Freshly Finished Friday #19

On June 12, 2015June 11, 2015 By hardknitlifeIn Free-For-All Friday, Fresh Off The Needles, Freshly Finished Friday9 Comments

Welcome to a link-up party for your Friday Finished Object posts! In an effort to connect everyone who creates and blogs about it here on the web, I thought providing a place to link up and share your freshly finished creations would be a great way to see what everyone is working on. Please feel free to share ANY of your finished crafty pursuits from knitting and crocheting to sewing and scrapbooking.

Drumroll please….

and the beautiful French heel from Lara Neel’s Sock Architecture:

and the Round Toe from Sock Architecture…

and a glamour shot or two 🙂

Oh how I love them! Technicolor Socks are finished!! Originally the Show-Off Stranded Socks (free on Ravelry) in the Pagewood Farms Denali Sock, colorway Sky Blue Pink.

To join in the fun, click the link up below to see all the others participating in a Freshly Finished Friday! It will take you away from this page, but don’t worry, you will always be able to find your way back. It’s especially helpful if the linked up blog has a link back here. Please add your specific blog post link and remember to link back here in your blog so we can all be connected 🙂

Can’t wait to see what you’ve been working on!!!

Now, what to cast on??

❤
Jenna

Freshly Finished Friday #13

On April 10, 2015April 10, 2015 By hardknitlifeIn Free-For-All Friday, Fresh Off The Needles, Freshly Finished Friday12 Comments

I’ve got a finish from last week.

It’s the Never-Ending First Project! Except it’s finished I guess I should change the name…I used some lovely brown Art Yarns Vineyard. I cast on a ton of stitches on a US 8 and knit 4, purled 4 for 4 rows then switched it to make a “basketweave” sort of pattern. I love it and I know it will be perfectly cozy when the weather changes back to cold next fall. It’s not the best photo (I used it last week) but it’s real dark here and I want to be on time. Maybe I’ll swap it out later tomorrow.

I do hope you’ll join us or at least click on the little blue box and see what everyone else has been finishing 🙂

❤

Jenna

Freshly Finished Friday #1

On January 9, 2015January 9, 2015 By hardknitlifeIn Free-For-All Friday, Freshly Finished Friday18 Comments

Welcome to the first of a new link-up party for your Friday Finished Object posts! In an effort to connect everyone who creates and blogs about it here on the web, I thought providing a place to link up and share your freshly finished creations would be a great way to see what everyone is working on. Please feel free to share ANY of your finished crafty pursuits from knitting and crocheting to sewing and scrapbooking.

This week, I wanted to start of the new year on a less selfish note 🙂 I finished up these two little red newborn hats. I’m part of the St. Louis Knitter’s Guild and for the month of December and January, they have been collecting red newborn hats to distribute during the month of February to bring awareness to heart disease in women. I just whipped these two up with some leftover Berroco Vintage using a hat pattern I made up.

To join in the fun, click the link up below and add your specific blog link. Remember to link back here in your blog so we can all be connected 🙂

A Finished Object & Feline Friday

On June 27, 2014June 26, 2014 By hardknitlifeIn Free-For-All FridayLeave a comment

I sat down yesterday to write a Thirsty Thursday post and I kept being distracted by my 2 darling kitties. Plus I was really struggling to write something I would enjoy and think that others would want to read. I’m trying hard to toe the line between what I want to write about and still thinking (a little) about what you guys want to read about. I keep thinking back to that one post about the knitter who didn’t want to blog anymore because she wasn’t writing for herself.

Instead, I thought I’d just skip to Friday. Usually it’s a Free-For-All Friday. I guess this one will be that way, but I wanted to cram in a few of the other things I like that start with F.

First off, let’s explore the Finished Object part of the title. Yes, you read that right! I did in fact finish something on my needles. Yes, it was the Giant Flower Cowl turned Shawl.

I just made up the pattern as I went along. Simple garter stitch with a yarn-over at the beginning of each right side row. Sis being a good model.

She wasn’t too sure what was going on and it may be a little warm for this giant wooly shawl.

Here are some close-ups of the super fun flowers.

And the edging.

And a fun shot of the whole thing laid out.

It does make me feel good that I finished something, but I am still carrying 11 WIPs. I just realized earlier this week that my niece is on her way and will be here mid-August, so that baby blanket needs to get finished! I’ve been working exclusively on that for at least the last 5 days. I’ve transitioned into the 3rd color and I’m loving it! Here’s a sneak peek!!

Onto the Feline part of the post. My darling kitties will turn 5 this October! I can’t believe they’ve been keeping me company for so long. They are some great companions. As we prepare to move to St. Louis, it has me feeling reflective. I am amazed at how much my kitties make a house feel like a home. I just wanted to share a few pictures of my darlings because I just love them so much!

Here they are just exploring some newly uncovered floor. They get along so well.

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So weird but they love to rub their faces on the corners of walls and cabinets.

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Just a little Sis.

Except that she is super fat. She needs more exercise. Good thing our new place will have stairs and hopefully the two of them can run up and down to get fit!

Here’s Brother AKA Big Man.

Any time I sit down, he climbs into my lap.

They really are the best.

Have you finished anything lately? Do you have some wonderful companions like Sis and Brother?

v’s & bumps,

Jenna