Yummy color! Can't stop knitting!

Sickness still reigns in our home. Son is still battling fevers, cough and congestion. Husband still has the cough. I have not caught their bugs, thankfully! I am thoroughly sick of dr appointments, though! I needed a pick me up by Tuesday. So I started my Diagonal Garter Cardigan. I needed to swatch it and redo the numbers for a tighter gauge, so I started one of the 3 squares. The colors are to die for!!!!
I will have to make myself put this down or it will be finished before Jeff City and honestly, I cannot think of any other knitting that I want to take on that trip.


I think I have finally reached my shawl limit. I am still working on 2 shawls (my Lyra and a square sampler) and am not real enthusiastic about either. They take more concentration than I can give right now. I am back to a sleep deprived balloon head feeling. Both shawls are at a large stage and it takes a long time to even complete one round. I find that sometimes it just helps to put it to the side for awhile and come back to it when you get in the mood.
I am so enjoying knitting this garter project. I know that sometimes garter is so boring, but the play of colors with this JoJoland Rhythm yarn is just wonderful! It is so hard to stop knitting! If you ever get a chance to try this yarn, do it! Any pattern that calls for Noro would probably work with this yarn! It is softer and less expensive. If I have extra balls left, I am going to make some more Ribbed Fingerless Mittens.
Here are the colors up close-------
YUMMY COLOR! CAN'T STOP KNITTING!

More Lyra progress

I have made great Lyra progress. I am now at Rnd 95. I probably will not make progress on it this weekend. I have been feverishly working on my Lyra because the Half Circle Cardigan (my other project) was boring me to tears. As everyone who knows me knows, I cannot sit and do nothing!!!!
I am on the back portion of the cardigan. I have to do K2, P2 ribbing on 146 sts for 132 rows. The progress just seems to be so slow and boring. I was beginning to hate the fact that I had even started it, wondering if it would even look good on me. I hate to spend a long time on a project and then just hate it. I love the variation of the colors on the yarn I am using. A knitting/church friend came over yesterday to have me help get her back on track on a pair of socks. She had a fit over the colors in the yarn, it made me see that it really was very lovely. Isn't that just like a knitter? I got her on track with her knitting and she got me back on track with mine. So this weekend, I am going to be trying to finish my Half Circle Cardigan through the 132 rows of the back. Here is a picture of the weird shape. Of course, the choice of color is no surprise. I love autumn shades.

When I finish this, I am going to reward myself with a new mindless knitting project. I have a pattern that I bought from my local yarn store that is called diagonal cardigan. It calls for Noro yarn, but I plan on substituting JoJoland worsted weight. It, too, is a slow variegating yarn, but a lot softer that the Noro. They both call for the same gauge on the label. This cardigan is made all in garter. It consists of 3 squares made on the diagonal. The back is one square and the two fronts are the other 2. The excess on the fronts fold back in a chic lapel that you can set off with a great shawl pin. The square is made by starting out with 2 sts and all the rows are (increase in first st, knit across). Once you get to a certain width diagonally, you decrease the first st and knit across until you are back to 2 sts. The sleeves are just plain garter. If you click on the JoJoland word above it will show you the colorway that I plan on using. I hope to be able to work on this on my Jefferson City trip in March. It will make a great road trip project.
In the design department, I am experimenting with multi-directional crochet. I love multi-directional knitting and think the same idea in crochet would be very interesting and great fun.