knot another hat

Go Beavs!!!!!

Today is the Civil War, where the Beavers take on the Ducks in Corvallis. If we win, the Beavers are headed to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena for the first time in many, many years. This will be my fourth game to attend this year, and at each game I've had a new hand knit (or crocheted) Beaver item to wear, so to keep the lucky streak alive I'm furiously working on a pair of socks knit out of some very special Beaver yarn.

I'll give you a shot of me, Jason, Shea, and Annie at the last home game versus Cal, where we all had our hand-knit Beaver gear on (Annie made her and Shea's hats out of Nashua Creative Focus Worsted). I'm wearing my Beav-a-lac scarf, which I was still knitting and sewing in ends on as we drove to Corvallis.

• Pattern: Entrelac Scarf
• Yarn: Cascade Cash Vero, 2 balls in #6 Orange and 2 balls in #2 Black

• Needles: US9 (5.5mm)

Go Beavers!

another overdue FO

Lately I've been feeling like I have a burden of UFOs hanging over my head, and it's been weighing down my knitting psyche. I'm not casting on new stuff (mostly) because I have so many things to finish (those shrugs for the girls were some of those things), yet I'm not working on the old stuff either, so I just end up doing nothing! Well, no more! I finally cleaned up a little of the mess by finishing this:

• Pattern: Greenwich by dolce handknits, size 37"
• Yarn: Nashua Handknits Creative Focus Worsted (4 balls in 0063, denim heather) held together with Nashua Handknits Brushed Alpaca (4 balls in 0726 denim)
• Needles: US 11 (8,0mm)
• Button: Annie Adams X-Large Twig Button
• Ravelry Project Page

I modified this by lopping off six inches in length (the long coat style is NOT flattering on me).

This would have been a ridiculously quick knit if I hadn't set it down for two months somewhere around the 2nd sleeve. Oh - another modification: since the sleeves have no shaping and are drop shoulder style, I picked them up from the armhole and knit down in the round. No sense doing all that purling and sewing - ick.

But, now it's done and I'm on to picking up other forgotten UFOs - namely, my GAAAAAAAAA Afghan. I'm almost caught up! More on that later . . .

How are you all doing with your holiday knitting? I actually don't know if I'm going to DO any holiday knitting this year! I know - how crazy is that!?!?! We'll see if the mood strikes now that Thanksgiving is upon us...

shrugs for the gals

After my enjoyable experience knitting with Cascade 220 Superwash in my last project, I decided that I needed to make a couple of somethings for my girls out of the 220 Superwash Handpaints we just got in the store. Since I also really enjoyed working the top-down pattern from KPS, also in the last project, I chose to do their Little Girls Shrug pattern.

• Pattern: Little Girls Shrug #288 by Knitting Pure & Simple
• Yarn: for Mallory, 220 Superwash Paints in Spring Meadow, #9862 and 220 SW in Como Blue, #811; for Campbell 220 SW Paints in Grape, #9871 and 220 SW in Magenta, #887
• Needles: 4,5mm (US7) and 3,75 (US5) circulars
• Buttons: the Button Emporium and Ribbonry in Portland, OR
• Ravelry Project Pages: Campbell and Mallory

Mallory's little shrug looks so unbelievably small that I wasn't sure it would fit her, but it does. She's a wee peanut anyway, so I shouldn't be surprised.

Nichole found these amazing buttons at the Button Emporium in PDX (our favorite button place!!) at the same time she found the cute pewter skull buttons for Skully.

These little projects flew off the needles in such a hurry, I've been kind of stymied as to what to knit next!

Time to Spill the Beans!

Hi Everyone!

So it's time for me to spill the beans! Part of the reason I've had no time to post (or knit, for that matter) is because I've been busy working on this:

Nichole and I have teamed up to form a new business: Purlaway, Inc. Together we are going to offer luxury knitting retreats - true getaways to relax, enjoy amazing food, and best of all, to knit!

Our first offering???

A weekend with Terri Shea, author of Selbuvotter! And where, you might ask, have we chosen to host this amazing weekend?

How does the foothills of Mt. Hood, Oregon look? 

OK - enough from me. Check out our website for the full scoop - and don't miss the Early Bird registration discounts!

(We will now return to our regularly scheduled knitting content!)