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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I have many “knitting bags”, my favorite is an Atenti bag I purchased at Loopy! It currently contains a sweater that only needs some final blocking and buttons and is a gift for a very special friend! My next project will be the Lintilla shawl by Martina Behm using Wollmeise Pure! Can’t wait to see how it turns out!
My favorite knitting bag is an Atenti purchased at Loopy! It is currently holding my next project which is the Lintilla shawl by Martina Behm and a wound skein of Wollmeise Pure all ready to go! Can’t wait to see how it turns out!
I have 2 Longaberger baskets with projects – each in their own bag. Currently – 2 sweaters, 2 pair of socks and a rectangular shawl and 2 pair of childrens socks hibernating!
Penny Mosher
My knitting area doubles as my computer desk so it has a laptop and screen and printer in addition to:
1 bright lamp
3 project bags with WIPs – A cowl, a shawl and a sweater
A box with all sorts of little knitting notions
Sucking candies for a sore throat
Tissues
Pattern for my current sweater project plus part of another pattern which I plan to borrow shaping from
A box of t-pins
RIght behind me, on the floor, are bags of yarn that I cannot fit into my yarn shelves or 8 plastic bins. Yes, its time for a yarn diet when storage is overrun!
My knitting bag is full of a lopi sweater in progress!
Goodness…my knitting table…are you kidding? How about my knitting room! I have sweaters and socks wip not to mention my sock mitered square LL pieces that I hope will become a warm afgan to throw over me while I knit! There are so many colors in that little bag of wonderfulness so I keep taking one small ball out and knitting the squares one after another!
I’m afraid I have many bags full of unfinished projects – two sweaters, several scarfs, and one pair of socks. I can’t believe you were just in Clinton, Iowa where I live and that you also love 392. We have waited for years for a good coffee shop and we have the best. One more thing, I was born and raised in Denver; what a small world.
My knitting nook isn’t very exciting right now. Maybe I need some Wollmeise inspiration to light a fire in my needles!
I have several knitting bags with many wips. 2 pairs of socks, 5 sweaters, and 1 shawl/scarf are in different phases of completion. It’s really comforting/encouraging to read that there are a lot of knitters out there in the same boat!
I don’t have a knitting bag- I use project bags that get thrown into whatever I’m carrying. I have a little notions bag that if I’m travelling I’ll also throw in. But since I don’t drive places, knitting bags are just bagginess I don’t need.
although I own about 1/2 dozen knitting bags that never get used.
Ooh which knitting bag. :-). I have projects everywhere. Currently knitting on Ashburn, getting ready to cast on an hourglass throw and have a Rayures waiting to be kitchenered. Plus a lot of other WIPs in various stages.
Darling Daughter lost her scarf…so I’m making her one
I love making knitting bags – I now have several. Right now I’m using one that has chickens on the lower half and a nice matching tart-red upper half. Inside is a Wollmeise sweater I’m knitting. It’s going to outgrow the bag soon – I may have to make another one!
That would be knitting bagSSS! Multiple projects going on here. The most active WIPs: Sunny Baby Blanket, Baci scarf (using Wollmeise DK from Loopy Ewe!), and crocheted caps for donation to a local homeless shelter. Surprisingly for me, no socks right now. Always eager to cast-on something new!
I’ve got a self striping sock on the needles and the yarn for a sweater in my bags….
My Knitting table is topped with three sock projects, a shawl, yarn waiting for me to decide what sweater to knit, a quilt to make, and lots of ideas for the coming year. I Also have towels on the Rigid Heddle I have been working on.
My knitting bag has a pair of fingerless gloves, a pair of socks and an entrelac shawl
My knitting bag has a pair of fingerless mitts for my boss, a pair of knee socks for my daughter and a cabled sweater for my husband.
My knitting bag has an in-progress scarf, yarn for mitten Christmas ornaments and a skein that will probably eventually be fingerless mitts for my daughter.
My table is covered at the moment as I am reorganizing and packing to move. OTN, I have my challenge project and my Loopy swap project!
Lol, which knitting bag?
My knitting bag is full of projects. I have a pair of fingerless mitss for the hubby in Lorna’s Laces for the hubby. With this insanely frigid winter hubby is realizing how nice hand knits are. I have a pair of Honey Badger Socks in Lorna’s Laces as well. I have a Traveling Woman that I am sample knitting for The Cyborg’s Craft Room. Lastly, I have my Ysolda MKAL Follow your Arrow that I am knitting up Cascade Heritage Sock Solids. I better get back to knitting
My knitting bag is managing a sunny striped cardigan– about half knitted!
My knitting bag is full of baby yarn for baby things for friends and family! I have a blue lace blanket and a white ripple blanket on needles and some pink for my granddaughter arriving in April. Haven’t decide on the pink pattern yet.
One bag? I have several with groups of projects
One bag with Ravellenics projects
One bag with charity knitting projects
One bag with baby gift projects
One bag with my pullover queue
My knitting bag(s) are all over the place. Right now I think it is fair to say that I have 4 active projects. The Shepherd Hoodie, a two-color shawl, leg warmers and spectral. the other things occupying knitting bags (but not seeing the light of day or night) are 3 pairs of socks (one pair just needs the foot of the 2nd sock!!), 3 sweaters, and one stole. Or that is what I can think of at the moment 🙂
My current knitting bags have a sweater, two pairs of socks, two cowls and a scarf. On my sewing table is a long skirt that I started cutting out and hope to finish after the grandchildren go home this evening.
I have a couple different size needles, a red herringbone infinity scarf I’m working on for my daughters teacher appreciation present, lots of red yarn, scissors, and other accessories.
Knitting bag? Just one? The four in the living room have 2 projects for my 83 year old Mom, one project for the dear hubby, and one project for me (along with all the needles, stitch markers, coilless pins, gauge, pencils, notepads, tape measures, and other tools that we knitters have to have around all the time). Then there is the basket full of more knitting stuff. The knitting table upstairs is full of patterns yet to be made, yarn to wind, and more tools of the trade like the swift and the winders. I will need to uncover it soon to get to the blocking mat.
I started making split 9 patch blocks for the fabric challenge! And I am doing a second colorwork cowl called Color Infusion. The first one I did was called Alpha Chi. They are so cute! Both are “bonus Christmas gifts” for my daughters who are in their 20s.
My knitting bag contains a pair of Vancouver Fog mitts in progress and a Common Ground sweater n progress!
In my sewing bag I have a bat shawl for my daughter, a lace scarf for my sister-in-law, fingerless mitts, gauntlets, viajante… I have a lot to finish! Mitered squares sock yarn blanket, beekeeper’s quilt too!
Which one? Have two MKAL’s going in separate bags and, in another, have hats and mittens in various stages for A4A charity my guild is working on now.
My knitting bag is pretty jammed!! One completed sock, the other in progress. My very first sweater about a third finished, a hat for my newest grandbaby due to arrive in a couple of weeks and finally a beautiful Turkish spindle that I have been practicing on..it’s looking like yarn so I guess I’m learning!
My yarn bag contains a lightweight short sleeve sweater that I started last summer, and only lacks one sleeve to knit, stitching together, and blocking to complete. But I have become distracted by winter knitting — hats, gloves, socks — which has never made it to the bag. I probably won’t complete that summer sweater until the weather warms up.
I have multiple bags going right now. One has a Knit Swirl sweater project, another has stranded gloves, another cable gloves and another socks. I wish it was a bit colder here so I could enjoy wearing my knits. It was 77 here today!
My bag has a beautiful cowl pattern started, a poncho 60% done, a vest 90% done, a linen stitch scarf 40% done…. too many projects and so little time! Need to make 2 hat and 1 cowl more prior to trip to Breckenridge and the Loopy Ewe!
My knitting bag includes a shaw, an almost finished pair of socks and a lace scarf. I’d love to knit something with those cute minis!!!
I’m currently knitting “Follow Your Arrow’ with Ysolda Teague and it is so much fun. Other projects include mitts, scarf and a cowl. Love to have several projects going at one time, especially an easy one for knitting with my friends. My current sewing projects are project bags and mug rugs.
My knitting bags currently have a cardigan, a cowled sweater, socks, and a shawl. There are so many projects started and I am trying really hard to finish all of them because I promised I wouldn’t buy anymore yarn until I finished them!
Well one bag has a partial vitamin D Sweater for my daughter., one has a shawl that I am knitting 8 inches for a shawl crawl, and the one currently getting the most attention involves a small knitted gift for a Valentines day swap. Not even going to talk about the spinning UFO’s
Let’s see…I have one half of a pair of socks, one completed boot cuff that’s patiently waiting on its mate to come off the needles, and about 9″ of the Cloud Dragon Scarf MKAL from Ravelry.
My most active knitting bag at the moment is a large tote from my LYS, it’s not one of my current WIPs (a hat I’m knitting for a charity project), miscellaneous leftovers from two recent projects, and a short, tubular pencil-type case that’s filled with Chibis, stitchmarkers, cable needles, my nice scissors, measuring tape, etc.
I have 2 projects going. A pair of socks for Valentine’s and a shawl. My knitting area is a mess with new books, magazines, yarn and my tools. I intend to straighten my knitting/craft area out tomorrow. Honest!
I am test knitting a cowl pattern and I started the Light in Shadows shawl.
In my knitting bag(s), I have a cascade full size blanket I’m knitting for my son, a Nova dress in wollmeise and zauberball I’m knitting for my daughter, wollmeise legwarmers, and a quaere entrelac baby blanket that I may frog.
On my sewing table is a turquoise seersucker fabric I’m going to sew to a cotton top I crocheted to make a mix media dress for my daughter
Love the colors of the wollmeise minis!
My favorite knitting bag is a huge one that Sherri helped me acquire with a special order. It’s like Mary Poppin’s carpet bag that holds an endless supply of WIP’s. A sock yarn blanket, a pair of socks, my Ashburn shawl, and several baby projects for all those special babies about to be born. There’s always a small stash of chocolate at the bottom that Mom isn’t required to share:) Shhh.
I have a Churchmouse scarf pattern and red ManorDel UUruguay silk blend yarn. It’s so soft!
I finally have my utility room organized and ready for my sewing project that I cut out last year. It is a small project bag that will have a French Country style.It sits in a box right nest to basket filled with fabrics that I cut and tea dyed ready to sew more bags and start my business. As much as I want to sew, I have been very busy knitting. I am in 4 MKAL’s and I have several projects that are organized and lying on designated areas of my dining room table waiting for the next clue. This is so much fun.
My knitting bag has two almost-finished sweater sleeves and the start of one glove. My small knitting toolkit, pencils, and a small notepad stay in the bag for all projects.