This is knit from acrylic worsted weight yarn, Encore by Plymouth yarn. I bought the yarn from Rosemary's Gift & Yarn Shop
39 Roosevelt Trail, Windham, Maine 04062

Time!

I think it is time that I start to use this blog again. Living at the lake this winter and I have not done a lot of knitting, but I have made a dozen pair of worsted weight wool socks for hubby and friends...and I did knit one sweater for my Grandson Ben!
Winter has been very mild this year...no long term below zero weather at all, not much snow, but a lot of rain/ice. Very hard to plow when its icy underneath the snow that has fallen. Mud season will be here soon, so we will be moving back to town for a couple of months...will be nice to see people and go to the grocery store when something is needed instead of making a list to pick up when you go to town once a week. lol
Christmas was wonderful!!!! Sarah is 5 1/2 now and Ben is 3. Sarah was so excited this year...made Ben get into the experience too.
I will try to post some pictures of my socks and things...

KNIT ON!

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!

Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Valentines Day and hope that you had a great day and plenty of knitting too!

KNIT ON!!!!

Olympic knit hat pattern

http://cleverknits.com/2009/12/plural-of-moose-is-moose.html

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/olympic-reindeer-hat


This was posted in the Knitlist today. I have downloaded the pattern and printed it out! Now to find some yarn and make me one of these!

Tried to download it to this post but it won't do it for me. Please check this out!!! Easy pattern to follow.


KNIT ON~~~

Knitivity Yarns

I placed an order with Ray Whiting a couple of weeks ago and today I received my yarns. I am so anxious to start on them. Planning on a couple of sweaters for the grand kids with a couple of the colors. Love the bright ones the most so I will be using them for the sweaters. Now to decide what to make for a pattern. No cables as they will not show up too much and I really want the different colors to show and not a design. I have a couple of SS roll neck patterns in sport weight that I am thinking I will use.

I did order wool again and now my DIL said she would prefer something she can wash and dry in the machine! Nice to time to let me know after I had already placed the order. Oh well, next time it will be a merino wool for them.

I really love the yarns Ray gets for his hand painted yarns..I have not had one skein yet with a knot in it so I have not had to hide any ends except from starting and stopping.

Been a while since Ive posted, just been so caught up with Facebook that I finally decided to take a break from that and the games on it.

I do have a nice purple WW sweater started for Sarah. Have the back done and the front to the sleeve bind off. I am using some of the Brunswick yarn I have left from my old yarn shop. They stopped making the yarn 15 years ago so does that tell you how old the yarn is. It was still in the plastic packaging and it is in mint condition. I have a couple of bags of their blueberry heather left too. Will make something with that soon.

Well, I am going to go start supper for hubby..he still has his job and we just keep our fingers crossed that the mill will continue to run for another couple of years and then he can retire.

KNIT ON!!!!

American Logger Bar & Grille

If You're a fan of American Logger then you will enjoy these pictures of the Pelletier's new venture in the business world. Our little town is so very proud of this family. Thank you Pelletier Family, you ROCK!!

They lifted this logging truck onto the roof of their new business which is scheduled to open in January 2010.

Ben's new sweater.

 
 

I bought this yarn last summer in Freeport, Maine at a yarn store there and had intended to knit Sarah another side to side sweater. Not being able to find a pattern that I liked I just never used the yarn. So I had a free pattern that came with the yarn I decided it was time for Ben to have something hand knit from Grammy!!

At camp and enjoying this summer. No surgeries this year so I have been out fishing a lot. I do not keep the fish as I hate to clean them...lol. So I go out in my little row boat and have a quiet evening fishing and enjoying nature. Had a couple of loons come up on side of the boat the first night out and scared me half to death!! I was hoping they wouldn't try to grab my lines and get the hooks caught in their mouth. I use a bobber and row around the lake fishing. I hate to sit in one place and have to pull up the ancher so I fish this way.

Well back to the woods...going to try to finish a pair of socks to send to my son today...their friends lost their house and everything in it Friday night due to a lighening strike! They just finished rebuilding the older home and were planning their wedding. Life always throws something at ya when you least expect it.

KNIT ON!!

Deathbysocks

Here are a couple of pictures of the socks I knit for my victim Melody! I hope she enjoys them. I used Knitivity yarn for this.



Giant mosquito~~~

Anna's new socks

Camp and knitting

the road is open to camp. BUT!!!!! The culvert they replaced last fall has washed out. It is down on our end so no one is in a hurry to fix it. DH hauled two loads of gravel yesterday and at least now we can drive over it without killing the truck and ourselves. LOL We are getting old. We are putting in a new hot water heater...we are going tankless this time. It will be so much easier to close up the camp without the big 40 gallon tank of water to drain. Mike is going to put it in and put easy disconnects for us so that we can blow it out and replace with anti-freeze and not worry about that for the winter months.

I have received my hand-painted wool that I ordered from Knitivity. One group is of the colors of Samantha and the other is from our grand puppy Ollie. Going to knit myself a cardigan with hood out of the Samantha color and some socks. Possible a hat and some mittens if I have enough. The Ollie colors are in worsted weight and sport. Knitting some hats and socks for DS for Christmas gifts. I will work on them at camp this summer.

We have someone coming to look at the camp as soon as the road is graded. It is a mess this year. No one took the road rake this spring so it has hardened up quickly and with the ruts from the logging trucks still there. And the sides of the roads are very soft. Someone was stuck today...lol They must have walked to the main road and got a ride home. When we came out this afternoon the truck was gone but you could see the area he was stuck in. Get too close to the edges and they mud just sucks the vehicle in and there is no stopping it. Ha Ha. Better them than me! Mud is worse then snow any day!! lol

I have another pair of socks finished and one and a half of another pair too! Hope to post pictures tomorrow if it is raining out. We will not be heading to camp too early tomorrow..need to run to Medway to the vets to pick up Penny's medications for her thyroid problem. lol Hard to believe that a cat has the same problems humans have.....oh well. She is worth it...she is needed at camp to catch mice for us again. This has caused her heart muscle to thicken so now she has heart problems too. She has had a good life with us and we will keep her going as long as she isn't in any pain. But for now she is taking her meds, eating and has put on a pound in the last 6 weeks. I will start looking for a kitten soon to replace Samantha. I know that Tonto will not be here much longer as he is over 17 years old now...almost 18!!! We don't want Feather to be alone, she hates it when we go out and leave her alone now, can't imagine what she will do if she is the only cat in this house. She has never been alone.

Time to go watch the Young and Restless, or as DH calls it...the old and useless! lol Want to finish my sock tonight. God Bless!!

Take care all and KNIT ON!

Sox from Knitivity sport yarn

I finished up this pair of socks from Knitivity yarn I ordered from Ray. This is from sport weight yarn and the color is Art School sr. This is 100% wool. Down Home art yarn is the brand. There were no knots or tied together strands in any of the skeins I have used so far. I had more then enough to make this pair of socks and enough left over to make me a single sock with a short cuff. But I am going to make a little sweater for my DGS with the other skein and will keep this leftover for just in case....lol. Winding a different color to start tonight with. Will post when finished.

The pattern I used is from my head. I cast on 52 stitches on size 3 dP needles. The cuff is knit and purl and the heel is half of the cast on. Nothing to knitting up a pair like this for anyone. If anyone wants the directions that I have in my head (lol) just ask. Will gladly try to write them down. Oh, I do use wooly nylon for the heel and toe reinforcment on all my socks.

KNIT ON!

Two pairs of socks done!

Two pair of socks knitted from Rays yarns. Love knitting with this yarn. Can't wait to get my big yarn order.


Sarah discovered Grammy's yarn yesterday. She was having a blast pulling the yarn out faster than I could knit it.
This is from Ray also. I have one sock done and hope to finish the second one tonight...after I get off the computer!!

We went to our son's yesterday. Sarah and mommy baked Grammy a birthday cake..it was so yummy. No one took any pictures so can't share them with you. I had the best birthday ever!!! Got to play with Sarah and Ben all day and then tried to teach Sarah about knitting. She is a little bit to young, but will bring over some needles and yarn for her on our next visit. I think she will enjoy trying for about 20 seconds...lol

KNIT ON!

The Socks are Finished!

Here are three pictures of the socks I knit from the yarn I got from Knitivity. I really enjoyed working with this yarn. I am impressed that it only took one skein to make this pair of socks. You can see the amount that I have left over in the photos.


This picture I used the flash. I do not care for it because it doesn't show the true colors. The photos would have been better if I had taken them during the day and not after 11 pm.




The color is Storm Surge. 100% wool. Can't wait to get the special ordered yarn of Samantha and Ollie colors.

KNIT ON!

New Yarn

I have one sock completed and the second one about half way down on the cuff. Will take a pic and post it tomorrow if I don't get that April Fools Virus everyone is talking about.
KNIT ON!

Yarns from Knitivity

Check out this website... www.knitivity.com His email addy is: ray@knitivity.com

Ray is very talented and hand paints the yarn in his shop. I ordered this when he was having a sale. I can't wait to wind up the Storm Surge tonight and start on a pair of wool socks for my DH.
I ordered worsted weight, sport weight and fingering. The yarn is 100% wool.



Got an email with this yarn in it for sale from sockyarnsales website. I checked out the website and ordered this yarn. I am very pleased with it. Tonight I start by winding this yarn and making a pair of wool socks for DH. This one is called Storm Surge and it is WW.


This one is called Glacier Berry. It is sport weight. I can see some pretty socks for DDIL.

These four skeins are four sport weight. They are colors Art School, Jr. and Art School, Sr.

These are two skeins of sport weight and two skein of fingering weight yarn. The color is Graffiti.

This a picture of them all together.

This is just what I have needed to get my out of that "don't know what to knit" hump that I have been in for a couple of weeks. Have knit a couple of dishcloths but nothing big. I still need to finish Sarah's poncho. I have the two panels done but need to pick up the 200+ stitches on each side of each panel for the sleeves. I will wait for the days to be longer so I have better sunlight.

I hope you all take a look at Rays Yarns. I sent him a couple of pictures of my cat Samantha and sons dog Ollie. He is going to paint me some yarn for a cardigan for me out of Samantha's color and some socks, hats and mittens out of Ollie's colors for my DS for Christmas gifts.

KNIT ON!!

Camp for Sale in Maine with owned Land

As you can see in this picture, we have put in windows on the porch and a new front door and storm door. We are planning on finishing the porch this summer and making another bed/sun room out of it. I am hoping to put in some nice hardwood flooring in this room so I won't have to worry about it getting dirty like the rug in the bedroom. Love rugs, but prefer to wash flooring then rugs any day!!

We are also going to see what the cost will be to put a metal roof on so we don't have to shovel it every snowstorm...which is a lot easier to do with just a few inches rather than a couple three feet of snow like most of the other camp owners do. I enjoy going up there for the day, so now we can just enjoy the day without a lot of extra roof raking..just the deck and ramp and driveway to do. I hope we will be able to match the deck color if we do have the metal roof put on, but that will be if we have enough money left from taxes to do that. First to get finished will be the new room. Need to get a door for inside as we will be taking the window out and making a doorway there.


 

Here are a few pictures of our summer home. The camp is 28 x 40. The bedroom is 16 x 18 ...the deck is a three sided wrap around.The bathroom is 12 x 12 with a tub/shower and closet space. There is a loft with two beds and a screened in porch that can easily be finished into a second bedroom....10 x 16 in size. The land is 1.75 acres...consists of 275 feet of shore frontage. The lake is spring fed and is one mile by 2 miles. It is very private and secluded area with families living there year round now. We are on the snowmobile trails and the ATV trails.

Rainbows are plentiful here too. We seem to get a lot of them on this end of the lake due to the suns rays.


The loons are right out front all the time. This one let me take many pictures of it without swimming too far out so that I got some good closeups of it.


The camp was built in 1998. It has a new septic system, bathroom, roof, deck (2000)