Knitting@roosterhillfarm.com

When you’re relegated to the couch and you have this vast collection of yarn, it’s inevitable that you are going to twist that yarn with 2-5 silly sticks and make something. Especially when it makes the internal workings of your arms move around in a way that has to be good.
Now I thought I had pictures on flickr of one project I have been working on but I cannot find them. I blame the percocet. I have been working on the sweater, “Hey Teach” in Mission Falls Cotton. I have all the pieces done and they only need to be sewn together and the neck/button band created. The sleeves took me 6-8 times to complete. Again I blame the percocet. But the sweater is all knit and only has to be finished. This part I am *really* bad at.

Another thing I have been bad at in the past and hopefully have conquered is the picot cuff. I admit: I cannot crochet. So achieving that perfect chain for a provisional caston is out of my grasp. I decided to try a backwards loop cast-on. This was a poor choice as it does not easily unravel. For my next sock I will cast on as per usual then thread a waste yarn through the live stitches. Meanwhile I have one mini-monkey completed. I followed the pattern as written but with 4 repeats and a picot cuff.

I am now working on the twin to this Nanner sock as a gift. Can’t tell for whom in case she reads this.

Meanwhile folks at work sent me this incredible planter. It’s a swing. The center is gerbera daisies (my absolute favorite) and is surrounded by several different annuals. I love it. With the nice spring weather we have I am ready to drop the knitting and start planting and cleaning up outside at the new farm.

Almost ready. There are socks to be knit!

Wow it’s been a long time. I have been knitting but nothing truly interesting.

I knit the Wrapper’s Delight from iKnitiative with some CTH Baby Loop (boucle). Never ending lump of goo. I hate boucle. Pattern was ok.

Then I made Abruzo from local Laura Nelkin on knitty.com with some thick yarn I bought at Hemlock. Easy pattern, love the yarn but when it was done I just wasn’t happy with its fit. Bulky yarn makes me look … bulky.

You will note there are no pictures of my own so far

Then I made a hat for my step-daughter.

Pattern: Fusilli Beanie

Yarn: Cascade Pastaza

and the Noro Scarf made famous by Brooklyn Tweed. This was a really fun knit. I did it on a plane flight.

Pattern: Noro Striped Scarf

Yarn: Noro Silk Garden 244 & 268

On another plane flight I designed some socks. Simply because I had yarn, no pattern and needed a manly sock. I wanted the ribbed cuff to grow out into larger ribs, which I ended up making like a beaded rib. Nothing special really.

Pattern: My own, K4,P1 (allter rows knit all)

Yarn: Three Irish Girls “Campbell”

And another sock in progress which I can’t show you right now *wink. Christmas is coming you know.

I swung by a LYS yesterday to pick up some Jamiesons yarn for yet another Brooklyn Tweed pattern, Druid mittens (cover of last issue of Vogue, I am sure you know which ones) as well as enough for a baby surprise jacket. Also got some Plymouth Boku to try that with the striped scarf and also some white Brown Sheep to do a fake fair isle hat with even more Noro.

Like I said, Christmas is coming

Farm emergency has kept me from knitting much. Read about it here, here, and here.