Knitting with wire and February Baby Sweaters

I finished a couple of baby sweater for friends. I've always wanted to try the February Baby Sweater and these are girl babies so perfect timing.

Finished this pretty quick. Used a US 7 needle so it was very fast.


Next one I decided to try it with these two balls of (about 300 yards) cotton yarn. I haven't not knitted with cotton yet so it was quite exciting:


The second pink one was using US 5 but since I had more yarn I was able to make the sleeves longer. You can compare them side by side:


I was able to try something new at the guild meeting and knitted with wires! Mary was so nice to get the supplies for us and this is what I did:

Isn't it pretty?

Latvian Mitten advanture

My friend Lori and I took a Latvian Mitten class with Beth Brown-Reinsel this week and it was so much fun!

Here's Lori with the beautiful view we had.


Now I expected the class to be good because I've taken class with this teacher. But last time it was in some conference room and this time it was at this nice cute little yacht club with the view of the Tamales bay in the Marin county. That was a nice treat.

Here's Lori knitting with three color for the first time!


We had some cake and cookie for dessert. Look a the cute sheep cookie classmate Lorin made:


This is what our table did at the end of the day with the sample mitten from Beth:


Beth took a picture with Lori and me:

classmate Jessica who took the picture uttered "say Latvian mitten" to elicit those big smiles.

I did a little stranded work project as practice to prepare for the class:


Here's a view from the top:


I saw this commercial toddler dress with such nice color combination and asked if I could take a picture for inspiration:


Lately been working on gift knitting...

Finished Anemoi

Finished the Anemoi mitts. love it!


Can't wait to get my hands on this cover pattern and make it!

obsessed with stranded knitting

I should be knitting babies sweaters because there are so many babies due but I am totally obsessed with stranded knitting right now:

Finished just in time!

Finished the shawl in time for this weekend. Even a little earlier so I can bring it to show at the knitting meetup tonight. Really pushed hard to get the edging done. Gosh, the edging just went on and on. I knew it was gonna be long. I prepared myself for it. But it was still long. Imagine if I didn't prepare myself for it!

Ta-dah:

Here's my attempt at an artsy shot. Don't think it's that good.

Here's a closeup:


Here's probably how I'll be wearing it:


Probably work on an UFO before starting something new?

I've been obsessed

I've been obsessed with the color knitting. Partly because I am afraid I might forget the skills I learned in the beth brown Reinsel class and partly because I just love the way they look. So with a small fair isle project as a dangling carrot, I finished the main part of shawl before casting on.



Originally I used two koigu yarn; yellow and a slightly variegated purple. But the variegation on the purple was too much that the pattern was not showing up well. It had a slight yellow the variegated purple too so that make it worse.

Then I went over to an yarn store that opens really late, I mean a friend (that was kind enough to let me come over late)'s house to see if she has another purple yarn that I can use late monday night. The yarn weight was slightly different and was not showing up well as the constrast color. So sticking to the same pattern I switched the CC as the dominant color and thought it worked out better. When I turned it around, you can totally see where the dominance changed. I thought that was interesting:



I am thinking of switching the Purple to MC and Yellow to CC for the second mitt to make them complimentary. What do you think?

Now I need to go back to pick up and knit the border for the shawl.

Finally got motivated to knit

The hot weather has not help with knitting but having deadlines seems to helped a bit.

My brother's baby is due in 10 days so technically baby can come anytime. Here's a little sweater I made for him. Still need to find buttons. Please let me know if you know where I can score some cute pineapple buttons. My SIL likes pineapples.



You can look at the back too:


Thanks to many people's opinion help I cast on for the shawl I like to use for my brother-in-law's wedding next month. Here you see it against the dress after a bit's been knitted up.



Do you still think they go well together?