Road Trip

Fall is the time of year we spend most weekends in the car. My husband, Larry, has two main interests, golf and Auburn football. I don't have to participate in the golf, but I do have to participate in the football. We drive about 6 hours each way for pretty much all of the Auburn home games. If any of you are Auburn fans, yes, we were there at the Auburn/LSU game. Everyone was hypervenilating those last few seconds. If you are an LSU fan, sorry.

Anyway, the point of this in my blog is that I get knitting done in the car. When I am not asleep, that is. I knitted the pink/purple small washcloth on the way down and the lavendar/cream bath mitt on the way home. I actually finished the mitt at home, because I slept a good deal of the trip on Sunday.

I was knitting the lavendar/cream washcloth and had cast on a lot of stitches, so it was going to be a big cloth. I decided to make it just long enough to cover my hand and fold it in half and crochet the sides and one end together to make a mitt. The pattern I used is here.

Doily Washcloth

I've been wanting to knit this doily style dishcloth, but don't like DPNs. I have also wanted to learn to knit in the round on two circular needles, but could not figure it out on socks, with that itty bitty yarn and those itty bitty needles.

When I made the Flower Power dishcloth (see in another blog entry) I was forced to learn this technique to finish the cloth. So, fueled by my success, I grabbed a ball of dishcloth cotton and knitted the doily.

Baskets

Baskets and knitting just seem to go hand in hand. I love to drop knitting projects into baskets and scatter them around the house.

These are baskets inherited from my mother; they date from the early 1900's.


This basket was purchased from a roadside stand outside of Budapest.


This basket was purchased at one of those Women's Shows at the local merchandise mart


Last night I went to the opening of a new exhibit at our local Craft and Design Museum; The Clark Field Collection. Clark Field was a businessman who collected basketry from the American Indians. The items date from the 1920s and 1930s and are mostly coiled, but some were woven. If you would like to take a look at some of these baskets, please click here.

I was completely enthralled with the baskets at the exhibition. My husband seemed happy enough, also. Later, over a late dinner, he told me he had really enjoyed reading the information about the photos on the walls (photos taken of the Indian artisans who made the baskets)....he said 'once you have seen one of those baskets, you have seen them all".........aaargh!!

Yarn Sale

A LYS is liquidating their stock and going to internet only. I have been waiting for the magic 50% off mark, and it hit today. And some was even 55%. I picked up 9 skeins of a cotton/silk blend in a dark fuschia to make a short sleeved top in a Rich Fronds pattern from Creative Knitting May 2005 (always save the knitting mags!). I picked up some black cotton/linen/viscose blend to knit a black and white ballband button top towel for a gift for my SIL's new kitchen. I don't want the black to fade, so went with the good stuff.

I was very overwhelmed with choices and could not think of what I wanted to knit! I had decided earlier to make small drawstring bags out of ribbon yarns for little gifts, so picked up 6 balls of nice yarn. Bought a skein of pale pink King Tut cotton for washcloths, also some pale blue cotton/acrylic for cloths. I like the idea of having some cloths that don't fade. Of course all this yarn may end up being something else.

I love yarn sales!

Big Needles....aargh

I am just about finished with the EZ Moebius. And NOW I remember that I hate #17 needles AND ribbon yarn. This project has not been relaxing. The bonus is, I am a short person and I knit loose, so I can make the Moebius wrap shorter and narrower and thus have a whole extra hank of fancy ribbon yarn and most of the shiny narrow ribbon yarn. I know I said I hate ribbon yarn, and I do, but I wanted to knit little drawstring jewelry/make-up bags for Christmas gifts and this should be enough yarn to do just that. I always love leftovers. A picture of the finished EZ Moebius on the wearer will eventually appear on this blog.