No excuse now.

Well, I finished those writers and they're drying now. So back to Vitamin D. Which is fine really. I've been flirting with a gross sore throat all week and it feels like its finally settling in.

Those pictures

Here are my first couple Xmas presents. We had soccer all weekend so I got more done on number 3 and started number 4 as well.

Another tiny sweater

Is done! Buttons and everything. In with the wash tonight.
Also, pictures of my flowers a juvenile doe keeps eating on me. See the bald stalks??




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Hallett's Ledge

No, I wasn't being held at gun point ....

Finished - Hallett's Ledge

I love it.

S4$ 3

S4$ 2

S4$ on model 1

Beanie hat - stained glass

I really like the way this came out - but I think it still needs to be deeper and/or have ear flaps. Lollipop Chroma, nice.

That'll be the last thing I do in black for a while

Golly, I think I'm starting to need bifocals.  Here it is!  It's currently blocking on my playroom floor, I think the neck will look much better when that's all done.  Just in time for the coolish weather . . .yay.fin

Finally some action shots

Thanks Urban Farm Wife for taking my picture outside today. I think these give the best sense of the colors of all my pictures so far.

Blocking!

Very carefully, cool water no soap

Kinda broken

Ever have one of those days where the grown up part of your brain comes unhooked? You know, the part that makes you persist in work activities or chores just stops working and all you want to do is sit around? I'm blaming it on the heatwave - it's just been disgusting - but I think I just break every so often and wallow with my medulla.
Anyway here's a picture of the finished socks - I like them but I couldn't knit last night I was so tired.

Damask is done

And blocking:






Of course the cat goes and sits on it - as my spouse pointed out "isn't that wet? That can't feel good".
And the beads. ...

Needs buttons

But it has buttons, you say?  Did a bad job of lining them up and am not convinced I like them, so we'll see.
I like it, though.
Have a nice long weekend, everyone.

Mittens done

I think next I want to do a lined pair of entrelac mittens. I'll block these tonight.

Sorry it's been a while

Things have been a little nuts.
I finished the vest - I like it, my spouse thinks it makes me look like an old lady so he hates it.  I'm sure there's any valuation of my design or execution in his statement of his preference :), but it's nice to hear that I can still not look old, if you get what I mean.

Let's see, what else?  I'm working on some mittens - I'm messing with the Guardian Glove pattern that's available on Ravelry.  It's lovely and uses multi-strand fair isle for these amazing looking gloves, but I have opted to take the lazy easy way and use verigated yarn instead of all those color changes.

Last weekend we went to an Atlanta Silverbacks game, that was fun.  We also spent a lot of time mowing and cleaning up the yard and so the little one got a tick.  I didn't notice until we got home from the game and since it was so late and I couldn't get it out right then, and I knew if it was me I'd NEVER get to sleep knowing I had a tick in me, I lied to him and covered it in Neosporin and a band-aid.  The next morning I pulled it out.  I later apologized for lying but he was nice enough to agree that I had probably done a good thing by lying about that.  
I've also started on a freeform Cotlin cardigan - brown and dark red in a broken rib pattern.  I'm hoping the ribbing will help with fit and drape, but I don't have enough to take picture of right now.
And tomorrow my sister and one of her sons is visiting for the weekend - not sure if that will mean more or less knitting time, but should be fun.  The little one is very excited.

Adult situations cont.

Yeah, that's more like it.


We're getting new sinks in the bathroom too. Those were also old and cheap - and so failing.
And I blocked the super scarf. Aloft takes wet blocking well - clouds up and gets very even and soft.

Mittens done

Now on to Chroma.
Hopefully she'll like the colors.  The first picture isn't a great picture, but it does show you the structure.  I just wet blocked them as normal (you can't say that Bartlett softens, but it does get more even and the stitches look more even) and then dried them by a fire.  Bartlett is hardcore stuff - unlike Knitpicks which is prettier but not nearly so durable.  Short of having bleach dumped on them or getting lost in a fire, it's safe to say these puppies should outlast the next 5 or 6 presidential administrations.

I feel like the tailor

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