I know it has been a long time since my last post. And no, my prolonged silence does not indicate that I’ve been job hunting again! I am quite happy at my new job. While I won’t go into all the reasons why I could be lured into interviewing by the recruiter in this very public of fora, if you should really want to know, email me or leave a comment. Suffice it to say, the things I didn’t like are no longer a problem. I hit the one month mark today. Yay! I’m still loving it.
However, the learning a new company and new gig has me somewhat, well quite exhausted by the end of the day. When the kids go to sleep, I’m ready to call it a day, which is why you haven’t seen a post from me in a bit. It also means that the development work that I had started on the iOS port of KnitCounter is once again on hold. I’m still plodding through the books, but not writing anything yet. Soon. Be patient grasshopper.
I am knitting though! And I have lots to show progress-wise since my last posting. Right before leaving the last job, I needed a bus project. Enter another pair of basic socks. This is Cherry Tree Hill Supersock that I got from Deb when we went to visit her towards the end of October.
I had even made some decent progress before ending that job. I vaguely recall finishing the first sock and then the knitting sat and sat in my bag untouched. I’ve been reading on the train/path (yes shorter commute!) and had other portable projects steal this one’s thunder.
Having finished the boy’s DriveThru, it was time to make the girl one. Since she kvetched that the last one made from 220 was itchy, it also meant a trip to the yarn store for something “softer” for my princess. She picked ack-rylic. Decent ack-rylic, but still ack-rylic all the same. It was Patons Canadiana at least, and not something terrible. Glad I took her to a real yarn store and not a big-box. Goodness only knows what she’d pick there! Anyway, here’s her finished DriveThru:
Drive Thru
- Size: 10
- Yarn: Patons Canadiana
- Needles: US7 & 8
- Started: November 12 2011
- Completed: December 4 2011
The kid is happy. And mommy is happy that the kid wish list is now complete! I can go back to knitting for me 🙂
I have a couple more that are finished in name only. One is waiting on a picture of the finished item:
The yarn is some Jade Sapphire 2ply Cashmere lace weight that I tried to knit a number of items out of but the original color just made me ill working with it. It was a clown-barf inspired bright pinks and greens. Don’t know what I was thinking when I bought it but it was cashmere in the 50% bin at the yarn store. Leann was awesome enough to overdye it and make it useable and gorgeous! It is now a finished cowl that I’ve been wearing daily since the weather got cold. Thanks Leann!
The other is waiting for a trip to the washing machine to felt. I’ll give the project deets when all is done.
It will end life as a felted hat for Alexander’s teacher.
Finally, I just need to show this! It made me smile when I saw the request to follow my twitter feed…
So say we all!
Craft on 🙂
