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Haven't updated around here in awhile. I have a good excuse. I went on vacation. With the family. And it was wonderful. See? Very nice. Only downside (but not really) was there was no internet. So what did we do you ask?

Made a few quilt tops...

more of the cute cabin by the lake

Here's what I did on my summer vacation :P

More socks for my mama

These are from Knitty (my very fave site!)

Pattern (and better pics) are here

aaaand since its a hundred bazillion degrees outside, I started a Christmas quilt.

There's more I need to update, but this is enough for now I think.

I'm off to see Harry Potter, then I'm gonna watch old school Star Trek on dvd... geek night FTW!

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.

Check it out.

Second sock, in progress. Didn't I say something about not knitting socks anymore? Clearly that must have been someone else...

My goal is still to finish and mail them by the end of the weekend. Looks like I'm about half way through the top portion.


Meanwhile, the purple sweater keeps calling my name.

Enough blogging, there's knitting to do!

Darn it

Ta-Da! One finished sock. Sunday to Wednesday. Not to shabby!

Only one problem, on the heel turn, this side ended up with a rather large gap.

so a little darning, and voila - no more gap! And now, time to do it all over again... my goal is to have them done by next Sunday and in the mail on Monday.

Sometimes I impress myself

Look what I did this weekend!

I started this yesterday.

It's Patons' Kroy yarn, and the pattern is based on Basic socks from Lion Brand with the design taken from Knitty's Thuja.

I think the design works really nicely with the striping yarn.

Didn't get much else done this weekend, but hey, its three-quarters of a sock in 24 hrs.

I'm impressed.

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!

Procrastination

Soooooooo

I'm leaving town tomorrow. Going home to see the family. Yay! What's less 'yay' is the packing, cleaning, and laundry that comes with leaving.


Of course all I want to do is work on this...

Its about half done on the binding.

And of course this...

This is Knitty's Ester. I love this so much. Its much darker in real life, almost black. My camera turned everything a funny color tonight :(

My sock is coming along pretty nice. I think I messed up the heel turn. There's way too many stitches. This will require much more brains than I have at this moment. It was going to be my Mom's Mother's Day gift...

Uhh yeah. I know, Christmas colored sock as Mother's Day gift? I made the mate to this a few years back. I didn't love how it turned out, so I forgot all about it. Then my mama found it and has hounded me to make the pair. Cause she's a fiend for cute socks. So better late than never?