Tori's leg warmers

Nothing much has been happening with my turtle sweater because I've just been knitting the stockingnette part of the body, all 17 inches of it. It is now done and I'm starting the sleeve caps before joining the body to knit the yoke.

Meanwhile, I've also been working on these leg warmers for Tori. I started these at the beginning of the summer and still trying to finish them up. I have to knit both leg warmers at the same time because if I don't , she would never get the second one. Also, it's easier to do decreases if I do one after the other. 

Turtle Mania

My current project is unnamed no more! I've decided to do turtles at the yoke, thanks to Paper Turtles Chart by Genevieve Noel in Ravelry.  Plus, instead of introducing a third color, I think I will just keep it at the blue and green. The body of the sweater is blue and then I'll just do the design for the turtle in green.  
Basically, this is part of the chart. They will be in sets of 2 turtles looking at each other with little fish swimming along sides.  The kids helped me decide on this design because Adam was wearing a t-shirt yesterday with a cute turtle design on it.  Also, I'm thinking that the blue/green combination of colors match with turtles more than any other animals that I've been thinking about. 


It seems like I've been obsessed with this project for a few days and I'm just glad that I've come to this conclusion.  Now, I'm looking at yarn for another Totoro sweater for Lena, something more colorful and thinner.  I would also like to do another one with the original paper dolls for ThiThi but I'm still debating on whether to do that or not.  I still have to finish the leg warmers for Tori.  The leg warmers have taken a back seat to this new obsession of mine to do colorwork.  I never thought that I could knit up a sweater with designs on it!  I started knitting less than a year ago and I've been wondering ever since why I did not take up knitting earlier.  Oh, that's right, I was busy crocheting hats for the boys.  I do love knitting so much more than crocheting though.

Unnamed project

On my way for my second "paper dolls" sweater.  Border is knit picks risata in green and body is classic elite firefly in a shade of blue. I think the design part will be in a beige color.  I love it that I can email my pix from my phone and have it uploaded to my blog. Oh, how I love technology. lol.  I'm quite in love with the color for this project. The only thing that nags at me every time I pick this up to knit is that line in the middle of my corrugated rib. Stupid me, I changed how I held my yarn mid-way through the rib because my fingers were wearing me out.  Little did I know, that temporary change created a line right in the middle of my ribbing.  But I am too lazy to frog it, and hoping it will go away after washing and blocking. Crossing my fingers.

Totoro, my totoro

This is my Totoro version of  Kate Davies' Paper Dolls knitted for my favorite niece Lena.  My very first stranded knit work and I'm very proud of it even though it turned out too thick for Lena to wear in California. I am attempting #2 for myself with fingering weight. However, I'm not sure if I want to do Totoros again or Owls or the original Paper Dolls. Oh, decisions, decisions.  It's a good thing I have a lot of knitting to do for the body before I have to decide on the design.