A Little Knitting Progress

 One thing you can always expect from me are very bad, non-staged photos. Today's post will not disappoint.  :)  I just decided to share a few photos of knitting projects; both dogs are asleep in my chair and I'm a firm believer in not disturbing a sleeping dog!  :)

Last night I did find my box of needles. There are several packages of interchangeable needles but many are not in the packages, which probably means they're in projects. So, the more projects I find and finish, the more needles I will have.

I ordered some stitch markers, cable needles - some of the basics from Amazon and they should arrive tomorrow.

A little backtracking story . . some of you may remember. I learned to knit in college - that was a very long time ago - 50+ years ago.  How did I get so old so fast?  I could knit basics but I never learned how to put sweaters together. There was a lady in Texas that we were friends with and she would put my my sweaters together for me. Thinking back . . I didn't know how to knit sleeves either so she would knit my sleeves and finish my sweaters. Probably in the early 80's, I stopped knitting.

Then in maybe probably 2002 - 2004, I wanted to knit again but I could not remember how to cast on. I don't know if there were youtube videos back then or if I just didn't know how to use them but more times than I care to admit, I would spend too much time on the knitting row in Hobby Lobby. Every lady that came along and looked at yarn, I would ask "Do you knit?" Most did not - they did crochet.  Finally, after many days of hanging out in Hobby Lobby looking for a knitter who would help me, someone told me about a group that met at one of the churches downtown on Tuesday mornings to eat. She knew the church, what time, etc. - I've just forgotten. So, I went down there and they got me started. Everyone had a different method of casting on and finally one of the ladies was doing it like I remembered so I was good to go. I knitted with those ladies for about a year - maybe two because we moved away from there at the end of 2006.

Today we took both of our vehicles in to get the tires rotated. We left mine, took Vince's to Hobby Lobby, then to Sam's Club; then took his to the tire shop, I left, he walked to some nearby shops and found some good deals while they were rotating his tires.

While in Hobby Lobby, I was on the knitting aisle and a young lady walked over to me and said "Do you knit?" Oh, my goodness . . I had come full circle. We stood there and talked for probably 20 minutes. I ended up giving her my phone number, told her it was fine to message me any time, told her I could meet her in Joplin and help her if we can't solve it on the phone.

OK . . back to the post.

I found several projects in bags that are started. All have needles and yarn together so these will be easy to finish - I don't have to look for anything.

I have no idea what this is - some kind of shawl. I will figure it out.

This is a cardigan and the body of it is about 3/4 done! I love this red Madelinetosh yarn. I could see this one being finished for next winter . . or maybe not!  :)

This is the one I started several days ago. I've made good progress. This one is knit in separate pieces - back, then front, then sleeves. At some point I will stitch the front to the back, then finish the collar/top area, then knit the sleeves and get them stitched in.

I will find a balance that works for me where I knit some, cross stitch more. The knitting gives my hands a break from cross stitching; and the stitching gives my hands a break from the knitting. A couple of days ago, I was happy to be knitting again; tonight I'm happy to be back to cross stitching.

I'm still working on America - 250. My plan is to finish stitching Independence Hall and fill in the flag before I put it down for a few days to knit a bit more.