College Football Knitting

I'm recovering from a pretty nasty bout of food poisoning. So bad that we had to go the ER at 2:30AM on Friday morning. I'm feeling better now and taking it easy this weekend. I canceled all my plans and am buckling down to get some knitting done.

I need to do some finishing stuff. I knit a cute, funky earflap hat 2 weeks ago and it needs something. I was thinking of adding a felt flower to it. I think that would add some nice color to it.

I also need to sew the buttons back on my Sesame. I took them off several months ago because they looked terrible. I couldn't get them sewn on right, but I have some smaller needles now that should fit through the button holes. Now I just have to find the buttons... I also re-blocked the sweater last weekend. It needed a good stretching, the sleeves were just a touch too tight. It fits much better now although I could still use a little more ease in it. I never tried it on with a long sleeved shirt until about a month ago and realized they didn't go well together.

The Peony Buttony sweater is going well. I sort of expected to have it done by now, but life got in the way. I should be able to finish up the body this weekend and then hopefully get the sleeves done over the Thanksgiving break. I am worried about the neckline on it. I think I might have mentioned before that it's rather floppy. I'll figure out what to do with it after it's blocked.

I knit up the Dolores Park Cowl this week for Vince's sister, Julie's birthday present. It was a pretty quick knit and it very cute. I used two strands of Bernat Alpaca held together. It looks nice and is very cozy. I made it a little larger than the one shown. I'm going to block it out this afternoon and we'll get it in the mail for her Monday.

Sorry for the lack of photos, my camera is MIA. I have no idea where it has gone. It's somewhere in the apartment, I just don't know where.

The girl can't help it.

My socks haven't been touched in a few days. I've been concentrating on getting the Minimalist Cardigan done. I'm to the sleeve shaping on the fronts and should be able to get those done and ready to be blocked today or tomorrow. Maybe not today... we have Geeks Who Drink trivia tonight. We're on a hot streak having won last week!! Woo!

I'm working so hard to finish the MC because I want to knit quite a few other things but I am trying to not be a complete slag and actually finish a few BIG things before I start casting on for a million other things.

But I do have a nice little queue waiting - in no particular order...

Summer Tweed Lace Ribbon Scarf. I'm so excited to finally knit the gorgeous Rowan Summer Tweed Lauren got for me so long ago! Have I mentioned how much I am in love with everything Rowan puts out? I love their yarns! I will have to knit up a little swatch to see what size needles I will need. No one on Ravelry has knit this with Summer Tweed yet which really surprises me.

Nob Hill is also on the menu. I need to dig around and figure out what yarn to use. I might just double strand some stuff or look for some bulkier yarn in the stash. I'd really like to do it in colors similar to the ones in the photo, but I think the only bulky yarns I have are bright blue, red and black... We'll have to investigate.

I also have a few hats to knit: an earflap hat for a friend and a floppy hat for a friend's boss's daughter.

And last on the list for now is Alexa. I really need some short sleeved cardigans for the chilly evenings here in Boulder. I have some nice royal blue yarn that I think will look lovely with this. It's Caron One Pound, but I think it will knit up nicely for this. I'm lacking any sort of yarn budget right now so I'm knitting from the stash. It's time to get that thing under control!

Dogs Don't Like Hats

I was trying to take a photo of Bug wearing the cute little earflap hat I knit for my brother, but he wasn't having any of it. All the photos turned out as blue-green/brown blurs.

I'm going to spend some of the day today drinking loads of tea and adding yarn that I took photos of ages ago to my stash on Ravelry. I need to get that taken care of one of these days. I'm very good about adding new yarn, but I'm still playing catch up with all the pre-Ravelry stash.

Part of the urge to get these uploaded is the need to find some yarn to knit a scarf for Mother's Day and it just really helps me knit down the stash when I know what I have. Imagine that!

I just packed all my sweaters away for the summer. I was able to fit most into a large space bag and suck all the air out. They are now living in my trunk until I can get to the storage room. But now I'm thinking about digging a few out and trying this. I really do prefer cardigans to pullovers now. Something about them is just much more comfortable to me.