Jean Greenhowe Knitted Toys

I joined another Knit-Along on KnittingHelp for July knit toys.
So, I chose to do Mama & Baby Hedgehogs.

Here they are!

Egeblad

I've joined a KnitAlong on knittinghelp.com for 'Egeblad and other stunning lace beauties'!!!!

Pattern is here..

http://www.yarnover.net/patterns/doilies/kunststrik/egeblad.html

It is an absolutely beautiful pattern with a swirling flower in the center and concentric, slightly offset radiating leaves. I'm knitting this one with Cotton Fleece in Peridot on size 4.5 needles.

Well, like I mentioned, I've just begun it.

Here it is on dpn's at about row 9...



and on circulars up to the 27th row...


Edited to add: up to row 35


Edited to add: up to row 56


Will continue to post as I progress.

Growing Up sweater fix (pt 2)

Ok, so I put in a lifeline (a circular needle) on the last knit row before the k1p1 ribbing started.
Then I snipped the yarn and tried to frog it. DUH, why won't it frog? Is it because I'm ripping (trying to anyways) backwards? Every stitch turns into a knot at the top of the stitch!

So, it took me almost 2 hours, but I 'frogged' it using my crotchet hook and pulling each stitch. uggg.



So, the waist is going to get 2-6 new rows of knit, then 8 rows of k1,p1 ribbing.
I have the same yarn, just hoping the sweater isn't to faded and the new isn't toooooo noticable.

Wish me luck, I'm doing this all in one piece now!

Growing Up sweater fix

Ok, I'm going to do this. (I really hope I don't ruin it!)

I found some of the original wool and got my circular needles ready... all I need to do is to start frogging it. (previous post asked suggestions for putting some new life into this sweater - the waist ribbing is to be redone!)


These are the before pictures....


The front of the sweater:



The back of the sweater:



One sleeve:



The other sleeve:




and I'll post 'after' pics as I 'ruin' it...

Renovations

Well, I've been so busy with home renovations, that I really haven't had time for anything else.

About 2 months ago, we called in a roofing company to come and fix 3 of our roofs that were leaking, and they advised us that we should also fix the chimney as well. We decided that we might as well fix all the shingles on the house as well. And that we want to do siding on the sides of the front of our home.
The only problem with attaching the siding, was that the wall where the siding was to be attached had a huge amount of water damage (we found that out once we started breaking down the bottom portion of the wall). So we talked to the roofing company and decided that they would just break all the walls down, and reframe the front room of our home (the sunroom).

Well, it's been non-stop since then. One contractor would come to do the roofs. Then a couple days later another contractor came to do the framing, then a couple days later someone came and did the chimney, then someone came and did the shingles, then someone else came and did the siding and the soffits....

Now, all the work is done, except for a few minor touch ups that need to be addressed with the roofing company (ie: looking at the ceiling/wall in the sunroom, I can see sunlight! Hello, there should be NO outside light in my ceiling!!! This means there's a hole somewhere!). So far, they've sent someone back twice to address this issue. Both times the person said they fixed it, yet it's still there!

So anyway, this past week, my husband and our brother-in-law put in the drywall for the floor in the sunroom, and on Saturday, they are planning on putting in the drywall for the walls and the ceiling.... but we NEED this "hole in the ceiling" addressed first!!!

(Oh, we also had an electrician come in to rewire the sunroom and remove some old wiring!)




This image is when the walls and ceiling were torn down. The only thing left was the two corner beams, and the centre beam (and the roof that they had just fixed).



This image is when the walls were framed. The black is an insulation.



And this is all the siding finished!


Now, we are just waiting on the window people to come by (next week) to measure and make us 2 windows.

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!

Knitting again

Well, it's been awhile since I worked on my 'grapevine' sweater, so this past weekend I added 6 or 7 rows to it.
I know, it doesn't seem like alot, until you realize that the body on this pattern is worked in one piece..... so, it's about 245 sts and different patterns:
mock cable, grapevine, twisted cable and moss st are the patterns used.


So, here's an pic of my progress so far....
this is the back:

(you can see the moss sts, a twisted cable, moss sts, then 3 mock cables, then more moss sts, and then another twisted cable in this pic)

and this is the front, left side:

(you can see the mock cable, then the grapevine, then the twisted cable, and then some moss sts in this pic)


Since I'm almost done with my paint job, I'm planning on working on my sweater a bit more....

but..... it's also almost summer vacation for the kids, and I'm sure that we'll be spending alot of time at the pool! :)