All work and no knitting makes Sara a dull girl.

Pictures, pictures and pictures!

I've been working on a super secret project for the past few days... no pictures to show you of that (because it's super secret!), but one of the yarns I have fallen in love with.





Elann Highland Silk. Yum times 100. I've never used it before, but working with it is pure happiness... and the price can't be beat. I kind of wish I had discovered it before I bought all of the Highland Wool for my Ribby Cardi. Yes, they are different guages, but darn it, think of how pretty this yarn would be to wear!

Back in September I bought this





gorgeous angora blend yarn at the Commonground Fair and had made it into a dropped stitch scarf. It just didn't work for me, and it sat in a ziploc bag until I finally tackled unwraveling it last week. I'm thinking possibly a small lacy purse, but I am really up for suggestions. I don't have a huge amount, and I just can't see using it as a trim on something (since the yarn is just too beautiful to cut into pieces!).

Hooray! I'm almost finished with my Clapotis!







I had originally thought about alternating hanks of yarn to prevent so much pooling, but once I got started I realized that with this yarn, I *like* the pooling. I think it looks like someone has taken a paint brush and splattered paint all over it. This is one of the simplest patterns to do, but unlike the one I made for my mom which took only a week to complete, this one has been on the needles for months and months. It has become my work training project... so I only work on it for a few hours once a month while I am helping conduct the training for our agents. The director makes jokes about how well the agents understand the training by how much I get done in a day- if I accomplish quite a few rows, the agents understood things and didn't ask me a lot of questions. If I don't get much done, chances are good that the agents didn't understand what my boss was trying to tell them. Either way, I'm getting a little done. It also doesn't help that I chose to do 18 patterns repeats of the straight section instead of 12.

A FO!




I knitted this up with some Simply Soft on the plane ride from Portland, ME to Washington DC last month. The major change to the pattern for me was to only cast on 80 stitches. It's not the warmest thing (it *is* crappy acrylic), but it fits really nice and I like being able to keep my hair up and still have my ears covered. Especially considering how cold it is lately!

Wait...

What is that...





My gosh... it looks like a pile of green knitted yarn puke!

And there it is trying to crawl up Seth's recliner!





This can only mean one thing... I've caught a case of the ugly scarf disease!!




Pretty ugly, eh? Note to self: Don't ever try to knit a potato chip scarf out of acrylic baby yarn... even worse when you put a white border on it. Luckily, my best friend Cass is going to be giving it to her 2 year old daughter for her dress up box... and Ryleigh won't care that it is hideous.

The big question:

So who is going to SPA and what time are you going to be there?

I'm making plans right now to be down there as soon as I can in the morning, but I admit that I probably won't be down there as soon as it opens (I'm thinking probably 10ish is when I will be there). I am also not planning on bringing a lot of money because I know that I could go nuts buying things in there and I just can't let myself do that right now (Seth wouldn't be interested in my reasons why buying a spinning wheel was worth not paying our mortgage payment, I'm sure). But I want to at least catch up with those of you that will be there... maybe we can all do something for lunch? Drop me a comment if you want to meet up!

Interweave preview!

I am so excited for the Spring Interweave Knits from the preview (found here if you haven't yet seen it). The Green Tea Raglan, Bonsai Tunic, Swan Lake Cardigan, and Cable-Down Raglan are already on my must knit list and I haven't even seen the patterns. The downside is that this also means I may have stupidly waited too long to buy a copy of the winter Interweave Knits... I fear that both it and the winter Vogue Knitting are probably already gone from the store shelves. This makes me sad since I haven't missed an issue of either in a long time... I just haven't had the spare cash to get them yet, nor can I get to Barnes and Noble until probably next week at the earliest.

You'd think that by now I would just have the smarts to get a subscription to both of them again (I let them lapse and didn't renew), but having smarts does not seem to be my strong suit lately!

For my birthday earlier in the month (I turned the big 3-0! wahoo!) a friend gave me an amazon giftcard and I bought a copy of Scarf Style. I've been eyeing this book for a long time because I just *love* scarves... I wear one every day during the chilly months and I just can't have enough. Perhaps I should finish Danica on knitty that I started months ago and set aside!

Once upon a time there was this girl that knitted and blogged all about it. And then one day she decided that the world didn't need another boring post about her rather boring knitting, so she decided to take a leave of absence from the knitblog world.

Yesterday she realized how dorky that was since she hasn't stopped knitting, and if it is exciting enough to knit, it must be exciting enough to blog about! And even if the rest of the blogging world has already read a gazillion clapotis related blogs, doggone it, she wants to blog about hers anyway.

So she's back.

It's been about two months... I figure most of my readers have jumped ship, and that is completely understandable. And to be honest, I am not exactly the world's most adventurous knitter/crocheter, so my posts are on the boring side. But I'm ok with that... those few of you that are still around I just love to pieces... and I know that you will still be happy for me even if my knitting isn't the greatest.

I do have a few new things to show in pictures... but haven't yet downloaded them. One is a good FO, one is a FO that went horribly horribly wrong. I can't wait to show you all the bad one- it truly looks like something my grandmother would put on a toilet paper cozy doll... you know, the ones that have the puffy skirt to hide the paper but had the barbie like head and arms? Now picture the skirt as a scarf. Bet you're laughing now!

I missed all of you! Drop me a comment and let me know how you are!