Spring!

There is absolutely no knitting content in this post at all. None. Not the teensiest bit. This afternoon when I got home from work I looked out at all the little hopeful spring things in the yard and took a few pictures. You get to see them here, just in case you don't have spring yet where you live or a yard to find it in.

The rhubarb is up, so are the chives,

the poppies, and the lilies.

There are teeny tiny pink buds on my blueberry bushes,

the daffodils and hyacinths are blooming.

But the biggest sign of spring is the nest of day-old baby bunnies I found last night under the kitchen window. The mama bunny moved the nest overnight and filled in the little depression she had dug.

Accomplished

That's how I'm feeling tonight. I finished the Super Simple Sleeping Socks, or the tube socks to use a simpler term, for Durwood. They'll keep his tootsies nice and warm.

I dug deep into my MIL's button bag and found a couple of 1" buttons to finish the Swifty. I see why Kay from Mason Dixon Knitting is so addicted to the ballband dishcloth/warshrags. The pattern is hypnotizing and you can put any 2 yarns together and it looks great, and it's easy to memorize.

Oh, I forgot to mention that I worked on DIL's Silk Road purse last weekend too. I'm getting closer to time to sew it together and knit the strap.

True Progress

And, I confess, one new thing. Well, not really new. I did cast it on, knit 12 rows, frog it, recast on, and knit 6 rows before I went to bed Friday night. But it turns out there's a teensy little error in the pattern so I'm paying attention so it turns out right. It's the Swifty from MDK's second book. It tells you to start with a purl row, then a knit row, but that makes the purl bumps on the right side at the beginning and then twice again when you go back to the beginning for the second and third time. If you just knit first then purl, all is well. But I'm not going back and starting again. This one will be the practice one, the learning one. Besides it just for scrubbing floors, how perfect does it need to be? Sheesh.






I told you yesterday that I was working on the Candy Cane sock and Thuja, but I wanted to give actual photographic proof of that work. See? I didn't lie, not even a fib, it's the truth. Ta-da! Socking.

Can You Call It Progress...

when all the projects are new? I did knit on the Candy Cane Socks and Thuja last night at FNKC. I did. Really. Ask anybody. But I only have pictures of this stuff so that's what I'm putting on here.


First and foremost, I got to take the swift that Durwood is making for me for a test spin yesterday and caught the handsome and clever maker too. I can't wait until it's ready for regular use.












Felted Holder v. 5 turned out the way I envisioned them way back in the beginning when I came up with the idea. Or when I decided to take the idea off the 2009 Knitting Calendar and run with it in my own creative direction. I've liked all five versions, it's just that this one is most like my original idea. We all know I'll be making many more of these because I can't resist the crazy hairy top.
















I paged through Mason-Dixon Knitting's second book the other day and they had another version of the Swiffer cover, this one with button tabs. I suspect that they'll stay in place better so I dug out all my already-used balls of dishcloth cotton and am giving it a whirl. This has already gotten to row 12 and been frogged. You'd think I could follow a simple ballband dishcloth pattern, wouldn't you?

Finito!

I just finished crocheting the last round of edging on the Fish Afghan and wove in all the tails and it's done. Finished. Complete. Woohoo! I never imagined in the summer of 2007 that the little fish blocks I used to learn to knit would end up making such a yummy afghan, but there it is. I luvs it.

Yarny Stuff Going On

I was so excited last night. I bore down and got the rest of the fish afghan blocks crocheted together. I'm going to finish the first round of edging before bed tonight. Ooh, it's going to look great! And it's warm on my lap.









I knitted a few rows on Durwood's Candy Cane Sox at work today and a few rows on Thuja over the weekend, but I spent most of my time rewriting my novel so I can fix up the synopsis, write a query letter, and email it off to the three (3!) agents who want to see it. Three! Wouldn't it be cool if one of them agreed to represent it?

Oh, yeah, and I'm knitting away on the Peruvian Shawl. Soon it'll be time to add on the next color. I love changing colors. I think all yarn should be variegated so I always have exciting color changes to entertain me. Well, maybe not all yarn, but most of it should be variegated. I sez.

I Got A Package

I asked my DD if she had any of the yarn I'm using to knit the Peruvian Shawl, and she did. She sent it to me this week and today it arrived.

There was a surprise. It's gorgeous sock yarn with aloe. Very luxurious feeling. I can't wait to knit with it.

Thanks, DD! You're the best.