oh my!!

I feel like i'm starting all over...i haven't blogged in so long! I have been knitting though. The above sock is one of my favorite knitted projects...unfortunately, i only made one. It took so much focus and was so slow-going that i just can't bring myself to start the next one yet! So at the moment, i am procrastinating and working on a simple ribbed sock. I'll post pics of my progress on it as soon as i get around to taking the pictures. I've also made 4 or 5 hats that need to be photographed and also posted...maybe when i am home tonight.

It's been a while!

It seems like i haven't posted anything in forever.... and that's because my knitting came close to a halt. We have been in the process of buying a house and i can't believe how time consuming that can be! We are finally moved in as of June 13th and now the house is organized and put together, I think i can safely start knitting again. I wasn't completely idle while i was quiet...i have almost completely finished my first baby sweater! However, it didn't come out quite as expected and now i'm struggling with deciding whether to finish it or just move on to the next project and take it apart and use the yarn for something else. I followed the directions for 12-24 months and the sweater came out maybe big enough for a 6 month old...or younger. Did i check the guage? No. That would be the smart thing to do. And i am lazy. So now i have a teensy tiny sweater made out of sunny happy yarn...i will take a picture of it tonight and try to upload it for all to see. My older sister thought the yarn reminded her of my son, so it was meant for him....now, if i decide to finish it, it might be meant for one of his stuffed animals.

Emmet

my super cutie

My latest finished object

It's for Liana. When she saw the pair i made she wanted a pair so bad that i took her to the yarn store and told her to pick out whatever sock yarn she wanted and i'd make her a pair....it only took me a week to do this one!! The last pair took me about 2 months to finish because they had such a complicated pattern and i had no idea what i was doing. But with an easy ribbing pattern, i can crank out one sock per week! Now y'all know what you're getting for Christmas this year....and i don't care if you live in Florida!!! 

The socks are FINISHED!!

Here they are:

I am so darn proud of them! I messed up the second one a bit because i got cocky at the end and stopped paying close attention to the directions and decreased EVERY row of the toe instead of every other row and now the sock on the left has half the amount of toe space as the sock on the right. But i don't care too much...i still wore them to work the next day and ran around the office without shoes on. Thanks Shelly,  for the sock pattern from hell and the awesome sock yarn!!! I love my socks!! 

What to make next......maybe it's time to start a baby sweater?? Mike wanted an Ipod cozy....that should be fast....and i still have the unfinished scarf for my boss which i'm starting to think i might not finish and then there's always the blanket for my mother-in-law...that blanket that seems to be cursed at row 45!!! I KNOW there has GOT to be something wrong with that pattern...it can't be me!! (it's probably me.)

I'm not that fast

When i asked my mom if she'd looked at my blog recently she said "No! Sometimes you don't add anything for weeks!" I had to explain to her that i really do knit everyday....but i don't PRODUCE a new object everyday!! I've been working on the second sock for weeks now! But i will do my best to go faster and post as much as possible so my mom can stop being annoyed with me for taking too long. 

So, dear sweet mother....this is for you:

Oscar night

This is what we were doing while watching the Oscars. I am already more than halfway done with the other sock now and so excited to have a pair soon! It will be the first thing i've knitted and kept for myself! (Of course, i don't think they would FIT anyone else. They're a bit tight on me.) And Maiya is knitting a SWEATER!! She went straight from hats to a sweater and she's almost done. This was the sweater she started before learning hats...the sweater that's taken about a year to get this far....but that's ok! That's a bigger attempt than i dare to make yet....although i'm getting really close to being that confident.