Complete Dubbelmossa

I finished my hat last night. It really took much longer than I expected. The first picture is with it uncuffed. The second and third pictures are with it cuffed. You can tell how big it is on mom. It works well with my big head. Not sure how long the tassel will last, I didn't do the best job attaching it to the hat.

Dubbelmossa

I decided I wanted to make the Dubbelmossa hat that has been available on School House Press. I have been knitting for over a week on it. This picture is from Sat night. The outside hat is complete and I am almost complete with the inside hat. This is the first time I have knitted with unspun Islandic. It is thin and you have to be very careful. I did pull the yarn apart a couple times but it was easy enough to twidle it back together. I am knitting a little over 6 stitches per inch, I think this is the first time for me. The hat is 144 stitches around. In size 8 needles I would a have sweater for a small women complete. This picture doesn't show it well but the hat is probably 18" long at this point. I will post the completed hat in the next couple days. I do have to work and walk.

PET MY BELLY

I was taking pictures of my completed Shawl collar sweater. The pictures are terrible and I need to lose 20 pounds now. Anyway, Max was his usual self wanting someone to pet his belly. He does have his best friend "Big Teddy" with him. You can tell Max is ready for the winter and snow with all of his hair gown back.

This Weekend

Another beautiful weekend in Wisconsin. I got a bike ride in on Saturday. A nice long walk on Sunday. A week ago I decided I needed some gloves for the cooler weather, all the gloves I have are for the serious weather. So between finishing the shawl I got these gloves complete on Sunday. They are of of Falk wool with size 4 needles. Charcoal heather in color, I am sure a hat to go along is not far away. The gloves are on top of the finished shawl. Once I find a model I will post pictures. School House Press posted a completed version on their home page. I should have used bigger needles, mine is only half as big. I think the size mine came out will be fine. I made my annual apple pie.

Shawl Update

I spent the past weekend walking and Knitting. I got in over 10 miles in on the road. Sunday was windy, but with my new coat that I got for $0 from job #2 I didn't even notice there was wind. It felt like I was knitting for hours and hours which is true and I wanted to complete my shawl project since the last set of directions are out. Well it didn't happen, by Sunday evening watching my favorite shows the errors were really happening so I had to put it down. Hopefully tonight it will be finished and blocked. I can tell blocking will be very important to really see the design.

Mittens

Just thought I would post some of the mittens I have completed over the last couple months. The pair on the top right are actually knit to the "T" to EZ's pattern, the rest of course I have taken liberties with.

Update #2 Pansey shawl

I finished part one of the shawl, waiting for the new post on Friday. It is fun to knit once I got the rhythm of the pattern. I am working with size 8 needles and my diamonds are a lot smaller than the knit along pattern. I ended with 6 diamonds across. I hope I did the last couple of rows correctly. The pattern doesn't show a final shawl, so I don't know what the center area is suppose to look like. In the mean time I am going to finish some mittens that I have started. I hope my knit club is moving along with there knitting project. I have not heard from them.