Finally, I'm back

I know, I know... It's been forever since I made a blog entry. I moved last month and our internet wasn't up and working until yesterday. So I have an excuse- although not a good one. And of course I've still been knitting like crazy. I finished this baby bolero in just a few days. It's for some friends who just had a baby girl, I still haven't seen them yet because they live an hour away, but that's why I made it huge. The yarn is Cascade Sierra, a cotton and wool blend and the pattern is from Knitting Pure and Simple-which means I didn't have to sew it! These socks were fun to make too. The green one is for my dad's xmas present-so hopefully I will actually finish the second one-or least start it. It is made out of Silky Sock and Gems Pearl, the silk sock yarn is so nice to knit with. The red sock is made out of Dream in Color Smooshy. The color is chinatown apple and the pattern is from DIC, called sleepwalker socks. These ones are for me so you probably won't see the other one until next year. Well I will write more than once every two months-I hope!

Check out the progress, can you believe it? Then you can also believe that I have been distracted by another new project. A really cute baby bolero for some friends of mine who just had a baby girl. Back to Dr Who-I have had a lot of help from friends to get the length on this scarf and they are even asking where it is to work on it some more. I could get all of my xmas knitting done this way. The yarn I'm using is Nature Spun Sport from Brown Sheep. It's inexpensive, comes in great colors and the websites for Dr Who recommend it.

Dr Who Update

Unfortunately for you guys I am really excited every time this scarf grows so you might just see every painful moment! I am still having fun with it-yes I knock on wood every time I say that. I have also received some help from customers and coworkers (Thank you!). Hopefully you will see more progress soon.

Doctor Why?

You may ask what I was thinking when I decided to start a Doctor Who scarf, well, that's a good question. My extremely tall uncle (who is one of my favorites) requested it and frankly I'd rather make him a really long scarf than a sweater. The scarf is a good mindless project...because I'll lose my mind making it! Ok-it will be good for movie theaters, right? At least they are pretty colors and I will have another xmas present ready.

Another FO! I'm on a roll. This was so fun to knit and felt. The icord finishing and seaming at the same time was awesome. I had so much fun playing with these colors that I want to make another! I must confess, I started a new project this weekend. But my excuse is that it is christmas knitting. I usually get into that mood about this time of year-I wish I felt this way in February.

My TENTH and eleventh finished project!

Can you believe it? I hardly can. The orange socks-I have nicknamed them lifesavers socks because they look like the candy with these bright colors-these are the famous tenth finished project! They have been in my stash for quite awhile, they are made out of Cherry Tree Hill's supersock. The blue ones are made out of Dream in Color's Smooshy. The pattern is little arrowhead lace from More Sensational Knitted Socks (I love these books). They are my moms birthday socks. Her birthday is a week away-always good motivation for finishing a project. I am still continuing to work on unfinished projects..somehow. I did bring home some yarn for a pair of fair isle socks, but I am trying to delay the cast on. Ok gotta get back to knitting and some laundry too.

Entrelac, really?

Yes-I went to the dark side of entrelac. I never tried it until now because it looked like such a pain in the ass, but I actually like doing it. The pattern is really addicting with all of these colors to play with. They are leftover scraps of wool, this is going to be a felted pillow. At the store people asked for an entrelac class so I thought a felted project would be good so all of the mistakes disappear. My kinda project. Bruce enjoys the pillow too, he doesn't care if the project is finished. I wish everyone felt that way. I have a surprise coming for you as soon as I get a picture for proof of my new acheivement.

Christmas all year long

We have an official set of stockings. Xmas will be much more decorative this year. I love these stockings-thanks knittinmama for the brilliant idea! Hopefully I will be ambitious enough to make some for the dog and cat-they will be smaller of course. Well this is the famous number nine on the list-o-ten. Only one more to go before I can bring home new yarn. In the future I'm going to try and keep myself in check, a little bit, maybe. I was sewing up my euroflax t-shirt and errors occurred, I have to take it back a bit. As usual I have found a way to distract myself from the problem at hand-start an entrelac pillow. Don't ask.

TWO finished objects!!!

I finally came up with some good pictures of the projects I finished this week. The beaded fish was worth all its trouble. It was on a #0000 size needle, and I had to string all of the beads on myself! He is hanging up at Borealis, the texture is really cool you-gotta touch it. This Linen Isle sweater is my new uniform. It's perfect for this chilly but still humid weather. I've worn it everyday since I finished on Sunday. I had some luck at the state fair. I entered a sideways sweater, a mosaic tote, and the fiesta mittens which you've seen, I got 2 second place prizes and a third. I can't wait to see them at the fair while stuffing my face with corn dogs and mini donuts.

This is an old finished project, from last spring. I made it for my mom out of silky wool- which I LOVE working with. The sweater is from an issue of Vogue from a couple of years ago. No...I'm not running out of things to photograph, I took some pictures of my newest two-yes count them TWO finished projects, but they were blurry. So that will be my mission today, to get better pictures for you. I hope you enjoy looking at a completed project even though it's not recent.