Guess what?? I found a knitting nite! I’m out the door!!

Tell ya more about my week later!!

I just found out that on April 14th…I will be going on this to here.

My sister won a cruise trip with her work and she’s taking me with her!! *happydances*

Omg..I don’t have anything to wear. I wonder if they let you take knitting needles on ships??

*hums the love boat theme*

I actually finished something!! Finished the first one while at the retreat and finished up the second one last night!

Specs:
Lion Brand Fisherman’s Wool dyed with neon food coloring
Universal Sock Pattern
(K2P2 for the cuff and K3p1 for the leg)

Yay me!!

You started out kind of small…

But you got bigger….

And even got to ride a motorcycle…

Happy Birthday my sweet boy…you’re such a big boy now.

Love, MOM

(If anyone would like to send him a birthday e-card, just email it to me and I’ll show it to him – Steph)

We have a new member of the family now.

Everyone say hello to Donnatello.

I was bored on Monday (who me bored??) and I decided to knit a buttonhole bag. I had this yarn that I had spun and just could not figure out what to make from it. (you’ll understand once you see the colors) I think the bag turned out cute.

Here it is pre-felted:

And after two trips through the washer…

The fiber was a Romney/Mohair blend and it’s extremely fuzzy. I think I’m going to give it a hair cut. I was toying with the idea of making some felted leaves to put on it from some autumn colored yarn that I spun. Just have to knit the squares and felt them and then cut out the leaves. We’ll see if I ever get it done. Maybe I can needle felt it or someting. Angela can I borrow your felting needles??? LOL

I also knit a swatch from the grey yarn that I spun out of the raw fleece I bought.

I did it on size 6 needles and washed and blocked it. I haven’t measured it or figured the gauge yet.

Remember my last post lamenting the amount of projects I have on the needles??? Well…I now have one more. The daughter announced that she has a swim team banquet in three weeks and its semi-formal. The dress she wants to wear is strapless so I’m working up a stole for her to wear with her dress. No photos yet, sorry. Yep..one more project on the needles. (but I did finish something…the bag counts right??)

Someone stop me before I cast on again!!!

Sheesh..I have superduper startitis or something. I need to finish something around here.

I had to go to the LYS today because I needed some size 1 dpns (Brittanys of course) and a size 9 36″ circ (cuz my Pi shawl it getting a bit big for its britches). Did I come out of there with those?? Well..I got the size 1 dpns, but they didn’t have any wood size 9 36″ circs so they told me they would order some and took my name and number, but I couldn’t resist and got three skeins of THIS (scroll down and look at shade 34) its a burgandy type color. I was thinking Tempting for the daughter. Probably make the sleeves longer since its a wool yarn. Good idea?? Bad idea??

I’m such a dork. 4 socks on the needles unfinished, one pi shawl unfinished, one rogue unfinished *looks on sidebar* haven’t picked up the thing in ages. *sigh*

I just need to finish something already.