May stats

This was my least productive knitting month this year. I only knit 3 balls of yarn/ 989 yards.

In total I finished 2 pairs of socks and 1 shawl. I spent most of my time working on the sock yarn blanket.

Alaskan Nights

Pattern: None

Yarn: Neeley's Knits Super Sock in Alaskan Nights with a sidekick skein in sparkle sock yarn

Needles: US Size 1.5 DPNs

Started on: May 14th

Finished on: May 21st

Comments: I really love this yarn. This is my ideal rainbow. These colors make me so happy. I enjoyed every bit of working with this yarn. I look forward to using the leftovers in my sock yarn scraps memory blanket.

49

I'm up to 49 squares on my sock yarn blanket!

Funnily enough, my sock yarn scraps bin seems to be growing rather then shrinking. I've been knitting a lot of socks, so much yarn has been added to this bin.

WIP Wednesday

I started my second plain sock in the Neeley's Knits self striping super sock in the colorway Alaskan Nights. This is my perfect rainbow. I love these socks so much. As I knit on them I find myself singing the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse song from the episode Minnie's Rainbow: "Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, don't forget there's purple too".











I also started a pair of plain K3, P1 ribbed socks in Gynx Yarns in the strong sock base in the colorway Haku.

Easy

Pattern: Easy designed my Martina Behm

Yarn: Neeley's Knits in the gradient Mystic Unicorn

Needles: US Size 3

Started on: May 5th

Finished on: May 12th

Comments: I love this shawl so much! I wasn't quite sure how the pattern would look with this gradient, but it turned out fabulous! The pattern is so simple as the name suggests. And it's so clever, so while
mindless, it still kept my interest. I loved seeing each new color appear. This shawlette/scarf makes me so happy! I couldn't stop knitting on this at all. I loved the knitting and also couldn't wait to get the finished project so I can wear it.

WIP Wednesday

I've been monogamously knitting on my Easy scar/shawlette. My wrist was starting to hurt, so I'm not knitting as much as I usually do, trying to give myself a break.  The pattern is so addicting to knit. And is so cleverly written. The rows are easy to memorize, so it's a mindless knit. I love how this pattern and the gradient yarn look together.

This yarn is Neeley's Knits in the gradient Mystic Unicorn. The yarn isn't exactly how I thought it would look knit up, but I think it's turned out better than I imagined. Heh.

Also DD # 1 came over to inspect my knitting. She asked to touch the shawl, and when she did she exclaimed it was so soft! Then she asked to touch the ball of yarn, and said this is so soft also! And then she told me how much she loves purple. Hahaha... I think it's a hint that she's probably going to try to steal the shawl when it's done.

Lime Spritzer socks

Pattern: None. My regular K3, P1 rib

Yarn: Neeley's Knits sports weight in Lime Spritzer

Started on: April 27th

Finished on: May 2nd

Comments: These flew off my needles. It was fun to see each new color stripe appear. I really like that the there are thin stripes and thicker stripes. DH claimed these socks before I had even finished the leg of the first sock. So these are his. I always enjoy knitting with my Neeley's Knits yarns. This is pair # 9 for the year. 

Black Hole of Knitting

I started Juno Regina a month or so ago and haven't really worked on it. I picked it back up again a few days ago and got through the lace portion fairly quickly.

Now I'm slogging through the black hole of knitting, which as it turns out, is a two row repeat that never ends.  (It's a free pattern, so it really doesn't matter if I tell you how it's knit. You can find it on Knitty.) I've figured out that I have to reserve 15 grams to knit the lace portion at the end. That means I still have 83 grams of laceweight on size 4's to knit this two row repeat... And my ball of yarn never shrinks....

Cotton Candy

I finished eight squares in the Cotton Candy colorway. This is all the Cotton Candy yarn I need for the first Vivid blanket. I even got them all blocked out.