Thank you Marie

Last month Marie B, a member of at least two of the Yahoo groups to which I belong, offered to send some vintage Brunswick Germantown worsted to knitters for community service knitting. I responded to Marie and she sent me three skeins of the most lovely "Winterberry" traditional 100% wool worsted. From those three skeins I created a "Toddler Center Cable Vest" and a "Quickie Baby Sweater" and a matching hat.

The toddler vest will go the the Children in Common group, and the baby sweater and hat have been mailed to the Anchorage Stork Project in Alaska.

Marie, thank you so much for sharing your stash with me. It was a real pleasure to knit with the vintage yarn and create these garments to keep little ones warm.

Stash Projects Update

I have made some progress on my Top 10 Stash Projects - more knitting than blogging this past month.

The first weekend in February my husband and I traveled to North Carolina to visit our daughter Kate when she was running the Uwharrie Mountain Trail Run - the 20 mile trail run - for the sixth consecutive year. She completed the 20 miles, through the woods, up and down hills and across streams, in just under six hours. I cannot imagine the endurance required for such a run! My husband and I met her at one checkpoint then waited for her at the finale - lots of time in the woods on a beautiful NC day for knitting!

So two pair of socks are off the needles ... the first pair completed were the Canal du Midi II socks for the Knitting On The Road knitalong, and the second pair were the Black Madder Rib Socks for the vintage_sox_knitalong ... both pair completed that weekend.

The Canal du Midi is my favorite pattern from Nancy Bush's "Knitting on the Road." I really get into the rhythm of the traveling stitch pattern and enjoy watching it develop. And the Madder Rib Sock pattern from "Knitting Vintage Socks" has just the right amount of rib to keep the sock snug on my legs and feet, yet not disturb the beautiful flow of the variegated shading of the yarn. The Madder Rib socks were knit of Tess' Designer Super Sock yarn I purchased at the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival in May 2007, and this yarn has become my favorite for socks - the tight twist, the softly variegated colors.

Another Stash Project completed is a baby sweater made of one skein of James Brett Marble DK bought on a whim about a year ago. The pattern is "Bamboo Baby" in "One-Skein Wonders" and there was only a small ball of yarn left - a perfect stash-busting project. This sweater has been mailed to the Anchorage Stork Project at the Providence Medical Center in Anchorage, Alaska.

Three completed Stash Projects! More to come ...