MY olympic sweater

Not too thrilled by the Dale or The Bay Olympic sweaters (the former is dull and the latter is machine knitted!), I am going to make my own

There will be maple leaves (thanks Liz for the charts) borrowed from an old Mary Maxim sweater (there was a beaver involved - but he will be absent from mine), greens, red, some blues, some white and a few snowflakes.

All seems pretty February 2010 in Whistler BC to me.

What do you think?

Oh and the yarn .......... Lopi of course - what could be more Canadian that a yarn grown and spun in Iceland!

Remembrance Day

In memory of Dexter Colwell and William Pachal of the South Alberta Regiment whose lives were lost during the battle to close the Falaise Gap at St Lambert sur Dives, France on the night of August 20/21, 1944.

We remember for those who no longer can

Small progress

Knitting the CTH Java socks on teeny tiny needles (1.5mm) that are SHARP! Needed a break so started the 2nd sock of the red Berroco Sox pair for a break.

2.0mm needles are HUGE!

Proving once again that everything is relative.

Overdosing on Cake Boss while knitting socks. It's a good thing.

Sock 7

Sock #7 - pair #6

Cherry Tree Hill Supersock Merino in colour Java - deep and rich

Knitting it in mistake stitch rib - seemed to need a more formal approach than the feather and fan


About 1/2 into the ankle

Yum

Blissfully Friday

And the weather is lousy so lots of knitting.

Almost done sock six - ever onwards!

Sock Six

This will be sock six - Berroco Sox Metallic

Am about halfway into the foot and may finish tonight


Don't know yet what sock seven will be knitted in - I found a skein of Cherry Tree Hill Supersock in Java in my stash and may do that.

Sock progress

Two of these are done:

One of these:

One of these:


And this is done to the heel turn:



That makes 5 of 12 - pretty good sock drawer filling progress is being made I think!