Sheepie Knits

Besides just being a slow knitter and easily side-tracked. There is another reason i haven’t been getting much knitting done lately.

I have been sewing!! Lots and Lots of sewing.

96 pieces of stocking shape, main fabric and lining fabric

24 felt stars, cut

24 pieces of ribbon

Yards of thread and silver metallic DMC floss

Cut, Sew, Cut, Embroider, Sew On, Sew Together and VOILA!!

A Stocking Advent Calendar:

(please excuse the background but i don’t really have much that is solid colored-so i used Little Man’s blanket)

I am so happy with how this turned out, i have wanted to make an advent calendar for a long time. I was gonna make a wall one at first but last year i set my mind on a stocking calendar.  There was a few points where i thought i would never get it done in time and wondered what i had gotten myself into but IT”S DONE and i couldnt be happier.

Now i just figure out how i am going to hang it up and Where?? Before that comes the fun part-filling it with goodies.  I like to do a couple small toys and some chocolate. I also had my Grandma send me some Kinder Überraschungs Ei also known as Kinder Surprise. I loved these as a child and have a big box of all the prizes i collected that Little Man likes to play with. He is always trying to take coins from us so i am going to put some coins in some of the pockets. Pretty much like how my grandma always used to make for me

But now-back to knitting!!!!

I know it may seem like i got a lot during my illness but i promise you last weekend all i did was lay in bed and try not to move too much, most of that knitting was done middle of the week.  On Monday i was able to get some stuff done until the headache came back in the afternoon, same on Tuesday. Wednesday i finally gave in and went to the store and got some Sinus Headache pills-wow what a big help and since then i have been better and also no more medicine over the weekend.  I say gave in because growing up in my house we didn’t do medicine.  You just waited out until you felt better and you still had to keep up with chores.  The medicine thing has kinda stuck with me, i only take something when i am just so miserable i can’t take anymore. BUT now when i get sick you will not get me out of bed unless i have to, I milk it for all its worth lol-i know-Pathetic

I haven’t done much since Saturday but i did meet my goal of getting the left side decreasing of Cosima written out and knitted up. I even started the right side last night

Other than that we has some snow yesterday and today:

And my kitty has such a hard life doesn’t he?

Keep warm

I have been absent for the a little while and it was mostly due to my illness and once i finally started getting better i had to play catch up on everything.  This one was a bad one and i don’t think it’s gone yet. I think it was a Sinus Cold or something along those lines.  It was something i had never had before and i had this headache mostly in my forehead and moving my head to much especially up and down made it all worse. I still have a very small headache but nothing like what i had last weekend.

But i have gotten some knitting done. While i was sick it suddenly hit me how close to Christmas we are getting and if i want to make anyone anything i better figure it out.  I started with my grandma in Germany since i have to mail her package out by the first of December to make sure it gets to her on time cause you just never know with the postal service especially if you are sending something overseas. 

Omi asked for another Bainbridge Scarf (pdf) and i was happy to oblige. She picked the yarn out herself while she was here. It is Patons Rumor, an acrylic and alpaca blend yarn.  Rumor is a bulky yarn so i had to make some adjustments to make it the same size and the one in the pattern.  I ended up using size 9 circulars and cast on 90 sts and then followed the pattern.  For the ties i only cast on 2 stitches and worked as in pattern. It’s an easy and straightforward pattern and i am glad Omi liked her first so much that she asked for another.

Next up is my mom:  I have a Shaun planned for her and maybe one more thing-we’ll see.

I have his head, head fluff, neck, body, tail and one leg done. I was able to work everything but his front leg in the round so far to cut down on seaming.

Then i got some yarn on Ebay and Ravelry

to make this for Little Man but i don’t think it will be a present i just want to make it because i really liked it the moment i saw it in the magazine, Verena Stricken Winter 2007/08. I actually forgot about until i decided to go through all my mags and try and clean some out that i know i just don’t need.

And we can’t forget about Cosima-i am almost done with the left front panel but i got to where i start decreasing the neckline and it’s not hard just very wordy and do this so many times on these many rows and your eyes kinda cross and your brain starts to hurt as you reread to make sure you understand and start figuring out in your head and after a few rows you start to decrease for the armhole as well so you are doing 2 things at once. I decided to set it aside until i got better and was alone to i could sit down and write it out a bit easier for myself-that’s my goal for tomorrow because i really should have finished this cardigan by now.

whew, i think i am all caught up and this should be the last of these extended breaks.

Some Working

Some Playing

Some leaf fun Raking the leaves is one of my favorite things-well actually jumping in and playing with Little Man is the fun part. So it was nice to have Dad do a lot of the raking this time, but i’m no meanie after playing, jumping, taking pictures and messing up his first pile i did help him rake it again and bag it.

Glad i did becuase today i am sick in bed. UGH i hate Colds.

Halloween went really well this year and Little Man had a good time. We did twice as many blocks as last year and he didn’t complain about being tired.  i did notice that there were a lot less houses that passed out candy this year but i wasn’t really surprised and we still have a huge bowl of candy that calls to me every time i pass by it.

Yesterday Little Man got to wear his costume one more time. They were doing a special activity related to their new exhibit Out of This World. They had lots of cool outfits from different movies and TV show. Important to my boys was the Star Wars for the older boy and Batman for the younger boy Here is Batman himself by his Bat-mobile!

The exhibit was pretty neat but they has some activities listed on the website page that we didn’t find at the museum and there wasn’t anything posted about where it was supposed to be.   That has happened there before or they have the activities that are related to the exhibit in an area that is nowhere by the exhibit. But one shouldn’t complain after all it was free since we are members.

But on to some knitting. I have had a FO since Wednesday to show off!!

Project: February Beret

Dates: Oct 10-Oct 29, 2008

Yarn: Caron Spa in Ocean Spray

Needles: Size 5 in 16 inch circs and then Dps

Notes: Easy pattern, kinda dragged on for me not sure why. Yarn i used was splitty and a pain sometimes when i was trying to do K2togs with my not so sharp and point needles. But it is so soft and i really like it for the beret. I didn’t really make any changed to the pattern. I did knit the lace for maybe a half an inch more but that wasn’t really intentional it was just when i stopped. Also when i picked up sts from the I-cord edge i just picked up one stitch per stitch instead of the amount she had in the pattern and then when it was time to increase i didn’t increase as much since i already had some extra stitches. I did it mainly because that was easier than trying to figure out the spacing to increase evenly.  I have the tendency to avoid those kind of things if i can  All in all good outcome and easy pattern.

Even though i have plenty of WIP’s i have started a new project-Cosima from Berroco booklet #281.

I am already zooming along on the back piece-it’s fun knitting with this bulky yarn(Lana Grossa Due, discontinued)  and getting so much done!! 

The pattern is turning out better than i thought it would with this yarn so i am very pleased about that. Knitting this back piece was a bit of a pain at first but now it’s easy peasy.  Since one half mirrors the other half there is a lot jumping around when reading the chart but you get used to it quickly. 

I am worried that i won’t have enough yarn but i already knew that going into this and when i picked the cardigan so i may have to make my sleeves a little shorter. No big deal at least its not a surprise when i am nearing the end

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Can you believe it’s November already-time goes by so fast, treasure it!