First I want to give a warm and heartfelt thank you to everyone who took the time to comment about my big announcement yesterday. Your support has been overwhelming and further enforces my conviction that I made the right decision. This community continuously surprises me with its response and support, and is one I wouldn’t trade for the world. Thank you for letting me be a part.
I’m know I tempted the Knitting Goddess yesterday with my gutsy post of hoping to have finished the second sock in the Claudia Handpainted before the Olympic start (and not so coincidentally before my mother’s Feb. 12th birthday). I was just shy of starting the heel before lunch yesterday. I managed to complete the heel during lunch and during my ride home I made some progress on the leg. Last night, just as "ER" was ending, I bound off. The replacement, belated holiday socks cum birthday socks for mom are now done. They are definitely fraternal twins and I’m quite okay with that. Mom is as well. We have a thing for frat twins you know. That’s the joy of handpainted yarns. Two socks never match.
Now I’m all ready to begin my Snowflakes & Arrows vest tonight after the twins go down, oh and I finish the grocery shopping. We’ll need to eat at some point this weekend… and then there’s the east coast blizzard that is due to hit Saturday afternoon. I might have to give up some knitting time on Sunday for shoveling. I’ve been itching to start this now for some time, especially since the whole two color knitting doesn’t seem so foreign anymore. There are a couple of aspects to this project which make it a challenge.
- staying focused on one project (not usually a strong suit of mine)
- steeking (never done before)
- fair isle
- zipper
That zipper bit is definitely going to be a challenge as I haven’t bought one yet and I seriously dislike hand sewing them to knits. I wonder if it would be a cheat to replace it with a couple of pewter frogs. Not like I have any of those either, but have a general idea where I can pick some up. Time to collect the pattern fixes from the KAL and get psyched for the opening ceremonies tonight! Let the games begin! Weeding, packing and stash sale will commence when the vest is done or the Olympics are over, whichever comes first.
Before that though, I need to write my Self-Assessment of the annual performance evaluation process at work. I so totally hate writing it and I need to have it done by Monday, which really means end of today. Blech. I’d rather write in code! Anyway, I leave you with a moment of kitten zen.
Craft on!
