I ought to add a few pictures to this post.

(Note to self: take pictures of your stuff when you get home and edit this blog to add them)

So. The woman who created the pattern for the Short Row Hat - holy crapola that must have been some challenge!! I cast on for it and I'm about 1/4 done and holy crap I am impressed. I would be very curious to find out how long it took her to come up with it and perfect it.

I had started on the caramel cable hat during the holidays and I'm about nearly done, but I ran out of yarn and cant make it to my local store until Saturday. So yesterday, I started the short row hat. I like it a lot so far, althought I dont know about the color I chose. I used a red skein I had on hand, but it would look MUCH better if knitted with some variagated yarn.

I'm going yarn shopping tomorrow, so I'll have a looksee at what I can get my hands on.

I am totally procrastinating on assembling my cabled coat. All the pieces have been done for over a month now and I am procrastinating blocking the front pieces and assembling it. I think I am terrified that it will be all wrong or wont fit me, which is why I've been putting it off.


At the yarn store, I have to buy the cream colored skein for my hat. I have to buy a skein of white and a small skein of black to make these awesome pants. I have a skein of red and blue merino, so I'll find something else to match so I can make these. I'll use a longies pattern I found, and will create the funky face. I should be able to make these even if I dont have that pattern.

New yarn goodness.



I'm going to make these pants, but probably with a different, more cutesy girly cuff, with the purple skein.

I have not decided yet which patterns I'm going to do with the other two. I might do a boyish version of this soaker I just finished and LOOOVE LOVE LOVE to death.



The colors are just amazing.

Right now, I'm working on these:



I love the colors so much I want to roll around in it. Who needs porn when you've got pretty yarn? Oh and this project is from this pattern. Very nice so far!

And I also finished this soaker


It turned out way way way too small. I'm talking newborn size, here. I had heard that this pattern was actually quite big, so I knit it on much smaller needles. Yeah, I shouldnt have done that. But hey, I wouldn't have had enough of that yarn to do a much bigger version of this one anyway! It came from this pattern.

Anyway, I got new yarn and I'm done know what to do - keep working the pants I started already or start a new one. In which color?

There is not enough hours per day for stuff I want to knit!

Definately not in need of a new project for now

We're building a new house, in which we're moving in in a month.

The kids' playroom will be in the basement. And for the time being, we're not gonna put carpet in, we'll just paint the cement floor. It's going to be cold for feet down there.

So I'm knitting slippers. All kinds of slippers. I've printed out about a dozen patterns, and I will make a pair of slippers per pattern. All different. A very good way to get rid of my old stash of synthetic yarns.

No ugly boring regular phentex slippers at my house.

Despite my pink and green baby longies project, yesterday I made a slipper using this pattern http://ingridknits.tripod.com/lenore.htm. And I cast one and knit about a dozen rows from this pattern http://www.duke.edu/~ect3/knitting/slippers_pattern.html. Very cool.

And I also have my big comfy shawl ongoing. I'm about half way done on this.

I have too many cool things going on at once!

Ongoing and done projects

My current project





Fetching gloves I made a while back


A blanket I made


Another blanket I made as a gift for my cousin's newborn daughter



The baby pants I'm making (almost finished!) for my son