A new knitter in the family

We went to a family member's birthday party last evening and I had the pleasure of introducing a new knitter to the art.

My neice arrived at the party with a "learn to knit" kit and we spent the evening getting her started. She is 10 years old and quickly picked up on the long tail cast-on. I was very impressed. She practiced and practiced till she mastered casting on and then we moved on to actually knitting. One of her favorite cousins arrived at the party and she was really battling with the decision to knit or to play. Playing took over for a while and then she was back to knitting again. She seems to have the patience to learn and the "stick to it" ness to master the art. I enjoyed watching her enthusiasm. When we were leaving the party, she wanted to know when I would be available to knit with her again. I'm looking forward to spending time knitting with her and am excited to be able to introduce another knitter to the world of knitting!

New Digital Camera

My new digital camera arrive on Friday as I had hoped. I've started playing with it but need to practice more.


I took a picture of one of my WIP. It is a sweater, Irish Moss from theBestofKnitter's Magazine Arans and Celtics. I'm knitting it in Elsebeth Lavold's Silky Wool, color 08 (Moss). I love the way it's turning out so far. I have the back and the front done. All that's left is the sleeves, the button bands and collar, then finishing. As I read back over the last sentence, it suddenly seems like I have a way to go on the sweater. The sweater's design is all done in twisted stitches and is actually and easy pattern to memorize.

Yesterday my daughter, granddaughters and I visited Knit One in Pittsburgh. It's a lovely yarn shop with way too much temptation inside. It was my first trip to this yarn shop and certainly not my last. Definitely a good place to increase the stash!
We also stopped at Dyed in the Wool. Another great place for stash increasing. We had a good time and picked up enough knitting supplies to keep our fingers busy for a while.

Slight progress on the blog

I've made a few changes to the blog. I added a couple of links for some of my favorite people and also added a flicker badge. It's growing but I have a lot of work to do.

The pictures in the Flickr badge are from my granddaughter's Christening. The Christening gown is from Dalegarn Baby Spring 2004, No. 142 and was knit in Baby Ull. It was a great project and a lot of fun to knit. I made some changes to the original pattern (left off the ruffle, carried the lace pattern up the middle of the bodice, and added eyelets to insert the ribbon around the waist).

I'm waiting for a new digital camera to arrive, hopefully today, and will add some new pictures when it arrives.

Finally

I've finally done it! I've been talking about setting up a blog to discuss one of my passions, knitting. I plan on posting pictures of finished objects (FOs).

Since I just started setting up the blog site, please be patient.