Trapped

Day three of being trapped in the house with a sick 10 years old (a quick trip to the grocery store and a trip to the doctor with the 14 years old do not count.)



Malabrigo is saving my life. Actually, his.

August Scarf

The pattern (a pdf file) is available for download on Ravelry or here.

Yarn available for sale here.

New corrected version uploaded on 9/27/09.

April Lacy Scarf

Back to April with my 12 patterns for 2009 project:



The pattern (a pdf file) is available for download here or on Ravelry here. Yarn for sale on etsy.

Ready or not .....

Presents for family in Italy were given to my brother last week, presents to kids' teachers were delivered on Friday (and no, this was not ready, it is going to be a end-of-the-year gift, so I have 5 more months) but the school color scarf was a big hit with the PE teacher:


Pattern: Sports Fan Scarf: Building Block by Bella Knitting
Yarn: Cascade 220 Superwash and Kraemer Yards Judy
Ravelry project page here

Paperino wants gloves with 5 fingers from the Knitting Fairy, and she is few ends away from being done, while Principessa wants black fetching, and you know the story with Fetching, right? Always short few yards:

One, two, three

One: two balls of Anny Blatt Super Angora and 2 balls of Anny Blatt Victoria give you a set of scarf and hat so fast they did not make into the "on the needles" list before going into the "Finished Projects 2007."



Two: another baby set, 1 skein of Lorna's Laces Worsted and some leftover sock yarn.



Three: another project from my UFO Resurrection 2007 list done.

Yarn 24/7

Every once in a while the question "If you were to knit with one yarn for the rest of your life, which one will you choose? My 24/7 yarn, the one I could knit with forever is Karabella Aurora 8. It is squishy yummy squishy, superwash, comes in all colors, and softer than butter. Every time I start a new project with it, I wonder why I have bothered with something else considering I could use for about everything, even worsted weight socks.
So imagine my surprise when I checked my FO 2006 and FO 2005 and found nothing knit with this yarn - what happened? Probably a serious attack of "there is nothing worth of this yarn, I'll just stash it." But that stops now, 2007 will be the year I knit with the yarn I love instead of stashing it.
Up there? Bejeweled for my mom, three balls of Karabella Aurora 8 in Cornflower, the color of her eyes.

Yarn Marathon

I posted a while ago that I was joining Wendy's Knit from Your Stash 2007 - the idea of finding out how much stuff I can make without buying new yarn certainly is intriguing (and Principessa decided to help selecting a cardigan from this that takes 2,000 yards of yarn!).
Then I found out about the L&V Sock Marathon and I jumped it - the purpose of the marathon is to find out how many miles of sock yarn you can knit in three months. Anything that I think is sock yarn qualifies, and I can knit whatever with it. Very low key do not stress about the rules KAL.
First task? Count how many yards of sock yarn I have. So, spreadsheet, sum, 22,718 yards. Sounds high, but I have no idea what that means. Google tells me it is almost 13 miles. Hum. Let's try again in kilometers.

21 km? Holy yarn! That does sound like a lot. Even if the general consensus is that anything lower than 15 miles does not qualify as "a problem".

The stuff in photo? Worsted weight, Bejeweled for my mom in Karabella Aurora 8 (from stash!) and One Skein Wonder in Rio de la Plata.