Knitting@roosterhillfarm.com

Booties to boot

mobarger — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:15:47 +0000

So to match the cardigan and hat I made for my co-worker’s newborn son, I made a pair of booties.

There may have been pom-poms involved.

Pattern: Simply Adorable Sock Yarn Booties
Yarn: Trekking 108

New knits

mobarger — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:28:39 +0000

Yeah I know..been a while. I have been knitting but I haven’t been blabbing – I mean blogging about it

A co-worker recently had a baby boy about 3 months premature. I found the Vertebrae pattern and thought it was perfect. I added a quick baby hat too. I have enough yarn left over to make some socks too.
Yarn: Trekking
Pattern: Vertebrae Cardigan, Hat

Not knitting, exactly

mobarger — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 09:49:49 +0000

I guess I have had this chair kicking around for about 2-3 years. I bought it and another one, both old fashioned metal hotel chairs, at an auction for a song. The other chair I painted blue and you can see it in some of my pictures.

I guess it took me that long to sand it and decide it was time to prime it and paint it. I started it one day a couple of weeks ago when we had no power and I had no truck. Priming it was easy.

I wanted this chair to be 2 colors so I had to block it off. Hindsight being 20-20 I would have done it in reverse of what I did here, doing the small parts before the all over color. I used spray paint and the blue paint spray head was a little squirrely and wanted to put paint everywhere (you should see my fingers!)

Naturally, I had help.

But it is finally done! I still have a little touch up to do (remember, squirelly paint head) but I am really happy with the results! I think it will be a great chair to sit in and knit!

Catkin Progress

mobarger — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 13:05:49 +0000

Back in my Camp Loopy post, I showed you the String Theory yarn I purchased to make Catkin. Here is how it looked a few days later.

It was not working for me. At all. The yarn was not as variegated as I thought, just a plain navy and a plain greenish greige. Boring. So I frogged it right down to its first slipknot.

Enter Skinny Bugga, colorway Alocatron. It transitions from brown to blue to green to gray so subtly. Now this is a yarn I can work with! The rules for CL say that we can sub one of the colors, thankfully.

Here is Catkin today. I am just about to start Section 2. I kept the Carrina color (greige) as the alternate. I have until July 15 to finish! Wish me luck!

Where in the world is Estonia?

mobarger — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:44:17 +0000

Estonia is dark green

Wikipedia says it “is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia (343 km), and to the east by the Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation (338.6 km).[8] Across the Baltic Sea lies Sweden in the west and Finland in the north. ”

Apparently they knit there too.

I purchased this Aade Lõng yarn from eBay for a steal. I mean $10 for 700 yards? Shipping was only $4. It transitions from color to color like Kauni. I intend on trying WendyKnits Tracey’s Shawl. I am not much of a lace person but she makes it look so easy, doesn’t she?

Ironically on the same day, this arrived. Clearly some knitting is going on in Estonia.

Just in time

mobarger — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 01:00:36 +0000

Just in time to start Camp Loopy, I finished the sock I was working on. Yes, singular sock, I still have to knit the other one. This might be the longest time I have ever spent making a single sock.

The chart for this sock is 42 rows. I had to start and restart the sock a couple times, and once I got to the heel I almost started over once again. But I managed to be able to rip back a few rows and pick up again. If I would change one thing it would be the cuff. It’s in pattern and I should have used one size larger needles but it’s ok.

Yarn: Knit One Crochet Too Ty_dy socks color 1739
Pattern: Hypnosis Sock from “The Eclectic Sole”

Now on to Camp Loopy!

Camp Loopy

mobarger — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 14:58:37 +0000

Have you heard about Camp Loopy? (Unfortunately the cutoff date for ordering yarn ended yesterday.)

My yarn arrived yesterday. It is String Theory Caper, a blend of merino, cashmere and nylon. The colors are Cobalt (Dark blue) and Carina, a subtly variegated greige. It’s not quite what I expected but it will work!

I will be making the Catkin Shawl. It’s a little hard to post the picture here but go to Ravelry and you can see it done up in a few color schemes. Can’t start until the 15th!

Slipping

mobarger — Tue, 10 May 2011 22:18:47 +0000

I am slipping. I am not finding interest in knitting right now which is unusual.

But I have managed to push out a pair of socks. In the skein (and I wish I took a picture of it) the colors weren’t my cup of tea. But all knit up I think they look pretty good don’t you?

These are some funky cables aren’t they? I ended up breaking a cable needle in the process so I used an extra sock needle for the rest of the cables. I can never do cables without needles.

The funky cables are repeated from the heel down to the toe.
Pattern: Slip Jig Socks
Yarn: Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks That Rock “Wild Irish Girlie”

Ugly FOs

mobarger — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 12:47:11 +0000

There is a thread on Ravelry entitled “Your Ugliest FO.” It is 212 pages long. I think I have some serious contenders here, what do you think?

The runner up: These are Fiber Trends Felted clogs. The bottom, Cascade 220, felted very well. The top not so much. I believe it is a Harrisville Wool I am not sure. I had such high hopes for these. I will try the pattern again, it is a very quick knit and they look so cozy when other people make them. For now I will let these mock me.

And our winner: mittens. These were made from a lovely single ply romney skein from.. oh shoot I can’t remember. I got it at Rhinebeck and in the skein it was so beautiful. A single ply wook, I thought it would felt if I looked at it too long. But alas, I washed and washed and washed and even put them in the dryer to no avail. These babies weren’t shrinking.

Not a bit of felting, see that?

So if you know anyone with 9″ hands who likes pastels, I have just the pair of mittens for them! Let me know!

No really, I have been knitting!

mobarger — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 19:06:39 +0000

And a lot of frogging too! Just not posting about it! Here are Pear Blossom Socks, Superwash Kraemer Base, (yarn came from here) dyed with coffee. Pattern. A bit tight though

Olympic Hat, one gifted to my cousin, another to my husband. Yarn Ella Rae. Pattern

Winnow in Wollmeise. Sadly only one completed so far. Pattern

A funky beret in Plymouth Yarn Trabajos Del Peru. Pattern

My kind of town cowl in a lovely teal Plymouth Yarn Baby Alpaca Grande. It may not look like much here but it was comfy and cozy during our very cold winter. Pattern.

Also 2 scarves in Classic Elite Firefly — one gifted and not photographed and the other I cannot find in Flickr. And manymanymany socks that I ended up ripping out. Many.

If anyone can remember how to grab the Ravelry button for projects can you remind me how? I seem to have forgotten. Thanks!