Dear Blog
I have missed you. I'll be back soon. The holidays have started eating me alive, or making me eat everything in site. One of the two. I hope I get a small cold next week and have to stay home with some knitting and you.
Small cold I said, small.
<3 Spitfire.
PS there has been knitting - my god has there been knitting :-D
December 15, 2011
December 4, 2011
Quick Quick Super Quick
Quick update!
Holiday knitting is in full force except I wasn't going to do any .... yeah. Not so hot at sticking to stuff.
I finished some cute socks - groovy socks - in some handpainted sock blank. It turned out great - they are lace though and not thermally appropriate for the Chicagoland weather of December. They will be hibernating in the drawer a bit.
I cast on another pair of socks out of left overs from my vacation shawl (seen below). Rhythm Man Socks - they are a slip stitch pattern which should offer ample protection from the harsh Chicagoland winters.
I had a finishing flurry over Thanksgiving weekend. Friend R came over for Dr Who time and she started a new sweater and I finished a ton of projects including modifications to a sweater I made this spring - a Juliet made in Brown Sheep Cotton yarn. It is beige and a good combo with a long sleeve t-shirt. I will go add some to my wardrobe. I also finished Grandma's slippers. I made her socks - she won't put them in her shoes, so she said they are too slippery to wear around the house. I got some leather soles and made these:
I keep thinking maybe I should knit another pair of socks to "line" the slippers with, but I don't think I will at this point. I even swatched for this - a rarity - but it made me a convert. It turned out so well - like every time it does when I swatch... jeez. I might be a convert.
I then decided to use November's Dream in Color Club color for not the scarf designed for it. (a little short for a scarf if you ask me). I made a crochet shawllette from the Chicago Yarn Crawl. It's amazing. I need to block it. I will do that tomorrow. Typing it makes it true right?
Holiday knitting is in full force except I wasn't going to do any .... yeah. Not so hot at sticking to stuff.
I finished some cute socks - groovy socks - in some handpainted sock blank. It turned out great - they are lace though and not thermally appropriate for the Chicagoland weather of December. They will be hibernating in the drawer a bit.
I cast on another pair of socks out of left overs from my vacation shawl (seen below). Rhythm Man Socks - they are a slip stitch pattern which should offer ample protection from the harsh Chicagoland winters.
I then decided to use November's Dream in Color Club color for not the scarf designed for it. (a little short for a scarf if you ask me). I made a crochet shawllette from the Chicago Yarn Crawl. It's amazing. I need to block it. I will do that tomorrow. Typing it makes it true right?
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