Mystery Stole 2

Mystery Stole 2 is finished. Pre-blocking measurements are about 6 ft long by 15 inches wide. I will have pictures of pre and post block along with all the info later. My ballet class has started up for the year and I am really feeling the 2 week break between summer classes and fall. I have been doing Irish almost every week, but that is very different than ballet.

Still knitting

I have no new pictures yet, but I have started the edging of the Mystery Stole 2. I think I did the cast-on a little tight, so I will be ripping out the 8 rows of edging I have done and hold a sock needle with the main needle to cast-on the 24 needed stitches. I did run a life-line in the last row of stitches before beginning the edge, so I can just Pull the needle out of those stitches.

I discovered that "A Wool Gathering" is coming up at Young's Diary (http://my.voyager.net/~nfisher/). I went last year and had tons of fun. This year I think I will look at hand spindles and some wool to try spinning (not that evil class at the gym involving a stationary bike). I have checked out a few books from the library on the subject and started reading, but I think it will make more sense if I have stuff to try it with.

Back from the Beach

We spent a long weekend at East Harbor State Park. I was did not think the sun would affect me very much, so omitted the sunscreen. My face is very red now and I have burned my left hand and some fingers on my right hand. I spent several hours knitting on a sock in the sun on the beach. I finished one my Cape Cod socks using Wendy's fan and feather sock pattern and KnitPicks Sock Landscape in Cape Cod. The yarn is very nice to work with, but is not superwash, so these will have to be hand washed. I hope to finish the next one quickly as I bought some new sock yarn in Marble Head (Interlacements Tiny Toes). I also have to print the MS2 clue 6 and finish that up.

Owl Baby Sweater info

The owl baby sweater can be seen here: http://www.pennystraker.com/index.html I purchased it from my LYS. The owls are created with horseshoe cables that are very easy to do without a cable needle. There are only 3 rows with cables to create the owls. The pattern is not very well written so after swatching, but before beginning the sweater I wrote out all of the directions for the size I was making on a piece of paper. My mom knit the matching bonnet and it looks cute on my new nephew.

In other knitting news, I am working the the fibonacci sweater from KnitPicks, it is also not that well written, but a little easier than the owls. I love the yarn and I am using the new KnitPicks options interchangable needles. They have very pointy points, smooth joins and are very much like the Inox needles I love and usually use.

Knitting and Dancing

Last weekend I finished the Mystery Stole clue 1-4 to the right and clue 1 to the left.
Since this picture I have done half of clue 2 to the left and almost all of clue 5 to the right. I have also peeked at the name of this stole and I like the name.

This past Friday was the Dublin Irish Festival and with 3 of us dancing we claimed 10 awards. We missed Kish and another dancer was out of town, but we did our best to kick butt.