3rd Annual Knitting and Crochet Blog Week - Day 1

Colour Lovers - 3KCBWDAY1

Welcome to my first post for Blog Week 2012!!  I had so much fun with this last year I excitedly awaited this years event!!  Today our suggested topic is colour!  First off I love many colours!  I tend to be drawn to jewel tones the most, but I am not one who uses only a few colours.  I also make a lot of socks and I am finding that I am drawn to bright, loud colours for my feet - self striping or variegated yarns and lots of bright colours!!  Here are a few examples of colours you will find in my sock yarn stash:

WIP-it Wednesday (April 18th 2012)

I have managed to get myself down to four WIPs!!  This still may be too many as I am not spending time on each one - although I am trying to keep up and keep them each active.  Maybe three is an optimal number for me??  Anyway, here are my four WIPs

1) Mindless - this is my oldest WIP and the one that will likely continue to be on my list for awhile.  It is currently at 15 inches now and I have done some on this over the past few weeks.

2) Natural Beauty Wrap - this one is just past the half way point and I am tired of it...  It will be wonderful once it is done, but I am tired of it...

3) Odyssey - I am enjoying this one but can't wait until it is finished!! I now have Chart 14 compete and am at 46% complete!

4) Mystery socks - these are my first mystery socks and I am enjoying working on them!!  I have Clue 2 complete now and am ready to begin Clue 3 with the heel turns.

To see more WIPs head on over to Tami's Amis

WIP-it Down - Day 4

I managed to get some work done on my Mindless afghan.  I added almost two inches and used up two samll leftover balls of sock yarn.  Here is what it looks like now:

And today I plan to spend my time working on my Natural Beauty Wrap.  This is one of my few crochet projects.  I am starting row 17 now.  It suggests 90 rows for the first half - then you join the yarn again at the beginning and do 90 rows the other direction so that the stitches are symetrical.  Here is what it looks like this morning:

WIP-it Week - Day 3

Yesterday I got a lot done on my Spring Leaves scarf.  I am officially at the 50% point now.  Next up is to figure out how to pick up the stitches from the provisional cast on.  If I spend a bit more time on this one it shouldn't take long to finish it all up!!  Here is a picture (all bunchy and scrunchy - it will look so much better once it is blocked)

Up today is my Mindless Afghan.  I won't have the entire day to work on it, but I will see how much I can get done.  Currently it is about 12 inches long.

WIP-it down - Day 2

I managed to get a lot done on my Sojourn Falls Scarf yesterday.  I now have 22 repeats complete!  Here is a progress photo:

Up for today is my Spring Leaves Scarf.  This is another project that I have not touched since May.  I cast this on April 9th 2011.  I currently have two 36 row repeats complete and am on row 16 of the third repeat.  Here is a picture of where I am starting at:

WIP-it Down

Today I am going to start to focus on a few of my oldest WIPs and I plan to spend all day, each day working on one old WIP.  I am on Spring Break from work/school right now and I am in need of some serious downtime.  I am tired and need to relax for a few days.  Plus we have a couple storm systems moving this way so what better plan than to stay indoors where I am safe, warm and dry (and craft)  My plan over the next four days is to focus on each of my four oldest WIPs.

1) Wednesday - Sojourn Falls Scarf
2) Thursday - Spring Leaves Scarf
3) Friday - Mindless Afghan
4) Saturday - Natural Beauty Wrap

Here is where I am at right now on Sojourn Falls.  I cast this scarf on April 4th 2011 and I have not done a drop of work on it since May 2011.  It is time to shake the dust off it and get some more work done on it today.  Currently I have 13 full repeats done and let's see how many more I can do today :)  Here is my "before" photo (I'll post an "after" photo tomorrow morning)

WIP-it Wednesday (February 15th 2012)

Here I am back for another WIP-it Wednesday report!  I currently have 8 WIPs and I am trying to get this number down!  Here they all are:

1) Mindless Sock Leftover Afghan  I started this project on August 31st 2010 and I am using up my sock weight leftovers.  It is about 12 inches long so far.  This will be a long term project and I don't expect to finish it up very soon.  Here is what it looks like now (notice the date the picture was taken - I have not worked on this for some time...)

2) Sojourn Falls I started this project on April 4th 2011.  This is another one that has been neglected for some time...  Again note the date this last progress picture was taken... I have 13 pattern repeats compete.

3) Spring Leaves I started this project on April 9th 2011.  And this is yet another project that has been sitting around waiting for me to work on it so more.  Once again note the date this picture was taken...

4) Natural Beauty Wrap This is one of my crochet projects. I started this on July 6th 2011 and I have done very little work on it.

5) Pine Forest Baby Afghan  I started this with a group of online friends and I am making decent progress on it.  I am currently just finished repeat 14.  I cast this on December 13th 2011.

6) Y is for "YTK Cable Socks"  These are the second last pair of socks for the 2011 Alphabet sock challenge.  I almost made it!!  I started these on December 16th 2011.

7) Z is for "Zigs and Zags Socks"  These are the final pair of socks for the alphabet Sock Challenge.  I cast these on December 28th 2011.

8) Striped Odyssey  This is another one of my crochet projects. I began this one with a group of online friends as well.

To see more WIP-it Wednesday posts please visit Tami's Amis!!