Girlfriends Knitting

Well, I have not had a chance to post in a while, as I have been traveling and enjoying the holidays, but...I have not slacked up on the knitting! Here are a few knitting updates... Finished a few knitted Christmas goodies: Monster Toy for Rosie She named her Lucy Hermione Hat for Jilli Tonks socks for Stacy Hat for Christen (I love the way John is so seriously looking at it.) Fuzzy Christmas Hat for Miss Elle There were a few more, but I don't have pics yet. I started a few other projects that would have been Christmas presents if I had finished them: Hat for John, the enabler (too small, will probably be for Jake) Size 11 Socks for Dad (Might not knit too many of these!) Even worked on a pair of socks for me! Slant Socks in Haunted Vineyard yarn from Cloudlover Fiber  Then, Christmas rolled around I was bestowed with gorgeous yarn!! SW Merino in the Mae West colorway Baby Alpaca Undye...

I am not a monogamous knitter. I usually have way too many projects on the needles (as you can usually see from the WIP list on the right, now though the Christmas knitting is hidden.) I have tried to have only one project at a time, but there are just too many beautiful yarns and fun-looking patterns for me to be faithful to a single project. Maybe it is my fickle Gemini nature (if you believe that sort of thing), or maybe I just don't have a very long attention span, but as soon as I have gotten a project well underway, I find myself glancing at my stash of yarns, or searching out new patterns on Ravelry, bored with the project on my needles. What then happens is I justify that since I am bored, I should cast on something else. I then happily begin working on my new knitting project until I tire of it. But, instead of going back to the original project and having only two or at most three projects on the needles, I tend to repeat the cycle of finding a new project.   Acknowledgi...

As I am busy with my Christmas knitting and gift buying, it occurred to me that it might be a good (though slightly selfish) idea to post a 'Christmas wish list' for the knitting items I am coveting, but do not currently own. So if any of you out there want to buy me a Christmas present... Signature needles (any size circular, with a long cable) - or the whole collection! (Haha, as if!) Wollmeise yarn (I just bought my first skein....ooooh) Really, any wool blend yarn would make me happy, so check out all the gorgeous yarn on Etsy  and pick me up a skein, or three. Doing that also supports local small businesses, which is nice. Those yarn blends make for some gorgeous socks, which I am in love with knitting right now. So any set of Wendy Johnson patterns, particularly her Socks in a Box , would be awesome. With all that yarn, I will need to be making and blocking final projects, so there are also, blocking wires  and Sock Blockers (women's l...

I am currently in Orlando, FL for a work-related conference. And between conference-related activities and tourist-related activities (it is Orlando, after all), I have gotten up early and fallen in bed exhausted late every day- and have not knit in 2 DAYS! There just hasn't been time! Lately, for me, not having time to knit is crazy talk. I brought 3 projects with me - two socks I need to finish and a Christmas knitting project. I thought - lay around the pool, knit between meetings - all would be right in my world. Wrong. The meetings have been back to back with me taking diligent notes throughout, and the touristing has been non-stop walking, riding, and gawking at the awesomeness that is Disney and Universal. As a matter of fact, this has to be a short blog because I have a taxi waiting downstairs in front of the hotel.  And this while all of my knitter friends are at the Arkansas Fiber Festival. Knitting and spinning without me! Ugh! All I can say is ... ...