just cause its friday

Since its friday, and I got off work early, I took some pictures of my shiny new hat.

And by "some pictures" -- I mean like a dozen or more... and got 2 semi decent ones.

Yay, it fits!

Check it out. Finished hat. Quick recap on what this project taught me -

one -- I really like color work (I never saw that one coming)

two -- my gage is super tight, will need to go up a size next time. For real, it was everything I could do to get this baby on the plate. Yep, its stretching out on a plate to make it stay that way.

three -- weaving in ends under stranded knitting - so not fun! (pic later when the hat dries)

four -- I am in srs need of a vacation. see pic below for evidence.

I'm a dork. I know...

Aaaaand another quilt done!

This has been hanging around far too long. All I lacked were the prairie points... yeah, not the most fun ever. But its done now, and turned out pretty cute.

Its going to be tie-quilted... so more hand work. I'm kind of on a kick with hand work lately.

Now, back to the Purple sweater... verrrrrry close to finished, any day now.

Woo Hoo!

Finished socks.

Exaclty one week, start to finish.

Cast on this time last Saturday.

Now time to weave in ends, and get them mailed.

So what have I been up to lately?

Finished these.

EEEEE!!! Sorry, but these were my first attempt at socks. And they fit! And are almost the same size (I'm hoping once they are blocked its gonna be okay.)

I told my mom she can't wear Christmas color socks in the summer. She completely ignored me on that one. I'm certain she will have them on as soon as they get mailed to her.

and the Purple thing is coming along... slowly


Each row is so long its taking me about 25 min to get across, one way. Oh well. I still love it.

And the Quilt along...progress. I left last weekend-which put me behind by 3 days. Then I kinda forgot about it- which put me behind another 3 days, OOPS!
So, I had to play some catchup...

Now I think I'm back on track.

So now its time to enjoy a pretty darn good evening.

Jones Soda, Jane Austen movies, and knitting... what could be better!