the second cream sock got finished
and I am on to a shawl
that I started 3 times
and had to rip back several times once started

now I am using a safety line
which I just learned about
it is when you take a piece of yarn and run it along your stitches on the needle(picking them up)
it means if you drop lace stitches or if you have to rip back you have a place where all your stitches are on the extra yarn and so you know where you are
hope that makes sense
you move the safety line forward as you go, making sure that everything before it is correct
what a life saver

Corkey's happiness correlates with my sanity:cherry::blink:

I had gotten rid of a bunch of my yarn last year when I did a huge purge. I found a nice little stockpile up in the top of the closet in the guest room when I was in there purging today.

Going to start on a simple granny square throw!

Black, purple, and a super-obnoxious red! :|

Yesterday, I got my Tomten out of the corner where I had stuffed it when the shortrows misbehaved. Apparently a few months in the Penalty Box was good for it. I have lost some weight since I started it, but I'ma gonna stick with the original measurements, because it's meant to keep me warm this fall and the more of me it covers, the more effective it'll be. Weird question though....

I have weird hair. Really weird hair. It makes mad curls, it sticks to things, it scoffs at braids and stuff, it's highly susceptible to static electricity and humidity. I have some nice bits of silk laying around my stash and I was thinking of lining the hood. The fact that silk is supposed to be a ESPish insulator and will help keep the aliens from monitering my brain activity is a complete and total coincidence. But I do not have enough silk to line the rest, and since it's really only my crazy hair I'm worried about, I wasn't going to bother lining the rest of it. Would it be too weird for words if I just did the hood and not the body?

this sounds cool

I think, that it is your project for you, and so the only opinion that matters is yours. So I say do what makes you happy and makes you smile!!!!

I keep starting one project, stopping because I get distracted by another, and then going back to the original...and it's maddening. :blink:

I would love to learn to make a cool granny square afghan!

I have been knitting a scarf for my Mom for a really long time and I finally finished knitting it last night.
So today I went to cast off and it was going perfectly until I ran out of yarn 2 stitches before the end.

Seriously.

And it was the best cast off I ever did!!!

:seeingstars:

I made this hat over December, and a hat for a friend for Christmas.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw...zft9o1_500.jpg

I promised my daughter a special, unique baby afghan, she's due in March, so I have a few months, thank goodness, to work on it.

She wants a black/white zebra pattern, first.

She would like a red/black/white wave pattern also.

Ideas on decent baby yarns and where to find them in black and red?
thanks!

A little self promotion!
 

Just opened my shop on etsy.com, I am so excited! I need to improve my photo taking though!:

http://www.etsy.com/your/listings

Elle*