Just cast on

Twelve little stitches. That's all you need to do. Just put aside the devices, leave the laptop in its bag and cast on those twelve little stitches. Begin again.

Yarn BonBon

So, in theory, I'm on a yarn diet. Mostly to save some funds, and partly because my goal this year was to work on finishing items in my UFO baskets. But sometimes, a yarn will just call to you, and if you don't answer the call, you'll end up binging. So, I give you my yarn equivalent of the chocolate bonbon: All for the Love of Yarn's Opulence in Love Affair.

At OAK for first of 3 flights today. At least I'm upgraded for 2 of the 3.

Comforts of home

Road tripping to and from Chicago this weekend, and I noticed that I was surround by Malabrigo. Best road trip ever.






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I have plans

Welcome, 2011!

I have plans for you.

Tangle Mittens Two Ways

Tangle Mittens Two Ways
Yarn: Malabrigo Aquarella Paysandu
Notions: stitch markers, waste yarn, row counter
Size: medium
Gauage:
Needles: 11 DPN
Date to Finish: NA
Date Started: 18 Nov 10
Date finished: 20 Nov 10

Notes:

Haunted House bag

This is souvenir yarn from Grand Junction. I bought the pattern and yarn at Tangle there.

First mitt took about two hours.

The yarn is very soft.

Sent from my iPod

Not only does the power go out again just after I reset the clocks, but I didn't get a chance to make coffee.

A Visitor

Shannon, my first Traveling Monster visitor, at work.

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@pl

MonsterLeverage Party

The MonsterLeverage gang gathered to watch the season premiere with me

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Looking forward to BurnNotice tonight

Oooo Bad Day at Black Rock is on TNT. I lost my shoe!

Pretty Yarn in a Pretty Tree

Spring has sprung into full bloom here in the upper MidWest, bringing with it a craving for new yarn. Now, I am, strictly speaking, on a yarn diet. But that doesn't count for yarn to make gifts. Right?

It started innocently enough . . . .


Plena


Sotobosque

But Darn Knit Anyway had new colors, and I spent the night wishing I had a couple more of them.


Floral


SM Gold

You can see my dilemma, I'm sure.

Now, to get knitting on those gifts.




(All yarn is Malabrigo Worsted Merino.)

Showing coffee how much I love it

Three Musketeers Coffee Mitts (Rav link) by Sarah Nopp
It took one skein of Noro Silk Garden to make all three of these and I use them all the time. I'm making a few to show the morning Starbucks crew how they're appreciated, too.

Happy Holidays!

OrnamentXmas
Originally uploaded by gloamingorchid

Thumb Turkey

ThumbTurkey
Originally uploaded by gloamingorchid

Ms. Sarahlou over at http://www.skeinsandbeans.com/ challenged us to post a thumb turkey, so I am.

Micro's Day Out

Inspired by Squeemore Monkey's adventures*, Micro snuck out to partake in the family's low key Christmas celebration.

Imagine my surprise when I found him hiding in my mom's unfinished Popover mitten having sneaked in with the knitting.


It was a cold day, so at least he managed to keep warm.

Micro then proceeded to try and save the loaf of gluten-free bread mom and I were making for dinner


It was a complete failure, sadly. It didn't rise enough and didn't bake all the way through. Which made me rather sad, actually.

He then tried to help me out by reading the Popover pattern to me while I tried to finish them for Mom before her trip to Chicago to visit the grandparents.



Even though the trip was delayed, I did finish them on Dec 26. Yay me!


I'm making a pair for me, as soon as I'm done with all my Christmas knitting. (Four more projects to go . . .)

Getting bored watching the knitting, Micro went off to do some socializing.


They look all buddy-buddy there. He wouldn't tell me what they talked about, though.

Finally, Micro wanted a drink of wasail, but couldn't quite get to it.



Happy New Year, everyone!

Hope

PatrioticPiddly
Originally uploaded by gloamingorchid

I brought some knitting along when I voted first thing this morning. The line moved so fast, though, that I didn't have the time to even open it.

I love my cats, but . . .

This



is what happens when you let the cat use your yarn bag as a kitty bed.

And it leads to lots of this: