Long time, no update....

It has been quite a long time since I've updated this! I have been doing lots of knitting, and lots of frogging and reknitting, some designing, and lots of swatching.


Designing is certainly an interesting challenge. I've found I'll knit up an entire skein of yarn into a design, then decide its not working and frog the whole thing....only to repeat the same thing all over again, with a different design. Probably my perfectionist tendencies to some degree, but hey, if its just not working, its just not working.


I can share a couple of photos...
This first one is the White Lies Designs Shapely Tank Top I knit over the summer. I finished it the week after Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince was released, which I mainly remember because I was listening to the final chapters with my dh while I seamed up the sides.



The yarn is Paton's Grace in tangelo. I am not willing to post a photo of myself in a tank top for all to see, so you get to see it as it was blocked on my sofa cushion. Oh, and you'll be seeing plenty of my sofa cushions as I find the denim slipcovers to be the most convenient solid backgrounds for taking photos.


I also finished Branching Out and have finally had the chance to wear it now that we've had some colder nights. I fell in love with the Silky Wool and ended up finding a great deal on ebay for what I hope is enough to make a sweater for myself.




No photos yet for the Smock Jacket in kfi cashmereno....I'm finished the back and half of the front, about to start the cables on the second side. I just hope I finish it before Alethia grows too big for it. Maybe I should have made the larger size! I have a feeling I'll be making a bigger one eventually.


And my most recent project....



This is a pair of soaker pants for Alethia. They'll be beautiful with the smock jacket if I manage to finish it before she grows out of both it and these pants. But I also found a cute sweater at Target that looks nice with them...black chenille with a pink snowflake stitched on the front. I knit these without a pattern, and considering I'm not incredibly experienced at this I'd say they turned out okay. As it happened my tape measure was misplaced while I was knitting these and I did a lot of "hold them up to the baby and check" which didn't work out nearly as well as I had hoped. They are a bit short in the rise and in the legs, but I think they'd fit a shorter baby just fine. Once I get her into the outfit I'll have to get a photo. I chose to do a hemmed elastic waist because I hate drawstrings and my ribbed waistbands always seem to stretch to the point that they fall off if I don't use a drawstring. I hope the elastic does okay in the wool. I figure at worst I'll have to wash them more often than I usually have to wash soakers.


I absolutely love the way this colorway knit up too. The yarn is from Little Turtle Knits and the colorway is called Punk Rock Girl. I was a bit disappointed when I originally received the yarn as it didn't look as great in the hank as it had online, but I love it now. It knit up perfectly. Beautiful!


There are a few more photos in my finished object gallery, though I'll probably be posting them here with their stories soon. I have a few good holiday projects going that I'll share as soon as there is anything to see and I'll get a pic of the Gryffindor scarf I'm making for Logan (my 10yo son).


I've gotta go as my 5yo just woke up again....