Picture of sweater

Hi,

With some help I have a picture of my sweater. It was fun knitting with you all this summer, see you for the winter games in 2010.

Choc

Sweater finished

I finished knitting my sweater last Sunday, the 21st, finished sewing the steeks down and blocked it the next day. When, or if, I figure out how to connect the digital camera to the computer, I'll post pictures.

Thanks to all of you for sharing your knitting and thanks to Linda for being our web mom.

Choc

Finally Finished My Olympics Project

Just finished my hat and gloves in time to send to my niece, but forgot to get any pictures. Let's just say, I've been a little distracted with election stuff.....

A Winning Pair

Spiral Socks - Finished

Well teammates the Olympics ended and I finished my project (see picture of socks on and in front of the TV). I'm glad I picked a simple pattern. "Sprial Socks" by Kathy Meggit. The socks will be donated to The Knitters of the North's fall charity project. I could work at my own pace as I knew I would get involved in "watching" instead of "knitting and watching". LOL. You guys your projects are soooo much more than mine. I'm a little embarrassed. I've been reading about the new sock yarn (the square knit block from KnitPicks) that you dye yourself. What will they come up with next.

Thank you for sharing and thank you for letting me “Knit” along.

Until next time.
Happy Knitting Zing (Linda W in Anchorage)

Not yet finished

Congratulations to all of you who finished your knitted items!!!

As of the end of the Olympics last night I was about 4 inches away from the finishing of the body of my sweater and still have both sleeves to do, plus the neck and the necessary finishing. My new goal is to be done by the end of the Republican convention.

I do have a better sense of how much I can realistically knit in a givien time period and know that I need to pay attention to the number of stitches required by a project rather than the project itself. Can't wait for the Winter Olympics in 2010!

Choc

I'm home!!

I arrived back in Alaska yesterday afternoon. As nice as the sun was down in California, it is so nice being back in the rain. The only sad thing is that I put my husband on a plane this morning and won't see him until Friday.

I signed up to knit 2 pairs of socks. I figured I could handle that while on "vacation". Oh, boy, was I wrong. I finished one pair, started the second, and proceeded to frog the second pair this morning because it was the wrong yarn for the pattern.

Thank you for letting this interloper from California knit for the team! :)

~barb

Hi knitters,  It has been a busy two weeks and I had some surprise company for the last 5 days - so  I was having to sneak in my knitting to finish my Project. 

I had seen a stitch  pattern in a child's sock that I wanted to knit for myself  - that was my project for the Olympics.  I adapted an adult sock pattern to use this stitch - not too difficult in the end.  I also had purchased  sock yarn that was already knit into a flat piece called 'Flat Feet' produced by Conjoined Creations (www.conjoinedcreations.com).  The flat knit piece was hand painted; some of the choices were quite garish but the ones I saw knitted up turned out beautifully.  The idea behind the flat knit piece is that it is easy to travel with - no ball to roll off your lap.  I was eager to knit up this yarn and didn't wait for a trip.  I  watched much too much TV on opening weekend - it was raining outside! - and nearly finished the first sock!  The second one was a close call, but the ends were sewn in last night!  As soon as I take a picture of them I will try to figure out how to attach it to a blog :-).  Signing off with warm feet, Cathy

Silver Medal?

I finished knitting the mittens, actually Friday night! I had hoped to wash and block them this weekend, but didn't quite get that far. Maybe that lands me a silver medal in the mitten medley? We're getting ready to have a new deck built on the house, so had a lot of clean-up to do over the past two days, which took precedence. Oh well, such is life. I can't believe this two weeks went by so fast - probably in part because it's summer, with so many things to do. I hope you all made significant progress on your projects...please post to let us all know how it went.

This is Kathy MK reporting in. Yikes, tonight is the closing ceremony! I've got just about 8 rows, so will be starting soon, to finish in time - maybe I'll use their time, which is tomorrow, or is it yesterday? Anyway, I'm off to knit!

Checking in from California...

Man, there are so many choices down here I'm overwhelmed. I miss Ketchikan!!!! I fly back on Sunday. I've done so much shopping that I have to pay for a second suitcase. I'm also mailing a box of stuff I don't want on the plane home today. Whoops.

I haven't been knitting much since being down here, but I did push myself to finish one pair of socks for the Ravelympics. :) I finished Bellatrix yesterday. I love how they turned out. I started Muscari yesterday, but I don't think it's going to be a fast knit. 91 stitches for size large socks on size 0 needles. Eeek. What was I thinking?

So, here's my Bellatrix. :)


Have a wonderful Alaska day! I know I said I wanted 100 degree temperatures, but today is supposed to be hot, hot, hot down here. I'm going to melt! I'm starting to look forward to the Ketchikan Liquid Sunshine!!

~barb