Thing Sweaters

Here is Sean's Thing 2 Sweater. Instead of doing it the "traditional" way, Back, Front, Sleeves, Seams, ect. I did the body in the round, switched to flat at the arm hole shaping, and now am doing the sleeves top-down on DPs. His older brother AJ's (Thing 1) is on needles as well. This has been a collaboration between my mother, who is actually not much of a knitter, and I. I cast on, and do up to a few rows after the hem, then hand off to her, she does the however many rows of solid knitting to the armholes, then I take back over and finish, while she was working on Sean's, I got AJ's ready, then went on to continue working on Cheyenne's Yule Sweater. It's a cute pink thing that looking back, I should have had the fore site to do in the round as well, then it would have been solid brainless knitting, leaving my "brain time" for Nana's shawl.

Well, gotta run, time to take the munchkins to school.

Blessed Be,

Sarah

Kiri Shawl

I got about 2 1/2 inches done on my kiri shawl last night, I think one more pattern repeat and it'll be on to the edging. Yeah! It is for my darling D's Nana for christmas and I can't wait to see it done.
I counted my finished items that have made it into my book (the journal I keep of most of the things I have made), I'm at over 200 finished items for the year. Of course over 150 of those are hats and booties for the babies, and a lot more are sweaters and other preemie/baby things that are small and quick, but it adds up!
TTFN
Blessed Be
Dragonsong

Cool new books

I got 2 new books from Amazon yesterday, the first, Holiday Knits, has some really cool needle felted ornaments I can't wait to try out. I've never done needle felting before, but these look like a great way to start. The other one, that I REALLY love, is Handknit Holidays, knitting year round for Christmas, Hanukkah, and Winter Solstice. I have already made a head kerchief from it, and cast on some beautiful cabled socks, and there are so many other things I just can't wait to do, I'm REALLY fighting my knitting attention deficit. I want to do so many things it's nuts. I have a sweater for Cheyenne that is almost half done, a sweater for Sean that I'm almost done with the front of, a pair of felted clogs for my mom that I have one sole and felting to do, the yarn for a pair for Cheyenne, a fuzzy purple scarf that is half done for mom, and some various preemie things that are in various stages of being done. I NEED to stop the insanity and FINISH some of this stuff, I'm just getting the OH-Sh*t-it's-almost-Yule-I-need-to-make-gifts craze that I always get around this time of year. Yes, I have other excuses for the rest of the year. Well, back to my needles.

Blessed Be,
Dragonsong

I'm Back!

I haven't been on here in forever (like 6 months), and I have a bunch of things to fix, namely links. I've been keeping busy with the kids, and with my girl, but I haven't stopped knitting! I have done a ton! I've been working a lot on stuff for Little Bit of Heart, the charity group I have started in Little Bit's memory. D, the kids, and I have moved to Meadville. What a great change from Oil City, let me tell you. The kids are making me nuts right now, they have been out of school for 3 days of a 5 day break, and I want them to go back, NOW! I don't care if it's Saturday!!! They are bored, and that means they are being loud.

I'll try to get things updated as soon as I can, hopefully it won't take to long.

Later,
Blessed Be,
Dragonsong