Project Spectrum Projects

Thank you all for your wonderful birthday wishes. Blogland is so full of good people, warm hearts and knitterly love. Tomorrow I'll share with you some of the Fabulous love that came my way.

Knitting several things at once may slow forward progression on any one item but, it produces a lovely phenomenon of several things being finished up in a flurry. Rosarie's photo shoot was on February 26th, Gloria's March 5th, and Seaweed on March 12th.  As the end of any knitting journey nears a bit of obsession sets in and nothing else is touched until the last steps of a project are finished. When last Friday came around I was left with only 2 items on my needles, Cutaway and Child's First Sock (for SockapalOOOza), perfect projects for this months Project Spectrum.

(Oh yes but I forgot, that isn't totally true, as I'm knitting simple, warm hats while at Stitch 'n Bitch, until Easter for '40 Days for Others'.  Hats for the local men's shelter will be my main charity knitting this year.  Susan's Amber hat is easy, quick and with a plain hem it creates extra warmth around the ears.  This one is in Mountain Colors Weavers Wool and it is working up very handsomely.  It seems I am socially inept at knitting more than simple stockinette in a crowd.  I can only KNIT in public.)

I'm enjoying the SockapalOOOza sock as it has been a long time since I've even touched a sock. Deadlines drive me crazy and, while I am good at procrastinating, I don't like to wait until the last minute to finish something. What if something happens and I can fulfill my obligation?  The finished pair can hang around here for awhile until it's time to mail…so a concerted effort has been put into finishing them. I'll share how much fun I'm having with Cutaway (on the right) later next week.

The yarn for my Sockapal is Hand Jive   in a bright pinkish red, Indian Paintbrush.  Last year I knit a pair of socks for both my pal and myself and thought that would be a nice thing to do this year. But when I returned to buy more yarn the color was gone and the shop decided to discontinue it. When  Laurie came to town and she gifted me with two balls of a beautiful Shelridge Farms sock yarn in Cranberry, which was very near the color of my Sockapal socks, so it will become a like pair for me. I will not only remember knitting socks for my pal, while enjoying a weekend of friends but, also Laurie's warm hug and the night we chatted through a delightful dinner to become fast friends, not just blogland buddies.

I pawed through my stash to find yarn the PS colors of pink and red. As you can see there isn't very much red.  The pile on the right is sock yarn and the pile on the left is lace weight.  I'll show my sweater yarns in pink and red later. Red, pink, blue and purple are my favorite colors but, I try to buy sock yarn in colors other than my favorites just to have a chance to play with, and try out, something that may not look good near my face. However, there is an over abundance of color in the purple/red/blue end of the color spectrum in the stash.

Eliza had a contest on her blog a couple of weeks ago and three of us had the right answer.  She made each winner a charming little knitting bag, which is perfect for a sock or other small project (maybe the Mountain Stream Scarf?). My bag is pink inside and a very nice brown on the outside.  I love it! Eliza is having another contest and this time she'll draw a name randomly, so check it out and see how lucky you are.

Clare sent a "yarn collage" for the PS Postcard and she did a nice job of playing with the colors, don't you think?  Have you found more red or pink in your world?

Comments

[Carole]

Thanks for the reminder on 40 Days. I haven't knit anything yet so I need to get going!

[susan]

What a clever idea for the postcard.

[Kathy]

Love that bag -- so cute!

[Lauren]

I got behind on blog reading and missed your birthday, so Happy belated Birthday! Seaweed looks beautiful!

[JessaLu]

Here I am continuing my 'day late' tradition - Happy Birthday, Margene! ;o)

[Chris]

What a cute bag! And your Sockapalooza sock looks lovely.

[kim]

Ooohhh! Mountain Colors...puuurrrrrrrr.

Happy Belated Birthday, sweetie!! You make 56 look like 36, hon. You're beautiful. xoxo

[Jackie]

I'm drooling over all your beautiful pink and red yarns!!
Can't wait to hear more about your birthday! :)

[Kim]

Coming home, yours was the first post I read today and what a chockablock full post! I love all the colors and projects!!

I will have to go check out your finished seaweed.....one of my favorite's of your projects for sure!

[Norma]

You sure did have fun with the color feature of Typepad in this post, grrl! It's such a hoot. Imagine if you had to do all that nasty HTML. The bag from Eliza is AMAZINGly cute! Very nice on the hats for 40 Days For Others. Well done, Dearie.

[Jennifer]

Loving that yarn collage! What a cute idea. The sock is looking quite pretty as well.

[Beth S.]

I love your pink sock yarns. The pile is smaller than I thought it would be, actually. I wonder what that means. (Probably just that I have excessive quantities of pink in my own sock stash. ;-)

[Sharon]

That's what I get for getting behind on blog reading...you went and had a birthday without me! Obviously it was a great one, so my good wishes being belated didn't hurt. And Margene, Seaweed is a stunner!

[Stephanie]

Busy as usual. Everything looks great.

[Laura]

Ooo... cute bag! Neat shape. And the collage postcard is a great idea! Fun! I hope Lolly will have a flickr page with just postcard photos.

[Tina]

Was so nice to meet you last night too! And to be there when you were celebrating your birthday. It was a very fun night, even if I did have a bit of 'stars' in my eyes with all the 'famous' (to me anyway) people I've only been reading about in blogland for this past 8 months! Glad I could come.

[Imbrium]

I'm loving those SockapalOOOza socks...your pal is very lucky!

[Sockapalooza Sock pal!!!]

Dear Sockpal,

Just wanted to wish you a happy belated birthday! Hope you enjoyed it.

[Kathy]

Wishing you a belated birthday here, too. Hope it was wonderful!

[Lolly]

Your excitement for Project Spectrum is so contagious! :) Love seeing all of your projects and your enthusiasm, Margene. You are awesome!

That new bag is adorable!

Love,
L

[yvette]

Oops missed your birthday, hope you had a great time and your gifts look fabulous. Happy Birthday Margene.

[Debi]

I just LOVE pink...I shudder to think about how much PINK sock yarn I have! Your pink post made me smils, M!