July 10, 2008

What I have been up to lately...

First a pair of socks for my Mom's BirthdayOne down and number two about 10% done. Next up is some of my handspun yarn. I am getting better at making the thickness more consistent. I love the color of the blue and white one but it isn't the softest yarn. I will have to think of something creative to do with it.

This yellow is very soft but there is only a tiny bit of it, it came as a free sample with my Drop Spindle.
Purple left over from my first spindle kit.
And finally, I was working on some socks for me with this lovely soft 100% merino sock yarn but I am doing too many sock projects right now so I frogged the sock and decided to make a baby hat out of it. Pattern is from 'Simple 1-2-3 Knitting' .
I also recently picked up this sampler from Knitpicks and I love love love the yarn! I can't wait to start some of the patterns.

Major merger.

Well, maybe not major so much as minor. I am going to merge my knitting blog with this blog since that is what I am spending a lot of free time doing these days. I seem to be writing challenged though. I have been having some lovely philosophical, political, and religious conversations with my husband recently, which has been wonderful, but whenever I sit down to blog my thoughts seem to dissipate like a mist at sunrise.