Rabbit Rabbit

Here's a picture of a cute baby to distract you from the lack of any real content.  J was 5 months old when this was taken back in June, enjoy.

I didn't remember to say "rabbit rabbit" this morning, I don't expect it to hurt me since I haven't been able to remember even once in the mumble-mumble years I've been trying it. 

Hopefully, March will be better than February weather-wise.  I don't know if I can handle more snow days!  We've got a busy month as Miss Thing is turning 5 in a few days and there are parties to plan and cupcakes to bake.  Also, the dude starts travel for his job this month so that'll be a week of solo-parenting for me.  By the end of the month the anticipation for MDSW will begin building and there will be lists to make and toss and re-make.  Somewhere in there we'll be planning for the Cherry Blossom Festival and maybe having a houseguest for a few days.

Done!

Finished the blanket today!  Woo Hoo!  Pics tomorrow because it was too overcast today to take halfway decent ones.

Progress Report on Olympic Knitting

I love, love, love my sweater. I wove in the last end on Thursday and I've worn it twice in the 4 days it's been finished. Sadly, the yarn is discontinued, Lana Grossa Klimatika, a soft wool-cotton blend sport weight yarn. I will find solace in the 3 additional sweaters-worth hanging out in my stash, purchased from elann on clearance ages ago. The sweater went in time out a few times during the year-plus I worked on it, mostly from tired hands and not from a lack of interest in the sweater.

Usually I'm a process knitter, large pile of WIP's to prove that fact, but for this sweater it was all about the finished item. I wanted this sweater from the first swatch. This is something that will be in my closet until it falls apart many, many, many years from now.

The socks are nice, I'm wearing them right now. I love Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock, the socks stay so nice looking for a long while. I finished the first sock a couple of months ago and promptly cast on the second sock then put them away. I didn't write down any of the usual info as I went along because I just knew that I'd finish right away. As a result of my tempting fate, I had to rip out the second sock from the toe all the way back to the gusset because I mis-counted how many stitches to pick up for the gusset and it took trying on the sock to realize my folly.

That leaves my final Olympic project - the giant granny square blanket.  No pics today that will be the next post. 

Uh-Oh

Sooooo. After 3 full days of knitting on the sweater I have finished the corrugated ribbing and 15 rows of actual sweater. At this rate it might be finished by the next Winter Olympics. Rather than add to my already enormous pile of WIP's and UFO's by casting on yet another project to enter, I've decided to clear out some of my existing WIP's during the Knitting Olympics and still work on the sweater.

I've picked 3 things to finish:
1- Diamond-Pattern Pullover. I really want to wear this sweater.
2- Hawaii socks. This is the first pair of socks to give me second sock syndrome. So they must be finished.
3- Big-@$$ Granny Square Blanket. It's a big granny square, technically it's crochet but I'm going to go with it anyway.

Pictures soon.

Getting Ready to Cast On

Here's the pile o' yarn I hope to turn into a sweater for the Knitting Olympics. I swatched today and I'll be using size 1 needles for 52" sweater. I'm starting to doubt my sanity.

India's Valentine

I made this vest for India for Valentine's Day. She really seems to like it!

Late to the party

Late to the party. That's me. I thought about starting a blog about 4 years ago and got sidetracked with other projects instead.

Why am I starting one now? The Knitting Olympics. I want a place to put my gold medal!

I will be knitting the Ron Schweitzer Winterscape kit from Yarns International. Can't seem to find it in ravelry right now, but will post a picture later.