The Adventures of Knitting Girl!

Nina, Dione, myself and a few others were discussing the adventures of Knitting Girl! Mild mannered LYS owner by day and ruthless knitting vigilante by night! She knits garments and nets to capture crooks in her busy metropolis. We were trying to think of a name for her nemesis, Crochet something, because crochet is evil! *giggle* She knits nets and garments. We figured sweaters would be good because then they could just go to the homeless after the crook has been removed from the hand knit item.

We were also talking about our quirky cats, mostly, but other pets were mentioned I believe. *waving to Lynn and her cresteds* LOL Hence this quote from Dionne, "It's a saucy rat. It must be punished!" I'll just leave it up to your imagination what were were talking about. I'll give you a hint, it's a cat toy.

Nina is working on the perfect sock pattern for her foot. I think we should all alter patterns to fit is more perfectly and socks are an excellent item to play with to cater to your foot size and shape. She hand-dyed some yarn - a very pretty variegated green and other colors. However, only the cuff was knit in that yarn because, as she put it, "I didn't dye the white."

I finally finished my purse scarf. Now I just need to get some more yarn to start another one and keep it in my purse. I need to block it, though. It's a 30 stitch cable, crossing 15 stitches. It was much easier to do with a stitch marker than a cable needle. I guess if I had one of those U shaped cable needles, it might have been easier. Anyway, here's a pic of me wearing it and a somewhat close up of the cable part. I need to block it so you can see the cable crossed. It's very loose. I really like it and might make another one like it. Here's a pic of me holding it open as if it was blocked. I want to block it open enough so you can see the cable being turned, but want to try and keep some of the fluidity of the scarf. It looks really interesting NOT blocked, too. Hmmmm...what to do?

I'm still working on the cammoflouge baby sweater for my friend that hunts with her brood of boys. It's so cute! I will hopefully finish the hood tonight so I can bring it in for show and tell tomorrow. Then I'm going to make a pair of matching CARGO PANTS from Knitty.com. They are SO CUTE! Then it's on to the top down raglan. I'm a little paranoid on this one. I haven't knit without a pattern so it should be interesting to see if I can pull it off. I need to go back and re-read Svetlana's directions.