Done!

I have been working on these for 3 weeks – Ugh! I wish I had more knitting time!  This is the Sleekit Mitts Pattern.

 

 

Very simple lines – I love it!  I wish I could tell you what the yarn is.  It is a skein I had used to start a shawl last year that got shelved and then frogged because I wasn’t loving it and I lost the ball band.  The color is wonderful.  These mitts are pour moi because I have given away every other pair I have ever made and my hands get cold when I knit these days.  At least on the few winter days we have had this year.  Most of the time it feels like spring here and the poor cherry trees are so confused!  I really need to move north so I can have a real winter. 

Many thanks to Julie for being my hand model!

New Year, New Theme

In with the new.  I am hoping that adopting a new theme will get me more inspired to write this year.  I expect I will start out with a bang but then lose my momentum.  I am sadly so predictable.

New project!  This is the yarn:

Unfortunately, I have no idea what it is as I no longer have the skein band.  I had started a rather difficult shawl with it sometime last year and frogged it Sunday to use for these mitts: 

Sleekit Mitts

 

Sage gives the yarn her seal of approval.

Goodbye 2011, here’s to 2012!

Alright so I have not written since my vacation at the end of June.  I have no good excuse for it,  just laziness.  After sitting at a desk in front of a computer all day at work

I find it difficult to spend my time at home doing the same.  Especially when I can spend it knitting!

What brings me here today is that I am actually spending the day cleaning up my home office in order to start 2012 somewhat organized.  We’ll see how long that lasts…

As for resolutions, again, I would like to be more organized and better about documenting my FOs and sticking with no more than 3 projects at a time and finishing before starting new ones.  We’ll see how long that lasts too. 

I stupidly forgot to photograph the one project I made for a Christmas present.  It was a lace scarf for sister-in-law D that I was finishing and blocking at the very last minute so forgot to take a pic.  I didn’t particularly enjoy making it but it turned out pretty and she seemed to love it which is what counts.

Sage wishes you all an excellent new year!

Addison’s Big Mountain Adventure

Addison is on the move again after taking a month off to recover from her Big New England Adventure.

Addison is on her way to the Blue Ridge Mountains and she is really looking forward to getting back to a cooler region. And as it turns out, it is also a wetter region. The morning and early afternoon were quite nice. She drove the parkway making stops to admire the view:

After a big lunch in Asheville, Addison returned to The Red House Inn in Brevard and napped until dinner time waiting for the rain to pass.

Addison’s Last Vacation Days

Addison said goodbye to the Berkshires and hello to Boston

It was suggested to us the best thing to do in Boston was a pub crawl of the Freedom Trail so we followed the trail from the Boston Common

 

First stop, the Beantown Pub where we had the best lobster roll

Next on tap, The Green Dragon for fantastic clam chowdah!

Addison visited the Old North Church and Paul Revere’s home

 

Addison’s Day Out in the Berkshires

Addison spent her morning checking out the grounds at the inn

Followed by a trip to the Shaker Village in Pittfield where she checked out the sheep:

Addison particularly enjoyed her time at The Mount, home of Edith Wharton

And a perfect ending to the day, seeing James Taylor at Osawa Hall at Tanglewood!

Addison says goodbye to MV

And her birthplace.

Addison at Sea

Addison spent the afternoon sailing the Black Dog Tall Ship Alabama with her good friends the Kimseys (seen in the background).

Addison Alpaca goes to see the Gay Head lighthouse

We visited the Island Alpaca Company today and adopted Addison. She had a big day of sightseeing and shopping from Gay Head to Memensha back to Edgartown. More adventures await tomorrow…

G’s Gift

I finally finished the shawl and decided it was not too embarrassing to give to G. 

Clearly did not do a great job of blocking it but then I don’t have a lot of patience for that.  I think it turned out pretty well anyway. 

The pattern is Little Colonnade by Stephen West.  He designs simple but fun shawl patterns – other patterns too but his shawl designs are what I really love.

The yarn is Schaefer Yarns Heather in the color Eleanor Roosevelt:

The actual color is somewhere in between this picture and the pictures of the finished shawl.  I still need to work on my photography skills.  And it would help if I didn’t take pictures with my phone.  I am generally too lazy to get out the big camera and then go through the process of uploading the pictures to my laptop.  So much easier to take pictures on my phone and email them to myself for publishing.