Knitting

It's difficult to capture the colour of this wool, hemp, and mohair yarn, suffice to say it's gorgeous: The hemp socks are coming along nicely.  The heels and toes are reinforced with beige thread, which muddies the colours.  This photo is part of the un-reinforced foot.

* Knitting morning at my house. * Surprising Rox at knitting morning with a birthday cake. * Starting the hemp socks. * Breaking thirty thousand words on my novel on Saturday. * Missy moving from Florida back to St Louis, and turning up in church this morning. * The water being back on at the house

My month has officially been made.  A copy of "Stitch 'n Bitch Nation" is on its way to me from Debbie Stoller, because one of the knitting tips I sent her is in the book!  I was planning to get the book for the Union Jack sweater,

I'm planning to work on the hemp socks tomorrow as I'm off work.  I'll be using the size 2 dpns, even though it's supposed to be sport weight yarn and I do fingering weight on the size 2s.  I think the yarn

This is the completed Coronet Hat: When the pattern says it will take a skein of yarn, it means it.  I have only a little left.  No progress on the hemp socks, but I'm running at 2000 words a day on my novel.  Once I pass ten thousand,

I finished the Coronet hat last night, after two failed attempts at the decreases.  It looks pretty nifty.  Sometime this week I will start on the hemp blend socks.  Thanks to everyone who voted!  I'll work on the front of the Eternal Sweater next, and after that I&

Back when I started knitting my first sweater it was unthinkable that I have more than one project running at once.  Now I'm more in a "one big project and a couple of small ones" mode.  The top limit is four projects.  Right now I'