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.

I should have known better

I will admit I was a bit worried about using the KnitPicks Crayon yarn, given its texture. But, hey, I know how to read stuff, right?

Not knitting. I've crocheted for years, but at knitting I really am still a n00b.

After several weeks of frustration, I've frogged it. 7 inches of stockinette.

I ordered some KnitPicks Shine to replace it. Still going with red.

I'll make something for Dan from the Crayon at some point. Later. Maybe I'll even crochet it.

On the other hand, I've made real progress on both sets of armwarmers. I've cast on the second set (so I'm working on the first one of both sets) and I really like how the colors are working together.

I'll post new pictures later.

Mail yarny goodness!

I got my order from The Loopy Ewe today - 2 skeins of cashwool laceweight that's just gorgeous, and 5 skeins of Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sport to make a clapotis for my mom for Christmas - I had to, the colorway name is her name :-) I still need to figure out what modifications I need to make since I'm using sport weight instead of worsted. I might just start on it and see what I think of the results using the specified needle size.

And after not getting what I ordered from Knit2purl2, I have to find some special yarn for the friend elsewhere - it's really hard to find the specific colorway in stock. I bet, though, if I check the yarn store in Lafayette they might have it, since technically it's in Purdue's colors....

Progress!

Here's part of the present I'm making. It's more red than it seems to be - I'm using KnitPicks Crayon. It's coming along well, other than the mind-numbing stockinette.














I'm also working on armwarmers for my nieces for Christmas. I've had some somewhat started and had to frog it. I just cast it back on and haven't gotten very far yet. It's made with Lime & Violet Sasquatch sock yarn. The one for the older one is in hydrocodone.











The colorway for the younger one is vicodin. The names were inspired by Miss Violet's trip to the ER for migraines - there was a whole series of medication-related named yarns :-D

I blew the yarn diet

I just had to find out that Knit2Purl2 is having a going out of business sale with unbelievable prices.

So I looked at Dan with big puppy dog eyes and asked if I could buy some yarn. I showed him what I wanted to buy - 2 skeins of Lorna's Laces shepherd sock yarn for a friend, and 4 skeins of Lorna's Laces Lion and Lamb for a clapotis for my mom.

The Lion and Lamb is usually about $30 a skein, and it was on sale for $15. And they had the colorway that is her name, so I couldn't resist. And the other yarn, well, it's highly appropriate for said friend and she's going to fall over laughing her ass of when she sees it.

Still chugging away at the stockinette. *yawn*

Not a lot new

I did end up frogging the armwarmers for Meredith. I've restarted them, but haven't done much with them yet. I am on the endless stockinette on the back of Gabriel's gift, but it's coming along. Just a few more inches and I start making the insets for the armholes.

I'm going to take pictures of it later. Steph, if you're reading this, you're not allowed to look ;-)

Mail call!

Got a box from KnitPicks! Got the yarn I need for Gabriel's gift, 2 sets of circulars (2 & 3 in the 32" size, want to see if I can magic loop with them) and 2 more books.

I've been buying too many books lately - when I add things to my Ravelry queue it tells me which books I need for those patterns, and most of those books are ones I wanted to have anyway. But, yeah.

And now I have 3 projects on the needles.

Been spending too much time on Ravelry

My queue at Ravelry is HUGE! I'm not going to knit anything that I don't a) already have the pattern for and b) already have the yarn for unless it's important, like an item for Steph and Pete's new arrival. I had been racking my brain to find the right thing for that miracle baby, and it came to me yesterday when I was browsing patterns.

Of course, I had to order the yarn and #3 needles. I have 2 sets of interchangeables and neither of them go down to a 3. Sheesh!

The pain meds are making concentrating on my knitting really hard right now. Good thing I'm on the 9 inches of mindless knitting on the fuzzy feet. The good thing is since I'm working from home I can knit when things are slow :-)

WANT

WANT TO GO!!!

Yarn and more yarn

I was just up in the spare room, digging though my yarn in search for some decent stuff I've had for awhile that I want to enter into Ravelry.

Wow, I have a lot more yarn than I thought I did. I have a ton of acrylic, bought over several years, most of which is going to Mom for her church group to use. I still need to get that together.

But I found some lovely yarn I had totally forgotten I had, like some Manos del Uruguay in a beautiful purple (of course). I need to get it cataloged and posted to Ravelry.

I've been having a lot of fun up there, browsing patterns and adding them to my queue. I have a lot to get done for Christmas (and, yes, I am going to start that stuff this early).