Hemlock Ring Progress

736 knit stitches in an hour. Time for a yoga break :)

Startitis

I recently noticed that each winter I have similar behaviors...shopping for furniture, planning to paint something in the house, and overcommitting to knitting projects.  I spent yesterday afternoon shopping for an end table for my living room & found nothing.  I would really like to paint the bathroom a fresh shade of white so it looks cleaner. I recently cast on for my 3rd knitting project this month.  First is the socks pictured on the left.  I'm actually beyond the heel at this point, but haven't worked on these for a week because I started Brooklyn Tweed's Hemlock Ring Blanket last week.

The photo below (I've been experiencing problems linking my photos from Flickr lately..anyone have any tips?) is Salta & the Hemlock Ring blanket just 3 days after casting on & the result of being home in the evening due to severe winter weather cancelling yoga class.  I've had the yarn for about 3 years & I always plan on starting this in the fall for an xmas gift.  So why now?  I saw that Spincerelyours was planning on starting this project as part of a knit along, I figured that I would join in & be more motivated to finish due to peer pressure.  I couldn't go to the knit group last Sunday due to not returning from snowshoeing in time.  And this week, I just plain forgot.  However, I do plan on spending the afternoon working on the hemlock ring blanket to todays football playoffs. 

Salta & Hemlock Ring

2011 has to be better

2010 was a re-building year...I moved to a new town and have started over.  Yes, I hit the RESTART button on my life.

Not much knitting transpired in 2010.  I'm hopeful that 2011 is better so that I have something to blog about. 

So far I have the usual case of startitis...started a doily for a table top (now hibernating due to the addition of a psycho kitten), started & frogged & re-started my February Lady Sweater, started a pair of socks for a man with size 12 feet!!  I'm trying desperately NOT to start a mobius cowl,  another sweater that I bought yarn for at stitches, a dog bowl placemat (to use up stashed 'trailer trash' acrylic yarn), a sock blankie, a pair of fingerless mitts, and countless other random projects that catch my eye.