sheep in the city

Somethings cookin'

Fry-Up news:
So I finally have my own progress to update about, and here it is...1X1 ribbing! Isn't it exciting?! I tried to take a picture that would make it look more exciting than it is. Did it work? I really don't like 1X1 ribbing, almost as much as I dislike seed stitch. Ugh! But at least I'm working on it. Obviously, the majority of you voted for the green, so I went with the green. I can't quite get my camera to capture the brightness of this yarn. It's really, really bright. I may have to make a pink one as well if this one goes together nicely. I might attach the "food" with snaps so that I could change the purse and not have to knit two of everything. (in the next update I'm going to do a similar thing with the fllowers, I'm all about short cuts these days) I decided to throw caution to the wind and knit the purse in the round. I'm fairly optimistic that it's going to turn out...have any of you other Fry-Up gals done this? We'll see, this could be an exercise in disaster.

**Any of you girls who have been working on your Fry-Ups, email me with any progress, especially those of you that don't have a blog...send me pictures!!**

Flower Basket Knitalong: (will hopefully start this in the next month or so!)
I think that I have enough yarn in my stash (big surprise!) to knit the flower basket bag without buying a single skein!! My plan is to use Tahki Baby in color #8 (which was going to be a sweater) for the background, and then use Brown Sheep Burly Spun in Limeade for the trellis. The flowers will probably be out of some kind of Brown Sheep as well. I plan on putting the flowers on with snaps so that I can change out the colors if I want to. It's going to be brighter than the model in the picture, but that's me so it's ok!

Thrum Mittens: They have been sadly neglected for a while now. I have no immediate plans to finish them since it's getting to be warmer weather and they were a little tedious for me to knit. I'm going to have to be reinspired to start them up again. They are in my half started/finished project bin...it doesn't look good for them.

Weasley-Along: Since my roomate moved out, the idea of knitting this sweater has lost a little bit of it's appeal. Plus, I never bought the yarn for an adult sweater. I did knit up three of the little mini-weasley's though...does that count? You can see them here.

Poetry in Stitches: Someday I'm going to pick this back because it is one of the most beautiful sweater kits! I love it, but just don't have the patience for it right now.

Flower Basket Shawl: Ditto...have the yarn in the stash and would love to wear this shawl this spring sometime. In the meantime, go drool over Stephanie's, it's wonderful.

Clapotis: Nothing exciting about dropped stitches, but I'll take a picture of my progress when it looks a little more impressive. Go check out Niki's finished Clapotis that she made with Koigu! It's to die for and I can already imagine this yarn being knit up in a similar manner.

Posted by Stacey at April 6, 2005 09:24 AM