Birthday Gifts!
This weekend
Theresa and I finally got together and did a little fiber shopping -- and look what I got!! Yep -- more birthday gifts! A beautiful drop spine box in cute little fishy paper and a gorgeous scarf made from Noro Silk Garden -- both handmade by Theresa! Thank you so much Theresa!!
Progress
After an extended cold/flu thing that kept me down for almost two weeks, I'm back and finally getting some knitting done! That's Nettle up there. I'm past the decreases for the sleeves and should have the back finished soon -- yipee! I really love this yarn (Jaeger Chamonix).
And here's my fair isle -- the Setesdal Cardie for Maddie. I'm up to the neck shaping and I think that this one might stall for a little while until I learn to purl with BOTH hands. The two handed knitting was great when I was working in the round, but now I have to go back and forth -- ugh.
And finally here is Pete's sock. This one has actually gone in reverse. I started this one toe-up, but I was stalled. I guess I like doing socks from the top down. Nothing wrong with that -- but it meant frogging a good 4 in. of completed sock. Then I tried to start using the socks on two circs method, but the Addi Turbos that I bought were only 12 in. long -- I messed up. These are just way too short. My hand was experiencing discomfort after only two rounds. So. . . . here I am back on the trusty Brittany dp's and things are moving along smoothly. Socks are my "easy" project and I'm not going to make the mistake of trying to make them so complicated next time (unless I already have an easy pair on the needles to fall back on)!
And here is a picture that I should have had up here last week, but sickness got the better of me. This is a beautiful scissor case that I received from
Chris. Don't you just love it? Thanks so much Chris!!
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