I think u can see what has been going on... lot's of ripping... I just wasn't happy with how this shrug looked... there was a ridge of garter stitch in between the different pattern rows.. and the stitch pattern I was using was making the sleeves wide... so I thought about it a bit(almost half of the day yesterday was spent debating with myself) and decided what I needed to do was a vertical stitch of some kind.. some decreasing....>



More knitting.....>



peek-a-boo... umm ... where was I.. ooo.. yes.. wow.. it fits nice and comfy .. yay.. finally we are moving forward and there is actually more knitting going on then ripping..



BTW .. this is the first time that I have knit with lion brand cotton ease and I'm loving it.. the center medallion is knit with Berroco Love it and the body and sleeves are knit with cotton ease.. the yarns are very similar.. the cotton ease is a little denser I think but also has a nice drape.. they work well together.. I could make the entire shrug with either yarn.. I'm going to make this shrug again with different yarn in different colors.. In case u haven't noticed... I had originally planned to use the cotton ease for the turtleneck tank from Fitted knits.. but some people do not look good in high turtlenecks.. and I'm one of them.. so I decided to scrap that project.. and I just happened to need a yarn that was similar to the Berroco love it.. I'm knitting the sleeves on a size 8 needle so they are going pretty fast.. I have 3 balls of cotton ease .. I hope it's enough to finish.. I used almost the whole ball of love it on the medallion... I might need to run and get one more ball of the Berroco love it to finish this shrug the way I would like .. sigh..


P.S. I want to thank everyone for their nice comments and encouragement.. sometimes I think my projects get a bit muddled... so it's nice to get some feed back.. (^_^)

Progress on my medallion shrug... I seem to be having the same problems that I encounter on the other shrugs... I rip more than I knit sometimes .. or I rip everything I knit.. even so.. there is progress... then there is a the big decision of .. should I knit or crochet.. this time I chose to knit a pattern that I could have crocheted.. I'm still debating if I should rip it and change to crochet... this is the point I'm at right now.





Tuesday night was my SnB meeting .. NYGK..and we had been running around all day.. cleaning carpets and other stuff .. so by the time evening came around for once I didn't really feel like knitting. I had 3 projects with me..` 0.0 .. the diamond shawl.. medallion shrug .. and a sock.. humm...
well first I working on the sleeves of the shrug for a bit.. didn't like what I was doing so i put that down.. then I picked up my shawl.. hummm .. I'm ashamed to say I haven't worked on it for awhile.. and I couldn't figure out what row I was on.. put that down and started working on a sock that I haven't worked on in awhile.. humm not sure of the row I was on but started knitting any way.... when I got in the car to go home after I picked up my bf.. I noticed there was a problem with the pattern on the sock.. I did the same row twice... probably when I first picked it up.. so ... I ripped it back to the boo boo.. and fixed it.. hummm.. then I looked at the medalion shrug.. ew didn't like the sleeves.. ripped then out also.. so basically all the knitting I had done at my SnB I ripped out.. oh well .. I spent yesterday fixing it all.. is there a moral to this story.. maybe...




All fixed and looking pretty.. shew..

I can't seem to stop now... this is the beginning of another shrug.. heheh.. I don't know why I used green again.. well I had a brand new ball of Berroco love it and I didn't want to add it to the stash.. not much u can do with one ball.. so.....






I started with a knitted center medallion and I'm adding the sides to begin the sleeve.. I'll post more later.. the charcoal yarn is lion brand cotton ease.

just JaYdEn

I casted on the turtleneck tube vest from Fitted knits the other night.. and.. duh.. I didn't READ.. where it says it's made from the top down.. so I thought i was making the bottom and wow it looked so small... I would fix it in the morning.. then I did read and found out that it was the neck I was knitting and not the bottom.. shew.. so because I thought I was knitting the bottom I knit more than the 5" the pattern called for.. which ment I had to rip.. which I did then started on the "under front" which I was able to try on last night and realized that for me it was still too long...(it actually went up over my chin) and I would fix it in the morning... so this morning I tried it on again and though eww.. this is unattractive on me.. so I have the choice of ripping it out again and making it shorter or scrapping it and using the yarn for a different project.. that's where I am at this moment..

















Some more pictures of the monster.. my thoughts are that it's not totally bad...

Finished and blocked.. Ill take better pictures and post those soon.





































I also finished the front edging on the monster... all it needs is a button.. I'll take better pictures of this too.... and I casted on again..!!

I'm on the last row of the body and of course ... I ran out of yarn... sigh.. what should I do.. run across town and purchase another ball of yarn for $10 for 1/2 row at the bottom... or.. just use one of the other yarns.. humm.. that's a tough one.. hehe

















with that dilemma solved..( I used one of the other yarns to complete the final row) I've been moving right along and have completed both from and back on the upper body.. there is just the trim left to do.. so far I'm liking this..