Knitwith Homespun

I am still knitting bit by bit. I went to Purl Soho Warehouse with Stacy and picked up some great yarn. Cascade Luna in three beautiful colors. It was awesome! The idea was to make a shawl for myself. The colors are a beautiful chartreuse kind of color, aqua, and blue. These are my favorite colors and I couldn’t wait to get started. The next day, Stacy had the day off from work so I went over there and knitted with her in her room and watched movies all day. It was really awesome. The pattern I chose was LaLa’s Simple Shawl which looked simple (hence the name) and was easy to memorize. I didn’t even need the pattern after the first set of repeats.

Here are the colors for your amazement. The yarn was soft and cotton and so easy to use. There was a little fluke with the amount of yarn I got from Purl Soho. I thought I had 3 skeins of each color in my shopping bag but it turns out I had 6 of each color! Can you imagine?! Yes, I ran right down and returned the extra 3 skeins of each color of yarn. My conscience couldn’t stand it at all for even a couple of minutes if I didn’t. I really enjoyed the pattern and the colors. Here are the finished pictures.

So I finished within a week and really enjoyed the speed and color of this knit. So I had some stash yarn and a very good friend’s birthday coming up so…..what do you think happened? I knitted another one. Yep, that’s right. This next one took me a bit longer cause I had other stuff going on in my life (who’d have thought). The yarn was Debbie Mumm in Pine Tree colorway. It was super soft and very nice. I really enjoyed using this yarn as well. The colors are my absolute favorite in green and I bought this for myself to make something warm and toasty. However, this is what happens in life. Her birthday was coming up and I needed to get something done for her so she wins. Here are these photos of the Pine Tree Simple Shawl.

This is too funny to not post. I must be too tired. What’s the problem with these? Did I notice it as I was knitting? Yes. Did I kitchener stitch the thumb anyway? Yes I did. Why? I don’t know!!!!

This picture is in focus and the other picture shows the actual size of the thumb for this mitten on the ruler. Laugh all day people! It is very funny!

Spring Forward done!

This time I made a real effort to take a pretty finished object picture.  This is my favorite shot from the bunch.  It’s very very hard to photograph your own foot.  I put a ball where my foot was supposed to go and focused, pushed the button and placed my foot and hoped all went well.  Well, it didn’t go well but I like the result.  This shot has a bit too much lens flare and glare but it makes the photo look misty and magical which I do like.  The focus is a bit off but the depth of field is nice.  Most of the shots were out of focus and yucky but I have a few that show enough detail to do a finished object post.

As I said before, these socks were the easiest thing ever to knit.  It was so fun and quick.  I love the color and the fit.  I went through all the details of these socks in my previous post about them so I won’t bore you with that here.  It took me so long to finish them because I had too many other projects on the needles (who knows about that?).  I will do other finished object posts about that other stuff later.  Here are some of the other shots that are acceptable but not great.

You know I could say that I planned that long pretty piece of grass (weed) between my ankles there but you know I didn’t.

The next item up for discussion is free fiber from Diva Knitting. I got second prize in her 4 year blogiversary contest and received 5 ounces of hand dyed fiber which happens to be in my favorite colors ever! Thanks Cheryl! I believe this is destined to be a self striping single for a pair of socks for me. I never had a fiber tell me so quickly what I should do with it before but this stuff screamed self striping socks for me and noone else! I am very excited and I hope I can get to it soon. Now for the excuses: The photos seem muted but when I was editing them up in Lightroom they were spot on a beautifully saturated with accurate color. I don’t know what happened and I even calibrated my monitor again to see if that would do it. It didn’t. What’s a girl to do. Here’s the beautiful optim: