Sweater Knitting

I wanted to share with all you my first two attempts at sweater knitting. I hope you enjoy the photos.

The above photo is the first sweater that I knitted. It fit me but it felt awkward putting on and taking off. It also was too short. And I didn't like the neck of the sweater. But it was a good first attempt at sweater knitting. I have the sweater stored away in a cupboard in my parents house. One thing about this sweater that I remember is when I first started the knitting the sweater I took some knitting lessons. I want to thank the lady who gave me knitting lessons as she helped me to knit this sweater even though I totally dislike the sweater now and have many dislikes and found several faults with the sweater.

The above photo is my second attempt at sweater knitting. It turned out horrible. Way to large, wrong yarn. Just not good. I ended up giving the sweater away to a thrift store. I hope someone found the sweater and was able to reuse the yarn. Another note is that this sweater was supposed to be a cardigan but yeah it didn't turn out.

 

I don't have a photo for my third attempt at sweater knitting.  I tried to knit a cardigan but I had troubles so just gave up. I don't know what to do with the yarn yet.

 

Finally we come to my forth attempt at sweater knitting. I started this sweater in September and I just finished the sweater yesterday. This is my first wearable sweater and I am in love with the sweater, the pattern and the length. I can't wait to get a photo of me modeling my sweater which I will for sure put into my portfolio and also blow up to a 5 by 7 to frame.

 

 

Okay so I just mentioned I am in love with the pattern for the above red sweater. Well another point to mention is that I have this dream to take all of my favorite knitting and crochet patterns and get the bound into a book. I even have a title in mind what I would call my book. The only thing is I know my book would be a not for sale item as I would have to get permission to actually use the patterns that I want to put in a book and sell them. But anyways that is enough rambling for now. 

Newest Toques

Good Morning All. Did you know that yesterday (Monday September 29, 2015) was International Coffee Day. Anyways I finally got around to snapping some photographs of my two newest classic knit toques. I haven't finished stitching the toques together but anyways here are the promised photos.
And also a photo of all of my adult classic knit toques.

 

Monday September 21, 2015

Good Afternoon All. The two toques that I started yesterday are nearly finished. They are both past six inches. Once I get the toques finished I will have one more adult classic toque to knit. At the moment I am listening to music, knitting and drinking Mint Tea. I also have clothes in the dryer. Once my clothes are clean I will be going out to registrar for a fitness theory course to start the process of eventually becoming a Fitness Trainer. I am also debating about going to the Boxing gym tonight or waiting until Wednesday when I know I will be ready to focus on boxing again as tomorrow is my Gastroscopy appointment at the hospital. All for now. Happy Knitting Everyone.

Sunday September 20, 2015

Good Morning All. I recently finished two new toques. I finished knitting one brown classic knitted toque a few days ago and today I Just finished knitting a navy blue classic knitted toque. Now I am knitting another green classic toque and I am also going to start knitting another brown classic knitted toque. Once I get the adult women's classic knitted toques complete I will see if I can use up the leftover yarn to knit some more children's classic knitted toques. Okay well that is all for now. I will add some more photos to my blog at some point this week.

Tuesday September 15, 2015: Shaker Knitted Toques

Good Afternoon All. I finally got the two new shaker toques completed. So I thought I would share photos of my two newest knitted shaker toques.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday September 15, 2015 - Photos of Classic Toques

Good Morning all at the moment I am listening to Kate Morgan's song Extra Ordinary on the radio. Whenever I hear this song it makes me feel that I want to Extraordinary and not Extra Ordinary. Anyways that's my thoughts to share today. Now on to some textiles news. I have been busy working on two shaker toques which should be completed today. Then I will have to take photographs of the toques and upload them on to my blog. I have also taken some photos of my classic adult knitted toques and I thought I would share photos of the adult classic toques I have knitted so far on my blog.

Sunday September 13, 2015

Good Evening All. I finished knitting a new classic knitted toque today. Thought I would share photos of my newest two knitted toques. Some other things I did today was to start two new knitted toques. I am working on two shaker toques. I am also working on a third toque, a classic toque. I also went to church this evening. The message in church was something I needed to hear tonight. On the way home after church the bus broke down so I had to wait for another bus. When I arrived home I made some pasta and a cup of tea. I am now knitting and watching Baywatch on YouTube.

Saturday September 12, 2015 - Knitted Socks

Good Morning All. I finally finished my new pair of knitted socks. I have two more balls of sock yarn but they are hidden away somewhere. That's okay though as the two balls of sock yarn are the same as some socks that I have already knitted. As I finished the socks this morning I missed my chance to go to the gym so I will have to wait until Monday to go to the gym. Oh well. I am just so happy I knitted a new pair of socks.

Friday September 11, 2015

Good Afternoon All. I am still having feelings of worry about my Gastroscopy. At the moment just thinking about my Gastroscopy appointment makes me feel like crying. So I have decided not to go to Boxing tonight at the gym. I don't think I will make it to Swing Dancing tonight either as I want to have my sock completed before I go to swing dancing. Instead I am laying in bed listening to music and knitting. My goal is to have my sock finished tonight. I am feeling down but am trying to do things so as not to feel down. I know Boxing would make me feel better but I don't feel like I would be able to concentrate at Boxing the way I am feeling right now. And then if I were not concentrating I know my Boxing coach would not be pleased. I'll go to Boxing tomorrow though for sure.

Thursday September 10, 2015

Good evening all. The new sock I am knitting is slowly coming along. I am also knitting some more classic toques at the same time. At the moment I am finding that knitting is taking my mind off a Gastroscopy appointment I have at the hospital in a just over a week and a half. Boxing also is helping to take my mind off my Gastroscopy appointment. Anyways back to textiles topics as this is a textiles blog. Once my sock is finished I will post more pictures. If I get my sock finished by tomorrow I will go to Swing Dancing tomorrow night. So I hope I get my sock finished.

Sunday September 6, 2015

Good Afternoon all. Today I finished knitting a new sock. Now I have only one sock left to knit. My final sock should be complete by the end of next week. Here are two photos of my newest pair of knitted socks. Hope you enjoy.

Saturday September 5, 2015

Good Evening All. I ended up not going to Conditioning Class or Boxing Class today. So now I will have to wait until Tuesday (Mardi in French) to go to Boxing Class. Today I completed knitting a new sock. Now I have only two socks left to knit. Once the socks are completed I will post photos. Tomorrow my plan is to go to church. I would like to go to two church services tomorrow but we will see. Anyways I hope you are all having a great day today.

Wednesday September 2, 2015

Hello All I hope you are all having a great afternoon. Well I just wanted to let you all know that I am still working on my two knitted socks that I have on the go. Then I will have one more knitted sock to knit until I am finished with knitting long socks. I will try knitting other types of socks so that I can continue to progress on my sock knitting. I had a cool idea this morning that I should hand my knitted socks out to the homeless once they are complete Yesterday I walked by this lady asking for money. I hate it when homeless people ask me for money. There is nothing I can do to help them out money wise. But if I had a pair of knitted socks with me I could have given this lady begging for money a pair of socks knitted with love. Okay that is all for now. I have to go make oatmeal now before I grab the bus and head out to the gym. Tonight I am heading to Walmart. Also a few more things to say are that I am hoping to a Fair this weekend. I am also looking into going to a Chalk Art Festival this month and a Lantern Festival. Here is an update. With the rain pouring down like it is it doesn't make me feel motivated to go to the gym. I would much rather stay inside and work on knitting my socks and drink tea and coffee. Here are some pictures of my socks so far.

Monday September 1, 2015

Good Afternoon to all of my followers. First of all I would like to wish all of you a very Happy September the 1st. Now that we are into September I feel that it is officially knitting season. Kids will be back in school soon and knitters will start knitting sweaters and cardigans and warm projects for the winter. I am still busy working on socks. I only need to finish three more socks and then I will go back to knitting toques. I also have sweaters on my mind. I have tried making sweaters for myself but they never turn out so I have been thinking a good thing to start out with is knitting sweaters and cardigans for babies so that I can work on honing my cardigan and sweater making skills. Well that is all for now. I have to socks on the go at the moment. Now I am going to go back to my sock knitting before I go out to meet a friend for hot chocolate and before I go to boxing tonight at the gym. I hope all you are having an amazing day today.