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I have my sixth vest on my needles. These vests are a joy to knit and go so fast since they are knitted using two strands of yarn for added warmth. I made two of them over the weekend. If you have an inclination to make a donation, please go to www.warmwoolies.org . There are lots of free patterns on the website or visit the Warm Woolies group on Ravelry.
I had a few minutes to run out to Knit Knackto see the trunk show from twistcollective.comand immediately fell in love with Sylvi designed by Mari Muinone. Here is the front of the coat modeled by Irene from Twist Collective.
and the beautiful coat back. I purchased the pattern on-line and I'm hoping some people in my knitting group will love it as much as I do and will want to do a knit-along. I'm not sure about the color yet. If you go to twitcollective.com, you can see it in red along with a lot of amazing patterns. This coat is knit with Atlantic 3-ply Halcyon Yarnfrom Briggs & Little Venerable Spinning Mills in Maine.
My second vest for Warm Woolies is well on its way. My sense of accomplishement is coming back after finishing a few projects. I was becoming stressed that everything I started would become part of a pile of unfinished projects. Finally, all that odd yarn that has been sitting in my kntting basket has a home.
Although I am doing my best not to start yet another project. I have become intrigued with the Widow's Shawl, listed now as the Black, Black Shawl, shown in the Folk Shawls book. It is very black and the lace pattern does not appear that difficult. (Famous last words.) Maybe it is the Italian in me that relates to widow's in black shawls and stories that I have heard about friends of my Grandmother wearing black their whole life or maybe it is just because I have been a widow for so long that I can look at it without being sad and enjoy knitting this shawl and wearing it over a little black dress to go dancing.
If you are wondering about the Merry Widow painting, is was painted by the Polish artist, Rafal Olbinski, who is famous for his Opera posters. I first saw the poster in the Barnes & Noble across from Lincoln Center. After inquiring, I was told it was not for sale but could probably be bought at the City Opera gift shop. Unfortunately, they did not have it. So last year I finally searched the internet and contacted a poster shop in Poland. The poster was sent and it is now waiting to be framed.
It was a beautiful weekend. I finally got my hair cut and styled on Saturday and it just put a good spin on the weekend. I felt good about getting some knitting projects completed and did some household chores and cleaning. And now that I know that I can watch a week's worth of the Young and the Restless on Saturday evening, I decided to do just that and spent the evening knitting and watching my favorite Soap.
Sunday night is usually pizza night but last night we made the mistake of trying some place new. Beside the fact that it was outrageously expensive, the pies were awful. I know it's good to try new places but even though this restaurant was highly recommended for it's coal oven pizza, it was not worth the trip. My son's directions were a bit off. He had the restaurant ten minutes from the house when actually it was on the other side of Staten Island and took us an hour to get there and back. We should have known something would be off when the waitresses wore 1950's uniforms. Just a little too Disney Dining for me. From now on, when I am on Staten Island, it's Denino's pizza or no pizza at all.
Finally, I can say that my Wool Peddler's Shawl is complete even though I am still frustrated that I couldn't do the lace edging. I will probably give it another try over the summer.
Here is a picture of the shawl before it was washed and blocked.
And here it is as it sits drying and is now much bigger. After all that aggravation, it's nice to know that it will fit. I have the shawl folded down the center since I didn't have enough blocks to open it and block it.
Here is the shawl after blocking. I'm loving it now that I know I can wear it.
In between I have started to knit some vests for Warm Woolies. This is my first one. It worked up pretty fast. The pattern can be found on their website. I used the Punta yarn that I was using to make the sweater wrap. A project that has gone by the wayside. The yarn is being put to far better use by making a garment that will keep a child warm this winter. I am hoping to get six of these finished over the summer.
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