Fab FO Friday!!!!! (Finally)

Okay...okay. You can give me forty lashes with a wet noodle! Finally the CPH pictures. Sorry it took sooooooooo...ooooooo long!

From a bag of yarn...

...to a fabulous finished CPH!!!!

Here's the back detail.

And the sleeve.

Pattern: Central Park Hoodie from KnitScene Fall '06. This KAL is a good source of info. And the info on Raverly is great, too!

Yarn: Cascade 220, about four and a little bit of a fifth. Color is Lemon.

Needles: #6 and #9

Modifications: I made the bottom ribbing longer, about 5 inches, and made the sleeve ribbing about 2-2 1/2 inches. I might have to go back and re-do the front bands as I didn't pick up the 150 sts and it sort of shows, but right now I'm enjoying it as is.

I have worn it a couple of times for the late evening baseball games. It's been cool here once the sun goes down.

CPH Update

It's done!
Yeah!

It's being blocked right now, but it's warm and dry here, so hopefully by tomorrow I'll have it all seamed up and ready for viewing!

Take care and happy knitting!

I like your sleeves...

They're finished!!!!


Two different pictures of the sleeves. One with the flash on, which blurs the cables and the one without where you can clearly, if not darkly, see the cabling detail.


I joined the shoulders and then started the hood. Almost there!

Take care! Hopefully by midw-week I'll have this almost finished (at least that's my goal).

Dogs on Thursday

It seems like every time I take pictures of Ella, they look like ones I've already taken. So...I went through the ones already on the computer and pulled three that I like.

This one shows Ella's ears, her lovely brown eyes, and her touch of gray around her mouth.

This is Ella's absolutely favorite toy. For those of you who don't know the story of the Grinch, my LittleOne gave it to Ella after she said he was "too scary to sleep in her room". Ella carries him around all the time and is currently working on chewing his eyes out! (He looks very clean here!)

And, Ella catching some sun!

Hope everyone has a great Dogs on Thursday and keep on knitting!

WIP Wednesday

I'm slowly working on my CPH. The sleeves of anything seem to take me a long, long, long, long, long time. When I've made some better progress on them I'll take a picture, but for now, you'll just have to picture it in your mind!
My socks are going just as slow. I thought I'd have plenty of time at all these baseball games and practices, but...I seem to get too involved and can't focus on the knitting! The Munchkin (the oldest) has got a great team this year. They're 4-0! He got to pitch last night and did a great job! Didn't let up any hits, and only let up 3 runs toward the end of his second inning! It's such a boost to his self confidence when he pitches well. The LittleOne has back-to-back games this weekend, so we'll see how she does! (I found out last night that she's the only girl in her whole division! Wow! Girl power there!)

Zoo Days

This week, the LittleOne's kinder class went on a field trip to the zoo! Our zoo is great. It's got all the regular zoo animals. And if you go now, it's not too hot so all the animals are out and about doing their thing! And you can get really close to the giraffes, so I always get great pictures of them! Every other animal has the fences which makes it hard to get good pictures.


Isn't he pretty? Our zoo has three giraffes, but he was the only one willing to pose for pictures!

And for you all still suffering from winter's wrath...here's a touch of spring!

Cactus Edit-- Well, I think I caught up with everybody. I haven't done any posting or reading of any of you out there for a while. It was good to see that spring is sort of getting to you all. Take care, and have a great weekend. (I'll be on the go all weekend!)