(Country tune to back in the saddle again) I'm back on the needles again...

Hooray... Yippee... Whoopie...
I am back knitting again and it feels so good. I am currently working in a pair of socks and felted catnip mice to sell at my works arts and crafts fair in December.

Felted catnip mice are $5 each... Hit me up if you want one. I will have many in various colors.

Terry-Jo
~keeping you in stitches

Sore Elbows - Empty needles

Hello....

Sorry I haven't blogged for awhile.

I have been stricken with Tendonitis in my elbows...otherwise known as *gasp* Knitting Elbow!  So painful that I had to stop knitting.

Projects are just laying there in a heap as the clock ticks on. I even went on vacation without a knitting project. sigh... On vacation I even turned down visiting an ultra cool Yarn Store "String Theory Hand Dyed yarn" in Blue Hill, ME because I just could look at the yarn knowing I couldn't knit it up. It was like twisting the knife.

In the mean time I have been reading "real" books, working a puzzle, playing on my new MacBook Pro computer... and feeling a little bored...  I really really really miss knitting.

While I haven't been knitting I did take a wonderful vacation to the East Coast. Visiting Boston and Maine. I took in a RedSox game, a Sounders FC away game, Ride the Ducks Boston tour, Boston Museum of Science Planetarium, the JFK Museum & Library and then while in Maine staying with one of my BFF's we just hung out a relaxed. I got to see FireFlies for the first time in my life and it was AMAZING. We ate lots of Lobster and visited Fort Knox, ME and the Penobscot Narrows Observatory where we rode an elevator 430 feet up and witnessed an amazing view. We walked in and around the Fort. We watched Hometown Fourth of July Celebrations and fireworks. It was a busy trip and we did so much... I came back having had the best vacation I have had in a long time. I came home very relaxed.

Next up on the travel agenda will be Phoenix to see Meg and Josh. I really miss her and I haven't seen her since Thanksgiving. I can't believe the time has gone by so fast.... I'm looking forward to all the trouble we're going to get in....  ;)

That's all for now....

~Keeping you in Stitches
Terry-Jo

Sweater for Baby Parker

I found out that my good Friend Stephanie is having a Baby Girl in June 2012. So I decided to knit a sweater for her Baby Shower... So here are pictures of the almost finished Project for the Baby Princess!

Terry-Jo

~Keeping you in Stitches

The Cowl, The Saroyan and the Cardigan...

Sorry I have been quiet on the blogging... I have been so busy knitting.

I have finished the Cowl that I was making out of the MadelineTosh DK. It turned out beautiful and it looks wonderful on my very good friend Katie:

My next project is the neck scarlet: The Saroyan. This is a beautiful pattern with an edge of leaves:

Then finally an update on my beautiful cardigan. I have been knitting this since mid January and it knits really fast. I can't wait to finish this sweater and wear it.

Enjoy!

Terry-Jo

~Keeping you in Stitches

The Chevron Cowl

This is my new pattern that I am knitting for my dear friend Katie. The yarn is MadelineTosh DK and the color is: Mansfield's Garden Party. This yarn is the hot new Buzz yarn that everyone is talking about and using. I bought myself some and now I know what the "BUZZ" is all about. Its super soft and is a pleasure to knit with.

~Keeping you in stitches

Terry-Jo

TJ's Cardigan - Progress update

I started this cardigan on 1/12/2012. and I am almost done with the first skein of yarn. It's knitting up beautifully. So different an experience from the previous two sweaters I've knit.  

The first sweater I knit was a great Debbie Bliss Pattern but the yarn that was chosen, though a beautiful color and texture, was a horrible finished product that has stretched and pilled to no end. 

The second sweater I did was made with a bright robins egg blue with flecks of miscellaneous color. The yarn was called "Blossom". I immediately fell in love with it. I picked my pattern and even though my instructors thought me crazy for choosing the extremely fuzzy yarn I started my project. After three months of knitting and errors... I sat on my couch and in a 1/2 hr  ripped out 3 months of work. Balled it up and threw it in the back of the closet. A few months to a year later I hauled it back out again and preceded to begin again and finished it. But it just wasn't what I envisioned. The this last fall I bought a bought a book called "Coastal Knits" and fell in love once again with the "Water's Edge Cardigan" pattern. I am so surprised at how fast this is knitting up. I've had the yarn in my stash forever and its such a beautiful Green color that its so much fun to see it come into shape.

Terry-Jo

~Keeping you in stitches

The Water's Edge Cardigan

This is my new sweater that I started on 1/12/2012. Its a beautiful pattern and seems to be knitting up great. although I'm not that far but so far it is going smoothly.

The yarn is Rowan Felted Tweed and its a celery/sage color. I couldn't believe that I actually had to buy a 32" size 8 circular needle. With all the needles that I have in my collection. An assortment of my mom's and mine (200+ pairs of needles)... you'd think I would have had it.

I will keep updating with pictures as I get further along.

Terry-Jo
~Keeping you in Stitches

The new Sox - Mysterium

I started a new sock pattern this past weekend. I am calling it "Mysterium". I found the pattern on Ravelry and it was a KAL knit a long. The pattern is very well written and goes fast too! I love the color: The Incredible Shrinking Violet!!!

Terry-Jo
~keeping you in stitches

My New Years Resolution and the curious case of the birthday Sox

I never make new years resolutions but this year I decided I would. I want to expand my network of friends and meet new people. So I decided to start this by attending a weekly knitting night near my home. I went last night for the first time and had a blast. I met some new people who (of course) love to knit.

I also finished a project that I began in September. Hooray Stephanie's sox are now finished and I can't wait to give them to her!

I am also on a quandary about what to pick for my new project... I am heading towards a sweater. I have a bunch of yarn already in my stash. I have a pattern called "Water's Edge Cardigan" from the Coastal Knits book.

~Keeping you in stitches
Terry-Jo