My Apron

Yippee!! It's done! And I love it!

and no, I'm not 8 feet tall - I'm standing on a chair in my kitchen, so I could take the picture in the mirror :)

Its a Good Thing

No, I'm not quoting Martha Stewart .... far from it.

I'm just thinking that it's a good thing this is 'just a dishcloth' because the blatant mistake I made in the pattern would render anything else useless. But what's a little extra stripe among friends, right?

This pattern was the Yahoo Group's mid-month mystery dishcloth pattern and there is no picture provided. So when I originally saw how different this one area was, I thought maybe it was just the way the pattern was going to be. Like a stripe on the top and bottom. Nope. Just a mistake on my part. But other than that, I really like this pattern. I'm thinking of working it up as my next pair of socks. Of course, not until after that apron gets finished :)

Bobble Bobble

Although really far from being perfect - I have learned to bobble. My mom had this pattern and didn't have any desire to learn how to do it, and I was intrigued by the instructions, because I had no idea what a bobble even was. I guess 'bobble' sounds better than 'wart', though I think wart is more representative of what the silly things turn out looking like! (sorry to all you bobble lovers)
I'm giving this to my mom - she wants it to put under her african violet plant as a coaster kind of thing.

I am happy to say my apron is 12" long (only 3" more to go before the sash). I really thought I would be bored stiff with the pattern, but it's a great mindless project when I'm too tired to keep track of a pattern, but still feel like knitting. And the longer it gets, the more I see how awesome of an apron it's going to be!

Look What's On My Feet!

And look what will be on my waist--my apron! Only another 10" to go.....

Promises Promises

I promised myself I would NOT do another dishcloth until I had finished my second cable sock. In fact I did work on the sock, but I just kept hearing all that cotton yarn I bought whispering, 'knit me knit me'.

Since I had done the mid-month cloths from Yahoo for February, March, and April, I really wanted to do January too, just so I can have a full set at the end of the year. And since this only took me one evening and a little bit of time this a.m., my sock will never know, right???

Before I started the pattern, I just glanced through it quickly, thinking this will be easy. Until I got to "psso" what?? Even when I looked it up in my knitting book, I still wasn't sure what "passed slip stitch over" really meant. I think I did it right though, because the cloth looks like the finished picture on the pattern.

Now back to the sock--until my size 8 needles arrive from KnitPicks - and then my apron pattern will be shouting 'knit me knit me'........