Yikes! Gotta update!

Ah, not much new on the knitting front. I'm about to finish the Smock Jacket, have a pair of socks in progress, and I need to get knitting on my double-wide Branching Out. Yes, mom, I will get it done by the time you come to visit! LOL Branching Out is a really fun pattern to knit and I'm getting excited to get started.

The socks I'm doing are the result of one evenings sudden urge to dye some wool. I used the same Aldi Mixade as for the yarn in my previous post, but the colors came out completely different. The blue is brighter and has more green in it...the purple got darker. Very weird. It was different yarn, which is my only guess as to why its so different. I also realized that I really have very few socks (and a very odd assortment of items in my "sock" drawer) so that's why I chose to dye sock yarn and start a pair for myself. I'm using the pattern in "The Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns" by Ann Budd. So far I have one never ending cuff....I swear its been 3 1/2 inches for about a week.

Ah, well, I have a new Frasier DVD coming from Netflix today...hopefully I can get in some knitting time!