To the finish line.

Finished my heavenly shawlette, actually somewhat bigger then a shawlette but smaller then a real shawl. Pictures taken but still need to jump thru the hoops to post. Yep, I'm sure wiser folks could do it but their not here. So later.

Finished my Amiga sweater, a knitty pattern, except to weave in the fee ends. A great everyday kind of sweater. Seemed strange to be knitting a long sleeve cardigan out of wool blend sock yarn on a day with a heat warning. Thank goodness for central air!

CO a cotton blend short sleeve cardigan using some stash yarn. A Plymouth Jeannee that I got on closeout last year. I'm using a Knitting Pure & Simple pattern. So it won't be terribly challenging, but it will definately be wearable and a quick knit. Both really good things.

Off to the cabin for the 4th.

tip toeing towards sucess

It probably wasn't the most efficient way to get a photo from my ipad camera to a blog, but here it goes.

I couldn't get a direct link to a photo from my flickr account to work. Not to surprising since I haven't mastered downloading from flickr to Ravelry either. The camera genius app has a setting to make your pictures look like 1970's shots. Very fun.

After reading rav reviews I bought the Goodreader app. It is appealing to think that you can highlight and comment on a pdf document. Then save it or print it with your comments. For the things I do it certainly wasn't a critical function. But, for the price..definitely a "nice to have".

I finished the 2nd sleeve on my Amiga over the weekend. So the live stitches from the front band are back on the needles. The sweater is well on the way to completion.

I had to frog an entire 21 row charted repeat on my shawl. I blame poor signals from the catcher. (A MN baseball reference to a recent game loss. I was watching the game at the point I made my error in the 3rd row...didn't catch it until the 22.)

Sometimes it just doesn't work

I've been trying to be high tech this week. I downloaded a new app that let's me add some fun effects to pictures I take with my iPad. I set up a flickr account. But try as I might I just can't seem to master linking the photos from flickr to the blog or emailing them to anyone. So even though I'm touching great technology, I'm feeling very low tech.

Progress on all fronts.

I finished my first attempt at a pseudo raglan sleeve Motherbear.

It has the increases only between the stitch markers, none of the slope that I associate with a real raglan sleeve. It is definitely a first attempt, but no seaming except the top after stuffing. The pink i-cord ribbon is in honor of Gisela.

I started another baby sweater. I think based on the gauge it will be for a big baby.

It is the Newborn top-down cardigan by Nancy Pietraszek, GrandmaNancy on Ravelry. It has a broad spiral rib along the button band. It is a "something different" for me.

And I am well on the way to finishing my second sleeve on my Amiga cardi. After I finish the sleeve I'll go back and pick up the live stiches on the front band and make it wider. I wanted to be sure I wouldn't run out of yarn mid sleeve, hence the need to go back.

Three remotes!

We are up to three remotes for watching tv. One for that came with the television, one that came with the dvr box and one that came for with the blue ray player so we can watch Netflix. Most of the time we can still get buy with just one, but when we want to watch something on Netflix it take all three to make it happen. It is mind boggling. And yet, so worth it to be able to watch a series from the BBC. A rainy day, Netflix and my knitting the world is a magical place.

A general lack of pictures

Yep. Another post with no pic's. I'm even carrying my camera in my purse, but a long history of missing photo opportunities is hard to leave behind. I've made some progress on wip's. So there will be pictures!

Made it to one of the pop up green houses and bought some lovely annuals for 50% off! Perfect timing too, we had a nice rain today. Especially nice since I could sit inside Culver's with mt knitting group and watch the rain..then sit at home and watch the rain and knit.

Although truth be told, I seem to do very little knitting st Culver's. Lots of chatting, show and tell, and moral support. It is so nice to have the friendship of these wonderful women. It is definitely the best part of Tuesday..and often the best part of the week.

A picture really would be good here!

Progress made

Yep, I finished the first sleeve of my Amiga sweater and am well into the second. Not really picture worthy. I think it will be a great throw-on everyday kind of lightweight sweater.
I set aside my latest iteration of the 198 yards of heaven shawlette. I am well past 198 yards doing the first lace chart. This will be a long term project.
I started another baby sweater for Bundles of Love. It's got a twisted non-cable by the button band. So its another project that works really well with the 1-2-3 Knit app. Makes it so much easier to keep track of my row count for the increase at the same time as tracking my pattern row, and the row count for button holes. Not so much that any of those are difficult, but just nice that if I set it down I can start again without any effort.
I not making progress on my raglan sleeve bear. So it will be my project for today/tonight. I really want to finish it, but it was more fun to start something new.

Another damp overcast day. My yard is getting that mow or buy sheep to graze on it look.