Wooly pully - modeled!

Finished the helmet liner yesterday - I was worried about the gauge but I think it'll work:
Good for both 3 year olds-
and 39-year olds!
Ready to go.

KnitPicks delivers!

A box of yarn from KnitPicks came this week. Happy Days! Here's my Ravenclaw/Hogwarts swap sock yarn:

Eek! Now I am starting to panic - these colours are not at all what I wanted - and yes I know, I did order them myself and the colours are as described...I thought the variegated yarn would be more blue/brown. Instead it's blue/violet...off to the lys this weekend I guess (darn ;) )

I also got 10 balls of this: Palette in Rainforest Heather

Which is going to be the Printed Silk Cardigan from the current Interweave Knits. That's the plan anyway...

After I opened my lovely KnitPicks box I was inspired so I went along to the Sip n' Knit at Borders. Deb and Lyn had also got yarn in the mail and were similarly stoked. This was posted near the cash registers - now we're official!

I love my knitting group. If you live anywhere within a 50 mile radius, come join.

While there I volunteered to make a wooly pully - helmet liner for the troops. Cascade very generously donated 10 balls of Cascade 220 to our group for this project. Here's my progress:

Purple cardi is still on the go of course. Inching my way up one front. I got to the decreasing part and called it a night at Border's.

I do find it hard to concentrate on knitting/crocheting just one thing at a time. Here's my Noro Transitions scarf I made last weekend:

I like it...but it may get frogged. I don't like the way the ends are very small bands of colour compared to the rest of it. And I have come to dislike the alpaca bits a lot. Too hairy and fuzzy. Maybe I'll make this into a striped vest along with that creamy coloured aran I got in Ireland? Still looking for just the right pattern.

And here's what happens when Mommy is so busy knitting that DS's bedtime sneaks up:

Fell asleep on the kitchen floor, playing with his Lightening McQueen. Ahh.

Knitting Poetry

I do like to write, as I said. So I think I'll take this challenge from Knitting Daily. Tortured examples (max. length is 50 words) to follow. Don't laugh too hard.

I ordered 2 of these (poetry knitting magnets) from the link above. One for my Hogwarts swap and one for me.
I mean - is there a fridge-owning knitter in the world that wouldn't want this?

In other writing news - I am stalled at 13 reviews in the Amazon competition. Seeing as these are mostly from friends I have a 5-star average - which is good - but some people have 70-80 reviews! Must be a full-time job recruiting that many reviewers. Guess I am too busy working/mothering/knitting.
And I kind of expected the story to speak for itself and generate its own reviews. Hah!

purple cardi and other knitting loveliness

Still working on the purple cardi, of course. The colour is quite something...I hope it doesn't become one of those things I always bypass in the wardrobe because it's too bright. Better finish it first then worry about such things I suppose. So here I am - back done and making my way up one front panel.

Here's the babysitter's birthday present: I got the pattern, by Mia Zamora-Johnson here on Ravelry - she crocheted up quickly, and so cute! I used up my Debbie Bliss Cashmerino that I bought for Fetching and other scraps of sock yarn and baby yarn. Just love it.

And on my way home from another stint in West Virginia, I had to stop off all All About Yarn and see what was going on there. Ran into Karen from Sip n Knit (Hi Karen!)

And I found their Noro stash! Ever since Crazy Aunt Purl raved about Noro Transitions I've wanted to get my hands on some. And they had it on sale, in a pinky colour (#7).

As you can see, I had to start knitting immediately. P r e t t y...

Phew! OK Knitpicks it's up to you...

Finally got the sock swap sorted out, and found out my swapee is a Ravenclaw...so I ordered some blue and light brown sock yarn from Knitpicks, hopefully that'll come close to the blue & bronze House colours. I tried to stay away from variegated yarn in the hope that maybe for once I'll knit a patterned sock with a visible pattern.

My purple cardi is coming along. Yesterday I did 30 rows or so in Borders in a bonus holiday Monday Sip n Knit session, then I went home to concentrate on the armhole decreases. So far so good...I think.

I've also been working on something supercute (according to me anyway) for the babysitter, who turns 16 this weekend. Unfortunately, as her age (and competence) advances, so does her social life. May have to start looking further afield, the thought of which almost makes me want to stay in till DS is a teenager.

That's right, no pictures, again. DH took my camera on a business trip. He has to take pictures inside a -20°C freezer. I told him if he comes back without that camera, don't bother coming back (unless he brings yarn as peace offering).