Been a while, sorry

My husband was out of town at a conference. He's really blown away by Salt Lake City. If you as big a fan of hiking and a fan of traffic as he is, you'd get the appeal. His pictures were lovely - he hiked Lake Blanche and saw a Bees game. While he was gone, I didn't do as much knitting as you might expect. Rather I washed the siding (by hand) and stripped and repainted the bathroom ceiling and got some plant issues taken care of. It was a lot of work and I would have posted all kinds of before and after shots, but I was trying to surprise the spouse. As he was not surprised anyway, next time I'll just post. :)
But I'm having all these little knitting project bugs - I really want to try major loop socks and figure 8 casting on and here is my latest "little" thing. It's got baby Amelia, fingering cotton top down Aran.

baby sweater

So, my college roommate is having a baby, her first, and it's kind of blowing my mind that it's been over 10 years since we had ours.  Anyway, I'm making her a baby blanket and a sweater - both in Knitpicks Comfy.  The blanket is plain cotton squares in sport weight, nothing fancy, in ocean colors.  Lay it on the grass, throw up on it, whatever, just chuck it in the wash and you're good.  But I also got some fingering Comfy in cream and I'm going to make an aran baby sweater.  My big idea is to start with the bottom band and work a 2 inch cable band laid on it's side, then pick up and knit the body up.   I was thinking of making it button up the front, but maybe a pullover with neck-side buttons would be better.  I'm doing some checking about sizing here and think I'll start looking at some of my own books for sizing guidance as I start sketching.
We're going to have leftovers tonight - yum.

Soccer and modular knitting

Women and Neo I think ...


So I'm doing a couple modular projects. One's a baby blanket for my college roommate who's having her first baby. She was a marine biologist so it's going to be squares of plain stockinette in ocean colors in KnitPicks Comfy sport. Here's the first square I just finished.



The other is a mod of the Beekeeper quilt - little hexes worked in the round in sock yarn. I'm going to make a best out of them and stuff them very lightly so they'll be flatter: