Early Fall 2018

Summer is gone, and Fall has begun.  You can smell it in the air and it's time to move forward into the cooler season.  I love Fall, even though it always makes me a year older, with an October birthday and all.  This year is especially difficult, as I hit one of those milestone birthdays, I thought would never come.

Here I am, holding $500,000.00 in my hands.  This gold bar belongs to the Kennecott Copper Mine.  It was really heavy, but fun to see and hold.  You can't see it from this picture, but we are standing in the bed of a huge, mining haul truck, which was about the same size as a 7-11 store.

My Cabled Cardi, by Norah Gaughan is nearing completion.  Knit of Rohrspatz & Wollemeise in the color "RH Negative O".

The sleeves are on the blocking board, and just need to be set into the body.  Then it will be ready for wearing, just in time for cooler weather.

The Early Fall Edition of Vogue Knitting Magazine, brought my next project.  Cabled Cardigan, by Patty Lyons.  I agonized over the yarn and the color . . .

These pictures were my inspiration for choosing a color.  I just love the look of chocolate brown, paired with denim.  I decided on using the suggest yarn, which was Blue Sky Fibers - Woolstok Worsted, in the color Dark Chocolate.

The pattern indicated that it was for advanced knitters, and they weren't kidding.  There are 7 separate cable charts, so I had to photocopy, cut and tape the first set all on the same page, to prevent the need to turn pages with every stitch, to make sure I was twisting the cables properly.  This has really helped speed things up, and it is saving my eyes as well.

I also needed to learn the "Channel Island Cast On".  Thanks to U-Tube, I was able to create this pickot edge.  I'm happy with the what I've accomplished so far, and would you believe there hasn't been any ripping out.  I better not say that too loud, as you know what happens when you do.

A recent reunion of my Knit Night group was so fun.  It was so fun to see everyone again, and to see what beautiful things everyone has been knitting.  They are all such an inspiration.

Anyway, I better get back to knitting, as Christmas gift knitting is starting to nag at me.  Happy Knitting.