I’m back from several days in Iowa, where it is COLD COLD COLD. I grew up in Iowa. I should know how cold it is there. But apparently, I had forgotten. Snow on the ground, gray skies, and windy freezing cold weather. I went to visit my mother-in-law for her birthday. I’m lucky to have a great mother-in-law. I know not everyone likes theirs, but I love mine! We had a great time shopping, eating out, enjoying coffee, and watching movies. If you’re ever near Clinton, Iowa, try 392 Caffe on Second Avenue. Awesome coffee and hot chocolate. (So good that we went two days in a row.) 392 is the temperature at which coffee beans start to roast.
From there, I headed to Cedar Falls to visit my forever friends, Steve and Janice for a couple of days. All of you Spring Flingers know Janice and her daughter Kirstin (the cake ball maker), so I had them pose with Kirstin’s husband Alex so I could share it with you! Kirstin got married the weekend of our last Spring Fling (last April) and she and her hubby are expecting baby #1 this March. I made the baby hat and booties for her that I shared on last week’s blog. (Thanks for all of your sweater suggestions – so helpful!) Janice plans to be back for the Fall Fling this year, and I know you all will be glad to have her there again. I will, too!
Back to the cold – when I left the Des Moines airport yesterday, it was freezing and so windy. I was glad to be back to Denver, where it was a balmy 31. And happy to see my hubby, who held down the fort at home while I was gone.
In my knitting bag: I’m test knitting an upcoming Giftables pattern, have socks to finish, need to get back to my Funky Grandpa sweater, and am ready to cast on something with The Verdant Gryphon’s Bugga. I haven’t decided on the pattern yet.
On my sewing table: Reds, teals and chocolates in Fat Quarters and one yard pieces, waiting to become a coffee cup wall hanging.
What does your knitting bag or sewing table look like? Leave a comment below and one of you will win this cute “Taste of Wollmeise” bag that I brought home from Germany with me last fall! Aren’t the mini skeins adorable? (This is not something we can get to sell here, but you can buy these from Claudia’s website in Germany.) Each little skein is 30 gr. and there are 12 skeins in the zippered pouch. I’ll be sending it off to one of you next week!
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Beside my chair is a lovely gray sweater, I’m on the back and it is lovely. In my knitting bag is the guernsey wrap in Madelinetosh color mooreland, emerald green. On my cutting table is a double wedding ring and finishing up at sewing is a double nine patch. On my quilting machine frame is Celtic Blessing. I think I have a Celtic thing going on. PattiO
My “current projects” knitting bag has the Tulip Cardigan (one sleeve and neckline to go), the Sonata modular gloves, a skein of Koigu, and my kit with scissors, crochet hooks, safety pins, and various sizes of sewing needles. My “waiting for the right time” knitting bag has a shawl that needs I-cord bind-off on 3 sides, pieces of an owl waiting to be assembled, and a vest that needs to be re-started as the gauge was wildly off and could fit Frosty the Snowman.
My knitting bags are full to the max
So many projects, which one to attack?
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My knitting room would surely spin!
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My knitting bag is currently full of body parts! Parts of my soon-to-be little knitted friends. Rabbits, bears, mice, and others. I love knitting the little parts, but its harder to put them together. I love when a new one is born though!!
My “active” knitting bag holds a Viajante ( halfway completed, it is my marathon project) and a Song of the Sea ( the sprint project).
Which knitting bag? I have a bunch! I’m working on an un-biased scarf in zauberball, a pair of socks in wollmeise, I have a celestial in time out because I was reading the chart wrong, and I really feel like casting on a hat.
Which knitting bag? I have about 5 knitting bags with different projects, at different stages of development. One scarf, one or two shawls, a pair of socks, a sweater or two and many new projects waiting in line. I am never without a knitting project! On my sewing table are different knitting projects waiting to be finished … adding the elastic waist to my skirt, finishing the edging on a cowl, and finishing the piecing of a sweater and a shawl project. I can’t imagine adding quilting to my life!
My Jordana Paige bag has my Stellanti WIP, half a sock, and a lace heirloom baby blanket. And that’s not what is on the shelf next too it. Yarn, tools, patterns… DH is a clutter nut so I’, trying to keep it neat looking 🙂
I have my first Opal socks on the needles. They are my first socks for 2014. No sewing for me.
I’m finishing up baby hats for several families. Our church has had an explosion of new babies which has forced me to look for and try new patterns which has been fun. I have a pattern picked out for socks for myself and a bunch of items that need to be blocked now that I have learned how to do it. Also, I’m kind of thinking about a spring sweater.
I have several makeshift knitting bags. They all contain a variety of tools such as crochet hooks and darning needles. I am always on the lookout for knitting bags. Seems like I have too many UFO’s.
My knitting bag is full of UFOs. I have a scarf I have been knitting out of sock yarn since 2009. It feels endless. I knit a few rows then get bored with it. The yarn is pretty but splitty. I have pair of mittens with a color work cuff. There are about a dozen colors to manage and my yarn gets tangled and i get frustrated and put it down. Someday I will knuckle down and get past that pesky cuff.I have a bag with a sock that I throw in my suitcase when I travel for business.
My knitting bag has my knit swirl in it! I’m making it out of gorgeous Malabrigo in the Velvet Grapes colorway.
My knitting bag currently has three projects: a garter stitch shawl, an angora scarf, and a fuzzy fake-fur scarf (which I can’t knit on because of the tremendous amount of static in the air right now!)
I have a few items at work in multiple knitting bags. I did just finish a hat and cast on for a skirt last night! It occurred to me this morning that the skirt has to pull on over my butt so I might have to start over
i don’t have a table but my house has yarn, hooks and needles all over it. i have so many projects going! not to mention bags for my projects….
The knitting bag..uhmmmm is an over sized grocery bag that has 2 shawls and a pair of socks at various stages. Just this a.m. have a shawl and a cowl blocking on my office floor. Yiippee!
Unfortunately my knitting bag is full of UFOs. One of my resolutions is to pick up my knitting again – I have really missed it!
Today, I have three projects going concurrently: a baby surprise jacket made with Three Irish Girls, a mystery KAL with Shalimar Breathless, and an adorable big girl hat made with leftover Malobrigo Bulky.
I have 3 knitting bags that are active, mystery mitts in one, lace scarf KAL in another, and a cowl in handspun in the third.
Over the length of two couches, I have 3 skeins of yarn to knit a striped hat for charity (75% done). I have a huge skein of cotton for knitting dishcloths. I’ve got a bag with Noro Silk Garden for birthday socks (almost got one done). I’ve got a bag with Alpine wool for knitting birthday mittens (nearly finished with one). Finally, I’ve got five different colors of fingering for a mitten KAL on Ravelry (only on the cuff). Oh, I almost forgot the sweater I started in Lambs Pride. Guess I really need some wollmeise to spread out over the bare areas that are showing.
Which bag?? LOL. One bag has just enough ruffles scarf using a wool/angora blend & an Anja hat in Remix. Another smaller bag has barley hat using coffee bean. I’ve never used or even touched woolimese….ooooooh.
My many knitting bags are full of an assortment of things…..but this year will be lots of selfish knitting! Lots of shawls/wraps for me. I think 6 or 7 of my bags have shawls for me OTN!
My knitting bag contains projects that I didn’t complete last year but plan to this year – advent scarf, color affection, a shawl with beads. I’m setting my goals for this year so a few more things will pop in there. It’s cold in GA too! I’m ready for spring!
My sewing room is a disaster! Looks like a tornado hit it. Although, i do have a pathway to my seing area and the ironing board. Then, my knitting area is like a nest with everything piled high around my chair and there i sit, in the middle, knitting, lol.
I don’t have just one knitting bag. I have about a dozen, which should tell you what they look like – a mess!
I have many bags and each a project started-socks, baby sweaters and afghans
I have lots of knitting bags, but the one I use most is my casual black LeSportsac purse with its colorful Polynesian themed fabric. It’s small enough to be an almost daily purse and large enough to carry a sweater in progress. For smaller projects I have a drawstring sock bag that clips to my belt loop.
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My knitting bag has a cardigan for me (cables) a baby sweater (stripes) and a sock (easy and mindless Stocking stitch)- all wips so I can knit what I want when I get a few minutes to knit a few stitches.
My knitting “bag” is actually the area around my recliner when I am home. Currently, it has a partially finished pair of footies for hubby (3rd pair knitted this year), the top half of an Entrelac pillow cover a started sweater and an ball of Misti alpaca with a scarf idea that is marinating. I’ll also be casting on for a new sock pattern later today because I woke up with an idea that my hands are itchy to start knitting.
In my Tangerine Designs bag ( I love her bags) is a scarf I’m knitting out of my Sept 2013 Dream in Color Smooshy club yarn.
My knitting bag is full of gray and teal. The girl child wants a hat. My sewing table has a 70% completed commission of an American style utility kilt in black medium weight canvas.
My knitting bags have a pair of socks, a Meteorology scarf, and a very simple shrug which I hope has large enough stitches to work on after this week’s cataract surgery. The others might be too small initially. On my sewing table is an astronomy themed quilt to hang in my classroom and various alteration jobs.
My bag has a Rockafeller, an AG doll vest, a charity baby blanket, & a cowl (because it’s freeeeeezing here).
My first pair of socks for 2014 (from deep stash), a half completed cowl and a just started Molly hat.
I have at least 3 projects going on, right now, a pair of fingerless mitts, a baby blanket and socks.
My knitting bag currently has an Ashford Shawl in progress. I’m loving it! I’m using Bugga in Cicada Days, Plucky Feet in Steel Horse, and Wollmeise Pure in Petite Poison.
My knitting bag…well, let’s see. Currently 1 complete sock, a freshly started sock (same color yarn even 😀 ) , reinforcing yarn for sock toes, measuring tape, paper for note taking, chibi, a 3/4 done Skywalker shawl (I truly have to finish that!) — to the point I think I need a bigger knitting bag!
My knitting bag, as if one bag holds it all?!?
I have a sock bag with a pair of socks in Cascade, simple 2 x 1 rib, my go to formula. Have a lace sweater in the big bag made from some Brown Sheep. The other bag has some Hip Hop wool / cashmere blend I just got for Christmas which will become a cowl of some sort as soon as I finish my socks.
I got cascade 220 from TLE last week and have been using this freezing cold and snowy time to finally make the Dr. Who scarf from season 14. One week in and 1/2 way done. Still have Lefty in bag, a pair of socks, and Sivia Harding’s Harmonia cowl all WIP’s. I need to make my list of projects started in 2013 rather than completed!
Just finished my blended infinity scarf and now working on finishing my L.1 Shibui Linen Scarf, which makes me think of spring….But next on my list is to look for a pattern to use my 2 Skeins of Julie Sprins yarn that I purchased at TLE back when you were in St. Louis (by the way we miss you here). They are beautiful colors. Also, thinking about a warm honey cowl, and etc., etc., etc……
My knitting bag is filled with four cardigan in various states of completion and my sewing table is taken up by the first ever dress I’m making. I love crafting!
Which knitting bag? I’m travelling for the weekend and still have two! A pair of deep purple Kai Mei socks and a teal beaded shawl I just restarted. What is fun, is my knitting basket at home. Before I started knitting, I acquired a lovely wire picnic basket. Now it sits by my knitting chair. It turned out to be the right size to hold all my project bags, leaving them on display, easy to access, but tidily organized.
My knitting bag recently upchucked its contents all over the couch and coffee table! I’m knitting flowers and leaves for a Mystery Project (see my elizaduckie Ravelry Project Page), due next month. Colors of cotton and wool DK and thinner yarn overflow both surfaces….and as typically happens when hauling out the stash, I think I still need to buy some more. Don’t seem to have a wide enough variety of greens for the leaves. Thank goodness for multiple Nicky Epstein books sitting in my bookshelves, and free patterns on Ravelry or I wouldn’t have been able to hit the ground running. Cotton is so hard on my hands but the projects are small enough I manage frequent breaks to stretch and rest my hands, but still manage to get a lot knitted.
At the top of my pile, and which alternate in my bag, are the Affectionate hat by Melissa Schaschwary (Western Sky Knits) in madelinetosh 80/10/10 in Rambler, a cowl in Fibre Company Acadia in Bittersweet, and my Spring Lines pullover from La Maison Rililie in three sylvan tones plus grey.
My knitting table is more of a knitting corner with project bags and notions bags piled on it. Right now there four projects in various states of completion – two pairs of socks, some cabled fingerless gloves, and stranded mittens. I keep telling myself that I need to finish at least one of them before casting on something else!
Diaper covers and stuffed animals.
My knitting bag is pretty full right now with random skeins and tools. I need to establish bins for yarn scraps so I can take them out. I have a little bag in my knitting bag full of hexapuffs. (I need to establish a bin for those…:) Another little bag in my knitting bag has a sock on the needles (I’ve made it to the foot.) And today I’ve just started a block baby blanket with some bulky yarn that has been stacked in a basket. I will need to find a place to stack these blocks. They will probably not fit in the bag!
I have knitting bags with several ongoing projects and then there are the huge plastic bins that live under my bed!
My knitting bag has a gauge swatch started for a sweater dress I am test knitting, a lacy hat I am I trying to finish before starting the dress, and a sock in progress that needs to be frogged since my daughters feet are growing faster than I knit. My sewing table has a quilt that I need to sew borders onto so it can be quilted!