Emily’s Knits

On hint 3 of SotSiii and not even selecting yarn or beads for MS4, I’m significantly behind all the talented knitters who finished or nearly finished both this week.  I’ve downloaded all the hints for both, and look forward to possibly getting to them in the future.

The fish blanket isn’t quite going swimmingly, but it’s getting there.  I set myself a deadline of wanting to be done by Halloween, but that’s certainly a little too ambitious.

On Hold

I’ve been on the Secret of the Stole III list since the end of July, and am partway through Clue 3.  I recently joined the Mystery Stole 4 group, but haven’t chosen yarn or beads yet.  I’m waiting to see how the rest of the pattern turns out, since I don’t have much time to devote to it anyway.

I set aside the baby blanket I was working on – I was uninspired, and the fish edging was harder than I had originally hoped.  There are a few easy solutions to that (create the border pieces separately then join, forget about the fish) but I don’t want to think about figuring it out right now.

Current

Right now I’m working on the Festive Fish blanket I started a while ago from Lion Brand Homespun in blue and green.  It looks like 2 balls of yarn (one in each colour) will come close to making three rows of five fish.  I’m very pleased with the way they’re turning out, though a little worried about the ultimate washability of the yarn.  I’ll take some pictures of the fish and post them soon.  I also have several thoughts of making the small daisy pillows quicker by using the same Homespun for those as well, and maybe some flat coasters in addition.

In projects that I need to finish off there are the final touches on Rosemary’s prayer shawl and then the rest of the SotSII-inspired shawl I started for Irina.

I’m tempted to stock up on Koolaid tomorrow when I go shopping – Safeway currently has the small packets on sale.

Future

I’m looking for a nice shawl pattern that will only require around 880 yards of fingering weight yarn.  The beautiful teal and blue wool that Jess and I dyed needs to be used!