Aren't We Thankful For Knitting Once Again?!

 It's crazy out there, and I am hoping you dear reader are weathering it with your knitting!

For a few days this week, there has been sunshine and warmer days and impromptu knitting on the porch!

With some finished objects I will share next week on the podcast and next Friday here, but here is a glimpse of just knitting and coffee and letting the world stop for a bit.

I hope your knitting is bringing you some easy moments while we Choose Joy!!

Finally Finished Friday

 There is a few this Friday that I have been saving for Friday Finishes.

First up is a test knit that I started last year for Beth Macdonald Stone, Get Out of the Pool Tee DK Version.  Knit in pieces with the intention to omit pooling in the knit.  This was a fun knit to watch as my yarn colors emerged from the skein.  

I'm not a super fan of sewing up sweaters, and I have to admit, it took me a couple of weeks to actually sit down and do it, but finally I did and it wasn't so bad and now,  I have a new sweater for Summer dresses!

And with jeans or crops, as I discovered this morning for pictures on a real body, not just Miss Manny. 

Second on the list is Twistmas Hat by Espace Tricot.  I used Drops Air from a sweater I knitted a few years back.  The pom came first, I bought it and then went to PYS to see what I could knit a hat out of.  

I have enough Drops still to do some mittens and now that I have worn the hat out in cold this week, so now I am stoked to cast some matching items for my hat.

Last up this week is my Flax sweater, another 2024 WIP that I have been really just knitting on down at my local yarn shop.  Base yarn is some deep stash Sunday Knits yarn that I have had for sometime.  I bought the Suri to go with from my local yarn shop and the two of them together are scrumptious!

A cozy sweater that is going to get a lot of wear around here at Chez PJKnits!

It feels so good to have some 2024 WIPS in my journal checked off!!

 Episode 134 is up on You Tube and you can watch it by clicking here

There are some finishes, some WIPS and hilites of an event I recently attended virtually with Darn.Knit Anyway, Sweater Camp.

Happy Valentines Day!

 

Almost Done

 We had some snow yesterday, and I just couldn't resist going out and having some fun in it with my Flax.

The downside of tossing it in the snow, is that you have to bring it in and can't knit on it right away, cause it is so wet.

But, I had a solution, a nice warm spot where all things go when coming in from the snow.

And today, I purposely tossed into the water to be blocked!

Super excited to have this done and ready to continue on with a new WIP!

There Has Been Some Shopping

 You know one of my intentions for 2025 is to try and (again) use PYS (Penny's Yarn Shop aka Stash) and my library whenever possible.  But, two things-- I love a good knitting book and yarn can be bought if I absolutely cannot find something in PYS that fits the bill.  

Lets just also say, that as I look at new knits for the year, I am leaning quite often to knitting them out of the yarn the designer designed it out of,* which of course, would mean a purchase of yarn and I'm ok with going out of that intention!  Sometimes when I try to hard to use PYS, I settle for a yarn just to use PYS, and then kick myself for not buying.  More about that later.

Lets talk books.  My lys, got Knitting for Olive last week and posted it on Instagram.  This is a book thatI wanted before Christmas, but just couldn't justify buying it.  One of the things I have done in the past, is not give it much thought and bought a knitting book, sight unseen, even though I could have checked all the designs out on Ravelry.  There is just something about a hardcover book in my hands and really looking at it.

On Tuesday, I went to the shop, thumbed through the book quickly and set it aside.  A bit later, I picked it up and really looked at it, making mental note about how many of the patterns in the book, that I potentially would want to knit.  The cost of the book is $32 and so I wanted to equate that to price per pattern.  My take away is that over a period of time, there are at least 6 patterns I would like to knit out of it, and decided it was a good deal.  Now, these are patterns more than likely ones that I am going to actually knit out of Knitting For Olive yarn, *see above.

Stay tuned as I am sure there will be more to show from this book as the year progresses.

I hope you are having a great Super Bowl Sunday, and knitting through the state of our world right now.

Hugs my friends!

I Would Do It Again

 

Sweater Camp, but virtually via Zoom, with Darn Knit. Anyway!  Next week, tune into the podcast, and I will tell you all about it!

I will tell you that I completed my goal for the weekend, finishing the front of my sweater and onto the sleeves!

Stay tuned this week for the 2nd Makers Meetup Announcement with Kendra and I on my PJKnits You Tube Channel!!!