On The Needles

Greta is finished!

Except for the blocking,

which will happen today if all goes well.

The ends are even buried.

I also finished Lillian --shown here

but haven't taken a picture of it or blocked it yet.

On to the next big project.

By special request, it will be Lady Kina.

I'll use Knit Picks Wool of the Andes Superwash

in Indigo Heather.

I'm excited about it.

I also pulled out a skein of  purple Opal yarn 

to make Mock Croc Socks.

I saw a crochet cardigan in this week's Joann's flyer that I am excited about.

(Note to JA, when you show a knit or crochet project in your flyer, 

be considerate and at least tell us the name of it. 

But nice work on your part,

 I searched your free projects page for a long time before I found it.)

I'll finish up another already started project or 2 before I pull stash yarn for this one.

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OMG those Duck Socks are Fabulous!!!

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Meet Lillian.

I am so easily influenced by others.

Mickey Depre  shared a link this cowl on Facebook the other day

and the search was on.

Here is a great article about the designer, Don Waalen-Radzevicius.

Each of his designs has a family back story.

Lillian has 2 sisters that will probably be living at my house soon.

Anne and Margaret.

How's that progress for not going to start anything new until Greta is finished?

The good part is that the yarn came from my stash.

I'm using Felici Sport Yarn from Knit Picks.

Great progress was made on Greta.

I vowed to knit at least an inch every day and so far, so good.

I have several shows that I record, 

so each morning I watch one or two and knit on Greta.

What's on your needles?

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Rivel Cardigan

I think I have a major front band shortage.

She hasn't tried it on yet but I think the front is going to pull way up when it's on the body.

Have you ever ripped back after you have blocked something?

Is it going to be a night mare?

I thought I followed the pattern of pick up 3 stitched within 4 rows.

Maybe I didn't.

How do you really know when you have enough stitches to make the band fit correctly?

I do love the elbow length sleeves.

Greta Vest got quite a bit of attention this week.

I knitted a few rows each night.

After Denise showed off her vest,

I am really anxious to finish mine.

We have an event March 8th,

I wonder......

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I started teaching Jessie to lay in my lap while I knit.

He did pretty good.

Only a couple times he tried to paw the Greta Vest.

Several more rows were knit during his training.

We'll try again today.

After he got bored with his training, 

he went to his blanket to sleep some more.

I picked up the Rivel Cardigan and finally started seaming it together.

Sleeves go in today.

Then the "fun" part, the front/neck band.

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Last week I pulled out my Greta Vest and started working on it again. I haven't worked on it since April!  I've made some pretty good progress on it.

We went to the beach for a few days last week and I thought for sure I'd  have lots more knit on this but with the clam digging, running around and relaxing, I didn't even open the box.

I did make good progress on my latest to go socks. I wound more yarn from the second skein into a ball so I could sort of match the stripes. I took forever to find the repeat.

Rivel Cardigan is being sewn together. Hopefully front band will be started this weekend.

I can't wait to see what everyone else is working on. Check out On The Needles at Patchwork Times.