Its been a long, hot summer...

... and I've been busy sitting in my air-conditioned sun room knitting away.

 First a little something for Halloween... do you see the skulls? The pattern is Toxic socks by Chamille Chang. Both socks are at the gusset and coming along nicely.

I knit up some Aran Bed Socks for my mother-in-law's Christmas present out of some yummy Dream in Color....and finally knit a Ball-Band dish cloth out of Mason Dixon Knitting. I even finished the Sunshower Clapotis... which was my oldest UFO. I played around with the idea of using it as a gift, but lets face it. It is so mine!

I was excited to find Dragonfly fiber Djinni sock yarn in the color ways of Norbert and Maggie May. My dad's name is Norbert so he is getting Spey Valley socks for Christmas... one is half done. My mom's nick name was Maggie for the longest time so she is getting a Meandering Vines scarf out of the Maggie May for Christmas. It really was fate.

Christmas in July

I've officially started my Christmas knitting. My adorable niece is getting these super colorful socks. I let her raid the stash for her choice of sock yarn. She picked the Knit Picks Rainbow Felici. I decided on some purple Malabrigo for the back drop and designed some color work just for her. I'm rather liking these socks!

Aiden and I went to see Transformers Dark of the Moon this afternoon. I knit a whole leg of my Aunts cotton sock. It was a "super fun" movie to quote Aiden. I was quite entertained myself.... and it was a long movie with a lot of vanilla sock knitting.
I found some cool space invader socks at Knitty.com. The pattern is called bmp. I will be knitting two pairs of these for Christmas... one for Sam and one for Aiden. Neither reads the blog, besides they know I'm planning to knit them, so its not a surprise. I also found a traditional Norwegian sweater with space invader motive. No way that will be knit for this year... but some time for sure. Sam loved it!

Goodbye Facebook Games

I have been wasting entirely too much time with those fun little Facebook games. Instead of knitting or exercising I'm in front of the computer farming or whatever. I decided tonight that the games need to go. Along with the games went any "friends" who I just knew through the games. Now I can focus on the folks I actually know and spend more time being productive doing things I love like knitting ... and things I need to do... like getting off my butt and exercising!

 

Birdies fly the coup... er nest.

June is Birthday month!!

Happy Birthday to lots of my favorite people this month! First of all to my wonderful husband and adorable son...

 To my wonderful sister-in-law...

 And Happy Birthday to my wonderful brother... I can't believe he took a bite out of the cake!

Blue bird eggs and finish-it-up-itis

 

I've been neglecting my pansies last few days and so they needed to be watered pretty badly. Yesterday afternoon I filled up the pitcher I use to water the plants and headed outside. To my surprise I found a pretty little nest in my planter of pansies. I was so tickled! I watered around the nest to make sure I wouldn't disturb it and took a picture of the pretty little blue eggs. Guess I need to be sure to keep the pansies watered to they can hide the nest instead of laying droopy all around it!

Over the past month I have had a serious case of finish-it-up-itis. I've managed to finish a gorgeous pair of socks, a cowl, a Booga bag and am planning to finish my linen stitch scarf today. I've also freed the needles off a couple of projects that just were not going to happen and organized my stash. My EZ green sweater got ripped back as far as it could be ripped since some of the steeks had been cut and was then felted and cut up into squares for coasters. The funny pieces are making great cat toys for Marvin. He loves alpaca!

It's been a week.

It's been a week. It's been a not so good week. My sister and brother are both sick and I think I've had sympathy pain for them. I'm sure my brother will be fine. I'm praying my sister will be. Her situation is tough and I hope she comes to realize how strong she really is and gets through it. I plan to give my sister the gift of knitting. It is good therapy. I hope knitting works for her as well as it does for me. Carpe Lanam.