I'm back!!!

I'm back again! I've been moving, and was knitting less during it since I finished the blanket on the last night in the house. (Really on the last night!) The ends are woven in as you can tell in earlier posts when I was posting for the Stash Dash (and I finished the Stash Dash!) My summer KAL's are now over-well except for one sort of.

I'm starting now to get into shawls and blankets-they're really are becoming my thing. I've just finished the Darcy Shawlette, and right now I'm in the middle of the SUMMER MYSTERY SHAWLETTE!! It's such a fun pattern, and I wished I kept up with it when I started the blue one-but it's defiantly working out a lot better than before. I'm doing it in black and sparkly so it could be a formal shawl. I finally found what I love knitting for which are shawls, shawlettes, and blankets. Sure I knit socks, but not so much any more. (I don't know why?) Maybe I'll pick it up again in the car this weekend.

Speaking of blankets, my brother is about to go off to VA Tech (and we're visiting this week at the school).. so I'm making him a college blanket with VA Tech's colors. I'm super excited about it. So shawls, shawlettes, and blankets get me the most excited. I was sketchy at first about shawls-but they turn out so pretty, especially with the Summer mystery shawlette in black. (haven't really seen that one before.)

So speaking of shawl patterns-I splurged last night, well I splurged a lot buying patterns this week (I never do, I always go for the free ones.)

I ended up splurging shopping for:

1.) The Hitchiker Shawl (my first bought pattern, and I've always wanted it.)

2.) Ethan's College Blanket (Will now become Alex's college blanket...)

3.) and finally... THE EVENSTAR SHAWL. This one I'm mostly excited for. I'll probably cast on and order supplies once we get back from vacation. I'll only be working on this and Alex's blanket, since the SMS will most likely already be done. (Maybe I'll try to finish it before we leave on Sunday.)

Happy Knitting!

~Anna Elizabeth Designs

Shawls, Baby Booties, Socks

Well I hadn't blogged in the last couple of days.. I've been knitting all day actually (and yesterday). North Carolina Shawl updates first! I'm ALMOST done with it, I finished the decrease. I'm not sure exactly yet my next step will be. I'm in the process right now of just working on other projects, mainly either tinking or fixing them-such as my Sunflower socks, my Whipple Wave blanket.

This week I'm hoping to:
1.) Finish Sophie's Spring Set
-The flower (probably next planning in this one..)
-The Baby Booties

2.) North Carolina Shawl:
-Maybe the trim or completely finishing and binding off.

3.) Socks!!
-My sunflower socks are almost done (well the first one)

North Carolina Shawl EASY.

So yesterday, I arrived in North Carolina safely but with a few turbulence on my first flight to Atlanta, but the second flight was smooth to NC! I hardly actually didn't knit at all until I got to my boyfriend's house later in the day. I almost didn't pack any yarn or knitting, but I'm glad I did! I started my shawl yesterday, and since I'm mostly knitting it in NC-I'm calling it my North Carolina Shawl. I was super tired last night so I waited until this morning to open my laptop to blog and open a new entry on Raverly for the NC Shawl. I love this pattern it's so easy! It's so cool how it's easy to increase each row as I go along knitting it. It should be fine to knit on my next two flights on the way home. Since I had to pack less for this trip, I'm keeping my notes and the patterns on index cards method. Okay, once I keep saying it's 'easy' I'm probably bound to mess it up somehow.. but anyways. The method of keeping my notes and the pattern on the index card is easy! (I can't think of a better word to describe this..)

Anywho, may knit on it for awhile now!
~Anna Elizabeth Designs

Summer Lace Capelet

So yesterday I went on another yarn trip (well not really a yarn trip)-but I went to Jo-Ann's to buy size nine needles to work on a Summer Lace Capelet. My mom found the lace capelet on Raverly, and I just got new yarn in Boston while I was visiting China Town. Since I was itching to knit on the new yarn, the Summer Lace Capelet was perfect! I'm excited that I casted on last night, and now I'm knitting it! I love scarfs, but sadly-scarf season is almost over. I'm using Coral yarn for this, and it's giving an interesting look. A photo will be coming later.

Happy Knittings!
~Anna Elizabeth Designs~