Quick Update

This is what I worked on last night:




I'm almost halfway through the second baby hat for the Loopy Ewe Q2 Challenge.  I'll post the pattern when I'm done with it.  It's a simple hat but I'll post for anyone who's interested.

Not much going on today.  I still have a few boxes floating in the mail so there may or may not be another post later today.  The agenda for today is to finish the last load of laundry and knit, knit, knit.  :~)

Question Bout Yarn

Has anyone used Cascade Bollicine Holiday?  I found it discounted at WEBS and thought I might make a sweater for Kaity.  It is 70% Merino wool and 30% acrylic and at $2.49 a ball it would be less then $15 to make a sweater.  I have no problem getting a new yarn to try.  I just thought I'd see if any of you all have used it and what the thought on it are.  I may order some on the 1st of July.

Goodies

Here's what UPS and USPS brought me today.

First, a pattern and tape measure:




I got the pattern to make a sweater for Bree.  I love Knitting Pure & Simple patterns.  They're well written and very easy to follow.  I have several of their patterns and there are several more that I want to get.  I have some skeins of Lorna's Lace worsted weight yarn in Child's Play and Purple Club that will work perfect for sweaters for Bree.  The tape measure is a Lantern Moon sheep tape measure.  I bought one for a swap pal a few months back and decided to get one for myself.  I'm tired of fighting the tape measure I have now.  I'll save that for bigger measurements.

Next up, the yarn my sis ordered from Little Knits:




I have 5 skeins of both colors to work with.  One color will become the Ribs and Lace Tank and the other color will become another top for my sis.  The colors are #1143 - Silky Sky Blue and #1086 Velvety Pink with a hint of Lilac. 

I'll be working hard this week to finish up my mom's Monkey socks and the second hat for the Q2 challenge so I can cast on for Kaity's skirt and my sister's tank.

Halter Top Modeled

As promised....here is a picture of my some what cooperative model.

This pic below cracked me up....she's looking at the top as if to say, "Mom what in the world did you put on me"....plus it makes her look like she has the super huge head.  :~)

The top actually fits pretty good.  It's a tad bit big around but I can take some left over yarn and tack it in the back temporarily until she needs me to let it out.  I made the 12 month size so she could wear it the whole summer.  Here's a little look at how small she is.  She's 11 months old and is still wearing 6/9 month old clothes.  Though she if finally starting to fit into 12 month jammies, onsies, and shirts.  I still have to buy 6/9 month shorts for her skinny little butt.  Most 11 month babies have at least hit the 12 month clothing....not worrying, it's just an observation that I've made.  :~)

I'll probably post later today with my goodies received in the mail.  I'm waiting on UPS.  They should be here in a bit with the yarn for my sisters tops.  Goody!

Look Out, Another FO

I'm totally wrecking my knitting ADD by turning out another FO. 
I finished up the Baby Halter Top for Bree.  Some time tomorrow I will have my little turkey model it.  If all goes well I may get a good photo. 




Silly me, I stayed up to finish this instead of going to bed like I should have.  I used the pattern Katja from Knitty.com.  All in all it was an easy knit.  This was the first time I've used a provisional cast on.  I was a tad worried about it but it turned out to be really easy.  So there's another technique to add to my list.

I tried spinning this weekend with no luck.  Never fear I'm not giving up.  I'm just going to give my system some time to fight of this crappy cold so that I can concentrate better.  I've just been way to tired to do anything with any complexity to it.

I haven't cast on for Kaity's skirt yet.  I'm not going to until I finish up the other baby hat for the Loopy Ewe Q2 Challenge and get my mom's other Monkey sock finished. 

Mail Delivery

My kind mail brought me this:




This is the yarn for Kaity's skirt.  I bought it from Fuzzy Mabel and they are great.  I
received an email from Cynthia letting me know that one of the colors I
had was out of stock.  She asked me if I wanted to hold the order until the out of stock yarn came in or if I wanted to sub it with a different color.  I asked Kaity and she decided to pick a different color.  I emailed Cynthia and before I knew it, I had received shipping confirmation.  I love the way the order was handled....great customer service will keep me coming back.

And this:




These are yarn samples from Sarah's Yarns.  I've been curious about a few of their yarns.  Well I got an email stating that they will send sample yarns to you to try for free all you have to do is cover the shipping.  So I picked a few Zephyr lines to try.  Later on I'll probably order some samples of a few other lines that I'm interested in. 

Baby Halter Top

I started this the other night for Bree:




It's a really quick knit.  The garter stitch isn't the same on both sides which has to do with the different cast ons that I used.  I'm not sweating it and I now know what my mistake is so that if I knit this again I won't make it. 

I have about 22 rows left before I bind off and seam it up.  It's the pattern Katja from Knitty.  I'm using King Tut cotton and it's a dream to knit with.  This is the nicest cotton yarn I've used so far.  It's soft and it doesn't kill my hands to knit with.  This is the yarn my sis and I picked out for her Ribs and Lace Tank from Interweave Knits Spring 07 issue.

I couldn't hold out on my sock yarn diet.  I signed up for the Yarn Pirate monthly sock club.  That was just too good to miss out on.  Even Shawn said "Go For It".  If Shawn doesn't complain about it then I'm not doing to bad.  So now I'll be getting one skein of sock yarn each month.....woohoo!

Shawn and I decided to change the date we leave here for Montana from 6 Aug to the 5th or 6th of Sept.  We have many good reasons, all of which out weigh the bad which is going to be  Kaity missing the first week of school.  So I now have one extra month to get things done which means I'm not going to be running around like a chicken with it's head cut off.  :~)

Hope everyone is having a great weekend.