New yarn

Look at the gorgeous color for my new sock yarn!  Yes, I know I'm going a little bit overboard here hoarding sock yarn but I'm planning to knit them all up within this next month for gifts for my kids. Cannot wait to wind them up!

Japanese pattern book

Look at this! Freshly just arrived in my mailbox this morning. I'm so excited. I've been wanting this particular one forever and found it on eBay. There are some gorgeous patterns in this book.

Now, the real fun begins. I have to decipher the patterns ofcourse since I cannot read Japanese.  Oh, the challenges I set for myself...

My toy

Look at what my bff got for me as an early Xmas present ! A swift and yarn winder. All because I complained to her that I wasted one whole afternoon trying to wind up some Malabrigo sock yarn to knit her a cardigan. Best bff ever.
The boys loved to help me with it in the beginning then the novelty wore off and now they've left the fun job for me. I still get a kick at winding up 6 balls of yarn in 30 minutes. I guess I should finish up that "Celery" cardigan for her before summer comes upon us again.

My Modern Garden

This cardigan was done with my Elsebeth Lavold silky wool. I love the feel of the yarn even though I don't love doubling up on the yarn to get it bulky enough for size 11 us needles. I wore it out 1 day when my bff came down to see me and she literally stole it off my back!  But I must admit, she looks darn cute in it, better than me so I didn't mind gifting it to her.

It only took me 2 weeks to knit that one up so I didn't have emotional attachments to it yet.  I need to remember not to wear my turtle sweater around her. That sweater will go with me to the end! Lol

My Turtle sweater !

Look at this, I have been hard at work knitting and finishing this pullover. The turtle design was giving me such problems that I had to just put them aside for a few months. Finally last weekend I declared to myself that it's not going to get done sitting there in my yarn stash box. So I worked diligently for 2 days straight and got it finished. So in love with it! And I also burned the pattern so as I will not get tempted to do another one. However, I've already promised my niece that I will make her a Totoro pullover. I know, what have I done right.

Meanwhile, I've been knitting the Turkish bed socks one pair after another since my oldest keeps stealing them from me. Somehow he loves wearing them so I'm going to have to knit up some hot pink ones so I can have them to wear.

I'm also working on fingerless mittens for lena. Will have to get some pix up to show you the design. I've been absolutely in love with it but after having done one in blue sock yarn, I forgot the name of yarn, I decided that it didn't match her at all and it was too tight. So I spent a few more days contemplating on a different yarn and finally decided to use my lovely Madelinetosh Merino Light on her. After all, lena is my favorite niece.

Anyway, have been quiet in the blogging world because Adam has been teething like crazy and have been cranky and clingy and therefore I could only sit and hold him and not get anything done. All those teeth better grow in quickly and give me back my sweet boy.