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Off the Needles

Wheel house Button from the top C.C. Slight.
Wheel house Button from the top C.C. Slight.
Meet Flo the flirty llama from the top of the Andean Dreams Tea-cozy.
Meet Flo the flirty llama from the top of the Andean Dreams Tea-cozy.

It is the New Year and now halfway into January – what are your plans and or resolutions for 2016!  I have been asked this several times in the last week or so.  Here is my answer.  I would love to hear yours as well.

Like always I am knitting like crazy – it is what I do for fun, entertainment, and even for income!  By most definitions I am retired – everyday I do what I love – the classic definition of retirement!

And what is best is that I am allowed, nay, encouraged to share my love of knitting with any one who will listen – including you!!  LOL!  I am so happy that you keep on listening.

Tulip Fields Fore-ever!
Tulip Fields Fore-ever!

I have plans for 4 shawls;

  • Tulip Fields Fore-ever, I am hoping to have a KAL for it starting in mid-Februray – knitting is done, pattern writing has commenced, test knitting will start soon.
  • Cloisonné Shetland – a Shetland Lace Moebius – sample for a class and then a pattern for sale.  This one is knit in Kettle Tweed, by KnitOne CrochetToo.  The colour is called Cloisonné, a rich turquoise/green and gold kettle dyed colourway.  Like Tulip the knitting is done and the pattern writing will now commence.
  • Hello Dolly – a Crescent shawl edged with a mosaic butterfly pattern and embellished with butterflies – class sample and then a pattern for sale.  This one is now delayed a little.  I, umm, felt the need to create a new Cozy – Andean Dreams – sprang fully formed into my mind.
  • Rhiannon`s Wrap – a smaller version of Rhiannon`s Cloak, incorporating many of the patterns and elements of the first – with the 24K gold delicas and all the attitude of the original!  This one will be ready for a Summer KAL!  Starting this one this evening!

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Andean Dreams Tea-Cozy
Andean Dreams Tea-Cozy

I had no plans for a tea-cozy, but I have one fully knit none the less!  The cozy is called Andean Dreams and is topped by Flo, a very flirty llama!

C.C. Snugs Fingerless Mittens.
C.C. Snugs Fingerless Mittens.

I had been wanting to design a hat to go with the C.C. Snugs fingerless mitten pattern.

The designing is done and the test knit is done and the pattern is almost ready to go!

Samples are knit in Buffalo Wool Co Skies, natural and Extra Fine Merino 120, soft green.

Wheel house button under construction.
Wheel house button under construction.

What I really like about this pattern is the button finishing the crown – it is called a Wheelhouse Button and you can find the instructions on Kate Davies Blog.  I had so much fun making these buttons – but I do recommend a lid from a yogurt container for the form – the cardboard one started to fall apart before I finished the button!  The plastic lid worked great!

First mitten is well underway!
First mitten is well underway!

The MAE Retreat project is well underway and the pattern has even been started – and it is still over a month away!  We will be working on mittens.  Simple mittens for those who want them or lace mittens, lined in contrasting colours!  I am so excited.

I love years that start like this!  Touch wood that nothing will get “mucked” up.

I did knit a few Christmas projects as well – a couple of hats for family and some baby mittens.  I think that being a Grandmother is going to be a lot of fun!

I did knit one new hat for a pattern – Snowy Day Firs!  A quick chunky hat!  Perfect for next Christmas Giving!

Happy New Year and Happy Knitting

Lynette

 

 

Mum’s the Word!

Amazing light at Piper's Lagoon this morning.
Amazing light at Piper’s Lagoon this morning.
Love the details and contrast of dried grass and ocean.
Love the details and contrast of dried grass and ocean.

I don’t know about you but I have the post Christmas Blah’s.

Much higher resolution leads to much better details on the cropped distance shots.  Love this brown squirrel.
Much higher resolution leads to much better details on the cropped distance shots. Love this brown squirrel.

There are too many left-over baked sweets, too much chocolate and too much of everything good!  For example my lunch today is open faced cheese on bread – broiled in the oven – pretty innocuous right?  The problem being that the cheese choices included left-over brie and Shropshire Blue from the Christmas Cheese board.  The Shropshire has been judiciously mixed with the extra old cheddar, also left-over.

Cormorants at Neck Point.
Cormorants at Neck Point.
"Mums the Word!"  My new tea-cozy.
“Mums the Word!” My new tea-cozy.

To combat the blah’s I have finished a couple of projects – my new tea-cozy is doing double duty as a new Spring Class for Mad About Ewe and as a cozy for my new teapot – “Mum’s the Word!” and the fingerless mittens for a little princess.  That has helped – now I am looking for other projects to finish and/or start.  There is no shortage of choices.

  • 2 painting projects – shawls – more that half done
  • 1 circular shawl – just started – but oh so pretty
  • 3 sweaters half started
  • another tea-cozy
  • slippers to finish
Enigma - by Hayfield.  At least 15 years  in the stash!
Enigma – by Hayfield. At least 15 years in the stash!

Or a new option – As I was cruising my stash last weekend I “found” this gorgeous Mohair, about 1000 metre’s it will knit up very quickly into a wonderful sweater!  Right beside it was a couple of balls of another yarn – a silk/wool blend – and don’t they look great together!  That is the wonderful thing about stash – yarns in it have a tendency to match-up!  This might be the project of choice.

The princess's new mittens are finished.
The princess’s new mittens are finished.

I got a new camera and lens for Christmas – well Christmas, Birthday (also December) and earnings combined.

The Canon EOS 60D creates pictures with higher resolution and does Video’s!  Something that I have been wanting to add to my blog – video how-to’s – but first I have to learn how to use that feature of the camera.  And after a couple of tries it appears that I might be a little slow on the uptake!  Time for some more studying.

Part of the Camera kit was a new lens – the EFS 18 to 200 – not sure about it – seems heavier and slower than my old zoom.  But I have managed to take a few really good shots this last week. Again it is that learning curve.

We walked at Neck Point on Thursday and at Pipers this morning – the pictures are from both places.

Happy Viewing

Lynette