Mmmmonday!

I just ate a really sticky cinnamon roll with a lovely cup of ginger tea, I feel fabulous. :) And so, a happy post! (but no pictures, my camera has gone into hiding, dammit!)

Things are going to start getting busy(busier) around here for me as I kick off my five-week learn to knit class with the school board on Wednesday night. Store classes are still going strong, with next month being SOCKTOBERFEST! (Yeah, it's cheesy. Tough!) I even got a compliment from our district manager recently on how well the knitting classes / yarn sales have been lately. Yay me! Seriously thinking about launching a class schedule / student help site for my class people, but I want to make sure I've got the time to update it before I get it out in the world. In the meantime they can email me, or phone when I'm home, it's all good!

I have been knitting, and even finished some stuff. The Rosewood socks are done, but I can't post a picture because one of the pair is hanging in my Socktoberfest display at the store. The 2nd of the Wedgewood socks is nearly done also, just need to do the toe decreases and Kitchener it off.

Got the back and front of my "silk" sweater done and shoulders joined, and I picked up for the first sleeve but it's supposed to have 79 picked up stitches and I only had 51. Oops. Knit bravely on until I could actually see if the thing would go around my upper arm - no dice. Rrrip! Thinking about picking up the 51 and then doing a whack of increases on the first row to get the number right... either it will work brilliantly or look like crap and I'll rip it out again. Either way I'm going to try it because I really don't fancy redoing the back and front to make the armholes deeper... they're deep enough when there are no sleeves attached so stands to reason they should be correct with sleeves - we shall see. It's in timeout until next weekend.

What else? Ah yes, started knitting up the lovely handspun that Kraftie sent me for SP10 - it's deliciously sproingy and the colours are striping up in nice muted tones. I'm making it into a simple triangle shawl on 6mm needles, which is a loose but not floppy gauge with this yarn. Going more for warmth than size - a shawl'ette, I guess. May be gifted, may be kept, I haven't decided yet. Still lots of UFOs in the bin, working slowly through the pile. I'm trying to reduce stress (who isn't right?) so I'm not pressuring myself about WIPs and finishing anymore. They won't go bad.

Well, I must go prep my student packages for Wednesday and get samples and things together... so excited for this class, I get these nice folks for five whole weeks!

Have a lovely rest of the week!