Knitting '09 Recap

I'm ba-a-ack! Jeepers it's been too long since my last post. I went back to work full-time last August and just lost touch with everything that felt like more work. I needed time away from pressuring myself to produce knitted items in order to have a blog entry.

Knitting has been grueling for me. Mostly I'm not in the mood to focus or else too durn exhausted to hold the needles. I finished Ursa and you all saw me wear that at Rhinebeck. I finished the Heathered Hoodie Vest from Knit Scene Fall 2009 while on my vacation in NYC. I wore it to the Natural History Museum. Deb took finished photos of it for me while we walked about sightseeing that I'll have to track down and post later. Right before Christmas, I finished a pair of Rick socks from Cookie A's Sock Innovation book.




Deb gave me the STR Rare Gems from Rhinebeck '08. (I've got two more gift skeins from then to knit up yet.) These are such squishy, heavy, comfy socks. Challenging pattern to knit, but fun to perk the mind up a bit.

I also started a pair of kai-mei socks (same book as above) and completed the right sock a few days ago. It's done up in Dream in Color Smooshy in the colorway Punky Fuschia. I bought the yarn on a yarn crawl with Deb the summer of '08. A wee bit behind in the knitting of yarn purchases. (I am knitting from my stash again this year & plan on saving my yarn buying for Rhinebeck!) If you click on the link you'll see a skein of turquoise Jaggerspun. I'm currently knitting it into a Lacey Accent Scarf from Glamknits. The lace Baby is also in progress for Icarus. Only the orange stuff is still balled up with no project in mind. Started & unraveled a few attempts. Not ideal patterns for the stuff. It's homeless at the moment.



Well, hopefully I'll be more consistent with the blog this year. I do so enjoy reading everyone's blogs. You'd think I'd blog more for everyone else to enjoy too, huh?