Month: June 2011

More Progress…

But I can’t show it to you!

Good grief. Another baby has done gone and snuck up on me. Another one of my nieces is apparently having a baby next week. Yes, I knew about this a long time ago. Yes, I actually did start a project for said baby. No, I’m not even close to finishing it. Does this sound familiar to anybody?

This of course means I have nothing to show you in the way of knitting. I have been working on it, and I will say that I’m more than half way done with the thing. Oh OK, I’ll show you a teaser.

Can you guess the sex of the baby?? 😉

Let’s just call this Electric Baby Blue for now. It’s more yarn out of my vintage Cotton Ease stash, which is slowly dwindling. For someone who really sort of hates knitting with cotton and/or acrylic yarn, this stuff just makes me happy, especially the old colors. The newest colors they have come out with are sort of promising, but we’ll see. They’re still nowhere near as bright as the vintage stuff.

We actually got something close to summer this weekend. It officially hit over 70 degrees here, though it’s supposed to get down into the low 50’s again tonight. I guess I shouldn’t complain. We don’t have 105 degree temps, no tornadoes, and no floods. And I’ve been really able to get my money’s worth out of my woolies this year!

I’m off to start dinner, since it’s 7PM and nobody else seems to be doing so. Have a great week!

True Blood, Progress!

Well I finally finished that whole honking body section. Here it is:

Those shoulders crack me up a bit. After some wrestling around, I finally got the whole thing washed and out on the blocking board.

On to the sleeves!

And just because I can, in honor of Father’s Day, here’s a photo of my sweetie taken the other night while we were out on the town.

We have family here for the Father’s Day weekend, so I’m off to play!

Full Disclosure

Or,

May Wrap-Up

Well, there you go again, I disappeared for a bit. We’ve actually had a few days that make me think summer might get here at some point, so I’ve been busy. At least that’s my latest lame excuse.

Here were the May goals:

I really want to finish the body section of the True Blood Faery section.

I want to finish the Targhee spinning.

Blog more.

So how did I do? That’s where the full disclosure comes in. I didn’t get the body of True Blood done. I’m about 15 rows short of finishing the back section, which will do it.

I didn’t finish the Targhee spinning, though I only have about an ounce left to spin, I started with a pound of this stuff.

Blogging? Four posts. That’s it.

In my defense, I’d like to point out that I read a bunch of books, I cooked a bunch of really swell meals, and I worked. And here are some photos of the knitting.

Aren’t those cables pretty? That photo is close to the real color, but not quite.

That’s awfully pretty, too. It’s very hard to look on either of those things as a “failure”, even if I didn’t quite hit the goal. I’m also knitting a stealth* project, so I did get some things done.

So how about June goals? I’m declaring a month of amnesty. For June, I’m just going to knit whatever I damn well please. Except for that stealth project, of course. Babies have a way of showing up even if you’re not done with the knitting.

*Another family baby is about to appear. I think this might be the last of them for awhile!