Wonderful evening for the obsessed

It’s not that I don’t love my husband, for I do. We’ve been married for nearly 17 years, and he’s just the best. He is my heart’s delight, and it only gets better as we continue this journey through life together.

But occasionally he leaves town and short of accomplishing something around the house (which I do hope to do while he’s gone this time), I thought I would spend an evening doing just what seemed to me like the perfect evening.

 

(I couldn’t squeeze the movie in there, or Keira Knightley in “Pride & Prejudice” would be showing as well.)

Chocolate, wine, and staring at new yarn tonight. Ye Gods I am obsessed!

If you look at the previous post you will see that I have quite enough projects going as it is, so woe is me to begin a new project when I already have so many going.

Sometimes it’s just enough to know a new yarn (or 3) is in my stash. So tonight, just looking!! But I had to show it to you. This wondrous yarn is from Politically Incorrect Yarns. Chris, the creator, is one of the coolest and most creative people I’ve ever encountered. She is nice, funny, beautiful, and look at these yarns! You HAVE to have some! They’re beautiful. The feel of it, the gorgeous colors, and the names are hilarious! From left to right: “One Night Stand,” “Show Me Your T*&s, Morning After Mardi Gras,” and “Man Whore.” There’re others, equally as beautiful. Fly, run, but do not walk. You have to check this out.

Meanwhile, I’m going  back to wine, chocolate, Mr. Darcy, and some pretty sassy new yarn. TGIF!

Scattered!

No one project is interesting me at the moment, so I am working on a bunch of different things. It’s all depending on time available and what I feel like working on. So this post is going to show a lot of different projects going on, and who knows which one will win out????

First up, another turtle! For my nephew, as his sister was the proud recipient of my first turtle.

 

That was all done on a lazy Sunday afternoon, so I felt pretty good about it. Of course I haven’t touched it since then!

Next, some ragg wool socks for He Who Likes Flamingos (better known as my husband):

I’m liking the bigger size yarn. I’ve just finished the leg part and am beginning the heel flap. It’s going pretty well, I just need time to work on them. This is easier on my hands than some of the projects below, so this may be one of the projects that earns my time and devotion!

I also dragged out an old project I had started last summer (I think). Maybe it was 2 summers ago. Oops, it was 3 summers ago. Yikes. It’s an orange sweater, the pattern is in Creative Knitting’s July 2005 issue — the “Tangerine Smoothie” pattern. Really cute. We’re about to go on vacation, and this will be a good airplane project! It’s the Sugar & Cream cotton yarn, and it will make a nice lightweight summer sweater. If I ever finish it!

I’ve also got a couple of other pairs of socks going. Or if not going, at least started. One pair is for a friend. The yarn is from Lisa Souza, hand dyed, it’s called “Berry Poppins!” The yarn I received is more pinky than the photo on her site, but it should still be really cool. It’s a very small thickness yarn (sock weight), though, so my hands can’t take much of knitting with it. My friend may be 80 by the time I finish them, but we’ll see. I think I’m using a size 1 or 2 needle.

The other pair I think will be for me. Ha! We’ll see about that. I am trying some beading with this pair. The yarn is from Jojoland: Melody is the name of it. You can see the beads across the skein.

I’m going to try the Primavera pattern with the Jojoland Melody socks. It was a free pattern. They are also a little tough on my hands (my hands tire easily and get sore with smaller gauge yarn and needles).

That’s all I’ve got going so far! Hopefully I won’t spazz out totally and these will all be finished in a short matter of time. Wish me luck!