Happy Halloween From Me and Molly!

Happy Halloween From Molly!

This is her new house I made for her. Foam couch cushions cut up and covered in sheep flannel. All warm and cuddly inside with her toys. Her house is on my bed. No drafts for Molly this winter!

And What Are You Knitting?

I am working on all of these plus the 6 socks I knitted for the new patterns coming out. WOW! What are you knitting? What are you going to start next? We know it isn't possible not to cast on for that 'One More Project' feeling.

What Is This??

Good Gosh! What is this?? Almost a dozen total needles in it.
Don't poke your eye out!

Here Is Lacey Goodness!

OH! Lacey goodness! I koolaid dyed some white shetland and now have cherry pink yarn. This lovely lace is the back of a pair of gloves I am working on. The back has a picot hem edge. Now I am working on the finger widths and lengths. They feel wonderful and stretchy.

Baby It's Cold Outside!

With snow moving in and getting serious I am too! The windchill here can easy reach 65 degrees below zero. Our biggest snow was about 3 feet deep. Wait time at a bus stop can be over an hour so here you better dress up real warm. This single ply pure merino is as soft as a kitten. It feels just like a long strip of top ready to spin. straight and smooth. I am using size 3 bamboo dpn and it is so soft. I had to make mittens because this yarn says pet me all day long!

Fan Dancers

Here is a front shot in opal
of the fan dancer socks.

Fan Dancer Socks

Fan Dancer Sock Pattern
contact Laura at
http://siriusknitting.blogspot.com/
for information about this pattern.

Ask for it by name!!

Hey I Got Published!

Lambie says go check out "Friendly Socks, Vol. 2: A to Z", a compilation of sock patterns by 16 designers . The book will be approximately 150 pages, with 38 sock patterns, and related articles. It will retail for $28, with choice of media mail shipping for $2.50 or priority shipping for $4.50.
Copies of book #1 are also still available [at $24 and ship].pictures available at http://siriusknitting.blogspot.com/ and on the yahoogroup "friendlysocks".


Me and Lambie say go take a look!
(and no lambie is not in the book)

Gedifra yarn grows up.

This lovely Gedifra sock yarn wanted to be these socks.
I am really enjoying this knit!

Molly In October 2006

Here is Molly Jack-A-Bee guarding her pink pig toy on the bed.

Gedifra 4201

i got a ball of yarn and thought how great this stuff feels. Well it looks better knitted even than it feels. I am using smaller needles than my usual ones and cast on 72 stitches. It really makes a difference in what size needles you use as to what you end up with. I read that lots of times on blogs about pooling and trying different sizes with different numbers of cast ons. but I never really saw it before.
The color knits up into the neatest blues and pinks and creams in bands on the sock that i ever saw. You can't wait to see what you will knit up next. Pretty, cheery colors. I had almost stopped using skinny yarns because of my eyes but the brighter colors make it easy to see and work with.
I want to try 3209, 3210, and 4212 too!!
It is October already guess what all my family will get again this year?
this would be the perfect baby sweater yarn too especially if you didn't know if it was a boy or a girl.

What Am I Knitting Now?

Bright Cherry Red Candy Cane Socks!

come see The Friendly Sock Book, Vol. 1 at

http://siriusknitting.blogspot.com & www.siriusknitting.com

upper part of new coat

Here is the top part of the sleeve. I will do one more repeat of the saxon braid cable. It goes in the mid shoulder area. This will add heaviness and strength to that area so the weight of the coat does not pull the shoulders down. My sleeves are knitted from the cuff to the neck. Then the bottom of the coat will be picked up at the bustline and knitted in an A-line shape to the hem. More pics soon.

Pretty New Socks

Five new patterns in 2 weeks. Almost all typed up now. whew.

Working on a Coat

Coat sleeve picture and showing the smooth increases. this yarn is wonderful. I am really enjoying knitting with size 8 needles. Now if I can only figure out the shoulder part of the coat. hmmm...

Knit and Spin, Knit and Spin

I have 3 versions of the 'F' socks and 2 different 'O' socks and 1 bright Red pair all on the needles at one time. I knit on one sock then knit on another one. Whew. Sure hope you like those Red ones MM!

Also received some really special yarn in the mail. I can't thank you enough. I will be knitting away on those much needed projects as time allows and show you the results as quick as I can.

How did the shawl go over 'S'? I hope the liked it!

BB your pink puppy is absolutely adorable and I think she is wonderful.

Spinning some green fiber and lots of browns. Received some alpaca too and so far just at the petting and loving it stage. I think it has to be the softest stuff I have ever touched.

Knitting Shawls

finished the shawl for my dearest 'S', also finished the 5 new socks.
'S' do you like this color ok?

Learning about Lucets and back to school.

I would love to learn more about lucet cords. I found some gorgeous examples on the internet.

Tuesday is the first day of school. Even though the teachers are on strike the kids have half a day of school. My grand daughter goes to high school!!

Did you ever see such a shocking picture?

This is the most shocking thing you can pull out of a package. YIKES! Fortunately for me they were the most wonderful generous gift from someone with lots of love in her heart.

Sweater all ripped out and re-balled.

Now I am going to start my sweater over again. This time I will plan it better and see if I can manage to get the rest of the needed yarn for it. I had a great start going on it with the cutest chickens. I am going to try to put dogs and chickens and maybe foxes on this one. Any suggestions for good graphs or extra large sweater patterns? here is my chickens, the sweater is folded this is one fourth of the circular yoke and collar I had knitted. I found a really good review of this yarn at REVIEW and it tells all about how soft and plush it really is. I am using the fisherman weight also.
NOTE* This sweater is knitted with BULKY weight wool I purchased from an online store 6 months ago. It is 100% wool and the same weight as LOPI.