Socks away!

I finished the Swirl socks for Middle.  Making the correction to the first sock took no time at all, and I gave them their bath last night.  I don't think she's wearing them today, but she likes them a bunch and I am sure they'll go in rotation soon.  They fit me as well, so I can steal them sometimes.

With the socks done, I've reverted to working on the Sunwalker shawl.  I stopped by the post office and they let me use their scale to measure 1.5 oz of yarn, which should be about 200 yards.  I need to use less than that, but I figure it's safer to have a little extra.  I've finished the first textured block and now am on the lace portion, so I'll put the stripe in soon.  There are three blocks of 24 rows, so I'm trying to decide between the first block and the second.  Here's my little ball of yarn, and the remaining skein:

I did some work on Middle's blanket as well while we were watching Valerian and the City of 1,000 Planets.  A decent movie, and I got four or five rows in?  They're rather long now.  The shawl is getting big too.  I think next will be a pair of socks for Jeff, and maybe a quick sweater for Smallest.  This is the plan, the Uncomplicated sweater, with a pocket made with the pompom yarn.  Pompoms at the collar, cuffs, and bottom as well.  Should be cute!

Looking forward to Easter this weekend.  We're getting our bad weather now, so the weekend is supposed to be nice.

Margie

So behind!

Oh my, I didn't realize I hadn't written anything in so long.  Here's a quick update.

Catherine has now moved from Hawaii to Tokyo.  Her travel adventure continues!

Since January, I've been working on the green swirl socks for Middle.  I finished the first, had to re-do the bind off because it was too tight, and then start the second.  I've now almost finished the second, and I ended up making it a little longer than the first, so I'll need to go back and correct the first.  For some reason I didn't "get" the pattern with the first sock, but now it's super easy for me and much more enjoyable to knit.

We went to a ballroom competition in NYC and Jeff and Smallest were kind enough to accompany me to Purl Soho.  I picked up some yarn to make Smallest a sweater, a Threadfollower kit for Smallest, some fabric scraps for Middle, and that might have been it.  It was lovely to be there and pet all the yarn in person.  We got tiny pom-pom yarn to use in the edges of the sweater and to make a pocket.  The one we picked is a different color, but this gives you the idea.

I've been working intermittently on the Sunwalker shawl.  I realized that I wasn't going to have enough yarn, so I've been looking for something that would substitute.  I ended up with something too dark, something too bright blue, and now instead of trying to match it, I got some plain off-white yarn that looks to be about the same thickness and ply, so they should match pretty well.  I'll do a stripe in the lace part and hopefully it won't be awful.  Here's the yarn with the bright and dark.

There hasn't been a lot of TV watching lately, so not much progress on the blanket for Middle.  I think that's about it!  We're driving up to Dallas this weekend for Jeff's younger daughter's 18th birthday, so that means lots of knitting time for me!

Margie