Yarn, Little Socks, Mitts... I'm tired!

I've been a pretty busy knitter the past week or so. I've started and finished a pair of mitts for Alexa (9), socks for Dylan (2), a shawlette for myself. I'm feeling pretty good about what I've gotten done. I'm still working very slowly right now on my Imobulus Pixie Socks. I'm trying to get them finished by the weekend. Also I started a pair of mitts, I knit on them Saturday night at the movies. DH took me to see Red, it had been recommended by a few friends and I have to say I thought it was really good. I laughed once so hard I snorted (loudly!) and that very rarely happens. So if your looking for something to see I would recommended it.

Dylan has bee sick since yesterday morning. Throwing up about every hour. Poor thing. I'm so tired I feel like I need to keep moving so I don't fall asleep. I love my DH to death but he is NO help when our kids are sick at night at all. He sleeps like the dead. So I'm the one up with them all night. A good nap might be in order soon.

Anyway, here are the picures of my FO.  And a picture of the yarn that I overdyed on Friday.
Dylan's Socks

Alexa's Rainbow Brite Mitts

"Its Too Green" Yarn


I need to get pictures of my Shwlette and the Roving I'm working on spinning up soon.


It would probably be best I get out of this chair before I fall a sleep!


Happy knitting!!
~Amber

Ta Da!

Two posts in one day? Look out for flying pigs!
Its a rainy cloudy day here and I just don't feel like doing the things I should be (laundry). So I took a few pictures of my newly dyed yarn. Like I said before one went pretty well I think and the other bombed bad! So I decided to go with the crock pot method to dye this up. I think it worked really well. Now I probably should have waited to do the first one because my two year old and four year old thought that it would be a good idea to dump half of my green lemon-lime packets on the floor! Grrrr. But I decided to give it a go anyway... this is what it looked like in the crock pot.

and then finished still hung up from drying

So kind of a disappointment there.... but I plan on buying more lemon-lime tomorrow and over dying it. Check back for the results. 

The second one was much more of a success. My DD Alexa had just gotten home from school and helped me on this one... she maybe the key in successful dying. We used Pink Lemonade, Strawberry and Black cherry on this one, four packets of each.
Here it is in the pot not a great picture, it was starting to get dark already. Have I mentioned I loath time change? Well I do.

And the finished skein... Alexa named this Vampire ;)


I think I'm going to knit up a Damson with this.

I have some more base dye coming in the next few days and some acid dye that I can't wait to play with! I'm also trying go get my DH to get me a spinning wheel for Christmas. Like we don't already have yarn and fiber coming out of or ears! I'll have to teach the boys to knit to keep up with all of it.

Now back to my regularly scheduled laundry!
~Am

Busy Kniting!

Once again I'm hiding in my yarn and a bit ashamed how long its taken me to write another update. Last time I promised I'd be back the next day to update and show off my latest projects. Better late than never though, right?  Right now I have a pair of socks and a shawlette on the needles both using gorgeous Sunshine Yarns Harry Potter colorways gearing up for the movie next week. I can't begin to tell you how excited everyone in our house is about seeing the new movie soon! Here are my Cornish Pixie socks, using a pattern from Cookie A's new book Knit.Sock.Love.  The picure shows just the cuff and first bit of the leg of the first sock. I'm hoping to get these done by the end of the weekend.


I'm also working on a shawl using Sunshine Yarns Deathly Hallows colorway. I don't have a picture of the shawl yet but here is a picture of the lovely skein of yarn.
I'm going to get this one finished today. So hopefully there will be pictures of the finished project very soon!

I've got a pair of fingerless mitts for Alexa fresh of the needles, pic coming of those soon.
Last month I knit a pair of Vilai Cookie A socks. I call them my Vi socks not just because of the pattern name but because they remind me of my Granny who's nickname is Vi. Made using Sunshine Yarns Wild Rose.


Alexa also talked me into a pair of socks. These were super quick. I might should have made them just a bit bigger for her ever growing feet but that though didn't enter my mind until much to late. These are done in Sunshine Yarns Cherry Blossom.


Yesterday I Kool Aid dyed my first yarn. One was a success and the other not so much, but that's okay it just means I get to try overdying! Pics to come of that soon also! 

Well, that's about it for now. I'll try to be good and come update again soon! ;)
~Am