Knitting around, knit knit knit knit

I know it seems like all I do is eat and complain about work (which, actually...I guess is mostly accurate). But occasionally, I do other things too, like knit! So since I'm going to be posting about nothing but cookies for the next few posts, I thought I'd shake things up a little and talk about something non-edible for a change.


This is my Brambles beret that I finished over that ridiculous Snowtober weekend. Of course, since then I don't think we've had a single day when it's been cold enough to wear this. Er, not that I'm complaining. I don't mind this unseasonably mild weather!


Another recently finished project, Kristi Schueler's Gentleman's Socks. These are for me, though, so these are Gentlewoman's Socks. I looooooove this pattern. I may knit Py a pair in a more man-friendly color. Also, do you know what I learned? It is really hard to take a picture of your own feet. Or maybe that's just me...(also hard to take a picture of myself wearing a hat, hence the er, hat model.)

Anyway, that's probably going to be all the FOs for a while, since my current projects are a tunic knit in fingering gauge yarn on size 3 needles (Cascade Heritage Silk, oh god do I love this yarn) and a cardigan knit in sock yarn on size 4 needles. There is a whole lot of stockinette in my foreseeable future...which is cool because I still have a lot of episodes of True Blood to catch up on. But this will all have to wait until after I finish baking cookies for Christmas...see you on Dec. 23rd, yarn!

Crafty: Skull Hat!

Remember that work-in-progress I posted a week or two ago?


Tadaaaaaaaaa!! It's done! And here it is, being modelled by Quatchi, one of the Vancouver Olympics mascots. (The jury is out on whether the actual recipient wants his photo posted, but pssst, if you click through that photo to my Flickr stream, you can see it anyway....shhhhhhh.)


So, where've I been these past few days? Yup, you guessed it--Vancouver! And I had a great time and came back with discounted Olympic swag. Well, I did manage to just restrain myself to these two. But aren't they cute? And now I must run to work, so more on Vancouver later!

It's not just baking and eating in this joint

Just a quick post before I head to work--this is what I'm currently working on when I'm not baking or eating (a rare occurrence, I admit). It's the Skull Isle hat from Son of Stitch n Bitch! Woot! I love the way it's coming out and man, GGH's Merino Soft feels soooo nice. I think I'm about to run out of black though so I guess I'll have to stop by the yarn store (oh, the hardship) and pick up another ball. I can't remember the last time I knit with such tiny needles but it's looking good, so I can't complain!

Have two other hats in progress as a surprise (well actually one of them just needs a pom pom attached). Hopefully will have finished photos of them on their recipients soon!