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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My sewing table is set up with my embroidery and serger. Was going to embroider but had to finish a cowl that’s in my knitting bag. Happy to say it’s done.
Oh my goodness…well, I have a pair of socks going, a summer sweater is sleeping right now and I’m planning a ski sweater for the 2014 Sochi Olympics (that’s the knitting) I have colonial wool on the spinning wheel…several sewing projects going. I admit it, I have project A.D.D.
My bag has a half finished mitten and a baby sweater in progress. And a bunch of scrap yarn . . .
Right now in my bag is the second half of my Stockholm Scarf using Tosh DK in the Parchment colorway. Unfortunately also in my bag is a broken needle 🙁 One of the interchangeable needles of my DyakCraft set broke in the bag, Boo Hoo!
One knitting bag has a spring sweater for my son, needs the hood finished plus sleeves and trim. We are having negative temps right now so there is no rush to finish it. The othe bag has a pair of mittens I’m not loving and may just frog. My current wip in a lively bright cowl that should be finished up tomorrow. I need a new project!!
What a great contest!
My knitting bag currently has all my sock yarn scraps and my sock yarn blanket.
In one of my knitting totes are two hats for charity and in another are two Peace Pals that need faces and in yet another tote is a blanket for my daughter that will be graduating from law school in May.
Would love to win that yarn from Germany just because I probably won’t ever get there to buy some in person! 🙂
My knitting bag is currently the briefcase I’m taking to class. So it includes an iPad, Bible, class text books and 2 knitting projects (one plain socks, toe up, two at a time and then other a highly patterned set of fingerless mitts), and then all the normal paper, pens, water bottle, snacks, and stuff.
My knitting bag is almost full with 20 finished projects that I have made thus far this January and that I just finished soaking and blocking yesterday and 1 little dress that is about 60% done that I hope to get some more time on tonight after I finish the last task in an assessment due tomorrow :0) Yes I have gone back to study after 27 years as a SAHM :0) I have been working away making lots of gifts for new babies on the way, hats for charity and I even found time for a little sweater for me :0)
In my knitting bag I have a piece of a blanket I’m knitting. It’s a ongoing old project. For some reason 2014 feels like the “get ‘er finished” year. All the hibernating projects I have laying around need to completed. It’s time. No more procrastinating.
I will compete the Sampler Afgan from Melissa Leapman’s Cables Untangled book.
Then I’ll get to my husbands gloves that just need a few more fingers and a thumb.
My knitting bag contains a 1/2 finished stranded mittens project in fingering weight (5 colors!) and a top-down sweater in sport weight (~25% complete). I alternate between the two projects and keep a book in there as well for a reference.
Knitting bag….singular? ROFLMAO
One bag has the interminable afghan (which would actually go faster if I knit on it rather than play on Ravelry)
Three bags (no, four, umm, five) bags with sweaters in various states of completion
My purse and my desk both have a hat to be knit (my guild donates hats to the Salvation Army annually)
And one more bag with mini skeins for a Beekeepers Quilt
…and instead, I am catching up on e-mail blogs
I have ‘startitis’ so my knitting bags contain about 20 projects. I’m resolved to finish two before I start another so hopefully by year’s end I should have less wips
My knitting bags are always full of multiple projects- right now I have three pairs of socks, a Colour Affection, and a Featherweight Cardigan on the go! Yarns from Wollmeise, Biscotte et Cie, Handmaiden and a mix of Bugga from the old SG and new Cephalopod Yarns companies.
One knitting bag is full of metallic yarn that I have been using for festive scarfs (one to each of the girls in my family for Christmas / belated Christmas presents). Another has some lovely Lorna’s Laces Honor for a the Downton Abbey KAL (recipient TBD) and a third bag has madeline tosh pashimina and sock yarn for the Follow Your Arrow KAL (one for a dear friend and one for myself, maybe).
My knitting bag looks like an archeology dig. Keep going through the layer and you’ll find multiple projects!
I’m in that cold, cold Iowa and it is perfect weather to empty some of my knitting bags. They include a child’s sweater that only needs the sleeves, a snug sack for the Pine Ridge reservation, purple yarn for the purple hat project, a vest for me that has been sitting much too long, hats for donation and so much more .
My knitting bag is a total mess. Patterns and bits of multiple projects and notions all mixed in together. Really must find the time to sort it out, but I’d rather be knitting!
My knitting bags contain: 2 blankets in progress for my grandsons, a baby blanket and sweater set for a new baby on the way, a shawl to finish for a cruise in March, a sweater for me, socks and who knows what else! i would need a new bag for my surprise if I win ~ hopefully.
It depends on which knitting bag you look in! I have a toy mouse/doll that is in pieces yet, needing arms before the final stuffing and seaming. A couple socks are stashed in another bag. As it is -12 at the moment in MN, I just may put those socks on finished or not!
I recently cleaned out my knitting bag so it currently just holds a sock in progress. My dresser is covered with the partially knit mitts and socks that had been in the bag.
My knitting bag is full of not-quite-finished Christmas presents. Yikes!
All my project backs are stuffed to the gills with projects and yarn and needles and notions.
My knitting bag is full of baby sweaters, hats and booties. My sewing table has two unfinished quilts. Oh for a prolonged stretch of knitting and sewing time.
I finished my broken-rib scarf (snuggly!), so now I’m back to the last two “New Year’s” ruffle scarves for the two folks I skipped earlier (I ran out of time, and these two I wouldn’t be seeing for a while). Once those are done, I have a science experiment: Can I tea-dye some polyester yarn? Doubltful, but I will make the attempt. And once that’s resolved, there’ll be another ruffle scarf (making the 24th I’ve knit since last September; enough already!), then I can work on something much more fun, Kate Oates’ Gramps Cardigan!! Yarn, pattern & needles are waiting on the cabinet next to the lamp, just gotta resist the call of the cardi ’till the scarves are outta my hair.
My knitting bag has the Pendulum shawl pattern by Amy Miller that I am knitting using my handmaiden sea silk yarn from my Camp Loopy #2 project. I had to rip out my Elfe sweater as it just kept on growing – this was the wrong yarn for a sweater. I am hoping the shawl will be a better choice. This yarn is yummy and the pattern has stripes that remind me of Elfe so all is not lost! I also have a Cassis sweater on the needles, a mitten (toriort KAL – Ravelry), a feather stitch scarf (using up my leftovers), and a tea post cozy. Even through So Cal weather has been warm – I like to have tea in the early morning outside so my pot needs a sweater/cozy. I have learned so much from TLE challenges! I am getting gently stretched and my knitting skills are improving! Thanks TLE!
Right now my sewing table is clean because I just finished a quilt! Well finished basting a quilt I should say.
My knitting bag is a huge mess! I have a big offhand designs one that is filled with skeins of leftover yarn, needles, measuring tapes, and all kinds of other stuff. I sort of use it a junk drawer, which is not very helpful. I bought it to keep sweaters in that I am working in, but unfortunately, it has never worked out that way. Oh well… it is still a very pretty bag.
I just got back from a knitting retreat, so my knitting bag is a little more full than usual. I have a few projects that are current, including two Ysolda “Follow Your Arrow” mystery KAL projects; a Color Affection and a traveling sock that I’m working on with a group where we swap socks every two inches. Then I have some projects that I’ve been trying to get off the ground, including a pair of crochet slippers that look like tanks, if I figure out the pattern. I got a lot of help from friends this weekend to get those up and running, but still have lots of work to do.
My knitting bag has asweater in progress, fingerless mitts, a crochet baby sweater I am finishing for a friend and som cross stitch. Not to mention needles, hooks, patterns etc. Thankfully not all of my UFP’s fit in my knitting bag. What can say I am obsessed. Ha Ha!!
My bag has a tunisian crochet baby blanket in it. My niece is expecting a daughter … very exciting ‘cos we are starting a new generation!
Oh goodness, my sewing table is a mess! I like to leave it semi-disordered, and then the cat disorganizes it beyond sanity.
My knitting bag changes from minute to minute. But I always need a little thing of darning needles in it.
My knitting bag is a complete disaster! I have a blanket in 8 colours of TFA worsted in it, a sock yarn sweater with BMFA lightweight in it and a half finished pair of Stitch Surfers.
Which knitting bag?! One has a partial sock and yarn, one has a finished sock and yarn to work the second one, one has a partial sweater and yarn…do I really want to list all the WIPs I have going? How embarrassing!
My knitting bag is a mess! It has about 3 pairs of needles, little scraps of yarn I keep meaning to clean out, a half-finished hexipuff, and about 3 mini-skeins.
I have one bag right now full of the makings for knitted Sonic Screwdrivers, another with a partial sweater which got set aside for Christmas knitting and which I will pick up again very soon.
I have 2 bags with projects for samples for Stitches West from my local dyer and one with a neck warmer for an aunt.
I love Wollmeise’s colors!!
My knitting bag is a drawstring style with pink skulls on it. I know about the COLD here in MN. They closed schools again today due to the extreme cold. Temps this morning with the wind chill were about -45 degrees below zero.
Lets see. There’s a sewing machine, yarn bowl with yarn remnants, a couple of bowls filled with notions and some silk and alpaca fiber on my spindle. Oh and I can’t forget about the candy dish. 🙂
I have 2 drawstring pouches full of projects. I love such pouches as they are a great way to make small knitting projects “grab n go-able”. In one is a pair of socks. In the other is my liquid silver shawl in black mohair with silver beads. Yay!
Then I have a big knitting bag and I crocheted and felted. It’s full of an afghan I knit that I just have to finish seaming plus all my interchangeable needles and frequently-used tools.
I can haz yarn now? 😀
I have 2 tables. One has knitting on it and the other has a counted crossstitch project on it (my last, as I just can’t see that stuff anymore, need to eat more carrots:) I am knitting a pair of socks for my son’s fiancee, and the counted crossstitch projects are for the same gal and my daughter for next Christmas. Yes, I did say next Christmas. Can’t wait to cross the counted crossstitch off my to-do list. Now back to knitting…..yum!
Just emptied one knitting bag, just finished a dark rose shawl. Just need to block it, then I can wrap it around my shoulders while I work on the striped sweater in the other bag.
My knittting bag currently has three monekys underway from the Jacobus pattern ~ two in purple for granddaughters and one in the Tosh dk tomato color for grandson who can’t decide if her prefers orange or red (I’ve got both covered with this fabulous color!)
Getting ready to start the RAK sweater that I had mentioned before. Hoping to finish it in the next couple of weeks. I had been on vacation after New Year’s and got the flu the night before we came home. So it’s taken a few weeks for me to get back on my feet and get my house back in order after the holidays.
Making many hats out of leftovers for a fundraiser at my daughter’s charter school. It is soooo cold here in Minnesota and I see so many kids at her school without hats.
My knitting bag has one pair of socks in progress for me, and bright red wool yarn for Valentine hats for the 4 grandkids. Hope I can get all 4 hats knit in 2 weeks!
One word–Diaster!
Ahh! my knitting bag..I’ve got a chunky cowl that just needs the ends worked in before blocking, working on my Grow Old With Me Cardigan–for my grandson,the body is done I’m starting the sleeves. Sock number two of my first 2014 pair of socks. The table has a machine embroidery project that I am working on.
How many bags would you like me to describe? I am currently carrying around the “Follow Your Arrow” mystery shawl X 2. So many ways to make this shawl unique I had to do two. In another bag is a Rowan poncho with sleeves mid way to completion. And….and….and!
Currently I am working on several “Snuggles” for the local animal shelter, a pair of socks and I just finished up some cute finger-tipless mitts, and in the sewing room is the Downton Abbey material waiting to become the Downton Abbey table runner and I can’t wait to get started on it!