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I finished the ab fab throw yesterday & it’s gorgeous! You will just have to imagine what it looks like since there is no camera to take pictures with. I really enjoyed working with all the different colinette yarns in the throw. I had my favorites & the not so favorites. Colinette mohair is the hairiest mohair I have ever knit with, bar none! There were chunks of hair flying off that thing! Gorgeous silky hand though so it was kinda worth the allergy issues.

Since I chose not to do the fringe I have quite a bit of yarn left over. Enough to do a fun lacy shawl with the mohair yarns (there are 3 colors) and a scarf or hat & gloves with the rest in a striped pattern. Oh,oH! What about some striped, chevron legwarmers, huh, huh??? Now that speaks to me!

The camera that I got at such a steal on ebay 5 years ago has officially died. It won’t turn on. Period. It’s just done. And considering it’s so old, 2.1megapixel, I don’t think it’s worth even having it looked at. I will just have to make do for a while with no digital camera. I have plenty of film for my minolta 35mm so I will just have to use that & snapfish for pictures to post. It makes me sad that I can’t run out & buy a new one but it’s just not in the ‘budget’ right now. sad, so sad.

..there are too many projects floating around this place that need to be finished. So this weekend while George is up at his sisters house, doing some work on a new property they are going to flip, I am going to work on finishing the projects that are just a few hours away from being complete. First & foremost the Colinette AbFab Throw that I started about 3 years ago, got 75% of the way done, had my mom tell me that she didn’t want any more blankets so it got put away. I pull it out every 6 months or so but since it has no intended recipient I had no desire to finish it. At midnight last night I pulled it out after organizing and decided it was time for it to be done! I have 8 rows & it will be finished! Screw the fringe, I just don’t care about dangly  yarn things on the end of my blankets that get all tangled between my toes.

There are 2 sweaters for George, the Cycling sweater from Hello Yarns free patterns, it only needs the back finished, then the zipper sewn in & the collar done.

And the Jefferson from Rowan. He needs the sleeves(which are about 1/3 of the way complete) & sewing together.

I just got really tired of them when I was working on them before so I put them away. Now that I am feeling bad about too many UFO’s I thought I would go ahead and get some of them out of the way so I can continue on with my new projects unhindered.

I added on 4 more stitches to the manresa legwarmers to get the extra stretch needed for the calf and I am almost to row 28 where I will decrease them away to continue on with the number of stitches the pattern called for. I am loving the andean yarn from knitpicks. And the fair isle pattern Delia chose for them is perfect!

My plan is to make legwarmers for myself using the intarsia wave pattern from the hat Swell in the latest knitty and andean treasure. The main color is Woods  and the wave at the bottom of the leg will be in Wild Rose

I love them! And since the intarsia will be at the bottom of the leg instead of all over I won’t have to worry about the stretch in the calf. I will use one size smaller needle than what is being used on the manresa just for a little tighter knit. The yarn itself has a lot of stretch in it, it’s so scrumptious! But I will not cast on for them until I have finished at least one more project!

I also brought the lamb’s pride fair isle sweater in the house to work on. It’s boring stockinette stitch around & around & around so it’s good late night knitting. Can’t really mess it up.

I counted & I have 6 projects going right now that are charts I have to follow. That is insane! So until I get myself under control with getting some of the simpler UFO’s out of the way I will only work on one of the charted projects, the manresa legwarmers.

I am going to go do those last 8 rows on the abfab throw then maybe do some photos!

I am wearing my new sweater. That’s right, I don’t care if it is humid. Doesn’t wool wick away sweat & help acclimate your body to the temperature outside? Huh, I sure hope so or I may be running over to Ross halfway through knitting tonight to buy myself a tshirt to cool down! Must wait & see I guess. I am really comfortable in it here at home but that is inside a relatively cool house (no a/c in these parts man) unlike the wickedly hot Java Station. Let’s just hope I get a bit of a breeze by the door today. Now that I am actually wearing the washed sweater I must say that fitted knits sure don’t hide any rolls around the middle section well. Too bad for me, I guess that means I should have better posture!

I have another little package to send out tomorrow for my sp. It’s the socks that I finished

And here they are all packaged, I just need to slap the to & from labels on!

I love how it’s see through! I am just hoping it doesn’t come across some sock-horder that decides their feet are cold! I think they’ll be fine! It’s just too bad that she doesn’t post pics on her blog at all, oh well.

On another note; the manresa legwarmers from knitty are a pain in the butt! Once you get to the larger calf part you realize that there is ZERO shaping for the leg so the yarn floats on the inside have to be really, really stretched out to make room for the calf. That just doesn’t work for me. So I am ripping them out & starting over at the end of the rib/start of the leg and adding in an extra 6 sts that will be decreased as the calf shape decreases down the leg. Duh. I will do pictures to show my alterations/changes to the pattern with better instructions for anyone else that might be interested in making them. I even tried to hunt down the author of the pattern & the one link knitty has does not work. I wanted to know what she did to the floats around the inside to keep them from being super loosey-goosey when not being worn. Seriously, the stitches are so loose and large because the floats are being pulled extra long so that they stretch an extra 3 inches. And they could easily cut a toe off while trying to put them on! Ridiculous to me. I wanted the authors ideas for fixing that problem. I wanted the solution to be something that I said “why didn’t I think of that??” So I will do what I have come up with & it will work marvelously I am sure!