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How much wool can you get for under $25?

If it's Black Friday and you have a coupon, this much.

10 skeins of Patons Classic Merino.
Whee!

And check it out, I finally finished Rob's scarf, just in time for his birthday (the one a year after the one I was intending to make it for.)

I got it half way done and it got warm, so I put it away, and got it out again about a month ago.

It had to compete against all the soakers around here so it didn't go very fast, but, I really think it came out nice.



I really do have lots more content to post, but, I haven't had time!

More later :)

Insane knitting

Ever wonder how much knitting you could get done in a week if you REALLY tried?

Apparently, for me, it is this much.

Last Monday, the argyle pants and the grey pants were started, and the blue/green pants were finished, then frogged, then mostly finished.

None of the rest of these existed in any form at all. Cast on to finished in 6 days. And there are 2 more WIPs I started this week.

Damn, I'm tired. I think, I might actually have gotten sick of knitting.

Opinions please?

I'm working on this pair of Small Sheepy Pants (it's Uva Nudos from 100purewool), and I'm not sure I like how it's pooling on the leg.

I like the blended look on the top, more than the swirly stripe on the bottom.
But the real problem is this weird blob of dark purple on the back.

I was asking my husband about it, and thinking of frogging it back to the top of the legs and working with 2 strands to avoid the pooling.

He suggested I ask people first, and pointed out that my instinct was way off on the Noro pants.

So, what do you think?

1000 words

Making up for no pictures in the last post...

This is Branching Out. Made with 2 balls of Alpaca with a Twist. A real bargain for an alpaca scarf at under $14 total.


This is a gift for my mom's birthday, finished and blocked and I am seriously considering keeping it and giving her a book.

Pictures cannot convey how incredibly soft and yummy this is.

Progress continues on the great Sheepy Time Knits inventory project.


Which means the pile of things that need the ends woven in is getting bigger.

These pants are about 6 inches longer than they were when I took this picture.

And there are more than this, but I don't have pictures of it all. There's a pair of purple pants with weird pooling that I might frog some, and there's a sack that's almost done, and there's the beginning of a cool embellishment I'm excited about... And there's the weird clay pants that can't be the same length no matter what I do.

There's a lot of knitting going on around here.

No pictures blog entry

I have been working my ass off but have nothing to show for it.

I'm trying desperately to launch the web site by December 1. There was tons of work behind the scenes, picture taking and content writing... I can tell you all are just waiting with bated breath for the site to launch in full aren't you. It's so exciting, I don't know how you can stand it.

OK, maybe not. But it *is* coming along, and is now largely out of my hands, while I wait for my friend to do a lot of the work for me and I think about what I'm going to knit her to thank her for all her help. (Wrap/shawl, I'm thinking, because she's admired mine...)

The Happy socks are happy again. They were unhappy last week as when I got to the lace pattern on the second sock, it was not matching it's mate, which is just not cool. But now it matches and we're all blissful again.

I re-knit the wonky longies. They still don't match. I'm trying to believe that it's because the yarn was all ramen noodley when I knit it and when I block it they will appear even. Either that, or those pants are going in the Discount bin at the store because I am NOT doing them again.

Branching out is a little more than half way done. My mom's birthday is in 5 days so I'm going to have to work on that hard. Now that I have the lace pattern memorized it goes pretty fast.

I have 6 pants or soakers that are done except for finishing. Today is the first day I've spent at home all week (and today was all about the web site). I'm going to have to take a whole day to finish and embroider to catch up at this point.

Rob's scarf has sat untouched since I got back to the charted portion at the second end. It's just attached to too many balls of yarn for it to be a good portable project any more. I know I can finish it pretty fast if I just sit down and watch the rest of Damages (I've got 4 episodes left, I think)

(Do I have too many WIPs? I'm not even updating you on all of them. I might be out of control...)

Our LYS Mass Ave (which isn't *that* local to me) is opening a sister store in Broad Ripple (which is VERY local to me) YAY! They're having an open house next Thursday so our Knit Night group is going to meet there and then go to Broad Ripple Brew Pub afterward to scare the muggles. Should be a good time.

So maybe not...

OK so the Colts didn't win. But I still say if you put those 2 teams up against each other 4 times they would each win twice. Especially if we had all our players. Yesterday we had several offensive lineman out, which is why they managed to sack Peyton so many times. And Marvin Harrison was out, too.

Anyway, back to the other stuff. Like, you know... knitting.

First, business. There is an updated version of the Sheepy Pants now, it's version 1.3. You can access the list of edits on the STK forums.

If you were waiting on any kind of Sheepy Time license information from me, it's all ready now, and if I haven't sent it to you then please email me again about it.

And for other knitting....

So Tuesday last week I realized that I had to turn this

into a dragon skin wand holder and I had about 24 hours to do it in.

oops.

I managed it, though. I finished at about 11:30 in the morning. Soaked it, and pinned it to a towel and put it in the oven on low to block it faster.

I took about 20 pictures of her, and this is one of the only ones where she isn't blurry. She was a little excited about the impending candy.

She's Tonks, by the way. A minor Harry Potter character. Pretty good, I think. Though hardly anyone knew who she was.

Here are the other 2 for good measure. Jesse and Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story.