Knit, knit, knit... I have a blog? Really?... knit, knit.

Well, nothing to do but get back in the saddle again and start posting! Not a lot of pictures with this update, sadly, as many of my projects have been knit and dropped off for professional-type photography already. But I'll try to snag some images of them in the next few days.

That wee brown crescent blossomed into a full sweater with patterned sleeves! An olive hoodie was knit from the top down, hood and sleeves knit by the talented Barbara Dunphy, and I then hastily knit down the rest of the body and the pockets with a little sorta-cabled pattern. An absolutely gorgeous, in my opinion, gray scarf was knitted out of a luscious new yarn called Sheffield so quickly that I barely even got a good look at it. And now I'm in for the home stretch of an afghan out of Rainbow that was rather unexpectedly put into my court.

I go on vacation for a few days on the 9th, so the goal is to try to finish it before then so I can spend my time off on some selfish knitting.

Here is the task before me:
A lap blanket, made in mitred squares knit in long strips. You can see me half-way through a square at the beginning of a strip in the upper right corner there. Each square takes 7-10 minutes depending on how limber my fingers are feeling and how distracted my brain's feeling. There are 20 squares per strip. I have about 4 strips to go. 800 minutes of pure, continuous knitting. 13 hours, 20 minutes. And since I'm doing customer service for the next two days at work, that has to be 13 hours, 20 minutes outside of 9:30-5:30. Not a complaint, mind you! Just... a challenge! Kathy's graciously extended the deadline for me to be after I get back from vacation next Monday, so I do have the vacation time to fall back on. But let's see what these fingers can do before 2 days are out!

It's times like this that I thank the internet gods for old TV shows and MST3Ks on Youtube and for Project Gutenburg. Right now I'm currently plowing through The Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling as I knit (it's given away for free all over the internet, by his design) and watching episodes of Connections with James Burke - remember that old show? It's still awesome. And I've also got the first 3 seasons of Homicide:Life on the Street to keep me company. So enough with the typing! Back to the knitting! Hi-ho, rosewood needles!