I've been terrible at writing in this thing lately...blame work being busy. I've never actually gotten around to setting up my laptop to access this so if work is crazy I don't actually have time to write here. Which is a pity because I've actually been doing a great deal of knitting lately.

Most of it has been a very dull sweater. My first though so I'm suffering the great expanses of stockinette stitch with the theory that if I do something whacked with the fitting process I won't mind so much that it looks terrible, unlike if I'd done some beautiful pattern and had it turn out badly. My first attempts at things often end up having errors in them somewhere so it makes perfect sense to me.

Also on the needles are that damn Adamas shawl that I keep meaning to pick back up and in theory another shawl I need to have done by January but I can't get the hang of the circular cast on (said shawl is knitted from the center out and I keep flubbing the actual getting started part of that) Maybe I'll try again this weekend though it's looking rather busy.

I also cast on for another blanket last night because new projects are always more shiny than the ones that you keep screwing up and want to throw the needles across the room. It's all fuzzy and I'm not sure if I'm loving it or hating it yet. For once I'm actually using the yarn called for in the pattern and questioning their sanity as lace knit with a fuzzy yarn seems moderately pointless. I'm hoping it because more obvious that the designer wasn't smoking funny weeds once I have more than six rows knit.

Oh, speaking of blankets, I finally got a picture of my first attempt at such (long since given away) Rather an appalling amount of mistakes but it was a double wrap garter stitch and it took me almost all the way to the end before I could figure out how to fix it when I made a mistake.
I think this was the very first real project that I bought the yarn for...it's fun to see how far I've come in such a short time.