Summer?

Just checking in! I am still chugging along on my Hey Teach sweater. I have the back and both fronts done, and have cast on a sleeve! It is going pretty fast. It is funny how much faster I can knit a sweater for someone else but take a YEAR to make one for myself! Anyone else have that problem???

Today was sunny and like 80 degrees... it was LOVELY. Kind of weird jumping right into summer weather like that though! I know it won't last long, but it was fun to wear flip flops and open the windows for at least today. I think Norah enjoyed hanging around the house pantsless too (in a onesie). We took her on a walk which was great! I can't believe she will be 6 months on tuesday.

Anyway hope everyone else is getting some warm weather too!

FO time!!!

Guess what!

My Bulky IHS is allllllllllll done!


I wore it to work today and I am so glad I had it.... it was like 10 degrees out, brrr!!!


I am pretty happy with it... could have stood to have it a little longer, but I ran out of yarn :)

Also finished is my beautiful pair of fetching, made from dream in color:


Gorgeous! I want to keep them for myself!!! hmm I do have plenty of yarn left...Maybe ill make some more! :D


Hope everyone else survived getting back to work!

Blanket progress

Today I made a lot of progress on my baby blanket! I am almost done with the third skein, woot. It is looking really good and feels soft.



No other progress knitting wise... I did buy Itty Bitty Hats finally, after coveting it for awhile... I love almost all of the hats and plan on making some of them soon, there are a lot of new babies lately. Must be something in the water, as Cynthia has said ;-)

The weather is cooling off... YAY! I love sweatshirt and jeans season. I will probably be wearing nothing but that for awhile lol. I hope the mosquitos die off soon though, they have been crazy bad lately. I went over to my parents the other day, and my dad wanted to show me this cool mushroom that was growing in the grass, and he said "OK, we have to run". I thought he was kidding but the mosquitos really were so bad that we had to jog out to see it and then jog back. Crazy!

Bits

Let's see... what to report?

My awesome new-to-knitting friend (yes, I drug her into the world of knitting) mailed me a beautiful present.... this awesome skein of Patons SWS:

I knit a small swatch of it already and it is GORGEOUS!

I love the subtle color change. I am thinking I can get a cute hat out of this skein... we will see!

Hmm... non-knitting wise, I transplanted my poor jade plant from its tiny starter pot into a "big boy" pot:

Yay how exciting! Now it can ACTUALLY grow. Maybe big! :-) I am sure it is happier already.

In other news, happy 31st anniversary to my parents tomorrow! Not that they read my blog, but I am happy for them. :-)

And the past two days have really reminded me of what Indiana weather is. Rain, sun, rain, sun, rain, sun, rain & sun, sun, rain, rain, rain, sun, sun, rain, rain & sun, sun, rain... LOL like every 10 minutes. While driving I alternated from rolling my windows down and putting on my sunglasses, to rolling them up and turning on my wipers. Hooray for the midwest!

Have a great week everyone!