Ravelympics

I decided to participate in the Ravelympics this year. I am in the Sock Put and the Shawl Relay. I'm going to do the Froggin' sock pattern using the Dashing Dachs fingering weight in the Froggin' Colorway and the Diamonds and Pearls Shawl in Lady Godiva's Ocean colorway.


The shawl is going to be the challenge. At least it is a one skein worsted weight project.

Knitting on straights with charity yarn

I haven't knit on straight needles in about two years.

However today I was over at my parents house and realized I didn't have any knitting with me. When I moved out I took all my yarn and needles, except for my portion of the charity yarn given to the knitting group and straight needles.

I guess I am more addicted to knitting than I thought. I was over there watching tv and I couldn't focus on what I was watching without a project in my hands.

So I now have a rib stitch scarf for charity in progress.

Pooling Monkeys Finished

I finished the pooling Monkeys at 2:00am on Mother's Day. The toe up version is much better. At leas they don't look like the Sleeping Beauty faerie fight any longer.

Pooling Monkey

So I was making a Monkey out of Yarn Love's Scarlett O'Hara in the Autumn Festival colorway. But the first attempt (pictured here) pooled like crazy. So it was ripped out.

Tried again, but needed to frog again.

I'm not sure if it going to work out. At least I have a back up gift for Mother's day.

Oh and here is a picture of the redyed yarn.

Redyeing Yarn

Well I finally redyed some yarn that I initially dyed last summer. It looks better, less white spots. I don't think I'll dye it again. I redyed both skeins. For both this time around I used eight packages of pink lemonade unsweetened Kool-Aid.

I'm still trying to decide what to make out of it. Maybe I'll dye a third skein and make a clapotis for my mother or sister. That might be a flattering pattern for the yarn.