FInished Highland Triangle Shawl!

Loved this project.  It knit up in less than a month and is nice.  I made a few mistakes but they just give character.

I would do another one of these in a heartbeat but I don't need one and don't know who else in my family would actually wear a shawl.

I also frogged back the other shawl that I had knitted and was never happy with.    It will now be resting to become the socks that it was really destined to be.

 

Highland Triangle Shawl

I am also working on the Highland Triangle Shawl.  It is usually done in lace weight yarn but I wanted something really warm so I am using dusty rose worsted weight wool.  

This image is of someone else using the same pattern.  

I am almost through with it and I started it on December 29th, 2008.  It has flown!  I am on the border.  The center section is a total yawn and I am sure that I made lots of mistakes but the border is simple, clean and engaging.  Hope to finish it while it is still cold in Texas. 

Then I'll get back to my mitered square blanket done in Tahki cotton. Much easier to work on in the summer!

Mitered square blanket

Since last spring I have been working on the mitered square blanket from Mason Dixon knitting.  Here is a picture of how far along I am and then the way it is supposed to look.

I am making the square but it will look more like a knitted quilt ... I like the ordered elements.

I have made a lot of little square and sewed a lot of big (4 block squares) but there is a lot left to do.

I am having shoulder surgery again in February so whatever doesn't get done between now and then will have to wait 3-4 months.

Made 2 more bears for Monroe

Monroe is so attached to her "beddy bear" that she needs one for day care naps, one for night time and one for the washer.  Melissa was having to sneak the bear out Saturday morning and hope that it was dry (organic cotton) by bedtime.  She is working too hard for that kind of stress. 

This picture of Monroe features her Aunt Naomi (holding Monroe), Beddy Bear (in Monroe's arms) and Granddad holding his teddy from when he was Monroe's age.  Granddad likes to dress for special occasions like Christmas.

Awesome labor day feast

My dear husband made a grilled feast - portobello mushrooms, corned beef grilled brisket, lemon pepper boneless chicken, grilled baby zuchinni, grilled potatoes. Since I can't cook because of the frozen shoulder after my June left rotator cuff surgery, I am being spoiled.

He is awesome and since he heard about the second surgery possibly in October, he is still smiling. That's love.

He also spiffed up the backyard today.

where have I been? you don't want to know

I finished the shawl. I am still thinking about ripping it back and making socks - like 3 pair.. A shawl made from sock yarn will not block - what was I thinking. I also know that I don't like knitting lace. Live and learn.


I was working on the mason-dixon mitered square blanket and having a wonderful time until...


...I tore out my left rotator cuff in March 2008. I had surgery in June - then the shoulder froze - now I may be having surgery in October. I

definitely need surgery but I don't want it too close to Christmas because of the LONG recovery window. Will see the doctor in September. In the mean time, lots of pain, no use of left arm ...uck.

I can knit for about 10 minutes a day now. Let's see it will take only 6 days to make one square for the blanket. Oh well isn't the blanket visually appealing? It is made in the softest cotton. It is very nice to work with and will feel awesome.

Stuck, stuck stuck

I have been working on this )(*&*)(*& lace shawl since August. It is using sock thread and is the most BORING thing on the face of the planet.

It takes me 1/2 an hour for one row going at super speed and the pattern is so simple that it makes my teeth hurt to knit for more than an hour at a time.

BUT on top of that the )_)(*&)(*&&&*^%$% thing got a pull in it near the beginning last week - I can't seem to work it back into the lace. I nearly chucked it but I am on my 6th of 6 balls of sock yarn. I will not throw away that much yarn and I don't want to give up on the obnoxious thing. It will rest.

I want to knit small things that are interesting. But if I don't keep after this piece of you know what, it will win.