Hello friends. I hope that your New Year is going well. I can’t believe that we are already over half way into January! I have a funny feeling the rest of the year will fly by also. So, here is to taking one day at a time and enjoying each day doing whatever makes us happy.
So…what have I been up to? Well, I am still stitching on Mirabilia’s Ella, the Frog Princess and trying not to let all the yellow get me down! Here she is as I left her last night:
As you can tell from the photo, I have a long way to go. I am trying not to let that sea of yellow get the best of me. Thankfully I have some pretty flowers to give me a boost of color when I get too bored of the yellow. I have been overly tired lately, so the progress has been slow. But I am still enjoying her, so far.
A few weekends ago, I found a couple of knitting shops that I had never been to. Here is what I added to my stash 😉
Yarn and needles to knit a pretty little shoulder shawl from the book shown above. Forgot to take a photo of the actual shawl. But I will when I start it. I also bought my first Addi needles. I have heard they are nice, but have never tried them before. I am not a fan of circular needles, but this pattern called for circulars, in a size I knew I didn’t have. So I will let you know how I like them when I get to knitting on them.
And from the other shop that I visited, I found this:
This shawl was actually done up in the store and I fell in love with it immediately. The yarn it calls for is Saki, a hand dyed yarn by Prism. The color I chose is Portofino and I can’t wait to see how it knits up. I have actually started it and this is where I left off with this one:
I started with 11 stitches and increased up to 161 stitches in just that little bit! It is full of pattern and the last row that I did, I ended up with too many stitches, so had to knit it back 2 rows. I have put the purl row back in, but was a little afraid to pick it back up for fear of making another mistake. I have been too tired lately and I know better than to tackle a pattern when my brain is not up full speed. I am loving how the colors are knitting up already.
So, that is what I have been up to this month. What are you working on?
My Time Stitching 
Great progress.
What pretty shawls you are going to make.
Marilyn
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Thank you, Marilyn. Hopefully I can get at least one shawl done this winter 🙂 I sometimes stitch with a blanket on my lap, but my arms need something that doesn’t get in the was of stitching. I will post progress 🙂
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Wow, I’m excited about the shawls. They look so lovely in the photos and the colors are so pretty. I’d say they balance out all that yellow in the Frog Princess 🙂
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That is a good way to think about it, Paardje. When I get tired of yellow, I should pick up my knitting 🙂
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Beeautiful yarn!!!! Can’t wait to see the finished product. would love to be working with yarn right now. Have been trying to get cards done.
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Thanks, Marsha. It would be nice if I can finish one sometime soon 😉 I have cards to do, too. Hopefully today 🙂 I like to spread my hobbies out throughout the day sometimes…A little of this one, a smidge of that one, get back to this one and add a hunk of another. Pick up some yarn, girl!
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The sea of yellow looks gorgeous, although I can see why the occasional flower is looked forward to 🙂
Love the knitting projects too!
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Thank you, Carole. I am hoping to stitch this one right through to the end, but a sea of yellow?? And who knows what new project will come along and deter me 😉
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Lovely stitching as always Ginny. Love the wools you purchased, especially the one you are knitting with.
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Thank you. Still plugging away on Ella. Haven’t touched the knitting 😦 It will come.
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Your project is looking great!
That shawl is really pretty. Can’t wait to watch the progress.
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Thank you. Unfortunately, I haven’t touched my shawl since the picture. I switched to the wrong size needles and have to start over for fear of not having enough yarn, so that has kept me away.
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Is this the shawl you were talking about, Ginny? I love the colors in the yarn. Hope you do work on it sometime, and hope this time’s the charm! 🙂 Your (other) needlework skills are amazing, by the way!
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Hi Anita. It isn’t the shawl I was referring to, but had problems with this one also. It seems I started the yoke with the larger needles rather than the smaller, so I will have to re-do this one also 😦 It is a one skein (expensive skein) shawl, and I don’t want to run out of yarn. Was just working on the other shawl and still coming up wrong! Knitted one row, unknitted 2 rows, still off and can’t seem to find out where. I have knitted the 3 rows back in and will continue one more row to see if I have the right # of stitches. They don’t give me a stitch count until row 14 but when I end the row with 2 sts instead of 1, I know it’s wrong. I will post it soon. Back to try again 🙂
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Oh that does sound like a mystery… Hope you find that you’re going about it correctly, but if not, hope you can wing it by decreasing or increasing somewhere, and keep going! 😀 Good luck with both shawls!
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I am still plugging away at it Anita. Frogged a few more times, but I am up to row 10 now. I will post a picture soon if it continues to go well 🙂
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