sheep in the city

It's Wednesday, right?

I had such grand plans...unrealistic, sure...but such good intentions. My plan was to sleep in on Monday, get up and start knitting and not stop until I had all the projects that are on deadlines finished. Who am I kidding? There was no possible way that I could finish everything, but I made some good progress! I also now have a very clean garage thanks to my mom coming over and motivating me to clean it out before trash day on Tuesday...I guess thanks are in order, so thanks mom!

Here is the evidence that I do indeed knit and that I have made some progress on a few projects! First we have the "La la" shawlette from Greetings from Knit Cafe. I am binding off and it is one of those bind off's that seem like it will never end. It has a loopy ruffled picot edging, can you say tedious? Especially since it is knit out of mohair. This is one of the few projects that I have knit where I regret a color choice. I really wish that I had chosen a hot pink instead of the pale pink that I used. Oh well. I'm not ripping back 300 some stitches in mohair. No way. I thought about taking a hot pink sharpie to the yarn and just "coloring" it in. Not really...but it was a fleeting thought! The lighting is crappy in this picture too...which doesn't help my feelings about this project. This is what happens when you take pictures in the morning at my house. The green is a real acidy chartreuse and the orange is a really deep bright orange. Those two I'm happy with...the pink, not so much.

Next is the little felted tote from One Skein. It's for my One Skein pal...and it has been mailed off to her already. This tiny bag knit up while I was catching up on the last 2 episodes of Prison Break on Saturday. (have I mentioned how much I love that show...especially Wentworth Miller. He is a cutie!) I took a picture with the buttons for scale, and one with a closeup of the buttons. I just love how the brown and blue buttons turned out.

Here is the start to my Log Cabin sample for the shop. I can't wait to start on one for myself! I haven't quite decided what colors to make mine...I know it's going to have pink in it.

Last, but not least, I told myself that I wouldn't start anything new...but then Wanda wore here Seraphim Shawl again on Friday when we hung out, and the rest is history! I only let myself knit a little bit on it. It hasn't grown any since this picture was taken, and it's just been laying in the bottom of my knitting bag taunting me. The yarn that I'm using is "Plain and Fancy Sheep and Wool" in the colorway, Magenta that I picked up at Estes this year. They are one of those small Texas yarn companies that only sell their stuff at festivals. If I could get my hands on more of this stuff, I would. (I'm pretty sure that they are going to be at the Taos wool festival) I just love the way that the colors are knitting up. I'm pretty sure that there won't be much pooling because the colors change so rapidly. I think that the most I've knit with one color is like 3 stitches. It's so pretty...I don't think it's going to spend long languishing in my bag. I can't stand it!

Alright...gotta get to work...more on what I'm making with the DMC floss at the top of this entry later.

Posted by Stacey at September 6, 2006 07:57 AM