just kidding – unless you’re gon’ do it.

I’m slowly knitting away at the work I’m doing for P-, and getting close to being done!

This is off the needles, although all the finishing – sewing down the ends and adding fringe – is still on the go, but I’m very excited about it. I’ve also started on the second piece I need to get done, and it is flying off the needles like nothing.

I started this yesterday (it’s a hat – the Lucky 7 Hat, to be exact) and I’m already close to the crown. I think there’s something about cables that just makes me knit faster.

Song of the Entry: Jenny Owen Young – Hot in Herre

our cheeks are nice and rosy and -

Oh man, it has not been that long since I posted. Oops.

So anyway, after that last entry full of good intentions and plans for Christmas knitting and resolve to work on my sweater, I sat down with my friend D- for coffee. And D- is a really swell guy, but sometimes his head gets cold, so he said to me: could you knit me a hat?

We have been friends for seven years. I said yes.

(This is the best picture of the hat I have, and it’s no longer mine to to photograph. I have this problem with things I knit for gifts. Anyway, it’s made of Dream in Color Classy, half from stash and half bought fresh. I used Jared Flood‘s Turn A Square pattern.)

Okay, but here is the thing. D- has a roommate, and he is also my friend. We’ll call him, I don’t know, B-. I couldn’t knit something for one without offering to knit something for the other, obviously, so I’m also making a scarf. In the same yarn.

(I’m trying my hardest not to go all Mrs. Weasley and accidentally give them matching winter wear. It’s going well so far.)

dreaming ’bout brand new spaces and brand new faces

I have a bit of a mishmash of things to talk about, today. First of all, this sleeve.

It rose from the ashes of the sweater I started a few weeks ago, which I worked on for a solid eight or nine inches of body before I decided that really, it wasn’t going to look that good on me at all. I was so confident that I didn’t even take a picture – I just gave up, frogged, and drew a whole bunch of sketches. So, now I’m making up a sweater from scratch. (Give or take. I have an EZ book and a couple of tutorials that I’m hoping will guide me.)

I’ve also started a sock. This one is purple,, and really that’s the only exciting thing it’s got going for it. The yarn is (more) Tanis Fiber Arts, and at this point my affection for her yarn is probably starting to seem a little creepy, except that, okay. So, remember all of this wool, the sock yarn I bought that was going to be a pair of stripey socks and maybe an Ulmus?

I was really excited about it, and took it everywhere I went, and knit three-quarters of a pair of lovely striped socks, and then. Uh. Possibly I left it in class in a bag (with my spare Addi and a couple of spare sets of sock needles) and have yet to track it down. Possibly it has disappeared into the ether, forever. I’m still kind of in mourning.

So, when I was at the Creativ Festival a couple of weekends ago, I picked up some more yarn at the Purple Purl booth (a skein of sock yarn and a Fiddlehead Mitten Kit), and I’m making myself a new pair of socks that I definitely, definitely, for suresies won’t lose.

They’re purple.

Song of the Entry: Michael Bernard Fitzgerald – Brand New Spaces (Watch/Listen to the best music video ever.)