I need ideas

I have found myself, yet again, dreaming of opening up my very own LYS. This is something I have been dreaming about doing for about a year now. Realistically, I wont start doing this until my youngest is in school full time, so I've got a few more years of planning and dreaming ahead of me. But, in the meantime, I'm having a blast researching (yes, I'm a geek) and planning. So, my fellow yarn addicts, what do you love the most about your LYS? What would you love to see in a LYS? What is your dream knitting environment? Any ideas for a store name? Come on, I need INPUT people!...lmao

Hannah's Hat

I wanted a quick project to do this past weekend, and I need to knit winter hats for each of the kids, so I knit up this hat for Hannah. It's a basic hat. The yarn I used is Knitpicks Wool of the Andes. The main purple color is Violet, and I used the Asparagus and Rain scraps from my moms booga, with some snickerdoodle, for the stripes.

Finished Booga

The Pic is a little dark, but here's the finished Booga Bag I made for my Mom. It's going to be her Birthday present. I'm really happy with how it turned out.

Last night I started a pair of socks for myself. I'm using a basic sock pattern and some Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sport yarn in Bucks Bar. I am absolutely in love with this yarn. It is so soft and the colors are really beautiful.

Waiting to dry

I know I promised this one would be done a while ago, but I kept putting it off. Then I said 'fuck it' and waited to felt it until my moms booga was ready to be felted So I could do both at the same time.

The Sophie Bag for my sister, Dawn, Is FINISHED! Well, almost, it's still wet. It usually takes 2-3 days of hanging around for my felted bags to dry completely. I will be giving this bag to Dawn for her Christmas present.

Below is a pic of the Booga I made for my mom. It too is drying. This was an experement in making the booga larger. The pattern calls for CO 34 and K34 rows, and the sides are done in the round for 64 rows. I just picked a 'magic number', 20, and did a CO 54, K54 rows and the sides were 84 rows. I think it's a great size. Now I need to wait for it to dry so I can put the strap on it.

One Sock down...several to go

I finished one of the socks in the pair I'm making for my mom's Christmas present. I love this sock. I want to keep it for myself, so It's a good thing my mom's feet are bigger than mine & the sock is too big for me.

As far as socks go, I have the other one of this pair to knit, I need to finish the pair for my friend Sarah, I need to finish the blue baby socks, I want to knit a pair of socks for my niece's Justice, Laney & Morgan, and I also want to knit pairs of socks for Dh and I.

Booga for my Mom

The knitting for the bag part of the Booga I'm making for my mom is finished. All that's left is to knit the I-cord for the strap and felt them. My mom loved the booga I made for myself, but wanted one bigger. Un-felted, it almost completely covers the top of the 18 gal storage tub I keep my yarn stash in. My almost 6 year old ds can sit down inside it and have just his head poking out of the top. I can't wait to see this felted.

So Many Projects, So Little Time (and yarn & money)

I need to disconnect my internet connection or something. Whenever I get bored, I look through free patterns. I keep seeing so many beautiful things, and I NEED, I mean really NEED, to make them. OnTheEdge on Sybermoms posted this link, I MUST make this dress for my dd. Then, I looked and Alisage on Sybermoms posted that the Fall Knitty was up. I need to make the Arisaig & the Josephine. Not to mention all of the beautiful things in the archives section I want to make. I found Sock Bug this morning while looking for some more sock patterns. I AM IN LOVE.


I need to get a job to support my habbit.

Current Projects

This is the yarn for the Booga bag I'm knitting for my mom. I am trying to finish it quickly so it can be her Birthday Present. The Yarn is Knitpicks wool of the andes in Asparagus, mulled wine, rain, hush, and at the bottom is mist.

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This is a Sock I'm making for my mom. The pair will be her Christmas present. The yarn is Knitpicks Simple Stripes yarn in Vineyard.

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This is the begining of a baby sock. Using the North Country Cotton baby sock pattern and Sugar & Cream cotton yarn.

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Yep, another sock. My friend Sarah loved the blue ones I made (see my 'adventures in sock making' post), so I'm making her a pair in orange.

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This is a baby blanket I'm making using the baby fern stitch dishcloth pattern from The Dishcloth Boutique. I am using Carron Simply soft yarn and I think the color is dusty rose or antique rose or something like that. I can't find the label right now, actually, I just don't want to look for it.

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Another dishcloth. This one is the DW Cloth pattern from Knitting Knonsense, using Sugar & Cream cotton yarn. Most of these dishcloths I've made, I will tie in rolls with a nice ribbon, and put them in a basket for a Christmas present for my Aunt Jan.

Yarn, Yarn and More Yarn

<- And here is my KnitPicks order. The Mist, Mulled Wine, Rain, Hush and Asparagus colors of the Wool of the Andes are going to be a Booga Bag for my Mom's Birthday(maybe Christmas....can't decide yet) Present.

The picture below is of my yarn stash before adding my most recent KnitPicks order. That is an 18 gallon plastic storage tub.

Another Sophie Bag

Both of my sisters are recieving Sophie Bags for Chiristmas this year. This one is for Dawn. I used Knitpicks Wool of the Andes in Cranberry & using a small amount of Mist on the handle. Here is Dawn's Sophie before Felting. I will felt it sometime this week. Don't worry, I will remember to post pictures when the Sophie is finished drying.

Socks

Like I posted before, I am knitting a pair of socks for me. I got stuck in the between sock slump with my socks, but I really wanted to keep knitting socks. So, I found a simple pattern for baby socks and knitted them. The pair took only a day. The pattern is North Country Cotton Baby Socks. I didn't have either size 5 or 6 dpn's, so I decided to see how big the socks would be using my size 7 dpn's. It's not too big, they'll easily fit a 12 month old. I used Lily Sugar & Cream Cotton in Spring Swirl.

More Dishcloths

Dishcloths, dishcloths and more dishcloths. I've knitted more since my other dishcloth post, and I even got Dh to knit some. From Knitting Knonsense , he knitted the DW cloth and the Dolly the Dolphin cloth. (neither is pictured) I have knitted the 'grandmothers Favorite' dishcloth you can find on several sites, plus I completed the Double Diamond Cloth from the Dishcloth Boutique, which is pictured below. I love it!

oh, crap.

Hello. My name is Jackie, and I am a yarn-a-holic. I had a few dollars to spend on yarn, so I decided to browse the yarns on Knitpicks. I think I *may* have overdone it. I went there thinking I would buy the yarn to knit a booga for my mom. But before I knew it, I was submitting a $40 order. I got 14 Different colors of the Wool of the Andes, 2 balls of the Simple Stripes sock yarn, and a set of size 3 bamboo dpn's. I had the best of intentions, and I swear at least 90% of it will be used for Christmas presents. I promise.......lol.

Dishcloths

Dishcloths. Simple and quick to knit up. This is what I've been doing this past week to keep my hands busy while watching TV with DH.

All of these dishcloths are patterns found on The Dishcloth Boutique.

The bottom left one with the green, purple, tan, and white colors was made using the King Charles Brocade pattern on pg. 4. The Bottom right one with the multiple blues, is the Alex's Cloth pattern on pg. 3. The top left one that is solid blue, is the Baby Fern Stitch pattern on pg. 3. And, the one in progress (the cream color) is the Double Diamond pattern found on pg 1. This one is turning out to be my favorite so far.

The multi-colored ones didn't photograph very well, I couldn't get even a semi-decent pic of the King Charles Brocade one, but I got an okay pic of the Alex's Cloth, below.

Booga Bag

This is my booga bag. I used Knitpicks Wool of the Andes yarn in Mulled Wine and Mist. It was such a quick knit and it felted up beautifully. However, I now have a serious addiction, but at least this new addiction complements my old yarn addiction. This new addiction is knitting & felting bags/purses. They just knit up so quickly and easily, and are so pretty once felted. I'm in love.

Adventures in sock making

I have decided to try my hand at knitting socks. It's going okay so far. this is a toe-up sock pattern I found on Knitty.com. I'm using the LouLou comfort sock pattern listed in Knitty's special Breast Cancer Awareness issue(found listed under the archives section, it's a pdf) . the pattern calls for Lorna's laces angel yarn, but I wanted to see how it would knit up using something already in my stash. I decided to use Lion Brands Micro spun yarn. So far, so good.

Sophie bag

This is a Sophie bag . It's going to be a Christmas Present for my sister, Jammie (yes, I spelled her name right). I used KnitPicks' Wool of the Andes yarn. The blue is Stream, and the grey is Mist. This bag was a really quick knit. It only took 2 days, and that's with me chasing 3 kids around.

Birthday presents

I've been busy since posting last. I had to get my ass in gear and make birthday presents for 2 of my nieces, Laney and Justice.

On the right is Justice's poncho, almost done. All that was left to finish was sewing the 2 rectangles togather.








This one is Laney's sweater. All the knitting finished, just needing the buttons sewn on. I picked some round, lavendar and pale green shell buttons that match the colors of the yarn perfectly.

misc projects....

I wasn't happy with how the poncho for Justice's birthday present was knitting up, so I frogged it and started over with a bulky weight yarn and size 13 circs. I am loving how it's comming along. Here's a pic of what I have so far. I'm knitting 2 rectangles and sewing them togather when done to make the poncho. I'm thinking of adding a hood to it but I'm not sure if I want to do that, yet.

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This started out to be a seat belt snuggle, but halfway through knitting it I figured it would be put to better use as a steering wheel cozy, so I don't burn my hands.

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This is a head kerchief I knitted. I'm not one to wear these often (I do have a purple one I made that I do wear occasionally), so I'll give it to Justice.

My Shawl is Finished!

Finally....my shawl. It is a crochet pattern that I came up with after I got tired of looking for a simple, crocheted shawl pattern that I like. It's so simple that there are only 2 stitches used, a ch and sl st. The yarn I used is TLC Amore in Plum, and I used a size J (6.00mm) crochet hook.