Catching Up

It's been ages since I've used this blog; I admit that I usually default to the old Myspace blog when the mood strikes. I have, however, come to the conclusion that 99% of the people I know and have on Myspace don't give a hoot about knitting or yarn or any of that other good stuff. So it's all going here so I can get it out of my system.

Many things have been accomplished since we moved back to Virginia. Aside from weaving in the ends of my February Lady (still have no buttons, but it hasn't stopped me from wearing it), I whipped out a top-down raglan from some of the Lamb's Pride bulky we picked up at Autumn Moon Fest. $10 for 8 skeins...it still makes me all tingley to think about it. Yum. Granted, I'm not really thrilled with the look of the sweater, but part of that could be because I'm big and pregnant, so it stretches kind of weird over the belly. I'm not sure if blocking would really do anything, but then I've never properly blocked anything so it might be a good place to start.

I also did my first fair isle while on bedrest for a weekend, using the Endless Rose pattern. It's pretty much fabulous, despite a few little blips in the decreases where the yellow peeked out and shouldn't have. I didn't notice till I was about done, and at that point was still so damn pleased with myself I didn't care. I've definitely been enjoying having wearable knits, though I'm also desperately trying to figure out what I'm going to do for holiday knitting...Sue would definitely appreciate the hat. But I love the hat. But she would too, and I love Sue...Decisions, decisions.

Some of my recycled yarn got turned into another hat, pretty basic ribbed cap but using the decreases from Endless Rose (I really like how it looks). It's a boring cream hat right now. If I could only find my tapestry needle, I'd do a little viney embroidery over it to jazz it up. It's the first thing I made to put up for sale, but I can't really do anything with it till the stupid needle turns up (loose ends all over the place to weave in).

As far as current WIPs, the log cabin blanket I've been working on for the baby is still ongoing. I was considering frogging the project and using the yarn (Merino 5 superwash--it's squishy and delicious and I LOVE it; the fact that I got it on sale for less than five bucks a skein just adds to my affection) for a bunting. Harlan the Husbeast was against it though, apparently he's pretty fond of the blanket as it stands. So I'm leaving it alone...for whatever reason, it's been hard for me to pick up. I should probably get the heck over it though, since there's a chance baby Garrett is going to be here sooner than December and will need that wooly goodness.

The project that's had my attention for the past few days is the mohair lace scarf I'm working on for Becca. I started off with Branching Out, but the Kid Seta is an amazing varigated goldy yellow-orange-russet fuzzball of sunshiney loveliness and the pattern stitches got lost in the color variances. I wrestled through a pattern repeat or three (it helped me realize that patterns with 10 rows to keep track of aren't great for me--I get up and down too much, it's hard to keep track of where I am) before deciding it would be best to gently frog it and find a new pattern. Several chocolate chip cookies and an hour or so on Ravelry later, I decided on the Easy Lace Stole skinnied up to make the scarf. I was a little worried that it'd end up looking too simple and boring, but it does exactly what I wanted it to--show off the yarn. It's pretty much gorgeous, the mohair's got such a nice little halo thing going and the stitch pattern is basic enough not to get lost in the color changes. To say I'm pleased with it would be a bit of an understatement...I really am going to have to get myself some blocking materials before it's finished.

That's about it for wip's, except for poor Harlan's socks which still aren't done. There's approximately one and a half socks at this point, like a year after I started on them. At least I got the half-sock back on the needles and figured out where I left off on the pattern...right? That's a good thing, isn't it? ...I guess I should bump that up my list of priorities after the blanket.