I immediately got out this sea turtle. I love sea turtles. Well, anything to do with the ocean.
Tag Archive: Finished Friday
Yay! I finished it!
Now on to my next.
Progress on the socks? Sure.
My uke is calling and it’s almost midnight! Yikes!
Happy Weekend
We just finished Star Trek Discovery. You know you loved it when you’re crying and laughing at the end!
What doesn’t seem to have a finish is what I’m calling Sprinter.
Yay! Son and SO made it to my house! Finished his socks!
Here is the YouTube I followed loosely.
I used Knitters’Pride Royale Circular Needles 40″ size 6 (I think–I’m not in the same room as the needles right now.) The yarn was a bulky superwash wool. I think these turned out too big. But I think they’ll shrink. They will be warm slippers.
Oh, and I discovered a cool bind-off.
Just a quick personal note. Knitters’Pride Royale Circular Needles are harder for me to work with than ChiaoGoo red-lace circular needles.
That’s all for now.
Happy Hath Day! (September 30th)
FINALLY! After many frogs and tinks the needle hat is finished.
The socks are all in the position last seen. I guess my hands needed a hat break.
I’m loving, well, loving hating my treadmill. I know if I keep it up I will make healthy progress.
That’s it for now. Wish I had progress on any writing. But we celebrate what we can.
My condolences to my friends across the pond.
Yahoo! I can report something finished on an actual Friday!
I played yarn chicken with the leftover wool. I decided I might be able to make a child’s hat.
After a very busy day in Bend. Dilated eyes made shopping out of the question. I couldn’t even help in the bread store.
At the eye surgeon’s I learned my eyes had gotten so bad that she was nervous about all the things that could go wrong. Still, it’s safer getting the surgery, than letting it go. The scary things that could go wrong are like the warning signs at a roller coaster ride. You know the ones, do not ride if pregnant, have heart or back issues, etc. But I loved the coasters. I live seeing, reading so maybe it’s the same. Apparently, I won’t end up with 20/20. But it will be at correctable levels with glasses. My good eye will be able to drive without glasses. Even the bad will be corrected to arms length, like computer and piano music. Reading books will take readers. No prob. I can handle that.
I learned that for my first surgery she’s put me at the end so if it goes over time it won’t get in the way of other surgeries. BUT by being end of day the recheck can’t happen until the next morning. That means we find the pot of gold to stay at a motel over night or after the 4 hours round trip the day of the surgery getting up at 3:30AM to get to the recheck at 5:30AM and 5hen back home yikes!
We’ll work it out!
This was a fun hat. The colors remind me of candy corn. The brim is what I think is called Homespun. It’s polyester and rather bumpy. Because of that I was restricted. It is soft but sometimes hard to work with.
The yellow, and rust yarns were mohair of sorts. It is extremely soft. Again, I was rather restricting. No fancy cable stitches or the like will show up.
I don’t believe these yarns would be itchy in any way. I showed the ways the hat can be worn. The inside of the hat (the purl side) is soft like a kitten. And it looks as furry.
Okay, now the detailed bit. I used 80 pegs (40 links) of the KB Flexee fine-gauge loom. Drawstring cast on. After 4″ of flat-knit stitches I pulled the cast on back on the loom forming a folded brim.
The rest of the body of the hat was a simple flat knit stitch.
Finally, I found better instructions for a nice crown decrease. Here is the YouTube I followed.
Other finished things aren’t so much.
My editing continues. 8,199 words put into yWriter7.
The brim of the next hat nearly ready to fold up.
Yesterday, I kitted up the new project.
The ‘diamonds’ come in little packets. With this project it’s even better as they are in little ziplock bags. The numbers correspond to the key on the canvas.
And knitting is still keeping me out of trouble. This pair going to the charity. I’ll give the play by play when finished.
Darswords 
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