Wildberry by Vesper

Just in time to keep my feet warm 

during this cool snap here in mid-MO.

If you look closely, the 'star' increase method is the one I used for co and toe increases.

I like the way it gives a more rounded toe.

The spiraling increase distribute the increase stitches equally 'round the toe.

Vesper Self-Striping yarn is great.

It's a light fingering so I used a size #1 US to obtain my usual 8sts/inch gauge.

This gives a great fabric that gives good endurance to the sox.

Since these have the Afterthought Heel the striping was maintained more or less in sequence.

The same method as the toe increases was used in the heel decreases.  Again, decreases were equally distributed around the heel and using the same math the length of heel were equal to the length of the toe.

I used a Surprizingly Stretchy bind off at the cuff.

So simple to do - such a lovely way to end the sock.

This gives more than enough stretch to pass over the heel hinge area and have enough umph to keep the cuff snug around the leg.

? Does this last photo make my feet look l-o-n-g??

lol !

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blue 'cuz the temp is 49°F at 4:30 p.m.

Seems Google is agreeable this morning.

This Wollmeise Yarn color name is

Mond im 7. haus

google 

translated it to read

Moon in the 7th House

Temp today just might be cool enough for me to wear this little piece of loveliness.

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Knit a couple of rows on Intagliata.

It's more than just fun to knit!

I have visions of it finished into a super gorgeous sweater

sigh 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

I can DREAM, can't I

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Wildberry received the most attention last evening.

The Afterthought heels are looking pretty good.

They begin at the Pink stripe.

I knit the five pink rows and two red rows before I began the decreases.

The 60 stitches for this pair of sox was then divided into six decreases per row with a knit row or so before the next set of six decreases per row.

Aiming to have the total 

number of rows for this heel

to equal the total 

number increase rows at the toe.

My usual toe increase is ~2 ¼".

Planning to finish this pair this evening and wear them tomorrow.

Happy Feet  !!!

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Boneyard Shawlette

Finished the

Stephen West designed

Boneyard Shawl


YIKES ! ! ! 
GOOGLE SAYS I RAN OUT OF PHOTO STORAGE SPACE 


So for today will post without pics
you just have to take my word


lol ! ! ! 


Boneyard was cast on March 29
and I finished, soaked, blocked
yesterday April 3rd
and photographed today


Isn't this exciting without photos????


Get back to ya tomorrow when my storage is ample.


hugs
Gerry

Knit, Purl, Knit, Purl

Where or where shall I begin -  -  -

How 'bout these Vesper Wildberry

toe-up with AfterThought Heel.

Love these Reds, Pinks and Purple-y Lavender ! ! 

Am knitting each stripe of leg a separate pattern.

Nothing earthshaking, just a bit of a change-up.

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Just thought I'd throw in the $ 'cause it's sooo close to Tax Day ! ! ! !

:*(

I cast on this BoneYard Shawl  yesterday afternoon.

Designed by Stephen West

I've used this pattern once before.  

It was last fall for a shawl for DD#2.

The First Time Knitting With Wollmeise Yarn 

Oh, I'm a fool for these colors.

The blue's so darn striking.  

Popping out for all the attention.  

Look at me!  Look at me!

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And one more for today.

My first pullover sweater

Intagliata Henley

designed by Connie Chang Chinchio

It had my full attention for an hour-and-a-half

at the doctor's office Monday so made headway.

Have not wanted to set this down for even one minute.

I've checked and re-checked measurements

still working with fingers-crossed.

I'm showing your the side vent detail.  One of the features that drew me into this venture.

I've just finished the waist decreases for the front darts and back darts and will knit for a couple of more rows before increase rows for the bust area.

Now, it's time to get back to the yarn.

Enjoy the rest of the day.♥

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Happy Meeting

Imagine our surprize last week

at the Quilt Guild monthly meeting.

It was Patti's first time at Guild.

When she was being introduced to everyone 

and I heard her name

you could have knocked me over with a feather.

We have been following each others blog for a couple of years.  Even though we live in the same vicinity

we've never met face-to-face.

At the first tiny break I dashed over to say "Hi".

So great when we get to meet someone we've friended online.

I was so tickled to finally meet her.

Patti's blog is Osage Bluff Quilter 

Patti, Gerry, Nancy

Well, if we aren't the happiest trio.

Patti and Nancy have been blogging friends some time also and this is their first time meeting.

Nancy's blog is ...with thread in hand

Aren't Surprizes the Best.

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Another finished object that makes me smile just to look at him.

Even though he's a 'monster' he's just toooo adorable.

He's Zombie the Podcaster

Designed by Amy Spinler aka jknitma on Rav

and is available on Ravelry [free!]

Amy co-hosts

Stockinette Zombies

video podcast

all about knitting.

She co-hosts with Megan aka justrunknit on Rav

Zombie is knit with

716knit

in the colorway "worse than a zombie"

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Another post with loads of links.

If you've a notion, stop by Patti's and Nancy's blog

Tell 'Hey!' from me.

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Take care.

'til next time

hugs

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I'm Waffling

Hubby and I had a Gift Card from Christmas 2010,

It was burning a hole in our pocket.  

Stopped on the way home from lunch today and spent it.  

Bought something frivolous.

After all it was a Christmas Gift.

What do ya think?

Yes, it is a Waffle Iron. 

You're surprized, aren't ya.

But, there you go.  We splurged !

DD Debbie told me of an easy way to make

waffles.

No fuss, no muss.

A quick prep and we're ready to go.

 A quick spray.

Pop 'em on a hot iron.

Voilá, dinner.

All it took was

buying a Waffle Iron

and

one of these .  .  .

Yep, I'm waffling.

Thanks, sweet Debbie for this wonderful recipe.

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Hell Fire !

Hell Fire!
It's Knitterly Things
colorway in

Vesper Self-Striping Yarn

100% Superwash Merino Wool

A toe-up plain vanilla sock knit in Stockinette stitch

with a ribbed cuff

I've added a strand of this yarn and

held it double with the sock yarn in the toe area
for re-enforcement.


Aren't they handsome looking sox?

♥ ♥ ♥ They're for Hubby, of course !!! ♥ ♥ ♥


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Shur'tugal

Shur'tugal 

designed my Alice Yu

in her book

Socktopus

Dream in Color

Smooshy

100% Merino

Cool Fire

I love this yarn

it's so smooshy.

It's a 4-ply so in spite of having no nylon for durability,

I think it'll hold up well.

The color is so very, Pink

I used the Shur'tugal pattern on the leg portion only

and because these are knit toe-up

the pattern is actually upside down.

Who Knew !!!

I get to appreciate the full effect of Alice Yu's design when I look down while walking 'round town.

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All signs of Winter are gone

Forsythia and Daffodils are shockingly YELLOW !! 

There are various white blossoming trees.

Some, no doubt, are Bradford Pear but have no idea what the others could be  

even after living here for twenty years

I have no idea.

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80+ degrees hugs

Could've Been Bridge of Roses

but it just wasn't destined to happen.

These sox were cast on Summer of 2011.

They've been languishing since Fall of 2011.

There were lots of complicated stitches.

At least I found them complicated.

In reality, they were complex combinations of several stitches.

For instance, there was TCTRT and TCTLT.

In other-speak it translates to:

TCTRT - two-color triple right twist

and

TCTLT - two color triple left twist

For those of you who really want to know what this means, I'll dissect. 

Oh, wait a sec, 

what? you really don't give a fig about this, 

go ahead, just skip on the the next part.

TCTLT:

slip the nest st onto a cable needle and hold in back of work.  Work a k2tog with contrast color, leaving sts on left hand needle.  Insert right hand needle from the front between the w sts just knitted together, and knit the first sts again using the main color.  Slip both sts from the left hand needle.  Then knit one from the cable needle.

This week I decided my poor little ole brain was not going to have to go through this exercise.

I finished them off with a K2P2 ribbed cuff,

The End.

Now I have that perfect pair of grey sox that I want in my sock drawer.

:^)    :^)    :^)

Yikes! look what was added to my 

Yarn Stash.

It's the  Worse Than a Zombie colorway

dyed especially for The Stockinette Zombies Podcast

It's from 716knit Etsy shop.

I'll be knitting one

Zombie the Podcaster

with this zombie yarn.

Perhaps even a 

pair of sox from the remainder of the ball.

It's six-thirty in the evening and the temp is

83 degrees F !

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Barely Spring

Barely Spring

 and a few daffodils have appeared

We're looking forward to a string of warm days

so we don't have to drag out the sweaters or jackets.

Clear blue skies and white puffy clouds

are my dreams.

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My needles have been clicking and clacking.

I've finished the Honey Cowl

You do know it's a free pattern from

Madelinetosh, don't you?

Love this Malabrigo Rios yarn.

ABSOLUTELY smitten with the Azules colorway,

Great pops of luscious pulsing-purples.

Makes my heart sing.

May have to wait 'til December to get any time to wrap this lovely 'round my neck.

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My Mailbox !

We'll skip the bills and all the junk mail

to get right to the GOOD STUFF

You may remember the

Stripe Study Shawl knit-a-long

hosted by

Knitting in Circles Podcast

Aimee and Darren

I finished the shawl

here

and then finished and entered a second shawl

here 

I won two prizes by the Random Draw.

Episode 30 is where my name is drawn

TWICE ! !

Thank you, Darren.

I was able to follow the package of goodies because Aimee provided a USPS Track & Confirm Number. 

I followed it's itinerary day-by-day.

Yesterday morning I saw that 

the pkg was 'out for delivery'.

I was watching and watching for the mail truck.

Wouldn't ya know it.

The Mail was delivered as late as it ever been in months and month.

It wasn't 'til five-thirty yesterday afternoon that Aimee's package arrived ! ! !

Lookeee what I won !

Aimee hand-crafted these Stitch Markers.

Markers for every technique that I use knitting my shawls.

I just love these!  

Aimee's created some terrific markers.

See how she's made them not to snag on even the lightest of lace weight yarn 

Notice the lobster clasps on the Wrong Side and Right Side markers.

I'll be able to move them up the rows with no hassle.

Love these, thanks Aimee.

The other prize -  -  -

This just might end up as a 

Stephen West Boneyard Shawl.

I ♥ KALs

almost as much as I ♥ knitting

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Friday Evening

Friday nights 'round here are not too exciting

but are productive in my knitting realm.

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Worked on a couple of projects.

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This is Honey Cowl in Malabrigo Worsted Azules

 

So much fun to knit even with the larger needle.  

Am lovin' the rolled edge.  Usually not a good thing when the stockinette edge curls.  

Most times we begin a scarf or cowl with a ribbed bit to counteract the curling.  

This time it's making a wonderfully soft edge for this cozy cowl.  

Lovin' it ! ! ! 

Also, worked on Intagliata Henley for a while, too.

The Madelinetosh yarn so beautiful ♥ ♥ ♥ 

This is my first pullover and I'm here to tell you - - -I'm anxious about the project.

Big undertaking.

When I think about all the measurements to take into consideration.

~ ~  << my worried brows.

The color is wonderful to work with and 

should be an easy one for me to wear.

Now, fingers crossed that it holds up to my expectations.

If not, Hey ! ! ! , it's only yarn.

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Tea time ! ! ! ! 

must pour,

set the timer,

and wait for the brew.

Time for a cuppa Chai

See my Tea Toter with my Chai ?

It's for my purse tea bag stash.

Took just a short time to make.

Great left-over stash buster and excellent for gifting.

I was put on to this cute project by a sweet friend who saw it on The Knit Girllls podcast

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All three of these patterns are wonderful, each in their own respect.

If you're a little bit interested, just follow those links I put up there for ya.

A couple of the patterns are free ! ! ! ! 

Let me know what you think.

btw, have you taken advantage of the

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hugs to you and a special hugs to all who have experienced the winds and tornadoes.