Saturday, January 24, 2009

...Is this thing on?

OK, so it's been awhile. I got away from blogging as my life was getting too nuts with school and work. While I am still in school I am only working on my internship so have found some more free time on my hands. While I wasn't blogging from September 19th on, I still found time to knit. Here are some things you missed...

...just looked in my ravelry queue and there are 17 items that have been completed since I last was on....I don't want to scare everyone away so I will only include the most recent additions of the 17. Know that the rest can be seen on ravelry.

I just finished Lucille


I saw this sample at Stitches and fell in love. I was completely blown away by the vintage look that I bought handwash yarn! Obviously, this baby sweater will have to be saved for a knitter who will treat it well. For now, it will go in my stash of baby knits (ok, not many, this is only sweater two stashed away) for someone who needs it.

I also finished Joel's, slightly obnoxious, inauguration day socks!

He still doesn't have a pair that fit perfectly so I wanted to do insanely boring stockinette ones to get the fit just right.

Last bit of knitting news. Liz told the knitting girls about a self developed sock club. The idea is that you match 12 sock yarns with 12 patterns and then at random each month you draw a match. I love it! Talk about a cost effective way to join a 'club' and also a great way to use up some stash yarn. I spent the day matching up patterns with yarns. Here's the 12 I chose! The chaos will officially begin February 1st!
While hand knit socks are great, I don't need to be greedy and keep all 12 pairs....send me your size and you just may find a random gift in the mail.

Happy knitting!!

5 comments:

melissa said...

i love the lucille sweater - it is just so sweet!

and what a great idea for a sock club! i totally need to do something like that too so i can use up my sock yarn stash!
did you queue up your pattern choices on ravelry? or will you post them here later?
(can you tell i totally want to see them?)

maitai said...

17 projects since september!? damn!

i want to see all of your sock club sock yarn too :)

mermaids-knits said...

I love the basket of yarn...something is just so...knitter-y about a basket full of yarn!

Knittin' Nana said...

I would love to have a new pair of hand knit socks. I don't even have one finished from 2 years ago! I wear a size 7 shoe.

cutthecord said...

i know you told me about this forever ago... i wear a size 8-9!!! hehe. i seriously won't be disappointed if you don't get around to them!