All Hers.

Any time a knitted item is placed on the floor, be it for photography, blocking, temporary storage or a time out, my cat is there to claim it as her own :)

As you can see, she was happy to claim this scarf as her own. Incidentally, it's done (and all the gory details are over here as usual) and I'm now contemplating the next project to cast on for while still working on the lace and Avast. I'm thinking it may be time for me to brave the Twisted Flower Socks by Cookie A. The only thing that's kept me from them so far is the fact that they are knit top down...Top down socks always unnerve me - I always worry that I'll run out of yarn before I finish the toes!

I was thinking of knitting them out of this yarn:


But now I'm wondering if this yarn may be more interesting...

but then again, I worry about the color variegation...what say you?

Projects on the Needles

This is what the couch looks like...poor cats, there's no room for them! I guess this would probably be why they typically sit in my lap while I'm knitting...

The blue is my Noro Lotus - as you can see, the simple dropped stitch pattern shows the yarn off very well. It's simple and soothing to work on, and it's going really fast, as dropped stitch scarves typically do :)

The bright orange mass is a lace project :) You might be able to pick out leaves in there...The yarn isn't really quite that bright...it just looks that way in the photo.

The gray is Avast - I'm over halfway done with the yoke - I'm loving this part of the knitting because with each row, the knitting goes faster and faster! Once I get the collar done, I plan to kitchner up the underarm stitches (I left them live) and I'll get a preliminary try-on done. I sure hope it fits...I figure if there is length that needs to be added to the body, I can get away with adding a bit at the bottom since I have to pick up for the bottom hem still...the sleeves though, will be the clincher. I sure hope I wasn't too hasty in joining them up with the body!

Take 5...

It seems like somethings are just destined to be difficult, but once they settle, it's smooooooth sailing (kind of like what's going with my host right now. But lets not talk about that...I'd rather talk about my knitting, wouldn't you?)

Anyhow, I had hoped to find a glorious pattern that would be suitable to showing off that fantastic blue yarn....things were proving difficult though, and as I mentioned previously, there was much trial and error knitting going on. The yarn survived numerous rippings beautifully (thank goodness) and has proven to be very soothing for me to work on these last several days as I agonized over the fate of my poor shop. As you may notice, I wound up settling for a simple drop stitch to 1) make the most of the yardage and 2) show of the yarn to its best advantage. It's coming out great. I shoulda known to just keep it simple ;)