Update!

Hey hey!

Looks my schedule is more like two weeks per post, but at least I'm still on it!  AND - I have quite a few updates!  YAY, go me!

First - it's quite the winter wonderland outside.  Check out the view from my window:

Not quite Snowmaggedon, but it's pretty!

I don't think we've had real snow in a few years, so it's pretty nice.  Although, I'm so wary about Metro that I'm not going climbing today, since they might shut down for no reason!  Oh well.  It's nice and warm in my apartment, so I'm cozy enough to do this:

Boneyard Shawl in KnitPicks Imagination Loch Ness

Look at the pretty colors!

I didn't think I'd be making a Boneyard Shawl with this yarn, but I wanted something relatively easy to work on, plus it's cold in my office so I need something to warm me up!  It's knitting up pretty fast which is nice, and it's mindless knitting so I've been watching some random TV and documentaries as I knit.

I also started on this bib for my bf's niece.  I started it in the car on the way to Thanksgiving, and realized I had cast on WAY too many stitches.  It's big enough to be a bib for me!  It's a picot cast-on with a traveling stitch made with a left twist.

It's sort of on hold right now, as I try to finish this before Christmas:

As you can see, I am oh-so-far on the Mitt Envy fingerless gloves I've started.  I hoping they don't take toooo long, or at least I can get one done before Christmas.  If not, hey, I'll have a pair of fingerless gloves...in July.  haha.  This is yarn from Catskill Merino Sheep Farms.  I went to New York for Thanksgiving and stopped in their tent at Union Square and couldn't resist!  It's variegated black/grey, but still so beautiful.  And super soft!!  

I'm really bad at getting the right color in photos

Look at the pretty!!!!

That's all I've got for today.  Happy Knitting!

J

A slow week

This week was pretty slow with the knitting, but I did three fun things:
1) Undid the bind-off on the Simplicity Cowl.  It was actually easy.  I used this tutorial .  She made it really easy to understand, and even though I had a 'suspended' bind off, I still managed to understand I only interacted with the same stitches she was.  I was very proud of myself, but no pictures, sorry.  Maybe I'll do a tutorial just for that, but how do I get the camera to only look at my hands?  Do I need a tripod?
2) I bought new yarn.  And LOTS of it!  Lots for me, at least!  I knew I was getting ready to cast-on for another project, so I went to my LYS, Looped Yarn Works, and pet every yarn in sight!  Haha.  I forget how expensive yarn can be, and my naturally frugal (miserly? nah, I don't think I'm that bad, I have some shiny things) nature won over, so I bought Berroco Ultra Alpaca Fine in the Cobalt Mix colorway.  Still not the cheapest, but isn't it so pretty?

And then, on Friday, this popped up on my Facebook:

haha!  Frugality FTW!

ooooo, KnitPicks clearance??  I must investigate!  And investigate I did.  I ended up with several skeins of their Imagination hand-painted (socks for me and mom), two skeins of wool of the andes for the bf's scarf, and a couple of Bare skeins to try out some food color/kool-aid dyeing!  I'm so excited to get them!  I'll post more about them with photos when I receive!

I have never bought so much yarn, and it cost so little with the Knit Picks sale!  I'm really excited to try new patterns and techniques, plus using new yarns and needles (I still haven't used my circulars)!  Yay!

3) I was out in Pittsburgh this weekend for my bf's friend's wedding.  It was so much fun, and the food was super delicious - the bride's dad is a chef!  Omnomnomnom.  Not to mention, site-seeing in Pittsburgh involves seeing this:

It looks like Mr Rodgers trolley!

and this:

   

 

Rubber duckie, you're the one...

...plotting to take over the world! Muahahahaha! ::ahem:: 'scuse me.

All-in-all, a super fantastic weekend!  Unfortunately, it left very little time for knitting, and my cowl is still not finished.  Time to get cracking, have a great week!