New Yarn

If you follow my adventures on Creating a Family Home, you'd know that it's only been two weeks since my last yarn delivery, yet I received another today!  Plans change, and knits are knitting up rather quickly these days.

Peep the yarny goodness:

Knit Picks Shine for a custom scarf design (should be fun!)

Knit Picks Shimmer in Eucalyptus for a Jacqueline Bouvier Stole for myself!  I'm looking forward to knitting something lacey and something for me.

There was more yarn in the box, but I'm holding out on you.  It'll all come to light soon!

Welcome, Brambleberry Yarns!

Please help me welcome new sponsor, Brambleberry Yarns! 

  

Brambleberry Yarns offers beautiful, one-of-a-kind, naturally hand-dyed yarns and fibers.  A woman after my own heart, Cynthia grows her own dye plants and takes advantage of the wild plants that grow around her in Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge.  She has been working with natural dyes for seven years and loves how her craft lets her combine two of her passions: gardening and knitting.

 

Pop on over to Creating a Family Home to learn more about Cynthia's talents and for a 20 percent off discount code to Brambleberry Yarns!

Finished object: Milo

Pattern: Milo (Ravelry link)
Difficulty: So easy it hurts
Yarn: Knit Picks City Tweed DK in Toad
Rating: Love it!

You can see that this vest is big on him.  I made the 3 year old size (22-inch chest) in the hopes he could get two winters out of it.  Also, I wasn't sure if he'd be comfortable in a sweater with no or negative ease.  If I'd known how fast this would knit up, I would have gladly made the 2 year old size this year and the 3 year old size again next year.  So easy (but interesting enough) and fast!

Cast On: Organic Marshmallow Newborn Sweater

Pattern: Organic Marshmallow Newborn Sweater -- coming soon from Creating a Family Home
Yarn: Knit Picks Organic Simply Cotton Sport

WIP

Pattern: Milo
Yarn: Knit Picks City Tweed DK
Love it? YES.

I know....I've Been Remiss! And New Patterns

I know I've been remiss in posting to my knitting blog.  It's been...over two months!  I should have known (and should still know currently) that I don't have time for a separate knitting-only blog, but I can't help it -- I want to write about knitting!  And in more detail than I can at Creating a Family Home.  I did read somewhere that it's an internet faux pas to have more than one blog, but I haven't verified that, so until then, I'm going to try to keep http://www.allaboutknitting.net/ alive.

It's been so long that I've released three new patterns since I've last posted (how did that happen?!), and I just didn't have the time or energy to link them here.

So, even though they're old news (okay, the latest one is still "news") here are my three latest patterns that I released on Creating a Family Home:

Read about the pattern.

 

Read about the pattern.

 

Free on Creating a Family Home

Thank you for bearing with me!

Finished Object: June Socks

I finished my June socks yesterday and rejoyced.  They took me just two weeks, and with all the gardening I've been doing -- in between caring for a toddler, maintaining our household, working and more -- that's pretty darn good.

The pattern is Midsummer Night's Dream (Ravelry link) and I enjoyed knitting it thoroughly.  The charts were easy to remember but interesting to execute.  I was captivated by the leaves as they formed and by the stem as it waved to the left and right as a result of the increases created by the yarn overs.  The whole thing was very smart.

I noticed that for the sample socks shown in the pattern, the charts had been reversed on the second sock so the socks are mirror images of each other.  So I did that, too.  And yes, that's Deadliest Catch on TV.

The yarn is Knit Picks Stroll Tonal in Canopy and you can see how it pooled in some places, creating a striping effect.  Not exactly ideal, but I didn't hate it enough to rip it out and find a non-pooling pattern for it.  (I had a daedline to meet, er blow off by five days.)  Plus, the colors were all different shades of green, so it wasn't so bad.  If this were to happen  with a true multi-colored yarn I wouldn't have put up with it.

Now onward to my next socks, my Birds in Flight pattern for Knit Picks to photograph.  Think I can make an end of July deadline?  Let's hope!