Modular Knitting

I have been madly knitting all weekend...and NOT getting much accomplished...

Trying to knit a sweater from the Koigu book Knits from a Painters Pallette - modular knitting...combining a variety of squares.

I LOVE THESE COLORS TOGETHER

I started with thin yarn knitted on a size 3 needle SOOO tiny using some handdyed shawl yarn and some left over sock yarn...but my needles were not sharp...had three different ones and only one had a point on it...the others have disappeared over the years

...so i went to the yarn store to buy some POINTIER ones...I bought a pair but they told me what i really needed was LACE needles...did they have any??? NOPE...so i bought a regular pair

and OMG i bought a bunch of NORO to try to knit a modular sweater out of...all different colors... a dozen or so skeins to add to the five that i already had...I mean you can knit NORO on larger needles ...it should go faster right??? NOT:>

SIX or SEVEN hours later this is all I have done...

These are made from NORO a yummy hand dyed Japanese yarn that is available locally...we dont have Koigu here. The Koigu is MUCH thinner than the Noro that is sold locally but the colors are awesome. It is varigated but has LONG color runs which was driving me crazy when i made the first sample last nite. I was using the colors i wanted out of the skeins...you should see the mess of loose ends on the back...alot of weaving if I EVER finish this thing! I do like it better today than i did at 1 am yesterday:> things usually do look better in the morning right?!

knitting fool too

this is for a friends birthday...she has been warned if she kills this one she is done with handknit socks unless she learns to knit them..did i say she has very cold feet? i reinforced this pair with wooly nylon in the foot and doubled the yarn in the heel and toe...you should have seen her last pair i made her...all ripped up and quite pitiful...they were such a lovely red pair...koolaid dyed....
these are going to Connies grandmother who has cold feet..they were going to be for connie...
notice anything odd about these??? first one was knitted in november but i had enough for another pair with purple heels and toes and then one more with a purple toe...i need rip out the bottom one and reknit the toe...they are too big...
this is one slipper before felting...the cat thinks its a toy for him and he trys to kill them...
so i got two done...did i say they were a pain to knit and made my hands hurt??? ANYWAY...i sewed one sole together and now for the life of me cant figure out how to do the other sole...strange I KNOW

after the slippers driving me nuts i decided i needed a fun project to felt WRONG>...this is two days of knitting..enterlac stitch...and its huge...i might get done if Tom woudl quit trying to play with it or sit on it...it will be a very large felted bag when its done

this is the absolute yummiest yarn...and i dont care WHOOOO wants them they are mine...its hand dyed merino wool from cherry hill yarns and bought from Kaleidoscope Yarns ...for some reason these strange people from New England think this yummy color is SPANISH MOSS...now anyone who has ever lived in the south could tell you that spanish moss is grey...maybe with a little brown and purple not NOT this color....