Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Tripley Good and Some New Yarn Too

1) Knitty Thermal - Isn't it amazing how this has grown over the past couple of weeks? Up until Monday, this was my *bring to work* knitting. As you can see here, I am about 50% done. I am working on the back of Thermal where I will put one set of shoulder stitches on a holder, shape the neck and then work the other shoulder. I am quite pleased how quickly it is knitting up, especially with ALL those stitches. I promise. I won't do the math on how many stitches I have done anymore. Don't want to scare anyone away from knitting this sweater. I will be knitting this again for sure.

2) Peapod Baby Set - No this has not been forgotten. Last Thursday night into Friday, I started and finished these sleeves. I need to seam the shoulders together and pick up the stitches for the collar. After that, it will be seaming the sleeves and attaching them to the body. I have further comments on this project, but I will reserve them for a future post. What? I can't share everything at once. Gotta keep some stuff for the future.

3) Jay Socks - Yup I casted on for another pair of socks Monday while at work. I guess finishing my last pair almost 3 weeks ago was enough time to get some sock mojo back. I actually couldn't wait to start knitting with this Jitterbug yarn, but I was having a hard time deciding what pattern I wanted to do. Well, as you can see, I am just doing a basic stockinette toe-up sock pattern. I feel this is all the beautiful yarn needs. Now I am thinking a sweater in a matching color?

And guess what? I am blog contest winner! When I commented on Kim's blog the other day for her almost 1,000th Comment Contest. I honestly did not think I would win. I mean at least 6 people commented before me and I was just thrilled with the idea of her blog hitting that monumental comment number! I met up with Kim today for lunch and she bestowed upon me a prize of this beautiful, and super soft, sock yarn from Sundara Yarn. The color is French Navy over Topaz. Isn't it yummy?

4 comments:

  1. Oooo, yum yum! I knew about your winning Sundara before you did & I kept it secret for the reveal. It is a very awesome color & congrats on your win. We can now both knit socks from Kim & make her proud. Thermal is looking good. Nice to know it's a qick knit so far...even with the OBSCENE # of stitches thus knitted. I can now officially begin mine & still only have 3 projects on my needles. I plan on starting socks with my Fleece Artist winnings to round out the 4 allowable projects.

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  2. It's too bad Collinette doesn't make a worsted weight to match some of their sock yarn colors. A Jay sweater would be gorgeous. Hey, it just occurred to me that now both Klumpp sisters won sock yarn from me! Cool!

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  3. Nice yarn, Love the sweater colors. looks good

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  4. Your WIPs look great, you are being quite productive.

    Congrats on being the 1000th comment at Kim's blog. Hurrah for pretty prize yarn. :D

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