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october 2007 september 2007 august 2007 july 2007 june 2007 may 2007 april 2007 march 2007 february 2007 pages about me fos 2007 fos 2008 fos 2009 fos 2010 fos 2011 fos 2012 fos 2013 fos 2014 fos 2015 fos 2016 fos 2017 fos 2018 january 2015 s m t w t f s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 dec feb meta create account log in entries feed comments feed wordpress com blogroll wordpress com wordpress org meta create account log in subscribe entries rss comments rss archive for january 2015 hat trick 2015 posted by andi on january 25 2015 i was really looking forward to january rolling around this year in order to participate in the puck this group on ravelry s january hat trick the timing is perfect i have yarn i want to destash and i had some yarn i knew i wanted to use to make a hat i have completed my hat trick here are my goals pattern the proverbial cap by meg swansen yarn cascade 220 superwash in 893 62 skeins 136 4 yards needles us 4 date started january 1 2015 date completed january 4 2015 this was my first hat to make sure i got it done by the end of the month one of my friends is collecting items for a charity auction next month we knit red items because the theme is go red for women the had had to be finished by the end of the month the first few rows took forever and i thought this hat might take the whole month however after a few rows the pattern started to become more intuitive and i was able to finish it quickly pattern hallgrim hat by charles d grandy yarn wensleydale longwool sheepshop dk in 444 66 skein 169 6 yards needles us 4 date started january 4 2015 date completed january 11 2015 i bought this yarn when i was in pennsylvania back in august with the intention of making a hat i held onto this skein of yarn until january for that reason i thought the cable in this pattern would be interesting and show off the yarn well my head is small and i have really thin hair so hats are often big for me but the first hat fit fine and i went down a needle size with this one so i thought i would be fine but as you might be able to tell it s a bit loose it s not loose enough to come off though so it actually reduces hat head this is that hat i will wear when i need to be in a professional situation or i m going somewhere nice pattern karn by norah gaughan yarn debbie bliss cashmerino aran in 300007 1 72 skeins 172 yards needles us 8 date started january 11 2015 date completed january 17 2015 i used this yarn to make a sweater and i didn t think i had enough left to make much other than a hat i ve had this pattern book for years i started to make a shawl in it but didn t get very far and quit i did a library search on ravelry for hats made with aran yarn and found this one the stitch pattern is interesting but it was knit flat and seamed i debated knitting it in the round but decided to get some seaming practice my seam looks crappy because by the time it came to seam it up i really just wanted to be done with the hat and didn t take the care with it that i should have the great thing that came out of making this hat is the fact that i determined that the yarn i had for that shawl i stopped making is enough to make a cute top in the pattern book so i discovered something else i can make later in the year i was glad to get some yards out right away in the beginning of the year 478 yards however a friend gave me some sock yarn leftovers for my beekeeper s quilt and i estimate about 1 008 yards of sock yarn was in that bag so i m at 47 4 i have a lot of work to do posted in uncategorized leave a comment 2015 resolutions posted by andi on january 18 2015 i have made some knitting resolutions just year just as i do every year i made fewer this year because most years i make a bunch of resolutions and don t stick to most of them so this year i only have three 1 finally knit my vegetables i need to get many skeins of cascade 200 wound and ready to make vegetables they will be the perfect project for the summer because they are small no sweater or blanket on your lap in the summer 2 go through the bin of damaged knitwear and either repair or frog as needed as you may remember i had a moth or carpet beetle problem so that i ended up with small holes in some of my knitwear they have all been washed and have been sitting in a bin with moth balls i need to decide which things i m going to repair and wear again and which i m going to frog i never wore some of the shawls and i figure i should repurpose the yarn i ve been holding off on some of the repairs because in my mind they seem difficult they are in places with intricate stitch patterns and may involve more than one stitch my goal was to start with a pair of fingerless gloves with an itty bitty hole in the inside of the thumb the yarn is black so which it will be difficult to work with it will be difficult for others to see it however i ended up starting with a sweater i recently made which i found last week had a hole in it this wasn t due to a moth or carpet beetle it just caught on something or i wove it in poorly and the ends came out since it was pretty much just a dropped stitch i thought this would be an easy repair and it was i started by lifting the stitch back up i threaded a bit of yarn through the stitch pulled it to the wrong side and wove those ends in the hole was fixed and i think it looks pretty good so i have to keep progressing on the other things that need to be repair some will be basic fixes like this and some won t 3 yards in yards out knit more yards than i acquire so far i m off to a good start i have three fos and haven t purchased any yarn yet the problem is since i m going to be frogging projects and repurposing yarn that means more yarn is going to be entering my stash again i know there are at least three projects i m going to frog so i figure that is somewhere between 700 and 900 yards ugh so i m going to have to be particularly careful with purchasing yarn this year posted in uncategorized leave a comment last 2 fos of 2014 posted by andi on january 3 2015 after completing my christmas knitting and my mosaic mitts i had to figure out what to knit for the rest of the year i wanted to knit things that i could easily finish by december 31 i came up with two more things pattern outlier by laura aylor yarn needful yarns woodstock in the 5368 colorway needles us 11 date started december 20 2014 date completed december 24 2014 this was a mystery knitalong that was described as something you could wear as a cowl or a poncho made out of bulky yarn this yarn was left over from a sweater i finished four or five years ago i had enough of the yarn to make a short sleeve one button cardigan but that idea started falling flat when i started wearing the sweater more often i really didn t want two garments out of the same yarn so when this pattern came along and it was free at first i decided to give it a go there truly are many ways to wear this you can wear it with the point on the side much like a poncho as i did in the picture or you can move it about however you wish i also thought it would be helpful to wear with my winter coat which had lost the top button i would wear it with the point down in the middle in front however before i could do that i got a new winter coat so that s no longer an issue anyway this is something that can be worn as a way to keep warm outside or inside so that s why i like it project my first möbius pattern jacky s birthday moebius cowl by diane l augustin yarn tahki yarns pixie in the 003 colorway 1 22 skeins 85 4 yards needles us 11 date started december 27 2014 date completed december 27 2014 this one had to be done and here s why one of my friends from knit group hosted a pre christmas gathering at her home if we cared to we could wrap up some knitting related gift and have an exchange at the party i went to my lys and bought a skein of yarn and of course i felt totally smug because it was yarn i could buy and not have to count the yardage because i wasn t keeping it it as an excuse for me to go yarn shopping how cool is that what i failed to consider however was that i might get some yarn in exchange which i did two balls of takhi yarns pixie it s bulky yarn with only 75 yards per ball so i figured i could make something out of it before the end of the year i found this pattern in one of my knitting pattern a day calendars i had never knit a möbius before at least not on purpose so i wanted to give it a try i had a hard time with the cast on at first but eventually i got it it was kind of cool to make it takes a long circular needle which ends up being coiled so it seems like you are knitting two rounds for every round but you aren t here is what it looks like i m happy with how it turned out this isn t really an accessory that can be used to keep warm but it will still be fun to wear but that s not all i started knitting a baby gift for a colleague whose wife is pregnant i m pretty sure he doesn t even know about this blog but i m not going to post anything about it here just in case and finally i still have a bit more knitting time available to me over the holidays even after i finished these two projects lookie what i did hexipuffs twelve of them i think that s more than i made the rest of the year i made maybe four of five of these on new year s eve itself of course now that we are in a new year and i started another challenge the hat trick more on that later i have put my hexipuffing supplies away and with that on to my knitting totals of the year i don t know how much yarn exactly each hexipuff uses but i think i remember the designer saying each takes about 10 yards of yarn so i m going with that thus i was able to add 120 yards of yarn right there at the end of the year that brings my total yards knit to 11 861 8 do you know how much that really is 6 7 miles of yarn as to how much i acquired adding in the 140 yards of takhi yarns pixie i got the last to go into my stash i acquired 11 213 yards of yarn doing the math i knit 106 of the yards i acquired i m in the black for the year i enjoyed keeping track of how much i knit and how much i took in it really got me thinking of what yarn i have and what i can use i will be doing the same challenge in 2015 posted in uncategorized leave a comment create a free website or blog at wordpress com subscribe subscribed knitstant gratification sign me up already have a wordpress com account log in now privacy knitstant gratification subscribe subscribed sign up log in report this content view site in reader manage subscriptions collapse this bar design a site like this with wordpress com get started