World Series

So I have not been blogging much.  I've been knitting, crocheting, binding quilts and watching baseball.  I am so very excited that the Texas Rangers are going to the World Series for the first time.  People of Texas are so pumped up.  If I have to hear "how 'bout them Rangers..."  But I am just as happy as they are, I'd just like to find something more interesting to say.  I can't think of anything because, as you've noticed by now, I am not very witty.  Not like the Yarn Harlot who amazes me with her high intellect and wry wit.  She makes me hoot with laughter.  So I guess I'll just say, "How 'bout them Rangers?!!!" So Wednesday night it begins.  SF Baseball Giants and the Texas Rangers.  It will be a great series. 


So tonight I'll start another quilt binding.  My schedule demands that I finish more stuff since Christmas is only 61 days ahead of me.  I will need to bind niece number 2's quilt, complete the back of DH's sweater, get to 100 rows on the garter prayer shawl and complete the gussets on my dad's socks.  So far, I have gotten bunches done!


The Capelet (2nd time) is complete, although this is not a very good picture.  I think it looks better on someone.  One of my co-workers tried it on for me and it looked great on her.  So hopefully it will look great on my sister!

I also completed my oldest nieces quilt.  here's a couple shots of that one:

The pattern is from Keepsake Quilting, called Hokey-Pokey.  Weird name.  But cute and easy to make.  I really like the bali batiks in this.  My niece wanted pink and green but I thought, well she is grown up now, nearly 20 so maybe pink and green in a more mature fashion. 

So I am trying to keep my ADD in check and stick to the current list of items to finish but my mind wanders to the next and the next and the next projects.  Tonight, binding, tomorrow night, sock gussets, wednesday is BASEBALL!!! shh, I didn't mean to yell that, so I'll work on the sweater back, if possible.  Thursday will probably be baseball and quilt binding.  We'll see how it goes.  I find that with baseball, there's the pitch, I look, knit, knit, play on the field, knit, knit, knit, next batter...etc., so it goes.  I know that it works with quilt binding.

So what are you making?  let me know.

Capelet 'N Baseball

I finished the capelet and I really don't like it.  So I'm starting it over again.  I am going with smaller hook and yarn.  I do like it better so far.  I am going to re-write the directions for the changes I'm making which really aren't significant.  I'll post them with the finished item here when I'm done.  Here is where I am so far:

I'm using Bernat Bamboo Natural with a "J" hook.  I like this better so far.  I think the Homespun was too bulky for this capelet. I can wear it but I think my sister would be lost in it.

Please see this one progress at:
http://www.ravelry.com/projects/LKWaite/revised-capelet


Also I am changing the shawl again.  I am going to use Homespun (Lion Brand) in Quartz and make another triangle, garter stitch shawl.  Its only got 22 rows on it so its too small to post yet.  The super chunky I was using is pretty and the shawl is really warm but not really what I had in mind.  I will finish it and give it to mom another day.


So, JOY, Rangers beat Rays in the series and are advancing.  My DH and I jumped up and down in our living room when they won.  I am so excited to have a team in the playoffs again!!!

I think I'm finally over the Yarn-Over trauma. That was really depressing.  As I progress with the socks I find I do not notice the YO as much.  I didn't get the additional inch on the legs of the socks this weekend as planned.  I did get the four quilts for my nieces squared and I helped my mom tie a quilt for my cousin (its so cute and funny, its an arrangement of traditional quilt blocks with University of Georgia fabric mixed in) .  I also, made DH's sweater look like something (about 20 rows now).  I worked on it a bit while the Rangers played Tuesday night.  Its easier to watch baseball and knit than any other sport, except maybe NASCAR, maybe that's cause I don't really watch NASCAR, lol.

So I guess the plan for my birthday weekend is to:

Get that extra inch on the Socks (624 st)
Get the Garter Shawl to 40 rows (589 st)
Complete the newest version of the crochet capelet
Get another 20 rows on the sweater (2000 st)
Attach the binding to the 4 quilts
Make sandwiches and fruit cups for the homeless shelter.

Here's a thought, I could turn that prayer shawl into a sweater...hmmmm.  that would be really snuggly and warm.  Its made of 3-stitch offset garter stitches.  And its already 15 inches long....maybe DH gets that one instead.  Its been prayed with alot so it couldn't hurt.

Northern Lights

It has been a few days since I've written in my blog.  I have been knitting and crocheting every moment I'm not at work.  I am concentrating on the last 4 things that must be done for Christmas. 

Here they are:
M's Shawl ( I started this one twice):

T's short jacket (yes, yes, re-started 4 times):

H's sweater (this is revised, first one was too, um, not manly):

Dad's Socks (YO, what else do I gotta say):

So, of course I am always over-doing, I have the next 4 projects queued up and ready to go.  So this weekend I need to have the socks ready for the heal, the shawls needs to be at 15" (which is a quarter of the length it needs to be finished), the short jacket needs to be complete or substantially so, and lastly, the sweater needs to look like something. 

So why Northern Lights?  Kevin Hearn and BnL.  Maybe next we'll listen to Havana Winter. If you're out there, winter is coming, well, not in Texas but seasonally speaking, so find something fun to knit and then, please tell me about.