Procrastination!

I'm so bad about not procrastinating. Today I managed to spend lots of time on Ravelry, Facebook, and cooking when I really should have been working on my presentation. Well now it's all done and pretty and on time so as long as that happened, it's all good.

Not all that time on Ravelry was wasted however! I managed to find (and buy!) a set of used Knit Picks Options nickel plated interchangeable needles with lots of extras that I've been secretly coveting for some time now. They're going to be in the mail tomorrow so that means happy sweater time for me soon!

As far as what I've actually accomplished as far as knitting goes since my last post...well I've began working on that hat for Michelle, it's looking very pretty and I finally got the Italian Tubular Cast-On to look nice, and work has begun on my future mother-in-law's scarf. I looove the yarn that I'm using for it too. It's Elann's Peruvian Baby Silk, an alpaca and silk blend (mostly alpaca), and it's definitely the thinnest yarn I've ever used-fingering weight. It's sooo soft, I can't stop petting it! My only qualm with it is that there seems to be some alpaca hairs that didn't want to get twisted into the yarn with the rest of them. I figure I'll just knit the thing up anyway and maybe pull out a couple of them when the thing's done. As long as it doesn't shed all over her clothes I think it'll be ok.

Pictures to come soon! I promise I won't be so horrible about posting them as I usually am! In fact maybe I'll take some pictures now...

I'm taking this blog in a new direction

Well, now that my class is long over, I think I'm going to use this blog to write about my knitting/whatever else comes to mind. Mostly knitting though.

It's been a very productive summer of knitting. I finished:

Dancing Crane Stole
$5 in Paris
DNA Cable Scarf (the color's closer to the first picture, the second picture is to show the cable to some extent)



A crocheted cloche
An entrelac scarf
Luna Lovegood Scarf
My first skein of yarn

Projects that are 90% done:

Itsybitsy Bag (needs blocking and seaming)
Those fingerless gloves I put on the side awhile ago
My second skein of yarn

This week I started:

Hermione <3's Ron hat
Flutter Scarf

Yes I'm obsessed. And it seems that I'm obsessed with gear from the Harry Potter movies. Well I'm attributing that to the fact that movies tend to have all the good fashion.

All I need now are interchangeable circular needles and a new top whorl drop spindle because I don't think I can stomach another skein on the CD one I have right now.

More pictures to come. Unless of course this is getting gifted and that person has my blog code. Then pictures after they receive said gift.