Long time gone....

Well, I thought I would be able to update more often when I had my BlackBerry, and then even more so when I got a little NetBook, but to no avail. I have been a complete slacker when it comes to blogging and almost as much with my knitting.

In regards to my knitting, I am still plugging away at my step-mom's Clapotis. It has made considerable progress in the past few months and I feel that shortly I will be able to move on to the next section, so that I can finally get out of the straight rows section. Keep your fingers crossed for me.

The other project that I have currently been dedicating some serious time to is something that I hope I will use quite a bit next winter. I finally broke down and started the "February Lady Sweater". There was much agonizing over the yarn and color and all that other good crap, but I finally settled on an olive green ComfortDK yarn. I really love the "all purpose" color and the yarn is just so squishy that I think it is going to feel fantastic when it is done. So far, I have gotten the yoke completely done and am just waiting on ordering some more stitch markers from KnitPicks so that I can begin the lace work.

I know I could easily do the Gull Lace work without markers, but I just think it will go much faster and easier with the markers in there to keep the headaches and miscounted stitches at bay.

Anyway, I think that is the current projects in the works. Have a few in the back of my mind for some Noro Silk Garden Sock and Rowan Damask that I have recently purchased in the past few months...but that is just gonna have to wait on the back burner, have bigger things to ponder to day with a hot cup of coffee.

Hope to see you soon.....

Fighting the urge....

Alrighty, it is an average Thursday morning here and I am yet again fighting the early on-set of "startitis"....grrrrr!!!! What is a girl to do? Apparently, I have access to the Internet at work (no telling for how long though), and this causes me the dilemma of being able to get to Ravelry during the day, enabling me to look at patterns I want to try and things I want to knit.

I have been thinking about the "February Lady" Sweater for the past 6 months or so. I really do want to knit this and think that it would be a lot of fun and a real challenge to my skills. The first hurdle though is making sure I have enough yarn, which then presents challenge number two....do I have the money to buy more yarn? I Think I have solved both problems with one easy solution....Caron Simply Soft. I really think that this yarn would work great to try this sweater and it would then be washer friendly and if I either, didn't finish the piece (yeah...this is a side effect of startitis) or simply didn't like it in the end (not a likely thing), I would not feel overly guilty that I spent money on yarn and didn't like it. Especially since Walmart is selling Caron Simply Soft pretty cheap right now, since they are trying to get rid of whatever they have left in inventory. Heck, I managed to get 2 skeins of it the other day for a mere $2.88 per skein. Not a bad deal for the penny-pinching yarn addict that I am.

Anyway, I feel better now that I have confessed my desires for all the world and Internet to see....(not that I think all that many people actually read this thing, but hey...)