Almost Finished!

With everything.......

my Two Toe Up socks are almost done!
my floors are almost installed!
my stairs are almost refinished and restained

my life is completely upside down, and nothing is in it's place!

But, things are coming to completion... thank goodness!

and, the kids are back in school one week from tomorrow, so I'll have some space and time to get the house back in order!

Images? you ask!


hehehe...

ok.... enough torture...



socks first....





and the floors...
used to look like this:

uggggg.... (I've lived with them for over 10 years)



the sunroom floor had to be ripped up again, as it was not level, nor was it level with the livingroom.

the existing flooring had to be ripped up as the flooring underneath was squeeky, and we're also doing new baseboards!

again, it's not done.... but this is a preview....


OMG, I'm so excited! I honestly cannot wait until everything is finished, and I can get in the livingroom and lounging room and decorate them!



EDITED to add:



the floors are dusty, they've been swept, but since they are just being done, haven't yet been washed! OMG, I"m soooooooooooooooooooooooo happy so far! :)

Two Toe Up socks on One Circular Needle

so, as per my last post, I mentioned that I had started a new project.

Knitted socks!

yep! socks!

I found a tutorial, and am following it for my first attempt.... but not only am I attempting socks, I'm trying out the Magic Loop method as well....

I know.... I know.... I'm crazy, and sometimes I go overboard. But what can I say? That's the way I was taught to be! :)

So, here's the tutorial I'm following...
http://www.cometosilver.com/socks/2mlsocks_start.htm

And here's my progress thus far...
(remember, I started this project last night)


the cast on using a 'figure 8' cast on method



OMG, they look like toes!!! :)


and, at this point, I do admit that they look pretty funny... but here is where I'm at right now...




hehehe!

Grapevine Cardigan.... again

Ok, I've been busy with other stuff.

I finished my egeblad, I just need to block it out. When I do that, I'll post an image....

I also finished a spiralen. Again, I need to block it out, and then I'll post a pic.


I've been very lazy regarding my grapevine, so I've picked it back up and have done a couple rows tonight.




This is where I am on it so far.... I've got 5 more inches, then start the armhole shaping! :)

Knitting question

I have a question. Not too sure if it's feasible or not, but I knitted a sweater for my eldest daughter years ago. My youngest now fits into it and really likes it, but the ribbed band at the waist has no shape anymore.

Is there a way to fix this?
This piece was worked from the ribbed waist, up.



It's not the best pic, but it shows that there is no shape in this piece. Any help / advise at all would be greatly appreciated!

Grapevine cardigan (cont.)

First off, I must admit that I really like this pattern! The detail is amazing!

I've decided to do a swatch for each pattern posted in the pattern though, as I've been finding some mistakes in it. (I did contact the designer, and she apoliguised and is quite pleased that someone is working on her design and took the time to advise her - she actually incorporated 2 different designs into this one sweater - hence the mistakes.)

Anyway, this is just a swatch of the 'grapevine' pattern. I swatched an entire pattern (over 32 rows), then did 22 rows more, as there was a mistake in the beginning of the pattern and I just wanted to make sure my 'correction' worked.



I finished the 'leaf & cable' border (the bottom edging of the sweater), and have now picked up 245 sts on said border. Now comes the fun part!

This sweater is worked over 245 sts. It has a grapevine pattern (as shown worked over 25 sts), a Framed Cable pattern (worked over 16 sts), a Mock Cable pattern (worked over 3 sts) and a Moss st - and each of these are done numerous times throughout each row!

WHEW, wish me luck!

I'll update in 1 week!

BTW, Happy Easter!

Grapevine Cardigan

OMG, I don't believe I'm going to do this one.
(Especially since I've found mistakes just in the very first section of this project!)
Oh well, that happens.

Here is the image for the sweater.



I'm not going to do the grapes in a different color though, and I'm using a 'sable' color instead of green.


Now, I started the bottom border of the sweater last night. On the 2nd row, there was a mistake! Ok, it wasn't very hard to figure out the correction, though, so I kept going. Then, on row 18 of this 36 row pattern repeat, there is another mistake! So, I get out the trusty pad of paper and get to work figuring out the pattern. Get back to knitting and after I get through the entire pattern once, once I started it again, I thought, ok, I just made another mistake.... what happened here??? So, after going over the pattern a bit, I figured out that the pattern cable got repeated in rows 19-36. The cable should have been reversed, otherwise why are there rows 19-36??? If they weren't reversed, the pattern repeat should have ended at row 18!

ARGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway, after all the cables and such, I just pulled the work off the needles and started over. What a waste of a couple hours....

Anyway, I've been working on the 'corrected' pattern today.

Every 2 leaves is one full pattern repeat! To view it closer, see this:




I'll keep you posted on my progress.

(BTW, I like this pattern especially because I just finished a hat & scarf "blackberry" set that also had grapevines on it.

:o)