DropstitchDitdit: 2018

Busy day of errands today. Sunny until 11am. When I had to go out after lunch and pick up heavy laundry I decided to use my brother's gift card in Adventures in Knitting in Harwich. 4 skeins and I still have more to spend. go figure.

adding the photos of the hats made with the above yarn
the black yarn looks blue in the photo!

this was delightful yarn to knit with and quick!

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as long as I had the camera out and my brain attached here is the yarn bought with Paula's gift. I had a ball in Michael's in Hyannis spending money like water. LOL
for baby blanket

This yarn I went for a walk on the bike path and rolled the skein into a working ball. It took 27 minutes! Started a baby hat today with this yarn- we will see how many I get out of this 3.5 ounce skein. It is nice to handle.
made a baby hat and it started out yellow pale green then an orange color and looked like an inflamed tit or a boil. So I made a pompom

more made from this yarn

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shawls

May sound silly but this super saver Red Heart yarn is reliable and easy to work with. Yes it is cheap and it is not wool warmth but it is colorful and lifts the spirits to make it and use it.

okay this is getting confusing here are more shawls

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baby hats

The above yellow and white baby yarn was irresistible. I was going to use it to make all baby hats but decided to make a baby blanket . Last year around this time I was knitting TWO baby blankets with 4 ply white yarn- good grief that was so boring and endless and one of them turned out so floppy I tried to unravel it and reuse and it tangled. So ended up in the trash :(. The other made a nice square to keep my ass warm at the computer. Too impractical to even dare to give it away as a baby blanket all I could envision was grape juice stains all over it. So after that fiasco I swore I would not attempt another baby blanket. But started this one May 8th 2018. It is slow going 130 stitches. At my rate of doing only 10 minutes per project each knit & walk it will take a while. I did all knit, yesterday thought I would try a pattern of border each end of all knit then in groups of 10 purl then knit etc. Found that too tedious for my knit and walk and keeping track and seeing the stitches. So back to all knit. Which makes a sturdy blanket.

the rest of that yellow and white yarn

these two are Caron Cakes. Each time I buy them they are a different texture and bulk. Not that it matters I usually make hats and shawls.
finished shawl with the bulky one above.

this one being knit is a sticky yarn. soft and the colors are great BUT when I first started the neck warmer it was too tight. With no give to it so I took a walk and unraveled it and wound it up into a ball again. Tried with larger needles and it is fine. But wow the yarn sticks to itself. It was like unraveling something held together with super glue.

Finished this and only enough yarn to make it approximately 8 inches. I have decided to add a draw string to both ends to make it fit snugly around the neck for warmth but not too tight. I do love the colors.

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This will be a challenge. It is very fine not even sock or fingering weight. But I could not resist the touch of it.

well the above yarn sure is a challenge it tangles and then knots. I started a triangle anyway and am suffering through it. It is very soft and drapes nicely. I googled "tangled yarn" and the solution that seems to work okay is to place the ball of yarn in a zip lock bag and seal it as closely as possible so you can tug the yarn out little by little. It still tangles but I do not panic as much.