FINISHED

I finally finished my Plliver top!!!!!

Can you tell we are very excited! hee hee

 

Tiny had a fever on Tuesday and Brady had a 103.3 fever yesterday. So I've had a lot of couch time with them this week. They are feeling better, but still have a cough. We had a fun photo shoot this morning. Tiny took the picture using my remote shutter and Brady was excited to get in the picture with me. They always enjoy a good photo shoot.

 

 

We have rain in the forecast for a few more days. Once it clears up I hope to get some better pictures, but this did make for some fun this morning.

 

Raverly notes here.

 



Yarn Along~ Shetland Triangle & a Top

I finished up my Shetland Triangle. I knitted it with a the KAL "Girls in Sheep Clothing.... and a few guys too."  This is such a simple pattern with great results.  The same patterns repeat over and over so it is very easy to keep the pattern in your head.  Also you get a row of purling on the wrong side. You have to love to have a break from knitting lace on the wrong side!

The colors of the shawl in the pictures of me wearing it are truer.  You can make this shawl as large as you want. The pattern is flexible and lets you knit as many repeats as you want. I made 17 repeats of the chart so my shawl would be able to wrap around me and by extra comfy.

 

 I am really happy with the Cascade Heritage yarn I used for this shawl. It knitted up very nice and was so soft.

 

I am also still working on my Plliver top. This top pattern is much more intense from the Shetland Triangle.  It is a beaded lace stitch and is a lot of knitting and doesn't look like much progress.

 

I am just starting to notice funky colors happening in the front of it. They aren't shown here. I knitted more after I took these pictures and there are chunks of color. Ugg. I should have be alternating my yarn, but I'm going to stick with it and maybe it will have a zebra effect in the end.  We'll see.

 

Either way I am going to keep chugging away at it. I ended up knitting a small hat yesterday because I needed an instant gratification knit. I think I need to add a few more small projects to my plate.

 

Joining with Ginny's Yarn Along

Yarn Along

I won some Sweet yarn! It is Silk Cashmere Aran hand dyed in Beautiful British Columbia from Sweet Fiber.  It is so soft I wish you could touch it.

You know it is some very impressive yarn when Harley Weimeraner has to come over to check it out.  Even a dog knows it is some awesome yarn.

I set a side my Plivver top to finish up another project. I can't wait to have this top done, but it is going to take a long time to make. No plain knitting on this project. Hopefully it will be ready in the Fall.

I am working as fast as I can to finish up my Shetland Triangle Shawl. I am doing it was a KAL and just about everyone has finished. I started late and I am finding it really hard to dedicate too much time to knitting these days. We've been out enjoying the warm weather and longer days. Not to mention those adorable baby alpacas Swag & Mr. Bates.  But this is such a nice knit to come home to and knit one repeat of the chart and go to bed.

I have also been processing some fiber. I want to have it done before Blue (my alpaca) gets sheared. so I can work on his as soon as it comes off him.

So that is what I have been working on.  Hopefully I'll have some FOs next week.

 

Joining with Ginny's Yarn Along