Fresh Air Knitting

So today I did get out and after a couple of walks around my house...I ventured out into the neighborhood and walked around a couple of blocks. Managed to do the knitting, actually working on a Scrunch Sock...lots of cables but I have mastered doing cables without a cable hook, so it was pretty good and didn't drop a stitch. It was sunny and a slight breeze blowing but how energized I now feel. This will become a routine every day, weather permitting!

Knitting to Go!

So I posted on Ravelry and got this link  http://www.oldandinteresting.com/knitting-sheaths.aspx

I think there are alot of knitters that walk and knit. We should have a club!

Walking and Knitting

So today was a nice bright day and although it was chilly I thought I would try out knitting and walking. Sometimes I really sit too much because I am knitting all the time and exercise would be nice at the same time. So I tucked my ball of yarn in my sweater near my shoulder and just walked around the house at first and knitting. I am starting a new pair of Scrunch Socks and it was amazing how much knitting I did and walking not a real speed walk but a normal walk. I was out walking about 30 minutes and it was fun. Tomorrow I am going to go around the block and see if the traffic becomes a problem. I doubt it as I will be in a fairly quiet neighborhood. Let's see where this goes!

Criss Cross Mitts Custom Order

A couple of days ago I finished another pair of these Criss Cross Mitts. Navy and Tan combination for a woman on the West Coast. She has ordered another pair. I do think I can put this on paper except for the tricky part of the pattern where the gusset for the thumb and the pattern meet. I think on my next knit of these I'll really do a write up and figure out a way that would make it simple to do the pattern. As you know this is a pattern I used on my criss cross socks a while back and it is done in the intarsia method so many strands of yarns are flying. Let's hope I will post a pattern by end of month and see how that goes.

Intarsia method for the Criss Cross Pattern.

Stash Socks Lorna Laces

And they are done. Actually was a fairly fast project but so much fun to do. For the record you need 19 lengths of yarn 6 -8 yards long, depending on the width of the stripes you want to knit and a contrasting color for the toe, heel and cuff. I would say probably another 80-85 yds would do it.

These were sent to my Nephew who loves hand knitted socks and I know will appreciate them.

Completed Stash Socks

Crazy Stash Socks

Yesterday I did some cleaning of my yarns and decided after separating and organizing the yarns that I would do another pair of those Stash Socks. Really interesting to see how much yarn I have accumulated. Not enough yarn to knit a project but enough when put together to make a pair of socks. What was a great discovery it was mainly the Lorna Laces sock yarns with some Knit pick stroll yarns.

These are knitted on US 2 with cuffs on US1. 72 stitches with a rib pattern of K4, P2 around.

This will be fun to do and I always feel sooooo good after I do up these projects using stash yarns that I am not wasting and the results are always so fun and different. We will see how this goes.

Hank is about 6 yards. And made sure I had at least 2 hanks per color.

My palette of color that I have for these socks. 

Knitting two socks at a time insures that they match!

Braided Cable w/Seed Socks

So it did take a while to write this one down on paper. Actually had to figure it out from a past sock I did. Someone ordered it and I had to knit it up. It isn't exactly like the first one I did. Cable Braid is done in 10 row pattern versus 8 row pattern that I did before. Interesting to see the difference. So on sale on Etsy
http://www.etsy.com/listing/94464500/braided-cable-socks-pattern-only
And on sale on Ravelry  http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/braided-cable-w-seed-stitch-socks

Not sure what version I like better.

This is 8row pattern that was done originally.

This is 10 row pattern that was used on the pattern for sale.