My New "Dog"

Hello Knitting People.

I just had to laugh at the comment that stringplay left on my blog last time. She said "Boy, your dog looks different. Just kidding" and it took me the longest time to figure out what she meant. Well, all great things come to me at 3 o'clock in the morning and I actually woke up giggling at 3 o'clock one morning realizing she didn't mean the pug;
She meant the ram from Corinth;
I also received some beautiful yarn from Corinth and my Baby Girl actually watched it being carded and spun. Guess she was so interested, and commenting on her mother being addicted to knitting, they gave her some pieces. They're short pieces but all the same colors, so I might try making something with them, but right now I'm enjoying just looking.


She also brought me this black Angora which is super soft. The label is written in ?Hebrew? but it does say 602 yards in English. Enough to make a nice little shawlette or a scarf. She was in Europe for 3 months and also got to go to Paris for a weekend. I told her if she brought me a skein of yarn from each country she visits, I'd let her go. So far she's done very well. :o)

This is my first project for 2010 and my first finished project for 2010. I LOVE IT!

It's the 3 Way Wrap from Ingrid Nicholas on Ravelry. I used Debbie Bliss Cashmerino Chunky, size 10 1/2 needles and made it in about 2 weeks while on vacation. Great "talk while you knit" knitting.

You all know that I'm fighting the battle of the 30 pound bulge. Well, I read in a magazine that knitters use 100 calories an hour and a 5 hour knitting session is very good for you, so, to all you knitters out there that need to lose some weight - KNIT!

Happy Knitting!

Happy New Year!

2010 already. I've decided that I must get back into blogging and quit ignoring it for FaceBook. Yes, I'm addicted to the Farming on there and most of my computer time is spent tending my crops, livestock and sending out gifts to my fellow Farmers. :o) My Grandfather would be proud, he was a dairy farmer in RI for over 50 years. So, I now have to share my time with Ravelry (the number 1 on the computer time list), FaceBook and blogging. I'm ScrappyKnitter on Ravelry and if you want to be my friend on Face Book, just leave me a comment and I'll send you my FB name.

We had a great Christmas with all 3 kids home, all 3 grandkids, my parents and one "guest." Full house! We spent a very quiet New Years, just the 2 of us, and then BTB moved the Baby Girl into her new apartment in AL and when he got back I went out and stayed with her for 4 days, then went to see my granddaughter on my way to my bestest friend and my sons in Atlanta for 4 days. Wonderful time and can't wait to do it again. I can make a big circle and cover 'em all.

I've been doing a lot of knitting and will just post a bunch of pictures here to cover them all. I WILL be much better at posting as each project is done I hope, but I'm great for giving them away, or packing them away (I don't give away too much of anything) and forget the pictures. So, happy New Year and I'll be back within the week!


Just Enough Ruffles - gave to my friend, Dawn for Christmas - Malabrigo (Heaven) in Red Pearl
Brides Sachet Bag
Baktus - made from some really ugly sock yarn I've had forever, but it turned out pretty
This one is pure heaven around my neck but I can't remember where I found the pattern. It's just a YO, K2tog pattern and silky soft. I also can't remember what the yarn is called but it's gorgeous. Not sure why this is blurry.

Happy Knitting in 2010!

I Found It!

I'm back! I finally found my password to get back to myself. :o)

Stay tuned, lots of FO's coming soon.

Happy Knitting!
(if I still have any readers, I've been reading, just couldn't comment or blog and I missed every one of you)

Lots. But nothing

I got all ready to update my blog and realized I have no pictures in my computer of all the knitting I've done this summer. I think they're all on Face Book. So, I have to go take some pictures. I've done a lot of knitting and put a very small dent in my stash, but I'm still working away and hoping to have another dent in it by Christmas. I'm going to clean out my yarn closet today and make a pile of yarn that I know I probably will never use, so be on the lookout for pictures of my "give away pile" and you might get yourself some yarn, for free!

I started Face Book to keep up with my kids. They're all over the place and calling or texting on our phones sometimes wasn't convenient, so we're all on FB. The Baby Girl had a great time in Africa, got a little too close to elephants, lions and zebra's, but had a blast and brought me home some cool things. Jeesh, not even pictures of them on here. Terrible! Well, now she's on a 3 month Study Abroad Program and right now is in Greece, then to Turkey and then she'll be in Israel and will be home 2 days before Thanksgiving. Imagine! 21? I was married and had a baby at 21 and this one is all over the globe. So, so happy for her.

Okay, not writing a letter here (although sometimes I forget that) so I'll go snap some pictures and be back over the weekend. My brand new LYS is having their grand opening tomorrow and I've decided even though I don't have a knitting buddy near me and BTB is going in the opposite direction, I'm going to it anyway, all by myself! I've been in it once and they're awesome people and I love their new shop. Great yarn, great prices, LOVE the little do-dads and can't wait to go back. I'll let you know how it goes.

I hope you all had a nice summer. I've been reading the blogs, just couldn't comment because I forgot my password. When you travel it's hard to carry around the index file with all of them so I had to change it, forgot to write it down and.....................................that's my story!

Happy Knitting!

Over 2 Months?

Summertime isn't a good time to have a blog. I really need to figure out how to do this on my Pinkberry so I can do it on the go.

I've been traveling. In June I went to visit my parents for a week then went and stayed with my friend near Atlanta and got to see lots of my son for another week. Then I went to the Atlanta airport to say goodbye to the Baby Girl who left for a month long mission trip to Africa. When she came back at the middle of July we went and spent a week with her in Alabama. 2 weeks after that we went on another trip for 5 days for a clay shoot BTB was in and now I think we're home atleast till September.

I have done a lot of knitting but I'm getting really bad about taking pictures of everything. I'm at that age where I'm becoming overloaded with "stuff" and I'm sick of the "stuff" and pictures are one of them. What do you do with them all? So, not too many pictures.

This is Truly Tasha's Shawl
, a free pattern from Ravelry. Great, fast knit till you get to the edging, then it takes forEVER! I used size 6 needles and Plymouth Yarn Platinum (Aran / 10 ply Nylon, Rayon, Angora) and it's squishy soft and a great size for covering my shoulders when it gets chilly. Finished pictures as soon as my model comes to visit.

I've also finished the Just Enough Ruffles scarf, also on Ravelry. I don't usually buy patterns, there's too many free one's I want to do, but that was one I just had to knit. I used my Pearl Red Malibrigo Worsted and it came out really nice. This is the same yarn I did my father's hat and scarf in. Pictures of that also when my model comes to visit.

My Oldest DD was in the hospital for a week and home a week and her youngest went in for 4 days with pneumonia! My big orange cat, Morris, who was 14 in April, died in between them getting sick. Hard to get used to something being around for that long then they're gone. When we went camping this past weekend my friend and I looked up and saw this
. I asked the owners of the place and they said they had a litter "up in the shed." When I asked if I could have it he said "Ma'am, I can go get you a couple more too if you want." Nope, one was fine and she's adorable and playful and hasn't missed the catbox once! I named her Abby after the girl on NCIS who is the forensic scientists.

Happy Knitting!

Sandy Beaches, Sunshine and Fun (oh, and knitting, of course)

What do I do when it's 96 and 110 heat index? I go to the beach!

Got my chair, my umbrella, lots of water, towel and ......................
My knitting. This is the Bride's Sachet bag from Knitting Daily.
And to have lots of fun in that water I take my 13 year old granddaughter.
It also helps that BTB is remodeling a house on this beach. We get up at 7 and ride 1 1/2 hours to get here, but it was well worth it! I was born and raised on a beach and I really miss it so this was like a mini vacation for me.

And next week? Next week I head to the mountains. The Baby Girl is flying off to Africa to do mission work with her school and I'm going to my parents, she's going to my parents and I'm going to drive her to the airport. Can't have her going that far away, for a month! without a big hug from her Mommy! More gray hair for me. So, I won't be around for awhile blogging but I will have my Cute Little Pink Thing and my Pinkberry, so I can keep up with what everyone's working on.

Have a safe, happy, carefree summer.

Happy Knitting!

eta: Gregory House's birthday was June 11th. He was 50 years old! Happy Birthday Dr. House.
(Thanks to Stringplay for that little piece of information!)

Sunshine, Socks and House

Just a quick post today because there's a House Marathon on and I'm going to watch it. I love House and I knit really fast if I'm watching him.

This is a pair of socks that my oldest granddaughter asked me to make. They are not going to be hers however, they are too small. So, I have a new pair of socks and I'm in the process (very slow process) of making her another pair. I'm not a sock knitter, but I'm trying, just for her.



Still working on all the other things from the last post. They're all a little longer but not really much to show.

Have a great weekend and if you live in Georgia, enjoy the abundance of sunshine that is finally upon us!

Happy Knitting!

Scrappy Knitter Knits, Just Not Fast Enough!

We'll call this blog post Catch Up! I've had startitis so bad lately but then I got to thinking. What difference does it make? I have a lot of yarn that I love, lots of time now that we're "empty nesters" and I have no trips planned for atleast 3 more weeks and thanks to Ravelry and all you other bloggers, there's a ton of patterns out there that I want to knit, so, I have bunches started. Every day I feel like doing something different. Today it might be lace, tomorrow something a little thicker, so, I get out whatever calls to me and work on it. Sooner or later I get them done. I've got all the time in the world. So, here's my May Show and Tell!

This is Truly Tasha's Shawl, a free download from Ravelry by Nancy Bush. This is the perfect traveling knit because you don't have to think too hard, just have to remember that first yo. I'm doing it in my pink Knit Picks Shine Sport because eventually something made out of that yarn is going to work.

I just wanted to show you all this. If you ordered a yarn, sight unseen, called Snow Bird, would you automatically assume it was white? I did, and much to my surprise I got this. I think it'll be very pretty knitted up into some type of lace, but I sure was surprised it wasn't white!
A bit of Baltimore came to visit a few weeks ago. There were 2 or 3 pair of them that we got to enjoy on our feeder. This feeder used to hang outside my sunroom window but it broke from the hook and crashed to the ground so we had to replace it. Oh, the bird is a Baltimore Oriole if you don't have them in your area. And next to him is a little gold finch. Lots of those this year.
StringPlay mentioned she hadn't seen this shawl so I thought I'd put up a picture. I think I must have posted a picture while I was working on it but never one when it was finished. I call this my Emerald Bay Shell Diving Shawl. I have little pink beads in it that represent the shells that BTB and I found while on the Gulf Coast this past January. We had so much fun diving for shells and this color is almost exactly what the Gulf waters look like. This was a LYS pattern.
This is the beginning of the first shawl in the book Best of Knitters Shawls and Scarves. It's just called Lace Shawl. I only have 12 skeins of that beautiful teal colored yarn but I'm hoping I can get it done with that. Might have to order some more and interchange the old with the new but I love that shawl. It's the first one I picked out as soon as I got the book.
Triangle, also on Ravelry and also another small shawl/scarf. I love doing these and I have some squishy, gooshy, soft yarn that is so pretty I couldn't wait to start something wtih it. This is Dream in Color Smooshy that I got on the way home from my Boston trip at the not so local yarn shop. When you have a 5 hour ride from your friends house to get home, there's nothing better than finding that LYS to break up the trip.
And this is what I'm trying to keep up with but so far I'm not doing very well. It's the Goddess Knits Anniversary Shawl KAL 2009. It's a Faroese shawl done in cashmere. The color is called Watermellon and it's so pretty! I'm supposed to have the first 95 or so rows done by Saturday but dang, life just keeps throwing wrenches in it. I did a knit along last year with the Goddess Knits group and still haven't finished it, but this one was a style I've never done so couldn't pass it up. I'll work really hard tonight and tomorrow and I might make it to the last row of clue 1 before the new clue comes out on Saturday.
First time ever knitting from a spool. This yarn is from ColourMart.
So, yes, I knit, I just knit lots of stuff so it takes lots of time to get something finished. That would drive my Grandma crazy. She always said finish one project and go on to the next. Somewhere in life my brain could never wrap itself around that idea. :o)

Happy Knitting!

The Traveling Scrappy Knitter?

How's that title? My one (and probably only) reader said I should change my name to the TavelingKnitter, so I compromised for this post. I'm embarking on another venture so thought I'd update the blog before I go.

Alot of knitting has been taking place here and I even have an FO! Maybe I'll have a few more next time.

This is the beginning of a pair of simple 3/2 rib socks I'm [trying] to make for my oldest granddaughter. She has really big feet and I hate knitting socks, so the two are not going together nicely. It seems to take forever. She's worth it and I shall prevail! Just for her.

This is the yoke of the February Lady Sweater, a free pattern on Ravelry. I'm just using some Lion Brand Cotton Ease in Candy Blue (Candy Blue is discontinued). I'm determined to use up the yarns that I've had the longest. So far it's been an easy knit, just sometimes it's so easy that I forget what I'm doing and just knit away on it then realize I'm way ahead of myself. Had to rip out about 5 rows after going past my total number of stitches. No hurry for this one, I live in the South. No need for much of anything this time of year.

This is the bottom 4" or so of the Decimal Sweater, free on Knitty. I'm all about those wonderful free patterns. I'm doing this one in Knit Picks Shine Sport in Cherry. Love the pattern, love the yarn and my favorite color is, of course, RED! No hurry for this one either.

Cables. I needed to practice cables for my Mom's sweater, so I made Mr. Greenjeans (from Knitty but that's the Ravelry link). I love this sweater. It took awhile, but it always takes me a long time to make sweaters cause I get bored with them and put them aside. But, it's now done and ready to wear this weekend on my trip. Soon I need to start the Nantucket Jacket (Interweave, Winter 06) for my Mom. She picked the yarn out a long time ago but there's a lot of cables in that sweater and even though I can do cables, it's really hard right now to concentrate on bunches of cables. Hopefully I can start it in July (my goal) so to have it done for Christmas. Hope being the key word there.

And I call it Mr. Maroonjeans, cause, well, it's kind of maroon. Big wooden button was in my button box and was perfect, even fit the buttonhole.

Pattern: Mr. Greenjeans aka Maroonjeans-Ravelry

Yarn: Brown Sheep Cotton Fleece

Color: Candy Apple

Size: M-one thing I love about knitting. It's the ONLY think I wear that is a Medium. :o)

Needle Size: I'm guessing about an 8 but don't remember

There have been a few other projects, mostly just little things, but I don't have time to get them in here. If I don't go pack up that camper we'll have to run around the tournament hungry and.....well, you know, I've got things to do.

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. ~Ambrose Bierce

I hope all you Mom's out there have a wonderful weekend, a Happy Mother's Day and be sure and make time to knit!

Happy Knitting!

Easter, Dents and Growing up

Let me first wish whoever stops by the Scrappy Knitter blog a very Happy, Blessed Easter.

We had another minor mishap with a car. Nope, not Ruby this time, she's had enough bangs lately. And no, it wasn't the oldest daughter, whose car we just paid to have fixed after her little mishap at a red light (yeah, sometimes the guy in front of you stops, then goes but you must pay attention to that second stop - gets you every time when you're not looking.) It was the Baby Girl and Silva! Remember Silva, my Honda CRV? It's hers now. We went shopping yesterday for a dress for her upcoming Formal (that I can't even be there to see) and when she was leaving a really nice guy in a red pickup backed out almost at the same time as she did and he clipped her right on the back corner of the car. So, another dent to fix, another insurance paper to file, another gray hair for me. That means that the 3 women (are they really women already?) in this family have either hit (2 of us did the hitting) or been hit and damaged our cars in the last 4 weeks! That's scary. No picture of Silva's dent cause they aren't home today, but it's there, plain as day.

Okay, this part might sound winy, but I'm really not wining. But, if any of you are empty nesters (I know one of you is), what in the world do you do when there's no kids around? When my kids are here I'm so busy, running around waiting on everyone, keeping the little one's entertained, keeping the Father/Grandfather out of everyone's hair (he's not as kid 'friendly' as I am), but then they all leave and what do you do? Even the oldest granddaughter comes over and is perfectly happy sitting on the couch playing with my computer or texting her friends, but I'm there to laugh with them, polish fingernails, laugh at whatever silly thing she did in school. Then she's gone. The Baby Girl comes home from Alabama and we go shopping, eat lunch out, talk, stay up late and watch every episode of House (my "other man"), talk, then she goes back to Alabama. The oldest doesn't come over much anymore cause she's in school, works part time, and then has kids to deal with when she's not at school or working. The Baby Boy lives so far away I don't see him much unless I go to Atlanta to visit him. We have so much fun in the big city. We eat out just about every night, we shop, we stay up all night being goofy (we both love to sing), we share the same best friend. Then I have to leave and go back home. It's really weird to me to not have any kids around. I always wanted to have lots of kids, till I found out how expensive they were, then I settled for 2, but then we were surprised with #3, the Baby Girl. Now we're empty nesters, he's out of work and home almost every day and I'm going to go nuts not having anyone around to wait on (he waits on me), talk to ( he's not much of a talker), sing with (I DO NOT want the man to sing), laugh with (that we do), so, there's only one thing left to do.

TRAVEL....................
Heading out next week for a long weekend, going to the mountains for a week to visit my parents in June (more on that next time), Florida to stay with my friend down there, Atlanta to see the Baby Boy sometime over the summer, Americus for a week for a Clay shoot with BTB (that means a week of knitting for me), St. Simon's Island for a long weekend with the Oldest Daughter and grandkids (she's going to a wedding and they asked her to stay at their house while they're away, she didn't want to stay along. Heck, it's a beach, I'll go and protect her so she can protect her friends house, yuppers), and then maybe, just maybe I can get to Alabama to visit with the Baby Girl. So, those tail lights are about all you'll see of Ruby and I this summer, but, remember, I have my Pink Mini so I'll be reading blogs, drooling over Ravelry and maybe blogging once or twice.Happy Easter! Happy Knitting!