Soaring Beanies and a Silk Scarf

At Knitter's Guild on the weekend we made a silk scarf, no yarn in sight, but we had fun, and while having afternoon tea and waiting for scarfs to dry completely, I did manage to do some knitting on my first soaring eagles project beanie.

The colours I used for the scarf were a purple, bright pink and deep aqua, they came together pretty well for my first attempt. It was a pretty windy day, so we took the scarfs outside and held onto them as they flapped around in the wind, which dried them nearly completely in a short time.


I have finished 3 beanies for Soaring Eagles Project. They have asked to be knitted in acrylic for ease of caring for.


The first two (at the bottom of photo) are from the MODA Impact Issue 3 Children's Knit book, on size 4mm needles and knitted with blue acrylic. The were both a quick knit, plain but versatile.

The third beanie is the Basic Cable beanie on page 75 of Stitch N Bitch Nation. I didn't read the instructions properly (surprise, surprise), and didn't do the 6 rows of rib, I just got stuck straight into the 6 row cable repeat, it was so easy, and nice to knit, I am really happy with this pattern so will probably do more.

Soaring Eagles Project

Looking for a good cause? How about knitting for less fortunate school children? Rachel over at Procrastiknitter is looking for lovely people who are willing to knit small projects for the children at her school. These things might be the ONLY things some of these kids get for Christmas.....And it will keep them warm this coming winter in the US. If you would like to help out go HERE!

It will be a bit like "Paying it Forward", doing a wonderful thing without wanting anything back. And just imagine the faces on these school children when they receive a hat or a scarf, or with a little bit of effort both for each child.

A group is going to make 300 scarfs, so that is one for each child, so we all need to get knitting on some beanies or headbands, so each child can receive a scarf and beanie/headband.

So come on all you knitters in this big wonderful world of knitting, lets all get together and make this one of the best things to happen to all the children at this School. And especially for Rachel for putting this great idea out there.

Catch up with gifts

I must apologise to anyone who has sent me gifts for POM, Dishcloth exchange or just because they are wonderful people, that I haven't posted photos of the gifts, well here they are, and please don't be mad if I have forgotten anyone, it has been a rough week in this household. DH lost his job last week, #1 son was really sick last week, couldn't keep food down, lost heaps of weight (wish that was me), and is very pale looking, our Dr. picked up that his Specialist gave him the wrong medication, son stopped taking them on weekend, a day later started to feel a bit better, after a blood test yesterday, our Dr. rang and told me to get son to emergency in Wollongong Hospital straight away he needed a blood transfusion, he got there about 5pm. Not only did specialist prescribe the wrong medication but failed to act on his last blood test a few weeks back that was showing his blood count to be low. He rang us at 1.20am to see if we could drive in and pick up his girlfriend and take her home, I drove in and picked her up at 2am in the morning getting back to bed at around 3am, after 14 hours in hospital overnight all is well with him now, I just need to catch up on some sleep and find some stress free things of some kind so I can feel a bit normal myself, all in all not a good week here. Anyway can't complain, things can get worse and probably will, the house is a bit of a hot topic here, with only about 4 weeks of money to keep us going, things look as if we won't be enjoying our new renovations for very long, and that some other family may just benefit from them. Not a happy knitter am I.


Shannon sent me a nice tea bag in a lovely bag, actually two tea bags, but customs opened it and sent one to me with sticky tape on the end of it where they had opened it, so it went straight in the bin, what do customs think people are actually going to consume something they have literally cut open then taped back up, what are they stupid. The remaining surviving tea bag was really enjoyed, thanks Shannon.

My dishcloth pal sent me a lovely Katharine Hepburn book, I love Katharine Hepburn, wish my spirit and get up and go was like her. Along with 4 very lovely dishcloths, which I did take a photo of when they arrived but it got misplaced somewhere along the line, so I took another one tonight, they have all been used and the red one with the initial "A" on it is in the washing basket (clean) waiting for me to fold and put away.

Then there was a lovely gift again from Shannon received today, some really nice Halloween things, I have to admit, I have been eating the candy while typing this, pretty nice, washed down with a bourbon and coke....lovely.

Another gifts received today was from Amysue, a lovely Autumn note pad and a lovely note typed on it, with a lovely autumn leaf shaped stitch holder with the intitial "A" on it and some pretty pink ribbon.

What else, oh yeah... pictures of the scarfs and gloves I am knitting for someone who ordered them, not doing that again, not really my thing. I still have to sew up one of the mauve gloves and finish knitting the blue fingerless glove, hopefully tomorrow night that will be done and I will try to contact the woman and see if she will collect them while I am at knitter guild on Saturday.


I also have on the needles a Bendigo cotton summer top for me, the back nearly finished, but will take photos next time.

Still a knitting, broken needle and all

I have gotten some lovely gifts from Tribe members, thanks so much, you are all so thoughtful.

I did finish the black vest and gave it to person today for her birthday. I also finished both of the scarves for my order.

I then started on the first set of gloves, and was about half way through the first glove and not without a bit of a needle drama, and with life time guarantee Ivore needles I might add. Can you see, yes look below.

I got about half way through the first glove, the first time I used these needles and guess what, into the row, knitting along, and then it happened, the damn thing broke, yes it broke. They will be going back for a refund I can tell you. They were nice to knit with, but never again. Anyway I did remember to take all my needles away with me, so it wasn't too much a drama, just had to pick up stitches and transfer others to a new needle.

I am itching to start a cotton top for me, but I am here blogging instead, as I am trying to avoid starting it until I finish the order of gloves, I wish I could just loose the woman's details and not finish them. BAD bad knitter, if I do that. I guess it is because I am not sure I even like the mauve scarf, I do like the second scarf, so that is why I am in two minds as to finish them or not.