Last Knit of 2018!

My last finished knit of 2018. Another pair of socks! Vanilla sock pattern with a fish lips kiss heel. The yarn is Midknit Cravings on their Sweet Sock base which is 80/20 superwash merino/nylon. The colorway is Room For Everyone.

I bought the yarn in the summer...I think. It was during a time when a dyer of instagram was accusing another dyer of dying a colorway too similar to theirs....my understanding is that there was A LOT of bullying going on. This inspired the dyers at Midknit Cravings to dye a special colorway with the proceeds going to an anti-bullying charity. Now, this happened like 6 months ago. I truly cannot recall the entire story, so I may be way off on this. Still, I loved the yarn and the idea that there is room for everyone be it in yarn dying, crafting, or this country.

This pair of socks brought my totals to 13.6 miles knitted/crocheted for 2018. That is a personal best for me. I am kinda proud of that :-)

I hope that 2019 will be a year filled with happy crafting, hope, love, and good-tidings for EVERYONE.

Remember, kindness doesn't cost a thing. Spread that shit everywhere!

A Very LSG Holiday

Admittedly, I was not in the holiday mood this year. Just wasn't feeling it. However, I did participate in the LSG card group again this year. Last year I absolutely loved getting cards from all over the United States as well as several other countries.

I had hoped to be able to send cards to everyone that signed up this year. We had over 300 people sign up! Unfortunately, fiances forbade me from sending everyone a card.

I am so amazed at the generosity of my fellow LSG crafters. I received stitch makers as well as crocheted skates to put on my tree. Given my non-holiday headspace, it was a little pick-me-up each time a card arrived.

Hmm...just in case you don't know, LSG is the Lazy, Stupid, and Godless group that I belong to in Ravelry. It's a huge group with members from all over the world. Lovely people...mostly ;-)

A few More Knitted/Crocheted Gifts

 Pot holders were my gift of the season. After crocheting the 11 sets for the office staff at Gavin's school I also made a set for his teacher. Plus, I wanted to give her something extra. I was feeling a bit uninspired and ended up knitting a scarf for her. The yarn was a Lion Brand Shawl in a Cake that I had in my small stash. I cast on 250 stitches and randomly did rows of stockinette and garter.

 The bus drivers were also given a set of pot holders. That brought my total number of pot holder sets to 14. I'm kinda sick of pot holders. The above pic is the set Gavin gave to his bus driver. Included was a sample set of lotions from Happy Hands. Unfortunately, I neglected to get a picture of the pot holders and lotion set for Henry and Irene's bus driver.

I also managed to knit a new hat for Mark. Again, no photo. He left on Sunday before I had a chance to take one. In fact, he left with a still damp hat since it hadn't had a chance to finish drying.

I did manage to lengthen the sleeves on the Weekender sweater that I knit for Easter. At the time I had only done elbow length sleeves. I wore it once, at Easter, and never wore it again. I had two big problems with it; sleeve length and itchy wool. I did have two balls of yarn left and Sunday/Monday found me ripping out the sleeves and making them wrist length. I happily wore the sweater today with a turtleneck underneath. The yarn is Knit Picks Wool of the Andes Tweed. It's nice, but my super special skin objects to it without a barrier. I did knit another Weekender sweater in October out of an acrylic yarn. I love that one. Oddly, on this one I followed the neck bind-off that the pattern calls for and it is tighter than I like. With the October version I did my favorite bind-off and the neckline is much more comfortable.

I do have a sweater that is 75% finished that I really should work on. Instead I am totally knitting socks. Oh well, I am just not up to that much knitting.

Until next time, Be Kind.

Holiday Knitting

I wasn't planning on doing much holiday gift knitting this year. And then...22 pot holders later. Yeah, I crocheted 22 pot holders to make 11 sets for Gavin to give out at school. I still have 2 more sets (4 individual) to crochet for bus driver gifts.

I found a video on YouTube that I followed. Unfortunately, I have no idea what the video is anymore since my computer completely died taking all my saved things with it. Still, if it's something you need you can just write it into the search option. These were very easy to crochet even for me with my lack of crochet talent. The yarn is Crafters Secret in the two holiday colorways that they carry.

The second holiday gift I finished is a pair of socks for Mark. I've never knitted him socks before. It's not something he has ever expressed an interest in. This year I wanted to give him a gift he could use while on the road or at home. These are his bumming-around-after-work-my-feet-are-cold socks.

The yarn is Patons Kroy in the Blue Striped Ragg colorway. I followed the Spacious OMG Heel sock pattern. I was not overly in love with this pattern, but I think it will work for Mark's feet.

And that is what I have finished for gift knitting!