WIP-it Wednesday (November 7th 2012)

I have not posted a WIP-it Wednesday update ina long time (and am way overdue for that!!)  Today I am going to focus on a pair of socks that I have had on the needles for far too long!  I cast these on back on June 2nd...  My plan is to get back to knitting on these!  I have turned the heel and am now ready to pick up the gusset stitches.  I need to refer back to my 2-at-a-time books to remember how to do this but once I get the first round going I am set to cruise down the gusset and on to the feet!  Let's see how much I can get done before next Wednesday!!  Here is a picture of where I am now:

Notice that this picture was taken on 10/01/12...  These poor things have been collecting dust for far too long!!

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Lace Scarf Update

I am slowly getting some doneon my lace scarf.  I need to carve some time out to work on this or it will take forever!!  I need to be able to concentrate on it or I will make mistakes...  I now am half way through the first chart.  It wasn't noticeable when I bought the skein of yarn that is had some slight variation in the color - I am just noticing it now in the picture!  Here is a progress picture:

Monday update

I have been spending some of my time making squares out of partial skeins of yarn that I will make into baby afghans for charity.  I'm not sure if this is a formal pattern somewhere or what but here is the basics of how I make these squares;

Using a 5mm hook and worsted weight yarn, chain 36.
Row 1: Double crochet in the 4th chain and then dc in each chain to the end,  Chain 2 turn.
Row 2:Skip one dc and dc in the next stitch, then dc in the skipped stitch.  Repeat until the last stitch and dc in that last stitch. Chain 2 and turn
Row 3: DC in each stitch.
Row 4: Repeat row 2.
Continue until square - for me that is 15 rows (I like to end on a DC row).

Here is a picture of a square I have made using this pattern:

Flat Stanley

This morning we are off to church and then we will spend the afternoon hosting a Flat Stanley. This is the first time we have done this and it sounds like it will be a lot of fun!  We'll go out for lunch (Chinese buffet) and then we plan to go see some of the sights around here.  We willgo check out some of the stuff around Hershey and then go to the University.  We'll finish up getting some pictures near Three Mile Island.  Then we'll write upa nice letter to send back.  This is going to be fun!!

I struggled with my lace knitting yesterday.  I made a mistake in one row and couldn't get it figured out so I took the beast apart and started over.  Now I am done up to the end of row 8 on chart one.  I also finished up four 9 inch scrap squares (three blue one yellow)

Day 3

Day three of NaBloPoMo - so far so good in keeping up with the daily postings :)  We shall see how long I can keep up with the pace! I was ale to a little bit more on my lace scarf last night and now have 561 stitches complete (a far cry from the 30,000 I am hoping for in November!  Here is a progress picture of my lace scarf:

Not too much to look at just yet! Here's hoping tomorrow's update picture shows a little more progress!!

FO Friday (November 2nd 2012)

Good morning!!  Day two of NaKnitMo and NaBloPoMo!  I managed to get a tiny bit done on my NaKnitMo project this morning before I left for work.  I cast on for my scarf and did the first four garter stitch rows.  Not much progress but it is a little start!  My plan is to update here my stitch count and progress on the scarf.  So far 255 stitches complete (out of 30,000 for my month end goal!)  I need to pick up some speed on the knitting or I will never make my goal! I also need to post some progress pictures here as well.

I am hoping that this will keep me motivated to continue blogging once November is complete.

Today I dropped off four baby afghans at the local pregnancy resource center.  I had made these over the past while.  Here they are:

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November's NaBloPoMo

Day 1.

Today begins November's NaBloPoMo - National Blog Posting Month.  The challenge is to try to blog each and every day for the month of November.  There are several different types of these challenges over the month of November and I am going to try to work through several of them. The first one is for academic writing.  Here members try to spend some part of each day doing some academic writing.  The second one is a challenge to see if I can knit or crochet 30,000 stitches over the month.  I have hopes of finishing all three but we shall see how I manage.

To bingin with the knitting challenge I am making a lace scarf.  I have not yet been able to successfully knit with lace weight yarn so I am going to try it again!  Here is to a good month of lace knitting!  Today all I manged to do was get the pattern ready and get the hank into a ball.  Tomorrow I will cast on and see how far I get!  I am using this yummy yarn:

I plan to do some more tomorrow as it is getting late today and I am tired.