Chevrons and Curls

So yesterday was a pretty exciting day, I got a new book in the mail. I heard about this book from a podcast, I think it was Just One More Row. Anyways, it is a book called Curls by Hunter Hammersen. I am making one for my mother, and I just started it last night, and I am making pretty good progress. The one I am making is called Gridelin. I am making it out of Pagewood Farm yarn in the Yukon base, which is Merino Superwash, Bamboo, Nylon (70/20/10), in the colorway Army Girl. I got it from Sue's Soft Stuff in Northern Missouri, I don't remember exactly which town. (My mom and I went on a mini yarn/fabric crawl for my birthday). She had a lot of locally produced fiber, and I got a lot of alpaca and llama. I'm working the curl on a US Size 4 needles.

I'm making this one for my mother, since she wears scarf type things in the office that she works at much more than I wear them. The next one that I will make I'll make for my grandmother. It took me about an hour or so of knitting right off the chart before I got it memorized, but now it is making sense and I am just flying through. I am really liking working on this and can't wait to finish this one and make some more. The colors are truer in this photo, and you can see a bit of the stitch detail.

In other news I ran out of light pink yarn for a ripple blanket I was working on, so I finished it up yesterday. I think that it turned out really cute. This is of course for Project Linus, and the pattern is from the 100 Colorful Ripple Stitches to Crochet by Leonie Morgan. I cannot speak highly enough of this book, I have made three or four blankets from the patterns from this book and have really loved working on every single one of them.

I also decided to go ahead and post the pictures that I have done and if they don't get any views than I will redo them and try again, this time making a proper photo box, but I think that the ones I have now will work and look nice. So if you want to check out my store, now with some hats for sale as well as all the bags it's right here. Thanks!