New Work and new laptop

My wonderful BIL John gave me his old HP laptop which he nicely had wiped clean of his stuff, and it is just fantastic! Better than any of the cheapo ones in my computer past. Yay!! It does everything I want and more, which I have not yet figured out. I am back in bidness! 

OK new work. A second Pointless Scarf in light blue to match my light blue pullover which coordinated with nothing in my whole wardrobe... until I saw that my Fuss Free Cowl from last year had a lot of light blue yarn in it. Yay!

Then I looked at my collection of scrap yarn and thought: it is time for a scrappy project.

 This was mega fun to knit and barely made a dent in my scrap collection. It is 50" by 8" and cozy and soft. After finishing the scarf I added an I-cord edge, which ripples, darn. O well, it will be tucked in my coat, so who cares?

And then I thought, here it is Socktober and I haven't knit even one pair of socks! Fear not, I have new sock which I dyed yesterday and it is drying right now.

I ordered new yarn which is fingering but on the plumper side, which will make super cozy socks, and new dye Purple Pop which is really purple. Sigh, so happy. That pink was another attempt at speckle dyeing and while it fell flat and is not speckled, it will still be usuable as variegated. The greens were toned down as ALL my previous greens are screaming green, which I do love, but don't blend as well with some of my commercial yarns. And I needed yellow/orange, also not screaming. 

So glad it is cooler now and autumnal. On to sock knitting!

    

A bunch of FOs

  I've avoided posting because my laptop is slower than a snail in molasses.  This little scarf was inspired by a Youtube video podcast from It is a Sarah.   I saw the scarf that she had knit in separate triangles and I had to make one of my own, contiguously, meaning picking up from the previous triangle to knit the next one. I emailed her pictures of mine (which took only a day and a half to knit) and she featured it in her podcast the next week. Didn't mention my name but you can't have everything.

Next we have the Truffle Shawl variation #6, this time in fingering weight which I really love.  The purples are my hand dyed yarns and so is the lighter aqua.

I recently purchased some lovely pullovers (Walmart!!!) and dyed the yarn to match for shawls. I have another pullover in purple with which this shawl works perfectly. (never end a sentence with a preposition.)

So I thought I might as well make another one for my red pullover. This is Truffle Shawl Variation #7.

 My sister Brooke suggested the I-cord tie, genius!