: “Katia Mississippi 3 print” 60% cotton and 40% acrylic.
Needles: Addi Turbo #0 circulars.
Pattern: Six Socks Knitalong April-May 2006 by Susan Pierce Lawrence.
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07.14.06
Posted in yarn at 6:50 pm by pauline
it was a little hard to get to, but it was worth it… We visited Harrisville Designs today, the last working yarn mill in the US. The mill is powered by a stream that runs under the building.
I checked out a beautiful spinning wheel
and looked longingly at a loom that was on sale…
But alas… it is too big to take back on the airplane, much less put into the car.
So.. I bought some yarn to make a sweater and some socks for myself!
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