Merry Christmas!

It was a good morning - lots of beautiful gifts. I feel very fortunate to have such wonderful family and friends.

Merry Christmas everyone!

swing swing

Finally done with this sweater - the cables felt like they took forever! I'm really happy with it though - even the cap sleeves which at first I was a little skeptical about...Details on ravelry!

winter solstice

It's winter solstice and while it's cold, we didn't get slammed with the winter storm that hit the east coast last weekend. Nevertheless, the holidays are in the air - Right now I'm baking pork chops with apple stuffing and making butternut squash soup. Cinnamon and cloves hang in the air as does pine from the Christmas tree - gosh I love this time of the year.

fo's!

Sweater that I finished in July
Yarn: Brooks Farm
Pattern: Top Down Cardi Recipe



Yarn: Malabrigo
Pattern: Cowl - my own pattern for me!

stash enhancement

wips

Swing Swing





Textured Shawl Recipe (#2)




Xo Vest (this has been at 95% for ages! I just need to finish up the collar and can't bring myself to do it!)

favorite reads this year

Celestial asked about my favorite reads for the year - so far I've enjoyed Disquiet by Julia Leigh and House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubas. I need to reread Disquiet; there's a lot packed into that small book. House of Sand and Fog is brilliant yet very sad - it's amazing how things quickly unfold in the book and how lives can change in an instant.

reading

I've been reading instead of knitting - do you think my knitting will forgive me?

I'm catching up on that initial book list I created in January that I have been sadly neglecting.

Here are the latest reads:

> House of Sand and Fog - Andre Dubas
> Testimony - Anita Shreve
> Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald

knitting along...

Between unpacking and buying things for the new house, I've been able to do a little knitting here and there. I just finished up the Turn A Square hat from Jarod Flood. I made the hat out of some newly acquired stash from a place called Knitty City in NYC. I also started on a new sweater called Swing, Swing. I've frogged quite a bit so far, as the pattern is a little vague. The parts that are done look pretty :) I'll post photos for all of this in the coming week so check back! Sorry I've been a bad blogger lately, but more content will be coming soon. I promise! :)

i'm back

I have been moving, unpacking and settling into the new home! Oh, and also trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up! That's another story. In the meantime, I did manage to get a bit of knitting done. I went back to my old standby - the Child's Rainbow Scarf from Last Minute Knitted Gifts. I love this scarf and have made about 5 of them, but never one for myself. So, I went to Great Yarns in Raleigh, picked up some luxurious Malabrigo and knitted myself a scarf! It was fun and totally mindless knitting :)