February 2nd, we all know what that means...

I won't make you scroll all the way through it here, so have a link instead.

In honour of The Feast of Brigid, my poem of choice, The Rime of The Ancient Mariner.

Still here

I've spent a lot of my knitting time playing with superfine merino, silk and so on.



It just feels really great to be playing around with some nice woolly wool (it is just some Cascade 220).

Helm -- Error

So someone thankfully point out that in the original pattern I had up that increasing 12 stitches from 98 for the brim does not 120 make. Pattern has now been corrected, you must cast on 108 stitches, not 98.

There should be some knitting in a day or two, just got a few more rounds on this knit...

First FO of 2008! -- Scarflet

Well, this is it, my first completed knit of the year!
To recap:
I mentioned cables,


(and isn't the reverse side fabulous as well?)

and buttons,



and here is the result! (and a big thanks to my human analog model, who seems to have suffered some sever head trauma in a past life.









This scarflet shall soon be on its merry way across the continent to a surprise recipient!

Pattern: Of my own devising
Yarn: One skein Malabrigo, colour 102 - Sealing Wax
Needles: 5.0mm bamboo straights (14"?)
Started: Monday the 14th, January
FInished: Thursday the 17, January

Super quick knit, nice excuse to use mmmmmalabrigo. I hope it gets put to good use in the cold winter climes of the East Coast!

A Lost Sock Is A Very Sad Thing Indeed.

Hello everyone!
It was chilly out today, and I thought of you.



As far as knitting goes, I can show you this,



and this,



and of course, this.




However, I cannot tell you anything about it except for mmmmmmmmalabrigo. It should be done in a couple of days, provided I can rustle up the requisite cute buttons (I guess I can tell you that it uses buttons. most likely two of them).

durrr

I am trying not to become a once-a-week blogger, but the truth is, I have no fodder. The only piece of knitting I have right now is barely moving, and I am contemplating scrapping it (and I feel rotten because it was a request/Christmas gift for my father). I know my knitting mojo will come back in time, but currently I am feeling rather fried. I have been keeping up with my goal of drawing something every day (nothing spectacular, I certainly don't fancy myself a drawing kind of person, but I figure, how else will I improve?)

I am going to cruise Ravelry and hope that something jumps out at me. (I've got lots of stuff I would like to knit for other people... tempted to take requests, just to get moving again)

Late much?

Normally I hate (absolutely hate) when people ask 'so what was your favourite birthday/Christmas/etc... gift?' (yeah, this post is a little late, so what?) Anyway, this year I am proud and happy to announce it. My favourites were the only two gifts that I expressly asked for: a piece of artwork from my mother and my younger brother. For various reasons these mean a whole heckuva lot to me.

And no knitting lately, soon though, I hope.

(the first is my mother's, the second is from my brother)