Wednesday, June 24, 2009

W.I.P. Wednesday

I've been a knitting machine over the last week or so, considering that I just tried circular needles for the first time about 2 weeks ago. The final result of that experiment is below, with another matching hat for a friend. I know that knitting wool hats in the middle of summer seems odd, but I have grand plans for all the stuff I want to figure out before Christmas. I have to start somewhere!


My stash is growing rapidly as I fall in love with new yarns and come up with new ideas for things I want to make for my family.


After finishing Elizabeth's (and friend's) hats, I found some yarn that I loved and decided to make myself a hat. I used Noro Kureyon wool, kind of nubby with vibrant color. I love the way it turned out. I made it long enough to cuff, and now Paulie wants a similar one with holes for his eyes so he can have a ski mask. I told him I'd see what I can do about that. ;)


On to my Work-In-Progress...I found some yummy, soft ecological wool yarn by Cascade Yarns at my local yarn shop only 2 days after I found the book, Knit Wit, at my local library. I fell in love with the striped yarn bag on the front cover of the book and decided to try my hand at something new--knitting and felting a bag. Instead of stripes, I'm just putting a blue trim at the top and making the rest of the bag in the twisted white/gray wool. I'll keep you posted as to how it turns out!



8 comments:

  1. Your knitting looks great! I've been wanting to get started on some Christmas gifts myself. Better to start early than to run out of time &/or have a stressful holiday trying to finish.
    Good luck with projects

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  2. Wow, you did such a great job! They turned out beautiful.

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  3. Joy! Your projects are gorgeous, love that yarn!!
    What an inspiring post, I have pretty basic knitting skills and keep wanting to learn more. I guess you just have to pick up the needles and get knitting!
    I think it is great you are starting Christmas gifts now, I never feel like knitting until it gets chilly and then it gets stressful when there is a time crunch! Kind of counter productive as knitting is such a relaxer!

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  4. Wow, Joy you are so inspirational, you have been so busy, I love what you have knitted...

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  5. Gorgeous! The munchkins will be all ready for fall and stylish!

    Lisa :)

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  6. I love those hats! They're beautiful - and look just amazing. You can never start on the winter projects early enough.
    Be suer to let me know if you'd like to be added to the W.I.P. Blogroll! :)

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  7. I love all of that yarn you have...I'm majorly jealous of that stash!!! You are doing a fabulous job on those circulars...they scared me for the longest time. You are making me want to pick up and knit the night away!!!!!!!!

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