My Sister's Knitter

It's Monday, how about some love?

Happy Monday peeps! I know, I know...it's Monday, what is there to be happy about? How about some finished items?

My swap socks are finished. The pattern is Shur'tugal. A great pattern with enough detail to keep your attention. Now to pick up some goodies  for my swap partner.

My Hedgerow socks came off the needles are well. I mentioned earlier that the pattern was a bit boring, but they served as a nice change from the Shur'tugals. The yarn was a gift from my friend, and once it came in the mail I knew it would be perfect for this pattern. Socks are done!

What's next? Not sure yet, I am really trying hard not to cast on anything new and focus my attention on items that are currently on the needles. This has been difficult considering all the temptations in blog land.

• Helena's projects always seem to find their way on my list. Her Nuvem has me reeling!
• Oh Lori, what are you doing to me with this shawl? So many lovely blues being knit up lately.
• A new blogger to me, Jesse hooked up this wonderful blanket.
• Trying to stop myself from buying their entire stock of yarns. I may or may not have already purchased some. Ok I did! I will share with you soon.
• Check out these fantastic book ends. I have grabby-hands!  
• Thanks to Allison I have a new beverage for the summer (below).

In other news thank you all for you nice comments on my giveaway. Due to the amount of responses, I won't be replying to each comment, just know that I appreciate them! My fingers are crossed for you all. Remember you have till April 5th to enter!

I am outta here to enjoy some back episodes of this show. Do you remember this show? I love seeing Marilyn knitting at her desk. She makes me laugh. Happy yarning everyone.

XO

Andi  

Happy Birthday Blog...Giveaway!

Someone is two this month. Doesn't she look great for two?  Because it is my blogiversary...I will torture you with my favorite video ever. Who's that at the door?

 

 

Oh and I just may have something to give away....

 

 

How about some yarn? As a thank you for visiting me, commenting , and just putting up with me. I would like to gift someone with four skeins of  beautiful squishy Berroco Vintage  yarn in  Aquae and... 

 

flower stitch markers, a project bag, and little bags for whatever floats your boat. So what does one do to be entered?  Just answer this simple question;

What would you knit/crochet with this yarn if you won it?

That wasn't so bad was it?  You must leave a comment by  April 5th at midnight Pacific Standard time. I will draw the winner  April 6th.

Good luck and thank you for being a wonderful part of my blog!

XO

Andi

 P.S. I will ship international!

Weekend Progress...

What a wonderful weekend for knitting. Our weather here in Arizona has been up and down lately, we went from 85 on Friday to 58 today. Truth be told I really live in the wrong state because I would be the happiest woman alive if it would stay at 58. In the spirit of the cooler temps, the WIPs have been progressing.

 

Here is my WIP basket. In your face!!! Heh- didn't mean for the picture to be so "in your face" but it is and there is no going back. Because soon after the pic was taken, WIPs were taken out and being working on.

 

My swap socks are coming along. Now I love a challenging pattern, but I am about done with left twists and right twists.

 

 

Hedgerows have been getting some work done as well this weekend. While the pattern is a tad boring, they are a nice break from the left and right twists of my swap socks.

 

Ah, and look who else came out to play this weekend. She was a bit pissed at me for letting her languish so long in the WIP basket, but all was well again after I knit quite a few rows  during movie watching.

 

Sock scraps have been worked into little grannies. Not really into the hexipuff craze, so I figured why not have little grannys for whenever the mood strikes.

 

From the looks of it, you would have thought that I never left the house. I did if only for a quick trip for some lovely spring flowers and cookies!

 

Be warned really good cookies that come in a bucket are never a good thing when you live alone. Hmm...why does my stomach hurt?

I mentioned movie watching while I worked on my shawl. I watched the movie The Beginners. How is it I forget how much of a crush I have on Ewan till I see him in a new flick? Other than Ewan being wicked cute, this movie was really good. I also watched One Day, man was I on a cute guys weekend watching thing or what? Maybe it was a hot guys with accents thing.

As if I haven't overlaoded you with enough images for one post, look what just happened outside!

A wee bit of hail. It happened for only 20 seconds and now it is already melted-boo.

Now that I have talked your ears off, I will let you get on with your knitting/crocheting and I will get on with mine. See you back here in a couple of days for a giveaway-whoot whoot!

 

XO

Andi

 

Hey how are you?

I feel like I have been away forever.

But it has only been a week. Still I missed you. What have I been up to? Still working away on socks, trying to get them finished before the end of the month. I was starting to stress myself out over getting things done, till I read Audry's comment on my last post:

"As for KALs, I find them a bit stressful. I think it is because in my mind if I don't finish on time I've somehow failed. That potential failure seems to paralyze me. (Which is dumb. Not finishing a KAL is no measure on my character.)"

This made my smile and snapped me back to reality. Other than my swap socks, I have decided I will get them done when I do-no worries. Plus I have other things I have to get working on. Do you want to know what it is? Maybe this month is somebody's blogiversary! That's right, My Sister's Knitter is two years old this month. That means a giveaway is on the horizon towards the end of next week. The goodies have been ordered and should be here soon. I am so excited. I wish I were rich and could give away yarn all the time and just for the heck of it.

Even though I haven't posted, I still have been visiting blogland. Ready for some goodies?

• I was introduced to Dennis and Matt's blog when Dennis left a comment here. Now I can't get enough. I want them both to come live with me, I would even share "some" of my stash, and that is saying a lot.
• Audry just released a sock pattern that had me at hello! I mean seriously how cute are they?
• My buddy Jody has the most luscious FO, check out this cowl. Bonus Jody is just adorable modeling it.
• Bethany's Levenwick...need I say more?
• In non knitting news, I have been drinking this smoothie every morning and loving it. My energy level has skyrocketed.
• Oh and want to see some Ripples...head over here and get your fill. Insta-love!

I have had this song in my head the last couple of days. This song makes me want to make finger guns! Enjoy your Thursday, I will be back this weekend with some progress pics.

XO

Andi  

 

 

KALs, Swaps, and Groups..oh my!

Boy are there ever things on the needles. Thankfully progress is going well.

These socks are for a swap that I am in. I have participated before and enjoyed it so much, that I was excited to start another round. I started a couple different patterns, then finally settled on this one. The previous ones were simple ribbed and sometimes vanilla patterns, but I decided to go with a little more challenging pattern. Glad I did because I want to gift something that I would be proud of. The beauty of this pattern seems to guarantee that.:)  My goal is to finish these socks along with my Hedgerows before the end of the month and both will also count towards this KAL. Is your head spinning yet?

There is also a hat being knit for this Ravelry Group.

 

The purpose of this group is to knit projects that are in your queue, as well as knitting them from your stash. Each month we are going through the letters of the alphabet, March is the letter "E". My hat is this pattern.

My groups have allowed me to set goals and finish items quicker that I would on my own.  Do you participate in any groups, KALs or swaps? Do you feel they help you or add unneeded pressure?

Okay I'm off, to finish things. Hey it's almost the weekend again folks! I'll leave you with a little inspiring knitting. Enjoy and have a great rest of your week.

 

XO

Andi

 

Little Blue...

The sister has a lovely friend who is expecting a little boy. Since the sister does not knit or crochet she asked if I could hook a blanket for her friend.

Of course I would. I used this pattern, which is my go-to for baby blankets. The sister selected the colors and I ran them through the random stripe generator.

It is not often that I work with washable yarn, so when this blanket came out of the dryer all soft and squishy, I almost wanted to keep it for myself.

A nice quick project to add to my FOs. While I love to crochet, I enjoy the knitting process more. That means I must stay away from Chawne's blog, because everytime I visit I want to hook on something else.  

I will leave you will some loves and wish you all a great week!

• This time of year it is great to see the transition  into Spring colors.There are some serious beauties here.  
• Would love to have this shirt to stop people from asking if I am seeing anyone.
• My friend Marion knit up a lovely stripey hat, makes me have grabby hands.
• ButterflyBush Yarns has added some new sock yarn and stitchmarkers to the Etsy shop!

 

XO

Andi