Boyfriend Blues Scarf

Luckily for y'all, my SO's camera still works. This is the scarf I made him for his birthday. Its simple garter stitch, but it should keep him warm up in the north. He wears it everywhere! We started dating a month before his birthday, so I didn't get too complicated for this project. Maybe he'll get socks for Christmas...

He's coming down to visit me next week and has agreed to learn how to knit! :-)
I'll let you know how that goes. ;-)

Spring in the Air

The weather has been beautiful recently and I am inspired to abandon my schoolwork (which keeps me tied to either my computer or piles of library books) and go out and enjoy the sunshine. With so many papers and projects to work on, knitting seems like the only thing on which I can actually show some progress at the end of the day. My cousin's wedding gift is finished. I've started a new sweater for myself in a fantastic yarn (Silky Tweed! Amazing!). And I've gotten a lot of mindless scarf knitting done while I talk to my SO on the phone at night (he's 750 miles away... sadness.)

Its too bad my fingers can't keep up with my brain as far as project ideas go. I've got things to finish, but my mind is already on to plans for gloves and mittens in the lovely grey alpaca I re-discovered when I went stash diving for scarf yarn the other day. I also recently frogged some sweaters to salvage the yarn and those new fibers are calling out to be made into baby blankets and brightly colored hats for kids in need. Meanwhile, my fingers try desperately to keep up with all of the projects that are currently on the needles.

Camera-less

Alas! My digital camera has decided to bite the dust. I will have to sort it out later. I apologize for picture-less posts in the near future.

Knitting proceeds with somewhat less vigor at present. Classes, papers, projects, the fact that its Lent and church duties are piling up, and the amount of time I spend on the phone talking to a certain male someone have cut into some of my string time. However, I'm still crocheting string bags to take with me to the grocery store and plugging away at the wedding gift for my cousin.

I have a huge itch to start a pair of socks. My friend Emily sent me that lovely sock yarn for my birthday and I'm just dying to try it out! But then I feel guilty that I haven't been working on the Bristow project that I'm supposed to be doing for one of the ladies at work (or the wedding present) and the other projects I've got in the works. Anyone have any suggestions for curing the sock bug without neglecting the projects that I must complete?

Christmas Yarn, Round 2

YarnBee Intrigue
This plum sort of color and sort of neutral pinkish color
This stuff is buried in the stash at the moment. Details later.

Its been a busy start to the semester. Its hard to believe that its already February. I've been knitting a wedding gift for a family member who may or may not read this blog, so unfortunately I won't have many pictures of that WIP until after the wedding. Hopefully there will be other, smaller projects soon.

I have been crocheting some grocery bag type things out of cotton recently. I'm sick of plastic bags! Its time to become more environmentally friendly. Sadly, my digital camera has decided to poop out on me so I haven't been able to take pictures. They're just plain cotton (think Sugar and Cream) string bags. I modified a pattern on the label to make the size I wanted and did a different type of handle. They're useful things! I hope I can show you pictures soon.

Christmas Yarn

Ironstone English Mohair
Mohair, Wool, Nylon
89 yds/ 40g ball
Some shade of purple
(pardon the mess, the cat got to this one before I could take pictures)

Berroco Danie

Rayon, Cotton, Nylon
Some shade of Purple

This isn't all of the Christmas yarn, but now that classes have started up again I might not have a lot of interesting knitting about which to blog. I'll space out the boring stuff with pictures of the Christmas yarn!

Right now the big project on needles is a wedding gift for my cousin who is getting married in April. I'm excited for him, but I've got a lot of work to do between now and then.

Coming Soon!

Clementine Shawlette in some purple stuff I got for Christmas (label-less)

I had some surprise travel plans added to my January and haven't been able to take pictures of the Christmas travel knitting until today. My apologies. I'm not quite up to plowing through all of the yarn details to post all of those pictures for you yet, but I promise they will come soon! For now, please know that I'm thinking yarny thoughts in your direction and happily working on my many UFOs.

Home again!

Completed over Christmas:
One knitted amoeba:Which when folded correctly and sewn becomes:
My very first BSJ! Its so cute! I do need to find buttons for it, but the knitting and seaming are done. Its mostly Paton's Classic Merino, but I ran out and used some leftover sock yarn (double stranded) for the last few inches and the button band.

While I did not complete as much knitting as I wanted, I did turn out this lovely quilt top with the help of my aunt and uncle. Hooray for craftiness!
I'll post pictures of the newest bits of stash as soon as I can unpack enough to take pictures.