Then I cast on and cast off a corner-to-corner crochet throw. It's super addicting, and just crochets up so fast. I think that diagonal blankets tend to go faster for me personally anyways. This was made with a size I/9 crochet hook, and I used some of the nicer acrylic in my stash. This blanket is going to be donated to Project Linus this month, along with the other corner-to-corner throw that I was working on last time.
Similarly, I cast on about two days ago another diagonal blanket. This one is my own design, just working corner to corner, increasing at the end and beginning of every row until it is larger enough, and then decreasing and the beginning and end of every row until it goes back to a point. It's all just single crochet. And this blanket is just scraps of all my projects from the last couple months. I love, love, love working on blankets like this, and even though I rarely make a pattern twice I think this is my fourth or fifth blanket of this same theme. All have been donated to Project Linus, and this one will be too this month. I plan on finishing it either tonight or tomorrow.
Then there are a couple other old projects. I started a hat way back in about February or March, with the intent that I would wear hats all year round, and this would be my "summer" hat. Silly me, I forgot that it's about a MILLION degrees in Missouri during the summer. So, so much for that idea. but I like how this yarn is knitting up. It's a fingering weight, knit up on size 2 needles.
Another fingering weight project that I am working on is a preemie blanket for Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City. I like working a blanket from the center out. I was experimenting with a center out blanket with both stripes and lace. You can't really see the lace, but it's a diamond lace pattern stolen from a blanket pattern from the 101 Lace One Skein Wonders book. This blanket is also being worked on size 2 needles.
A third sock weight project is a second pair of socks for G. He really liked and appreciated his first pair, and so I thought I would use the rest of the second skein with doing coordinating heels and toes, and I think that I will have enough yarn. finding the second skein was an adventure in itself. I made the whole sock, and it was going to be like an ankle sock, so I went back to the yarn store, and the yarn was discontinued. So they looked up in the computer who else had bought a similar kind of yarn, and they brought a skein back to the store, and I bought it from them. It was quite the production to get everyone coordinated! So now, I have coordinating dark green yarn for the toes, heels, and cuffs, and have my fingers crossed that I will have enough yarn left to make them a decent length!
Almost off the needles is the baby blanket for my baby cousin J. He is due in November, and his baby shower is in September, so I am WAAAY ahead of schedule. I like how this blanket has turned out, but it was written for worsted weight yarn, and this was worked on size 5 needles in Dreambaby DK, so even though I cast on more stitches, it still ended up being a little narrower than I would have liked. I am happy over all though, and it has a really nice hand to it.
Since I am making a blanket for baby J, I also need to make one for baby B (who was born about two months ago- so I am a bit behind with him, OOPS). I am tunisian crocheting, with lime green and navy Plymouth Encore, size I/9 hook, and it's a worsted weight yarn. It also has a nice hand, and I am liking the new technique, because I got the new double ended hook, with a cable connecting the two ends. It's pretty exciting how long I can make my rows now!
On the other end of the spectrum is another blanket for Project Linus made out of bulky yarn, that is being knit on size 11 needles. I am just having a hard time getting into this project. The needles are too big and they honestly hurt my hands, after knitting on such a small scale for so long, it's just too big of a transition. The yarn was donated to me after a Make-A-Blanket day about a year ago, so it is high time that I actually finished this project though. The blanket has only been on the needles about a month or so though.
Last but not least I have been spinning as well. I'm not really participating in Tour de Fleece, but everyone else posting their beautiful pictures to Instagram has inspired me to sit at the wheel a couple times during the last week, so I am making slow, but steady process on a braid that I got at the All MO Spin-In that was held in Chillicothe, MO that was a ton of fun. The colors are way funky, and I tried to correct them with flickr filters, but I don't think it worked very well. They are pretty muted and almost muddy in real life, I am going to ply them with a dark brown alpaca and have a really interesting yarn for a cowl or something of that nature.
And in upcoming news, I have my next project planned. Granted, there are a few projects hibernating, and several that I've blogged about in this post that are almost done, so I don't really feel like I am being to crazy here. I am wanting to make a crescent shawl- I haven't finalized the pattern yet, but I am really looking towards something that I can have stripes on. I am really digging stripes right now, and just don't have enough of them in my life. So I picked out a skein of Boboli Lace that was on sale at the yarn store, and paired in with a skein of Knit Picks Chroma fingering, and a skein of mystery fingering weight brown yarn from a consignment yarn store. I am really excited about watching them all play together, and I think it will make a lovely shawl. I've never made a crescent shawl, so I am excited to see how the construction varies from just a regular triangle shawl.
I will try to post some time in the next few days and get back into a schedule with my posts. I'm really tempted to start a podcast, just because I think it would be fun, but I think I need to be more disciplined with releasing different blogs and whatnot before I actually invest into that kind of equipment and such.
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