Out of Africa sweater

Life thas been so crazy lately. Most of my spare time I have spent on the computer working on Christmas or spent knitting for Christmas. I finally finished my nephew's sweater. His church pants are black.

I have never done a yoke on a sweater, and so I thought that I would try it. In fact when I started it, I had every intention of making it a crewneck. Sometimes projects have a life of their own. I also had originally planned on having the gray as the bottom of the sweater, and the yoke varigated. When I grabbed the yarn in the store I was in a hurry and grabbed the wrong amounts of each one. Oh well! The yarn definately pooled, but I kind of like the effect. Although the white one the one sleeve stands out. The basic sweater is stockinette. When I got to the yoke I did it in a seed stitch. I like the texture. I think it adds a bit of something special. I hope he likes it.
In the meantime I am working on his sister's sweater. I am going to call it Little Butterflies. I have the back and part of one front done. I would have two fronts done, but realized last night that I had forgotten to change to the larger needles after the ribbing, and so I had to take it all the way down. What a newbie mistake! It is what you get when you knit and watch good TV shows I guess. LOL I am also going to put a collar on hers. I think I will do a round. Depends on the knitting muse I guess.

Daisy Stitch

I just have to say I love YouTube. I had instructions for the knitted Daisy stitch that I want to put into a sweater eventually. I read over the instructions several times, and just didn't get what they wanted me to do. I googled it and found a YouTube video. How easy. Now I know exactly how to do it. I can't wait to put it into a sweater. Maybe with a butterfly...

Moving Day

I skipped knitting group tonight to begin moving into my craft room. I am on a deadline to get my stuff in here so I can use my guest room for my mom Wed. I took some pictures of all four walls so that you can get a panoramic view. Keep in mind that I have done all the work myself and on a very small shoestring budget. I would like some nicer furniture, but this will do, and it is my own space. That is the part that I am really excited about.
From left to right in the room, here is a tour. These are the two dressers that I found at the yard sale. I am going to use them for storing yarn and projects. They were $10 a piece plus the paint.

The bookcase was my daughters, repainted of course, and my computer area. I have all ready started filling the bookcase with my knitting pattern books. A new chair is also on the list of things to get!

You can see the corner shelves that my DH suggested and put up for me. I think that I will use them for decorations and pictures. Just to the left of the box is where my sewing machine is going to go. I will put a cork board up on the wall for patterns when I am sewing, and peg board on both sides. I will use that for scissors, rulers, seam rippers, thread and bobbins, etc. To the right, at the end of the desk I have about 30" of blank wall. That is where the wrapping center is going to go.

These are my cubicles, that I have had for several years. As you can see they are really full. That is were I have our scrapbooks, photos, and magazines for ideas. I have quite a few boxes of sewing stuff to put away. Now I just have to figure out how to fit everything in here. That will take a little bit of time. LOL!!