Back, but for how long?...

Spent a good day with my sister today. Whenever she comes home we do, talk and shop knitting. So we did this today.
I have done lots of knitting in the past few weeks, but have not been keeping track. Of hours, of projects, of meters. Did not even photograph a couple of baby blankets before I gifted them. That has something to do with the fact that I lost all photos from a trip to Greece, Poland and Ukraine, but who has time to regret that, hmm? However, one thing I will keep track of - I will NOT knit for people who do not care about me. So I-know-who will not get the baby blanket that I thought would be for her. I feel vindictive about it, because everybody at work has gotten a knitted gift when they had a baby, but also justified. But she had just gone too far. And I have already given it to somebody else.
Today I decided to get rid of some bad mojo and I frogged the Twenty-Year Vest. I will make something else from this lovely yarn, but probably next year. I still need to relax the yarn, as it had been knitted for about six years.
Yesterday I bought ten skeins of Rowan Cocoon and will finaly make a sweater for my husband (who has never recieved a sweater from me), today I bought some lovely Madelintosh because it was a lovely indigo-blue and was called Baltic, and Rowan Magazine Nr 48 with the pattern for Jimm's sweater.

I knit

8467 meters this year.

I went shopping...

but I won't tell you how much money I spent.

Where I Have Been.

In August I went to a boot camp in British Columbia. It was phenomenal. I hiked every day in breathtaking scenery, I exercised after dinner every day, I had yoga at 6:30 every morning, I ate 1200 calories every day and I was never hungry, I got a massage almost every day, and I lost 10lbs. Actually, I am told that I lost 11.1 lbs of fat and gained 2 lb of muscle.

I took three genetics articles to work on and three knitting projects and I never took my coputer out of its case (it lived under my bed for two weeks!) and I managed to take my Two-Tone Vest only once and had to put it down - I was just too tired!

It was totally worth it.

Naked Knitting for a Good Cause.

You have to admire that!

Lynne Barr - I Started a New Group

I am just going through Lynne's new book and I have already started the Two-Tone Vest. I just love the simplicity of her design, combined with the unexpected twist.

Her reversible knits make me seriously wonder about how her brain works, just the same way that I wondered with her Knitting New Scarves book. The ideas for the scarves! The 3D designs!

Come join the group and let's all just rave about her!

Got Buttons!

The buttons from Lantern Moon finally arrived. They are beautiful, lovely turquoise colour, made of coconut shell. I sewed them on and they looked lovely with the Summer Tweed.






Then I put on the sweater and the collar still does not lie flat. I will need to knit a large wedge into the back so that it lies flat on the shoulders. The pattern just did not work out for me. I think it is becasue I used the Summer Tweed and not the Donegal Tweed. Will have to cut the middle and use short rows to flatten it out. I really am not looking forward to it.