Yannick and I put up our holiday decorations Sunday night. My family is coming over to exchange Hanukah presents next Saturday night and we wanted the house to be ready. This pic shows our side front window. The stained glass was a housewarming gift made by Yannick’s sister. The two side pictures are holiday signs I printed and put up in our window. You can see the Christmas tree through the other window so I wanted something Hanukah-y to show from the outside too.

This is a close-up of the Steeplechase pattern. I really didn’t think it would come out because a) it’s black, and b) it’s subtle. It’s a combination of eyelet Vs with stockinette and garter blocks. I’m really impressed that my phone camera caught such great detail…in fact the pic of the shrug also came out great, it was the first pic that shows the colors, even the green flecks in all that red and orange. Hmm…not bad for my new toy! 🙂

This is a close-up of the Steeplechase pattern. I really didn’t think it would come out because a) it’s black, and b) it’s subtle. It’s a combination of eyelet Vs with stockinette and garter blocks. I’m really impressed that my phone camera caught such great detail…in fact the pic of the shrug also came out great, it was the first pic that shows the colors, even the green flecks in all that red and orange. Hmm…not bad for my new toy! 🙂

This is a close-up of the Steeplechase pattern. I really didn’t think it would come out because a) it’s black, and b) it’s subtle. It’s a combination of eyelet Vs with stockinette and garter blocks. I’m really impressed that my phone camera caught such great detail…in fact the pic of the shrug also came out great, it was the first pic that shows the colors, even the green flecks in all that red and orange. Hmm…not bad for my new toy! 🙂

This is the Steeplechase Vest from a Knit ‘n Style magazine that I’m making for Yannick’s mom as a Christmas gift. You can’t really see it in this pic ‘cus the whole front is on the needle so I can do the button band (1 piece from right front around neck to left front). The whole body is done, I did a 3ndl BO on the shoulders so the seam there looks AMAZING, and I did the ribbing on the armholes already too. Once the button band is done and I sew on the buttons (not bought yet) I’ll be done.

This is the Steeplechase Vest from a Knit ‘n Style magazine that I’m making for Yannick’s mom as a Christmas gift. You can’t really see it in this pic ‘cus the whole front is on the needle so I can do the button band (1 piece from right front around neck to left front). The whole body is done, I did a 3ndl BO on the shoulders so the seam there looks AMAZING, and I did the ribbing on the armholes already too. Once the button band is done and I sew on the buttons (not bought yet) I’ll be done.

This is the Steeplechase Vest from a Knit ‘n Style magazine that I’m making for Yannick’s mom as a Christmas gift. You can’t really see it in this pic ‘cus the whole front is on the needle so I can do the button band (1 piece from right front around neck to left front). The whole body is done, I did a 3ndl BO on the shoulders so the seam there looks AMAZING, and I did the ribbing on the armholes already too. Once the button band is done and I sew on the buttons (not bought yet) I’ll be done.

…I managed to figure out an easier way to add pics. I really DON’T like the Blogger way of doing it because it shoves all the pics up to the top of the post, not wherever the cursor is like it used too. Also it takes longer to upload the pics, and for some reason it’s not reliable. It lets me add up to 5 pics and sometimes none will upload, sometimes 1 will work and the others will be broken link icons…after having to wait for so long in between it’s just annoying.

I ended up downloading Hello and Picasa. These are two programs from the same company. Picasa is more for browsing images on your computer, but Hello is a really easy way of instantly uploading pics to your blog. It takes seriously 2 seconds to upload and is really user friendly. I don’t have the links handy ‘cus Blogger took me to their sites, but I’m sure you can find them via Google, especially since they’re Google software (I think), just like Blogger is.

Ok, now that I have this picture thing working again, you’ll be seeing more stuff here! The only thing that’s a bit annoying is having each pic come up as it’s own post, but I suppose I can live with that. Can you?

I tried to use the machine tonight and had a hard time. I set it up with no problems, and the carriage moves fine when the needles are back in A position. The instructions say to make a sample swatch by moving X number of needles to D, pass the carriage with the levers set to the triangle and II, and then move every 2nd needle back to A. Well, for some reason, 9 times out of 10 when I’d try to pass the carriage it would pass perfectly over the first half of the sts, then jam. There wasn’t even yarn in the carriage yet! I don’t know what was wrong. I eventually forced it and it went, so I threaded the carriage and tried to make a swatch. It REALLY didn’t work, but I was trying with Homespun which is pretty bulky and also kinda twisted and kinked so I’m hoping it was just the yarn and not the machine. *fingers crossed* This was an ebay purchase so I’m REALLY hoping it’s not defective!

This is the Goldilocks shrug that I ripped and re-started at least 6 times. The final pattern is of my own design since I didn’t want a tight or stretchy cuff at the ends. I know I haven’t worked on it lately but I didn’t have a camera to take pics when I was working on it, so I didn’t post it.