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.

Christmas Knitting is (mostly) Done!

Its true! I've just got one bit of a sweater to finish and I'm not seeing that person until New Year's so it will be okay if I finish that on my travels. I'll have lots of knitting time between now and then. Everything else is done and wrapped and ready to go into the car later tonight.

Pattern: Mug Coozies, Interweave Knits Holiday '07
Yarn: Peaches 'n' Cream cotton
This green one is for my dad. I also made a red one for my grandpa.

Munkus was very helpful when I was trying to work on my BSJ last night. He's rather opinionated about my traveling.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all! I'll be MIA for a few weeks as I travel around to my friends and family. See you in 2008!

Kitty Wonton

Pattern: Feline Dim Sum: Wonton (knitty.com)
Yarn: Sugar & Cream cotton

Munkus was only too happy to model this bit of holiday knitting. Its stuffed with polyfil and catnip. I had to sneak it away from him so that he wouldn't tear it up too bad before I give it to its intended owner! I'm going to have to make him one as a treat for behaving himself at the vet today.

In other news, I'm planning a big trip to visit family and friends over the holidays. I'll be on the road for about 3 weeks and I've got to figure out what knitting to bring! If you have any suggestions, let me know! Once I finish the gift sweaters, I'll need some entertaining knitting. Got any favorite patterns?