Growing Squares

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My sock yarn memory blanket has seen some additional growth!


I started adding down the right hand side with four new squares. Then I had I skipped around and added one to the bottom. I get a little fussy about trying to mix up the colors and patterns. It’s just a part of the crazy that rolls around in my brain. I don’t like matching colors next to each other. And I have enough scraps that I don’t like solid next to solid or stripes next to stripes (if I can help it).

This project is just so satisfying and is perfect to pick up and put down. It’s kind of detouring my progress on other projects….oops!

Happy Knitting!!

WIP Wednesday: Dad’s Camo Socks

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The Camo Socks are moving along nicely! 


The heel is turned and I’ve started the ribbed leg. I took one small detour to knit some of this yarn into my scrap blanket before I ran out. I definitely wanted this yarn in my memory!

Now I’m just in the tedious portion of knitting and weighing my skein so I know when I get close to halfway and to cast off. I want to make sure I have enough for sock number two!

Happy Knitting!!

Waste Not Want Not

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My mother is a bit of a self confessed hoarder. She hates wasting anything. Of late she has been bringing home the fat quarter and jelly roll cast off scarps from her job at a quilt store. On a recent trip home she convinced her sister and I to help.



We are tying these fabric strips with overhead knots to make rag yarn for Crochet Rag Rugs. Then rolling the “yarn” into balls.


I just couldn’t help but think….god I wouldn’t want to knit with this! But she has a couple of rugs done and a nice basket of yarn finished.


I guess we are just a crafty family! Happy Crafting!!

FO Friday: Storytime Scholar

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The Storytime Scholar sweater is done! I made it just under the Pigskin Party KAL deadline. It has been washed and ends woven in. I went to sew on the buttons and I was informed by the tiny terrorist toddler that under no circumstance did it need buttons….

The upside is that he has actually worn this out to daycare and several times around the house. The pockets were a huge hit. I think I will wait until he forgets about it and add buttons later. He’ll never notice….I hope…

I only got one halfway decent photo of him and it was from behind…before the ends were woven in. But such is life with a toddler!

For those with inquiring minds here are the project details:

Pattern: Storytime Scholar by Lisa Chemery

Needles: US 10 and US 9

Size: 4T

I used approximately 465 grams of yarn or 511 yards. That is just over four and a half skeins of Knit Picks Biggo. I used some rabbit heather colorway from my stash.

Happy Knitting!

And So Goes The Heel

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My newest Camo sock has a heel!


I wasn’t fussy about the striping sequence in the gusset heel. I was in a webinar training for a couple hours this weeks and managed the entire heel turn! I just can’t get over how ginormous this sock is..

I also put a new tool to use during my heel turn!


I used a row counter tool to keep track of my total stitch count across the heel so I wouldn’t have to keep re counting. It was so simple yet so awesome! Kinda kicking myself for not figuring it out sooner…

Happy Knitting!!

Back To The Blanket

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I once again felt the siren’s call of the Sock Yarn Memory blanket. Due to a recent bout of sinus infection and double ear infection I managed to add the entire bottom row while home sick from work.

I have amassed a ton of scraps over the past year and I have plenty of “fuel” to keep this going for awhile. I see this project as being heavy in the rotation for awhile! Sometimes I just sit and pet the pretty. Very good for stress relief but not so good for actually making progress, lol.

Happy Knitting!

Cast On: Dad’s Camo Socks

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Due to my recent knitting ennui, I decided just to cast on some vanilla socks to get a jump on next year’s Christmas knitting. I pulled some Cascade Heritage 150 Prints from my stash. This is some self patterning yarn in a mix of brown colors. I think it looks a bit like camo.

This is just a 72 stitch toe-up vanilla sock on size US 1.5 needles. I think I will do a gusset heel as my dad likes the fit of that. It will mess up the self patterning a bit but he’s not fussy about such things.

This is a nice fat yarn that knits up very quickly. I’m already almost done with 9 inches of foot and getting ready for the heel after just a few knitting sessions on this. I was also pleased to use my new Big Bang Theory bag!

Happy Knitting!!

FO Friday: Sockhead Slouch Hat

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My This Ain’t a Scene Sockhead Slouch hat is done done done!

I used some Countess Ablaze Blueface Baron Fingering in the This Ain’t A Scene colorway. I won this jewel of a skein back here. I followed the Sockhead Slouch by Kelly McClure using 3 US needles. I didn’t check gauge and I’m not sure I measured completely accurately in each section. So my hat isn’t as slouchy as some I’ve seen. And I’m pretty sure that due to knitting the decreases while knitting in the wild made me have some unintentional design features, lol. But it’s finished and fits me nonetheless.

I gave the hat a nice bath and light blocking to even out my stitches. And i’m looking forward to wearing this hat yet this winter!

Happy Knitting!!

What’s Next?

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I really only have two active WIPs right now and that’s the Storytime Scholar (which is basically done) and my Toe Up Socks with a Difference.  The socks haven’t seen much knitting time at all and I have the toe and maybe a couple inches of foot knit. Now I have plenty of hibernating WIPs and new cleaned Rav Queue just overflowing with possibilities. But in the face of the weary grey winter I just can’t decide where my fingers should go next! I’m not in a place where I want to make myself garments. And I find myself adrift in thoughts of shawls, hats, gloves and socks.

My first instinct is to start more socks. My dad and sister loved their hand knits at Christmas and so I feel like they have earned some more. And I know a couple of podcasts are doing 12 months to Christmas KALs so I could kill two birds so to speak. But even looking looking at my ample sock yarn stash has me unable to choose which pretty to start with. Too many pretties!!!

In reality what I will probably do is resurrect the Sock Yarn Memory blanket. I have amassed a ton of new leftovers and minis that are waiting to add the blanket. I would get to play with little bits of lovely sock yarn and get the quick gratification of finished squares. The downside is that I will have to remember how I was doing the squares! I was doing it from memory when i put it down…cough…five months ago….cough.

Have you ever been adrift in your knitting?

Almost There Storytime Scholar

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I have finished sleeve purgatory on my Storytime Scholar cardigan for Jellybean. I’ve even picked up for the button bands and collar. It’s seriously like 10 or 12 rows of knitting and I will be done. I have plenty of yarn and I’m pleased with the project so far. It’s just a little less exciting color wise than other things I’ve been knitting lately so it can get dull.

This is my last active WIP for the Down Cellar Studio’s Pigskin Party 2016 KAL. All I have to do is have this done by the SuperBowl next weekend. I feel like the little engine that could…I think I can, I think I can, I think I can!