Slackers

Well, I am way, way behind in posting.  I have completed many things since last March, so I will try to spread them out over several posts so that there's more excitement.

I think that Catherine will need to post more frequently, as she is about to be off on an adventure!

I am trying to think of things I've worked on this year.  I've been trying to get a sweater to behave to make for MyFriend, who is now MyHusband, but I'm having trouble with the gauge.  I was trying to make it in cotton, as it is hot here in Houston, but I think that's just not going to work.  I'm planning to knit a swatch in the original Shelter yarn and we'll see how that goes.

I had started socks for Middle back in the fall - there was lots of yarn acquired this summer! - and I got halfway through the first sock and she tried it on and declared it too small.  I frogged it, and started over.  I had to pause for Xmas knitting - a cowl for one stepdaughter, a hat for the other stepdaughter, a Peace Project cowl, and slippers for my mother-in-law - so that slowed me down.  I finished the Peace cowl about a week and a half ago, so it's been full steam ahead on the sock since then.  I've just got a couple of rows left on the first one.

Over the summer and into the fall, I knit a blanket for my friend/boss's daughter's new baby.  Here's one of that.  I had the yarn and needed to use it.  The first pattern I tried didn't work well, but I found this pattern at Churchmouse Yarn and Teas and thought it worked pretty well.  This is pre-blocking, which I finally have started to do.  It makes a difference!