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Saturday night was not my night to knit. I should have known better than to knit when I was tired. It all started with my Shapely Tank. I am trying despartely to get this done so that I can start Soleil. So I’m knitting away and all of a sudden I realize that I’ve been decreasing when I should have been increasing. So I take a good look at it and realize that I’m going to have to frog a good 2 inches of it. So I set it aside and pick up Branching Out. Now I’ve already started this one half a dozen times but things seemed to be going well. Until I hit the 5th row of the pattern . . . somehow I ended up with fewer stitches than I should have. Must have missed some yo’s. So I tried to tink it and that was a disaster. So I set that aside and picked up the dishcloth I was working on. This is supposed to be my mindless knitting . . . no thinking involved . . . it’s easy right? Wrong! I screwed up somewhere but I just fudged it (it’s a dishcloth afterall) and finished it up. So today I spent frogging my tank top and Branching Out. I’ve got pictures below of my newly made progress so this weekend wasn’t a total loss.

I’ve finally made some progress on Branching Out. I’ve frogged it at least 8 times already. I have now completed two repeats of the pattern and am really starting to enjoy it!

Here is my progress on my Shapely Tank. The front is done and the back is well on it’s way.

I just finished working in the ends on this scarf for my brother. He is coming to school in Michigan next year and I thought he could use a nice warm scarf! I have to put the fringe on it yet.

I am very proud of my first pair of socks. After watching them being made on DIY Network’s Knitty Gritty I knew I could make them too! They are made with Lush which is 50% angora/50% wool. They are soooooooooo soft!! I didn’t make them quite long enough for myself so they are going to be a Mother’s Day gift to my mom. Once I got going I really loved working with the double pointed needles. It was a lot of fun and there are more socks in my future!

I made this garter stitch scarf made from Lion Brand Trellis. Trellis is a ribbon yarn that is laddered and is difficult to work with as I was always putting the point of my needle through the “holes” in the yarn. This picture doesn’t do the scarf justice.

The first project I completed was a small purse which I made out of some Red Heart acrylic that I had lying around.

So this is my very first blog. I just started knitting about 4 months ago and about 1 month ago I discovered knitty.com and the message boards there. They are a great bunch of ladies! Funny and so very helpful too. So after looking at some of their blogs I decided that I had to start one for myself. So . . . . . . here it is!!