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t thing about road trips is all of the knitting time that s available provided you aren t driving between drive time and the time we spent sitting around chatting with family i had plenty of knitting time and i was able to complete two projects and start a third pattern pashmina cowl by joelle hoverson from the book last minute knitted gifts yarn lorna s laces shepherd sport in blueberry hill 1 26 skeins needles us 5 date started july 27 2014 date completed august 13 2014 i finished this in the car on the first day i believe somewhere in eastern ohio i wasn t planning on making this at this time i started this project a few weeks ago when i was going to the goodwill in west loop with one of my friends from knit group and needed an easy project for the train ride i think the only other project i had going on at the time was the sweater for my cousin s son and that was going to be a pain on public transportation so i started this that day instead the yarn came from a yarn store in indiana that has since closed the colorway was made specifically for that store in reference to the blueberry festival held every year there plymouth in i still have 74 of a skein left i wonder if i can make some small wrist warmers to go with it or something i love how the colors stripe and pool it reminds me of the reflection of the sky in water perhaps it will be a nice pick me up on a drab winter day this next project i started and completed on the trip pattern spoilers socks doctor who inspired by c c almon yarn pandia s jewels snug in spoilers 6 skeins needles us 1 5 date started august 13 2014 date completed august 19 2014 this must be the fastest i ever knit a pair of socks the yarn and pattern came from the doctor who companion sock club this was the first installment this was such a perfect project for this trip because it was easy to memorize the pattern so i didn t have to keep turning and looking at it i started the toe on the first sock on the first night of our trip in a hotel room in pittsburgh pa because it was so easy i was able to easily knit on it in the car or while talking to family i finished the first sock while on a bus tour of gettysburg i was even able to work on it during a tour of hershey at least until i got to the heel i finished the sock after we were headed back home while we were on i 80 somewhere in clearfield county pa it was raining at the time here is a close up of the cable i love how these socks turned out i can t wait to wear them too bad it s still summer there is plenty of yarn left over for hexipuffs so you will probably be seeing some of those in the near future even though i finished two projects during this trip the yards knit for these projects was smaller than the number of yards i purchased on the trip the blueberry hill cowl used 252 yards and the spoilers socks used 277 2 yards with those completed i m back to having knit 90 1 of the total yards i purchased so far this year not bad but since then i ve gotten the next skein of yarn for the sock club that s okay though because i started another project on my trip i m working on the vertex cardigan i m hoping to finish it during this long holiday weekend but we ll see posted in uncategorized leave a comment my trip in fiber part 1 yards in posted by andi on august 23 2014 my mom tim and i recently took a road trip to harrisburg pa for our family reunion we stopped for the night in pittsburgh on the way there and port clinton oh on the way back i was thinking about how i was going to post about the trip i decided i m going to do two posts that are fiber related and if i decide i want to post about other parts of the trip or if you tell me you want more details i will go into that later this post is about the yarn i bought on the trip before we left i had asked the puck this group on ravelry about yarn stores in the harrisburg hershey area and got several recommendations i didn t know if i was going to be able to get to any of the shops i missed on opportunity early on one shop was in between harrisburg and gettysburg and i thought we could stop at the shop on the way back but we spent too long at gettysburg and didn t get to that it wasn t until our last full day in harrisburg that i got to buy some yarn we went to hershey early in the day and ate lunch there and had the second half of the day to do something else we decided to go yarn shopping there were two shops that were recommended to me that were near lancaster which if i recall correctly was about 30 minutes from hershey one was north of lancaster and one was south of lancaster since hershey is north of lancaster we decided to go to that one the shop is called flying fibers and it s in landisville pa it is a lovely shop i wanted to get some local yarn or yarn i couldn t easily get at any of the shops i frequent in the chicago area i ended up getting two skeins of yarn this is a skein of wandering creativity merino bamboo nylon yarn i believe this yarn is dyed by a shop employee or someone who lives in that town i almost bought a different colorway but then saw this skein tucked behind another one so i got this one i hope this gets my desire for regia fluormania out of my system this skein doesn t have fluorescent colors but it is green and yellow which are the colors in the skein of fluormania i want between a new skein of green and yellow yarn and the skein of dramatic knits yarn i bought a couple of weeks ago i should be good anyway there are approximately 459 yards in the skein so i should be able to make a variety of different things with it i didn t stop there this is a skein of wnsleydale longwool sheepshop dk 257 yards i had a hard time choosing a color at first i was walking around the shop with a peacock blue sort of color and then i realized i already have a skein of yarn in that color i thought about buying a couple of skeins and making a two color project because there was a lime green skein and a coral skein both of which i really liked but didn t want to make full projects with them in the end i chose this skein the color isn t perfect in the photo it s a periwinkle blue color which used to be one of my favorite crayons for the 64 pack i ve never had yarn in this color i think i already chose a pattern for it the three way stop hat by brittany wilson they had this yarn in other weights too and i may see if i can order some of i really enjoy knitting with this skein so if you are keeping track i added 716 yards of yarn to my stash from these purchases that comes to a total of 7 292 yards purchased so far this year not including the projects i completed on the trip which i will include in the next post i had knit 6 044 5 yards which is 82 9 of the yards i purchased not good since then i have completed two projects started another one but also got another skein of yarn no more buying yarn for a long time for me posted in uncategorized 1 comment ballinagree posted by andi on august 21 2014 pattern ballinagree by carol feller from the book contemporary irish knits yarn lion brand wool ease solids in gray heather 2 88 skeins needles us 6 date started june 12 2014 date completed august 11 2014 this is a sweater i knit for my cousin s son i was a little concerned about sizing because he s 3 5 years old but tall for his age i decided to knit the size recommended for a 4 year old i was close on gauge but it was going to be a touch bigger which i thought was okay i would rather it be too big and he has to grow into it then for it to be too small the sweater is made from the bottom up adding the sleeves with the yoke basically you knit the body of the sweater to the underarms then knit each sleeve and add them to the yoke i thought i wasn t going to finish on time but i finished a whole sleeve part of the other sleeve the yoke in the collar in just a few days i had to actually take a day away from knitting because my wrists hurt but i finished it just in time i brought it to our family reunion and gave it to my cousin and his wife last week they seemed to love it this book has so many wonderful patterns i m sure i will knit more of them after buying so much yarn the week before i completed this sweater it was nice to add this yardage to my yards out calculation this sweater took 567 4 yards of yarn bringing my total knit as of the time i completed the sweater to 6 044 5 yards i had purchased at the time i finished the sweater 6 576 yards of yarn so i had knit 91 9 of the yards i had purchased notice this is all past tense since i finished this sweater i ve completed two more projects and um bought more yarn i will be posting about that later this week posted in uncategorized leave a comment yarn at lollapalooza posted by andi on august 13 2014 lollapalooza was the first weekend in august at some point i may or may not write a post about the bands we saw and about our weekend in more detail but i did spot something fiber related there and that s what this post is about i end up with a lot of yarn leftovers for a variety of reasons provisional cast ons waste yarn used to hold stitches the cast on tail was too long i could go on usually i keep a small pile of such yarn in my living room in case i need some waste yarn but when the pile gets too large i end up throwing it out a new pile will accumulate soon enough but i found a new use for waste yarn at lollapalooza of all places vases there were a bunch of these plants in the wine tent it looks like they just put yarn around the outside of a square glass vase and voila it s amazing what a little yarn and a hot glue gun can do posted in uncategorized 1 comment back in the red posted by andi on august 11 2014 july and august are clearly stash enhancement time i have already posted about the yarn i got in the swap and my first yarn club installment well that was just the beginning first i won a prize from the a homespun house podcast s cooperative press kal when i made my fields of malachite shawl the prize included a skein of colour adventures girly fun dk the forest colorway which is a lovely green and black with some silver it also included some such gwenderful stuff stitch markers which are in rainbow colors and are super cute oh and some gummy bears from germany they were tasty then this past saturday some friends of mine from knit group and i went to knitche because they created a pop up shop for indie dyers in their store and the first indie dyer featured is leading men fiber arts i like the skein of leading men fiber arts yarn i ve used to make my sallah cowl and wanted more oh i got more knitche is a great store this is the first time i ve been there since they moved to their new location which is on two floors i wish it was my house anyway right when we first walked in i saw this awesome colinette jitterbug and decided i had to have it this is the toscana colorway i thought the colors would look kind of like speckles when knit up and that seemed to be the theme for my purchases i went to the pop up store upstairs and i swear i could have bought all of the leading men fiber arts yarn that was there but i didn t although i had various skeins in my hand several times eventually i came home with three skeins first thing first the whole reason i wanted to go to the shop in the first place was to get a skein of any base of the colorway jazzercise leggings i have been coveting this for months i have also been coveting regia fluormania yarn which comes in all kinds of fluorescent colors but when i saw i could get yarn in fluorescent yarn from an indie dyer i decided to get that then when i heard the pop up shop was coming i decided not to order it online this is the callback base which is sport weight i think i m going to alter the sock head hat pattern for sport weight yarn it will be fantastic to wear some bright yarn on dreary winter days later i saw a skein of fluormania in the shop and picked it up but decided to put it back at this point i started picking up a bunch of skeins and putting them back here are the two i ultimately chose this is the show stopper base in the imperfection colorway notice the speckles i love them i have no project in mind for this but i just had to have it this is the show stealer base which is merino cashmere and nylon this is the sritely endeavors colorway if you look closely at the picture you will see it has some speckles in it as well it s funny you can think the yarn you have in your hands is soft and nice until you touch this skein and realize you didn t really know what soft yarn felt like until you touched it these are going to make fantastic socks but i may make a scarf or cowl instead so i can feel it against my neck instead i stopped myself here this is what i bought all this stash enhancement has really impacted my yards out yards in ratio the five skeins of yarn in this post added 1 857 yards to my total purchased in 2014 thus far i have completed projects totalling 5 477 1 yards meaning i have knit 83 3 of the yards i have purchased before this i was at 111 so i m back to having bought more than i used speaking of enhancement i won another podcast prize this time from the dramatic knits podcast for their june race to the finished object thread for finishing my cowl neck vest this is a cute project bag and some buttons from art institchtute perfect timing because i m going to need another project bag so i can cast on some more yarn and catch up seriously recently i decided i don t have enough project bags and so i was really happy to receive this posted in uncategorized leave a comment for the swap posted by andi on august 9 2014 i participated in a swap recently we are supposed to include something we made some people knit or crochet some sew something make soap bake etc i went with knitting first i made this hat for my swap partner pattern alexandra hat by jillian moreno from the book lace one skein wonders 101 projects celebrating the possibilities of lace by judith durant yarn noro kureyon in 219 88 skein needles us 5 date started june 28 2014 date completed june 29 2014 i used stash yarn and i already owned this book i actually got it for my birthday and this was the first pattern i made from it i was going to make fingerless gloves as well and actually cast them on but then i thought the pattern was poorly written i was having problems with it and the fingerless gloves were tight i worried about the fit so i frogged those and decided to make a dishcloth instead pattern christmas lace dishcloth by cathy waldie from knitting pattern a day calendar 2013 yarn lion brand lion cotton solid in sage 21 skein needles us 7 date started july 26 2014 date completed july 26 2014 i really love how classy this dishcloth looks the pattern also has a dish towel and i think knitting them both would make a lovely gift posted in uncategorized 1 comment create a free website or blog at wordpress com subscribe subscribed knitstant gratification sign me up already have a wordpress 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