I'm almost done

Have I mentioned that I've never actually completed a knitting project yet?

*waits for the laughter to die down*

No, really, I haven't. Until I started on the projects I've documented here, all I've done were scarves that bored me to death to the point I frogged them or hid them in the closet.

All I have left on the hoodie is some seaming and 3 rows of knitting I can't do till I seam the hood. Given that I woke up at 4am for no good reason and I'm a bit fuzzy, I've put it aside for tomorrow or Saturday to finish.

While working on the clapotis, Dan asked if I would make one for his mom, too. So I just ordered that yarn. The one I'm working on is over half done.

I've been flipping through the projects on Ravelry to see what else I want to make for holiday gifts. I want to use some of my stash yarn, so the fact that I can search based on type of project and weight of yarn really rocks.

And tonight I have a sleep study, so to entertain myself after I get there I'm taking my knitting. Given that, I probably will be brain dead tomorrow (and might take tomorrow afternoon off work) I'm thinking the seaming will be on Saturday.

Yesterday men in trucks came and cleaned up our front beds. They were a complete and utter mess, weedy, unkempt. Dan and I hate yardwork, and it showed. Since we're going to sell the house in the spring, we decided to get it landscaped now to give the plants time to establish themselves. I think they did a great job. We'll have them back in the spring for touchups.

Hello, hello again

Am still here, just been busy. I have made wondrous progress on the hoodie, only one and a half sleeves to go plus seaming. It's going along better since I got my KnitPicks Options set. I got the nickel-plated tips for now, but I will probably get some Harmony tips, too. The yarn is sliding a lot easier on them than it was on the Denise set.






I know it's a little hard to see the detail, I suck at pictures. But that's the body and the hood, with the sleeve on the side.

I've also made good progress on the Clapotis. I'm on the straight part, and I have the pattern repeats down so it's somewhat of a mindless knit. The hoodie is top priority right now (the kid is growing, after all) but the Clapotis will be finished next.



The color is a bit off in this picture, it's better in the following one:



I've been adding tons of sock patterns to my Ravelry queue, because once I get all the holiday knitting done I'm going to make myself some socks. I have the yarn, after all ;-)

And I love knitting during conference calls. Since all of my meetings are via phone, I get a lot done. Most days I have at least one meeting, and there are very few of them that I have to give my whole attention to.

Whoo-hoo!

I've been slacking about posting lately, but it's for a good reason - I have a new job! I didn't talk about it up here much, but I unexpectedly found myself in need of a new position back in July, and from that disaster I found something that is going to work out so well in many ways.

One of the really good things is that I'm working from home on a regular basis. I will be traveling to 3 different data centers occasionally, but for the most part I will be in my home office.

The other really good thing is that Dan and I can relocate to Lafayette, which will make his school commute a lot better. Right now he's driving about 2.5 hours a day back and forth. Cutting that out of the day will give him so much more time for other things, including sleep :-)

But on to the fibery goodness!

I've been working steadily on the hoodie. The back is complete, I'm working on the front now:




Switching to the Shine yarn has made a HUGE difference and it's working up very nicely.

I've also been working on the girls' armwarmers. I've switched which set is going to which girl, after getting Mom's input. I had to frog one that I'd bound off when I realized that I'd left out a HUGE section during the increases. D'oh!

I was going to post more, but apparently I have a migraine coming on, so more later.