Tumeric with Madelinetosh sock yarn. The color is gorgeous and feels so soft. Used 2 skeins totally.

This is my second Olive pullover using ribbon yarn for the yoke and frog tree sock yarn for the body. i bought 1 skein of the Lang SOL Degrade and 2 of the frog tree and had about 5 inches of each leftover yarn. It was very close but I made it and didn't end up with a crop sweater.

Ice cream shop by Mill Hill beads and button kit.

A midsummer night's fairy by Mirabilia.

Coming Back!

I could not, for the life of me, get Picasa Album to work for me for the longest time. My pictures have been uploaded to Flikr for Ravelry but I couldn't figure out how to get those images to upload to this blog. So I figured I'll just upload them to Picasa to import them onto here but my phone was being retarded and wouldn't let me do it.  This was a few weeks ago. This morning I suddenly thought about my almost non-existent blog and got inspired to try again as I was sitting here knitting 3 different projects at once. I was also wishing I had 6 arms to knit the projects simultaneously. Wouldn't that be great if we were able to do that.

But here are my current projects:
#1 and the latest product of my startitis, Veera's Turmeric pullover. I've had this in my queue forever and bought the yarn for it probably over a year ago and last night decided to cast on.

I love the color Betty Blues for this Tosh Sock yarn. Love how it feels to knit with so far too.

#2 project that I'm also working on are the Sweetheart Socks from Knitty. Love love the how the hearts show up as I'm knitting. I don't know why I have not been knitting socks for me. I have just been knitting the Turkish bed socks for the boys and didn't think I would ever wear socks since I mostly wear Uggs in the wintertime and my Toms in the summertime. But then Lena said, you can wear your socks around the house. Genius! But then in the back of my mind, I was also thinking...hmm...I think I need to shop for shoes that can show off my socks. But lets wait until I finish one pair before buying the shoes to show them off.

Look how beautiful the hearts look. I'm doing this out of the Opposites Attract yarn by Barking Dog Yarns and the coordinating color is the green that you see on the stripes here. The colorway is Arthur & Guinevere.

#3 project that I'm trying to finish is my gift for my bff, Sophia Rabbit

This is my third animal that I've knitted. Sophia Rabbit is almost done, just missing her cute little red beret. However, I'm running out of yarn and I am not happy with that at all. I hate the thought of having to get a whole skein just for half of a little beret. But it has to be done because I cannot go on until her beret is done.  My very first rabbit was Oscar Rabbit which was a gift for my friend's new baby. My second was Candy Bear which also was a gift for a little girl in AZ

 Are these guys not the cutest thing you've ever seen. I'm sad that they are no longer with me. After all these gifts are knitted, I will knit a pair to sit in our craft room. Lena is holding me up to that promise. She's very mad at me that I keep promising people these gifts. She's worried that I will get sick of knitting these and we would never get our rabbits. I am worried about that too since I had very little motivation while knitting Sophia. It wasn't like Oscar where we were awaiting every limb, every piece of clothing to see what it looks like. It's similar to waiting for your first kid to be born. And now with Sophia, it's like my third kid, ok I know what you look like, there's no surprise. I have 2 more rabbits to do for my bff after this since she has 3 kids and want 3 rabbits to sit on her bed.  I am very happy to be able to knit them for her and that she loves my projects very much but if I don't supplement with other projects, I think I would quit knitting altogether (I don't think that would ever happen though).

Done!

Laminaria has been officially done for a couple of weeks now. I've just been forgetting to blog it. I must say, I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT! I soaked it in Adam's baby detergent before blocking so now it smells wonderful just like my baby. I didn't aggressively block it since I'm planning only to wear it as a scarf but it still looks so detailed and wonderful. I told everyone that I would wear it until it wears out and to tell you the truth, I have been wearing it so much that it already needs another soak and wash. I really want to knit another one but there are soooo many projects in my queue that I also want to knit so maybe not. I definitely want to knit another shawl though. Pogona is next on my list. Or was it the Damson. Hmm, either one, I would love I guess. After that big project, I decided to work on my Manu furiously and again, guess what happened. I ran out of yarn again. However, this time, the yarn is still available so I was in luck. I am now awaiting for more yarn to come to finish the border and then the pockets.

While waiting, I didn't want to start on another project yet, thinking I really should work on the 2 scarves that I have going, or the entrellac blanket that I'm also doing. That lasted a couple of hours. I was so itching to start on the Olive pullover though that I just had to cast on!

Laminaria

When I first started knitting, oh about a little bit more than a year ago, I said to myself that I would never knit a lacy shawl. And now, what is on my needles?  A lacy shawl. Knitting out of madeline tosh lace yarn. The yarn is absolutely wonderful but it feels like I'm knitting with thread.  It's quite funny, but after 3 rounds of doing the blossom chart, my stitches are finally correct. In my head, I was insistent that the designer must have written the pattern incorrectly because my stitches did not  match up. Finally by the time I repeated the pattern 3 times, I noticed my mistake and of course the pattern was correct.

Again, last night I declared that after this shawl, I will not knit another lacy shawl ever again. And lena said, just wait, you will soak it, and block it, and it will be beautiful and you'll knit another one soon enough. Of course I thought she was crazy as I was ripping out stitch by stitch because I had miscounted at the beginning of the row. But now, sitting here this morning, after knitting perfect rows, I'm thinking, hmm, this shawl would look great in a nice vibrant red....