I'm Just Here For The Yarn

bebes!

I made some bonnets and booties for two co-workers.  One was for a first granddaughter, the other for a first daughter.  The sets are from the same pattern in Vogue Knitting On The Go: Baby Knits Two. Check them out in my photo album.

I hope to have photos soon of the Hiawatha stole I'm making.  For now, I shower and go to bed.  I'm exhausted.

shake the booties

Well, the baby sets are done.  I need to block them later, and then I can give them to the recipients on Monday at work.  I'll post pictures when they're blocking.

Lesson learned from this project: Get more sleep.  Lace is harder -- a lot harder -- when you're overtired.

Of course, the overtired part may be why/how I got so sick this week.  I was running a fever for three days or so, and I still have a lot of chest and nasal congestion.  I feel a lot better now, though -- just feel like I have a cold instead of like I'm going to die.  Seriously... it took me three hours on Monday to get up the energy to get out of bed and boil some water for soup.

I'm a lot better now, though.  Gotta get back to that baby sweater; it won't knit itself.

well, let's see how this works out...

I'm not sure why I decided now would be a good time to do a fiber arts blog, but here it is.  I hope I actually use the thing as it's intended; the time spent setting it up will be such a waste if I don't.

Right now I'm working on finishing a set of baby booties for a coworker and another baby sweater for a friend.  I really must get the sweater done; the shower is a week from Saturday.

After that, I'm making quite a complex stole for my sister to wear on her wedding day -- she's getting married in Maine, in November, in a strapless gown.  She'll need something to keep her toasty.  I'm using the Song of Hiawatha Stole pattern from Blackberry Ridge, worked in Jaggerspun Zephyr, three strands held together.  What I'll likely do is Navajo-ply it on my spinning wheel, so I don't have to wind off three balls and hope that they're the same length.  It'll only work, though, if I can set the twist; otherwise it biases.  At least, my swatches have -- I haven't blocked them yet.

Ah, well... I've been sick for nearly a week, and so I must get to bed.  I actually have to work in the morning, at some point.