American Today

Hello all !
I do hope you who are reading this are finding yourselves quite perky and happy in life.
I myself am working now on three sweaters !!
This first little beauty i showed you just last week, it is a Veera child's sweater. I have stuffed up the neck cuff, but we won't talk about that just now. Birthday Boy has chosen silky green stripes. I can't wait to get to the stripes. I love stripes.

Just cast on this week is a  garter stitch sweater for my self.  I bought a case {can i say a case?} of this yarn over a year ago, so it feels nice to give it purpose now. The dk weight yarn and I are really getting along. It is going fast. I do like fast sweaters. The lanolin was left in this yarn also, making it very nice to knit with. Soft and silky, no splits, coiled and springy. It reminds me of Colinette Jitterbug.

Now for my favorite special sweater.
Veera's got several new sweater patterns coming out in the new few weeks, so get your wool stashes organized. This cabled up cardigan makes me so happy. Knit in a sturdy worsted Madelinetosh Vintage. This yarn is amazing. Just as it's name implies, the soft feel and colour is very 'worn' yet rugged. The sturdy yet gentle twist of the yarn gives great stitch definition and is perfect for cabled cardigans. Oh Madelinetosh !
And now.... a stash update this week !! 
{ I buy all of my yarn online, there are no craft shops within a plane flight of where i live.}

If you click on the yarn pictures, the name should pop up. Or maybe not?

Anyway, some Madelinetosh sock ( which i've never used )

and some more MadTosh Vintage in thunderstorm -

which looks to die for and i'm going to make this

and some gorgeous Wollmeise which does

not yet have a purpose

but believe me

it

will.

And guess where I'm going today?

To Broome, to take my Australian Citizenship Test !!!

If I should pass , I'll carry a dual citizenship.

American today, maybe American/Australian tomorrow !

Yarning Along

Hello there yarn along people , and everyone else of course.
 I do love Wednesdays,,,, well, its actually nearly Thursday  here in the Southern Hemisphere. But anyway.......

Because I finished my Cria ( previous post ) , I got to cast on a new sweater, yah! This one has been in my eyes view for awhile, I am loving it. It's going to be a stripey sweater for the March birthday boy. This yarn is irrestable. ( Rav notes here ).

I told you that I checked out Jane Austen's Persuasion a few weeks ago to compliment my Jane Austen's Knits project. Cheryl mentioned it was her favourite, as well as some of the writers in the knitting magazine. My librarian chic mentioned to me, that if I did not like it now, I would one day.
After reading the first chapter twice, I can summarize the following :: a well off gentlemen has lost his wife and is raising his three daughters in an English society. Two of them, Mary and Anne, are vaguely mentioned but it is Elizabeth who is clearly his favorite and he finds it his mission that she should marry well. There is this fellow he invited for dinner and he doesn't show and then they find he is married.
That is all I can say. That was chapter one. I cannot comment on chapter two, because I have only read it once.

I disgress. So basically what I am saying is I have kids. There are large words. I can't read every chapter twice. Perhaps Linda was right? Maybe this is not the easiest way to step into the writing world of Jane Austen. Can anyone recommend a lighter stepping stone?
{ oh yes and I cheated and read the back, as you do, and guess what? turns out the whole book is about      Anne !!! }

So I am reading a book about Spooky Haunted Places. I LOVE the paranormal. WWwhhooooooOOOO.

My hat ? Yes, this is my second time knitting Ysolda's rose red . This time I was not paying attention to my knitting ( but rather the movie where Tom Cruise takes his shirt off , ahem ) and my hat turned out HUGE. I used a discontinued wool called 'Harmony', which bragged to be an 8ply and knitted totally like a 12ply. Closet worsted.
So today I felted it. Just threw it in the wash. It works ! It was meant as a gift.... of course I want to keep it.

Aahhh. The wonderful world of knitting. What are you up to ?
x

A colour Affection

Look - the Colour Affection Shawl is finished !
I do love it ... a quick, satisfying, easy going kind of knit.
A grab it and go kind of knit.
A green bird watching kind of knit.

{Pattern and my notes found here.}

Yarn is Celtic Memory Yarn handdyed in Ireland by the lovely Jo.
You can find her here. 


My sweet one did not want to go to school today,
he was out all last week sick. Now it's pouring rain
outside, and could be the God's crying for him too.
Reading my Homeschooling Books last night on
Grade 2 - wondering where is that world that we
do not question our selves , our actions.
What is best :: interactions with lots of strangers ,
or intimate days with only the ones you know most.

colour affection

                                      neW yarNS !!   neW proJECT = WONderful weekend :)
                                                  ps. I am thrilled to be on this boat  ! ! !

Knitting a Fool

My new years resolution?

To knit like a fool.

I finished my study shawl  !!!!
It is so lovely i've been wearing it round the house.
Veera has some lovely striking designs, doesn't she.
ps. Test knitting coming up soon :))
Also, do you see how my sunny day scarf is growing !?
I am so encouraged by that lace ball slowly getting smaller, smaller, smaller.
Truth be known, the only reason I am working on this one is because I am
waiting for more exciting things to arrive in the mail !
Test knitting times two :: COWLS.
With that beautiful blue MadTosh Vintage you see there..
Joining up today with Ginny's yarn along  - (my word there are alot of link to get thru nowdays)
xo