What I Have Been Doing

Instead of knitting...

This past weekend I participated in my 6th 3 Day Breast Cancer Walk, my 4th as part of the All-Volunteer Crew. I lead a team of extraordinary women over a 4 day journey (can't forget Crew Training Day!) to help 1500 walkers raise over 4.3 Million Dollars for Susan G Komen for the Cure.

Here is my team from Pit Stop 2, every one of them a delight to work with!

I will be back knitting soon...

It's Growing

Very slowly...

I have about 7 1/2 inches of skirt done, need 13.... I think 10 or 11 might be enough.

What's Next?

I feel like I have been working on and blogging about the same 2 projects forever! I am trying to hold firm to my vow not to start anything new until I finish them, but I am getting antsy for new project ideas.

Anyone find a good pattern lately that they might like to do as a knit-a-long come August?

Round and Round and Round I Go

Making some progress on Charly's dress:


After a few failed attempts I got the skirt stitches picked up and now I am in seemingly endless rounds of Stockinette, 13 1/2 inches to be exact.

It is good for my other summer project, re-watching Lost from the beginning, as I can certainly work on this and watch TV at the same time, but it does get a little mind numbing at times.

I switch off and work on my Ivy Sock now and then to break up the monotony.

I am so tempted to start a new project for the novelty of it, but I am trying so hard to finish these 2 projects before embarking on anything new. That hasn't stopped me from looking at patterns though!

Skirt Stitches -- Picked Up!

Although I successfully picked up 132 stitches for the top of the Little Girl Dress, the 132 stitches for the skirt seemed to be causing me no end of difficulty.

Finally today I got them picked up and did the increase round (which was worded strangely -- and possibly wrong-- in the pattern).

So now it is smooth sailing in Stockinette for 13 inches before the finishing touches. Should make the birthday deadline with no problem!

Pictures soon!

Top is Done!

Here is the top of Charly's dress:



I am very happy with it so far. The 3 Needle Bind Off was easy and neat.

I picked up the 132 stitches for the skirt and did the increase row and wound up with waaaaay too many stitches. I was too tired to figure it out last night so I just pulled it out. Try again tonight!

Ivy Sock #2

In the wake of finishing the Waterfall Rib socks I cast on for Ivy Sock #2. Completing this pair will allow me to cross off my color work goal on my 2010 knitting goals list.


When I worked the color work band on this sock I did not do it the same way I did sock #1. On sock #1 I carried the MC for the 2 rows where only the CC was knit and it resulted in a very tight feel. I wound up snipping and weaving in the MC after the sock was finished and it looks messier on the inside than I would like.

So this time I dropped the MC for those rows where only the CC was knit and it feels and looks great! Now that the color work is done I hope this sock will fly by and I can block it out and see the results of my color work experiment.

Also, nearly done with the top of the Little Girl Dress for Charly!