Falling Behind......

......in my blog updates.
Here's some pics of my FOs so far for 2009.

Four dishcloths for Mel

I finally finished off Ziana's top which I started months upon months ago. I put it on hold over the summer as it was too hot to knit it, let alone wear it, but a planned trip ice skating inspired me to complete it for the event.

I frogged the soaker I had previously made with this yarn as the soaker skirt wasn't being worn by Jess anymore and made a soaker with a curly purly waist for Kassidy.

I knitted a pair of Fargyle socks from Jacki from Woolaholics, she made it into knitty, so I picked them right up and did them. Great pattern.

I am doing a very special set now. It is part of a swap, but truth be known I'm going above and beyond the swap value because I have always admired the quiet beauty of this lady. I dyed the wool on Australia Day, it turned out almost presicely what I wanted and I'm almost done with the body of the longies already. I am very excited because I've never really been inspired with creativity for a project like this before.......

Blog neglect

My 3yo had an operation over a month ago, so I've been in avoidance mode. So I have a bit of catching up to do on my FOs.......

Monkey Socks - These are nice, they were a bit tight on me even though I upsized my needles, so I gave them to Mum. The picture shows the colour fade on the yarn, which I was most disappointed in. I love the bright colours, it's not that I don't like how they've ended up though, it's quite pretty too.

Lovely pattern, love the lace repeat. I would like to try the No Purl Monkeys too.


Two dishcloths for Tracee in a Nappycino pay it forward swap.
Chinese Waves:
Frankenstein from a Monthly Dishcloth KAL group:


Two pair of longies for Nelle: One pair for Silas, I did these with a curly purly waistband and put my increases on the other side of my marker, and also did a full gusset instead of a half. Probably my favourite longies I've ever knitted!
The waistband folds over to get more use from an extendable rise......
And one pair for River - I did the full gusset on this pair too and brought the short rows in each time on the bum, I think they fit much better that way (also did that on Si's pair too).


I did this cotton Tikki dress for Jessalyn, but Brielle wears it as a top now as I increased the bodice thinking the cotton would shrink on washing, but it did not. I put a little cable down along the front increases. I love this it's very darling and soft.
Being modelled by the cheeky monkey. God I love this little poppet, she's just amazing. Considering this picture was taken about a week after she had surgery to create a port in her appendix to do daily bowel washouts (called a MACE procedure), and had a foley catheter in her and all that, she's just amazing......but I digress.
Almost caught up.....gotta wait until some people get their stuff for the next pics :).

You win some you lose some

OK, so the October WIP War isn't going the absolute best.

On the win side I have finished Corey's Inca socks:
Plus I frogged off Jess's purple socks (but in reality I had only done about 2 rounds lol).

Plus I finished one sock of the Monkey - but they won't fit me so they are hibernating until I figure who to gift them too, I might have to rip back a pattern repeat on the foot if I 'm going to give them to Mum.

BUT I added to my list by whipping up a Calorimetry last week - this yarn is sitting there looking at me all the time and I had to make something out of it or it would continue taunting me. And I bought a whole heap of cotton blend yarn from my spotlight's relocation sale, so had to knit some up to see what it was like, so I did a tikki Rainbow Dress. I absolutely adore this, the pattern, the colours, the yarn.....I wish I had done it in a size to fit my girls, but I did it in 3month size.


Plus I got in the main some wool that a friend has been trying to send me to knit some longies for her since she was pregnant with her second boy (who is now 6 months old), so I'm over halfway through one pair and just started the other - although I will have to frog the second pair because I somehow miscounted my caston and totally flamingoed it up.

So my list is now:

Knitting

• Monkey Socks
• Crossover Top/Tunic
• 2 Washcloths for PIF
• River's Longies
• Silas's Longies

Sewing

• Grab Bag
• Messenger Bag
• Tag Toy
• Lengthen PJ top
• PJs
• Fixings
• Tassles
• Felt Dog
• Felt Cupcake

I have so much I want to caston - I just need to learn to knit faster I think LOL.

Firestarter Socks FINISHED!!!!

I lost my love for sock knitting. I did so halfway through my first sock of this pair. They sat for a loooooong time unknitted. Then, I decided that I like socks, I like sock yarn and therefore I need to remember to like sock knitting. Doesn't help that this was my first pair of 'real' socks (ie. ones not from 8ply *wink*), so I was knocked sideways with the amount of time it takes to knit one......then you have to turn around and do it again for a second sock!
Anyway, I finished them. And I love them. And I'm going to knit more socks!
Firestarter socks: Lovely pattern, lotsa fun to knit. Love the gusset detail, love the travelling stitches. Very nice. Knitted in Monsoon Designs Twisty Sock in cycad.