Works in Progress

Since I have pretty much a four-day weekend (no classes on Thursdays and Fridays, and work didn't need me this week), I figured I'd sit down and see what all I have on the needles that needed finishing; basically my current works in progress.

My List:

• Three finished socks that need partners.
• Bumle Bee socks (first one on the needles, halfway to the heel).
• 2 out of 24 Lizard Ridge blankets finished, the third is 1/4 done.
• The Very Harlot Poncho (my third one, the first I made for myself and have worn so often it's looking very tattered, and the second was for my mom).
• Make pockets for my finished felted messenger bag, and find a suitable strap.
• 1 Fetching (4 rows into it).
• 2 Fuzzy Feet (the first is halfway finished).
• The Lace Leaf Shawl.
• Daisy's Bumble Bee sweater.

Obviously I'm not one of those knitters who can work on only one project till it's finished. I have to have many different options.

Lizard Ridge #1

I finished one square, and am done with 3 out of 4 repeats on my second square. I really like the way the colors are coming out, although I am slightly dissappointed that on square one, the really bright colors didn't show up till the very end, and by that point I was almost finished and they didn't take up much of the square. But I will be using my leftover bits of yarn to make other squares, since one square takes less than one skein, so they will show up somewhere in the blanket.

Some of these colors are beasts to photograph. The blue is more teal than it shows up here, and the purple more...purple, not as navy as it looks here.

More Noro

I've started my first Lizard Ridge square, but I'm going to wait until I finish it and block it before posting a picture, it doesn't look like much after only one repeat of the pattern. I did buy another skein of Noro for it, which brings me up to 4. I need to cool it until my next pay-day though, I had originally planned on only buying 2 skeins per paycheck. I just got a little over-excited.

The skein I bought today; I made a super cheap light box to try out, to see if I like it before paying a couple more bucks for supplies for a home-made one. I think I like the way the pictures look better, I just need to get the lighting placement down.

When I get the supplies to make a lightbox, it will have a less obvious 'glued down printer paper' look about it. But these are the three colors I have waiting for my blanket, the other is on the needles.

Booga Bag

I finished it! I'm so excited I'm done and ready to use it tomorrow. Right now it's drying, but it should be fine by the time I leave for class tomorrow.

Before felting, with a DVD case that would have been for shrinkage reference, but I forgot to put the case in the felted picture. The colors are truest here, but the green is a little more subtle than it is in the picture.

After felting. The color here is so off, the wall next to the door is actually a really pretty tropical blue, but it looks like putty here. I'm not sure what I did, but I think I changed the settings on my camera.

Noro pt. 2

I'm in love. I have been knitting less than one day with Noro, and I'm addicted. I've been searching around for a pattern that will show off the yarn, but not be something I have to wear against my skin (as gorgeous as that yarn is, it is so scratchy). I've decided on Lizard Ridge from Knitty:

(picture is from the Knitty website)

I want to do each square in a different colorway of Kureyon, to end up with a patchwork type blanket like above. I figure if I buy one or two skeins each time I get paid, the price won't seem so overwhelming (the yarn all together will cost around $190-$200).

Noro

A Noro virgin no more! I went to Renaissance Yarns and picked up three skeins of Noro Kureyon in color 159 for a Booga Bag. I have finished the bottom and picked up the stitches for the sides. It just seems a little small so far; but the colors are gorgeous. I'll get a picture of the bag when I'm further along, right now it doesn't look like much. But here is the yarn I'm using:

A bumble pug in the making

I am going to Seattle's Pugapalooza this May, and will be entering Daisy, one of my pugs, into the custom-made costume contest. I'm knitting her a bee-striped sweater, and will fashion wings and feelers. I'm using Casey's Coat from Stitch & Bitch Nation, and Simply Soft yarn (she has some skin issues we are trying to get cleared up, so I want something that will be soft and not itchy, as well as easily washable). I don't have a picture of the sweater (I have about 2.5 inches of the color done), but here is my Daisy who will be modeling it:

And the whole group, so no one feels left out: