Progress!

This weekend was a pretty good one for me. I finished up my pink Kelp Forest scarf from the Ocean Breezes book. I love this book. All the scarves are just beautiful! I intend to knit at least one of each pattern. I may have to make that a goal for this year, to try and knit one of every pattern in the Ocean Breezes book.



I also started the Plaited Cable Scarf as planned. I started it on size 6 needles as the directions state, however after repeating the 8 rows three times I decided I needed to move up a couple needle sizes. So I ripped it this morning and started again on size 8 needles. It is turning out much better. The smaller needles resulted in a much tighter fabric and the edges were wanting to curl more.


I think it is going to turn out much nicer on the size 8 needles. Plus, it will make the scarf a little wider as well, which is what I really want it to be.

I'm also making good progress on my Entrelac scarf. It is really nice to have one project that I don't have to refer to the directions every time I'm done with one row, or in this case one pass. The only thing that I don't particularly love about Entrelac is on the third pass where you have to pick up and purl the stitches. For some reason picking up 8 stitches on the knit side is much easier for me than it is on the purl side. I'm not real sure why that is. It could be that I am just weird, but I have a little bit of difficulty keeping the yarn around the needle when I am trying to pull the tip through to finish the picked up stitch. But that's the only thing that bothers me. And the pattern comes out so neat and beautiful that it's worth the minor irritation.


A side note that is not related to knitting. I have the most wonderful hubby in the world! Not only does he completely support my knitting addiction, he also buys me flowers. He bought me the most beautiful flowers! He bought these absolutely gorgeous roses. So naturally I have to post a few choice pictures for everyones viewing pleasure.















And finally, I've been thinking about upgrading my camera. I'm getting tired of working with a camera that has a proprietary battery. I have yet to locate my charger for my battery and am very lucky that the battery has not run out just yet. Of course I can always take over hubby's camera until I actually get a new one. My current camera does 4.0 mega pixels. I'm wanting to upgrade to one that is at least 7 or 8 mega pixels.

I think I have decided to go with a Panasonic DMC-LZ7K Black 7.2 mega pixels. All the reviews on newegg.com are very positive and it's resolution is really good too, and the price is really good too. Though, I think I am going to have to wait until next month to order it. It just depends on how long it takes me to talk hubby into letting me order it early! He already said I could upgrade, but he's not real upbeat on the upgrade taking place this month. But I'll work on him. Hehehe!

Well, I guess that is gonna have to be all for now. We have some pretty heavy storms moving in and I want to get this posted before the lightening picks up! Back to my knitting to keep me clam. I hate storms! That is one down side to living in "Tornado Ally".

Until Next time!

~~Happy Knitting~~