Emily and I carved our pumpkins tonight, after a trip to the library and a trip to the grocery store. She did the cat, on the left and I did a traditional jack-o-lantern face. Then it took us a while to figure out the best way to take a picture. We had to look on the internet, to figure out how to use the self-timer. A TV tray with a book served well, in the absence of a tripod. Then we figured out we had to move the music, from the rack on the piano and cover up the piano keys. It was a learning process. So, we are all ready for trick-or-treat now, even though we hardly get any kids.

I finished the 4th out of 5 dishcloths tonight! Yay! I can’t wait to get the 5th one started, because it’s in bright colors. I’ll take pictures tomorrow. I’ve just run out of day and I’d like to knit a little more yet.

This is the finished product of the October KAL picture cloth.  It’s a fireman’s helmet and an axe.  I used #7 needles and Sugar n Cream in red.

This is the mid-October 2007 KAL.  It’s a pretty pattern and was fun to knit, but I don’t know what the name of the pattern is yet.  It’s a large dishcloth, so I think I’m going to use it more as a towel.  I even added a loop at one corner, so I could hang it on one of my refrigerator magnets, for drying hands.

I got an email shortly after 7pm last night!  Woohoo!  Sarah had checked and I was down to 35, but I hadn’t seen it.  Only she did.  Then I was in, on the next batch of invites!  I’m dawnk777!

My profile needs more stuff in it.  I have to rephotograph some of my dishcloths, because the pictures are so dark.  I need to take pictures of my yarn, too!  So much to do!  LOL!

Tonight is our knit-night and I hope the weather holds out for us to go.  We have the potential for storms and are under a tornado watch.  I suppose we should eat supper so we can leave soon.  I can tell the sun is no longer shining, so suspect it’s getting cloudy again.  The sun was shining, when I came home from work, shortly after 5pm.

Well, I started over and turned a P4, K2 into a K4, P2 because I thought it looked better.  It will be interesting to see Andi’s cloth, when we are all done.  I’m not quite sure which side is the right side, though!  I think it looks pretty cool, either way.   I did all 18 rows today, so I didn’t have time to work on my hat.  Maybe tomorrow.

I’m knitting a hat, for a Mexican orphan. A gal in my knitting group on Thursday nights is going to Mexico in January and had requested hand-knit hats. I decided to make a baby hat. I have to make 4 12-row repeats, before I can start working on the crown of the hat. I have 2 repeats, plus 1 row, done now. I feel like I’m making good progress.  It’s a Garter Lace Diamond pattern, and being knit with Rowan cotton yarn.

Here’s Day #1 of the mid-October KAL. It was rather fun. I see that I have some purls where some knit stitches should probably be, but I just realized it now and I think I’m just going to leave it. I think their might have been an error in the pattern. I’m not going to worry about it. I’m using Sugar n Cream Violet stripes, which I got from Janet, because our Hobby Lobby only carried the stripes for a very short while and I never bought any, when it was there, thinking I could buy some eventually. Sheesh. It was there and gone before I knew it! I love how it looks!

Sarah’s:

• You signed up on August 30, 2007
• You are #30012 on the list.
• 1297 people are ahead of you in line.
• 13948 people are behind you in line.
• 58% of the list has been invited so far

Mine:

• You signed up on August 31, 2007
• You are #30314 on the list.
• 1585 people are ahead of you in line.
• 13660 people are behind you in line.
• 58% of the list has been invited so far

It won’t be long now! I can’t wait! Currently on my needles is a baby hat! I had a few problems with row 10, but it was because the whole pattern hadn’t printed, when I printed it, since it got cut off. With a new printout and the entire pattern at my disposal, it’s going much better. This is for someone in my knitting group who is taking hats for orphan’s in Mexico!

The new KAL starts Tuesday and I can’t wait for that. Emily and I got some Stripes yarn, from Janet, in the Yahoo group and we are both going to use that, for the KAL. Thanks, Janet!

Here’s my October KAL cloth, after Day 5’s rows!  I know now, that it’s a fireman’s helmet and axe, and it’s actually upside-down!  LOL!  I’ll get it the right way, after I finish Day 6 and get it off the needles!  I can see the fireman’s helmet, even upside-down, now that I know!   I think Emily and I should give these to two women we know, who have husbands who used to be firemen! 

 These are for some lucky people, a few months into the future.  I don’t want to say yet, who they are for, though!  LOL!  Christmas isn’t that far away!  They are certain colors for who the people are and what they like, though!  I have to make 5 total and just started the 3rd one!  I’m having a blast! The ballband is an easy pattern and they are going together quickly!  For the two after the one I’m working on, one will be in Green Bay Packer colors of green and yellow and the last one will be black for the mortar and a hot pink/hot orange variegated for the bricks.  The one I’m making now, I decided to just make as one color yarn and it’s varied between tan and white.

Ravelry waiting list:

Me

• You signed up on August 31, 2007
• You are #30314 on the list.
• 6096 people are ahead of you in line.
• 9834 people are behind you in line.
• 59% of the list has been invited so far

Sarah

• You signed up on August 30, 2007
• You are #30012 on the list.
• 5807 people are ahead of you in line.
• 10123 people are behind you in line.
• 59% of the list has been invited so far

I still have no idea what the picture is!  One part looks like an arrow or ace of spades, but I don’t know if that is what it is supposed to be.  I’m eagerly awaiting today’s rows, so I can continue on!  The dishcloth is on short needles, because one day when I wanted needles, that was all I could find, in the size that I needed.  It’s less stress on my arms, to knit with the shorter needles.

My ravelry number is getting smaller everyday!  Yay!

Sarah: 7734

Me:  8024

We had a beautiful day today, with temps in the 70’s, sunshine and no humidity!