A good weekend of knitting...

Nothing like a weekend of lots o'knitting to motivate a blog update. Well, that and Tara saying, "hey, there's not much on your blog lately!" Hi Tara - good to see you this afternoon. And Justine and Ginger too, if you're reading this. And hi also to the Cyberccino ladies from Friday night! What the heck - hi everyone in blogland!

So, time for some visual content, right? Hang on, I'll go take some pictures... ok. Here it is in all its glory - or shame, depending on your viewpoint. All my current WIPs, in no particular order:

1. Chemo cap, in "Eden" bamboo yarn, for the Yarn Forward chemo cap drive/contest. I love the cheerfulness of the variegated yarn and the hot pink band sets it off well. This is close to done but I need to get DPNs in the right size to do the crown decreases, which I totally forgot to do when I was at the store today, so... maybe later in the week.






2. Moose scarf. This is from a dishcloth pattern that I thought would be fun knitted into a scarf as a repeating motif. I haven't finished the first repeat yet but I like the look of it so far. The yarn is suffolk wool from Freshisle Fibers, nice stuff.









3. Socks for Mom - also the "Justsocks" KAL. This is sock 1 of 2, done on 2 circs (first time with this technique and I like it so far. Just turned the heel on this one. These are supposed to be for Mother's Day but I can only knit so fast -- hopefully will get at least this one finished with an IOU for the mate. These are in Jawoll cotton.






4. Socks for me! This picture goes a little neon-y, but the colours are purple, blue and green. 2nd sock at the heel, need to finish soon so I can (hopefully!) wear them for the 1/2 marathon which is in three weeks... oh crap. I am SO not ready for a half! Ah well, I'll do my best. At least the socks will be cute. :) Jawoll superwash.








5. Triangle shawl, also for me. Finally dug out the Fleece Artist "curlylocks" that I bought last year and started this up, and it's so pretty! I'm loving this and expect to wear it a LOT this summer. Nice cool water colours. Yum.









6. Triangle shawl, for Peter's Mom. Mother's Day is next week. This is a quick knit, in LB Homespun, so should be able to make that deadline. Spring-y type colours.










7. Father's sweater! Yes, it's still in progress but finally progress is being made. Here is the back, the right-front panel (with buttons), and the start of the left-front panel (with buttonHOLES, which are a royal pain in the patoot but an integral part of the cardigan process.) This WILL be done for Father's day.



































8. Last but not least, an actual Finished Object - yes, another triangle shawl, this one for Mom, also in LB Homespun, which keeps her warm at the computer. See, it's on the computer chair waiting for her.

FO's without pictures: N8an's slippers and Teresa's shawl. Gifted without being shot first (if you know what I mean!)

So as you can see, I have been busy with lots of knitting, but seem to have "start-itis" and not doing so well at finishing. But now you can all bug me and say, 'Hey, are those things done yet? Where are the FO pictures, huh?'. It might work.