Finished my first pair of socks!!

My first PAIR of socks finished!! I've never been able to make it through two - after the first one, I would get bored, but I persevered! Now, I'm sad that I have to ship them off to my girlfriend. These socks are a hold me down until I am able to finish her purse, but of all people, she'll be the one to respect the "handwash" rules!



So, now I'm stuck with her purse to knit. I must make a quick run to the LYS to pick up some wool to do the overstitch pattern as I'm almost finished with knitting the front. It doesn't look like much, so I'm not posting any pictures - in fear that I'll realize I don't want to knit it anymore and I can't wait to felt it...Remember, I have knitting ADD...

Here are some pics of my babies since I have a new camera. I could just take pictures of my pets for hours on end!!

Knitting A-D-D!!!

I have been feverishly knitting away the past few days as the knitting bug has finally bitten me again. We were in the UK for two weeks and I didn't get as much knitting finished as originally anticipated. I only brought Christa's baby blanket and just can't seem to get motivated to work on it. I think it's because I'm not too fond of the shade of blue. Her twins were born in February and with one blanket completed, I think the babies will outgrow the blankets before I can finish them. So I've decided to continue on with the baby blankets as many other friends have announced their pregnancies! I am going to whip Christa up a few baby hats and booties.

I also finished one of my socks! The gorgeous hand painted yarn pictured in a previous post has now become a sock! I'm going to cast the other one on tomorrow...hopefully!





I have also started a handbag - my first felting project! My best friend Rhonda gave me a subscription to KnitSimple with the understanding that I would knit her a handbag that she saw in another magazine she bought. Her birthday is 4/20, so I've got the handbag working for her and I'm going to give her the pair of socks mentioned above. I'm also giving her my favorite book - Marley and Me by John Grogan. She has a lab and I know she'll love the book. She has already mentioned it to her book club!

With that, I have also cast on some fingerless mittens from the knitty.com website - the fetching pattern for my girlfriend Jenny. I found some gorgeous cashmere blend yarn during a trip last year to San Diego and it is this beautiful pink color - her favorite!

So, you can see that I have multiple projects going on as I have progressed in my knitting. I start to become bored with a single project and have the urge to start new things! The death of a knitter, right? I'm never going to have a decent stash...

And to top everything off...my digital camera broke while we were in Ireland...I promise to post some pics as soon as we get it fixed or muster the justification to purchase a new one!!

Frogging the work

I have been working on a few things here or there for the past month or so...Christa's second baby blanket for her twins, a pair of socks made from CashMerino I picked up in Newport, RI and the pair of socks made from the sock yarn I picked up in Tennessee.

I frogged all three of these projects pretty far into them - for those non-knitters, I unraveled them.

Christa's baby blanket - I tore it out while I was at the airport in Montreal. I noticed that I cast on way TOO many stitches as I got into the project 3 balls of yarn later and realized the baby blanket was way TOO wide! Since she's having twins, I wanted it to be the same size as the first one I knit and this one was very miscalculated. So I tore back all three balls of yarn. I got on the flight from Montreal to Newark (my connection to Providence) and realized I had nothing to do, so I figured I cast back on and try again. I got through the border on the blanket and just tore that back out tonight as I didn't like the pattern I picked out. I have finally settled on a pattern, the correct number of stitches to cast on, so hopefully, this is the last time time around. I don't know that the yarn can take too much more. Although I'm not a fan of acrylic yarn, this is some nice acrylic that I picked up at Ewe'll Love it in Nashua, NH.

Socks made from CashMerino - I bought this yarn back in the summer and decided with winter here, I wanted to make some nice cozy socks for myself. I have pulled it out several times and started on patterns and initially didn't like any of them so after tearing it out several times, I put it back. I finally picked a pattern from Sensational Socks and motivated myself to go at it. About 1/2 way through the leg, I realized that it was much too tight. (I have been to lazy to gauge my projects and I think this is the valuable lesson I'm learning!) So - I tore it out!

Socks made from yarn in Tenenssee - I got to the heel turn on my flight back from Ireland and totally screwed it up. I thought I'd wait to get home and unravel a few rows to fix it and ended up completely messing the pattern up and can't pick it back up - I can barely pick work back up on circulars, much less 4 Double Pointed Needles! So I frogged it too...

I can't seem to get out of the habit of ripping my work back out. My husband has said to me several times, if you would just keep working through it and not tear it out - you would have so many finished objects...(Okay - I through in the finished objects phrase...but fellow knitters understand!)

I am a bit of a perfectionist as you can probably tell. Any advice would be extremely helpful to get over this painful affliction that I have found in my knitting world!!