September Anniversary

September brought our 40th Wedding Anniversary this year.  Quite a milestone!  Being the crazy people that we are, we decided to celebrate by taking our entire family to the West Jordan Demolition Derby.  Crazy . . . huh?@!

We started with Pizza at the local hangout.  All of our kids and grandkids were there, along with my two sisters and their husbands.

We arrived at the Derby early and found our great seats.

As the night wore on, we became more and more involved in all of the craziness going on around us.  It was loud!  It was crazy!  It was fun, fun, fun!  I would highly recommend it for your next family outing.

Now on to knitting news . . .

She is finished.  My Cabled Cardi, by Norah Gaughan.  I basically only used Norah's cable design, as I used a Custom Fit Pattern to get the perfect fit.  I love Norah's knitting designs.  She designs cables like no one else.

I lengthened the sleeves from the original design too.  Short sleeved cardigans never work for me.  It is too hot in the summer for a full-blown sweater to be worn, and long sleeves are always my preference.

The bear-paw buttons were purchased at the Mountainman Rendezvous in Ft. Bridger, Wyoming.  We attend almost every year, and I'm always on the lookout for great buttons.

This is my next project, which is well underway.  It is Patty Lyons' Cabled Cardigan from the Early Fall Issue of Vogue Knitting Magazine.  I'm knitting with the suggested yarn:  Blue Sky Fibers, Woolstok Worsted in Dark Chocolate.  The pattern indicates it was written for the "advanced knitter".  As you can see in the picture above, I've had to photocopy all of the charts and paste them together on a separate sheet, complete with post-it notes to keep me focused on the correct knitting line.  I must stay continually focused as I am knitting, to prevent mistakes.

I like to read when I knit, but on this one, I can only read when knitting on the wrong side, where you knit the knits and purl the purls from the previous row.  So far it is moving along great, no need to rip back . . . YET.

Yarn has been purchased for Christmas knitting projects, so I'm hoping I can work them in between portions of this sweater.  I'm afraid if I set it aside, I'll never figure out where I am when I return to it.

If you haven't already . . . become a FOLLOWER of this blog.  I have some fun knitted giveaways coming in the next few months.  Thanks for taking the time to see what I have been doing.  Happy Knitting.

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.