Project #1: Birdsfoot Stole
While I didn't take this along as travel knitting, I did wind up adding another 2 repeats to it after we got home last week. Just in case some of you were worried I'd get distracted from this project too much and not get back to it. Not surprisingly (yawn), it looks pretty much as it did a while back. Just longer.
Goal: Two more repeats.
Project #2: Test Pattern for Mim
I think y'all know Mim is working on a knitting pattern book, right? Scroll down on her blog posts to the December 8th one for a preview of several of the gorgeous patterns she'll have in it. I am going to be knitting up one of the patterns for her in handspun, so I need to get cracking on these and focus on them to get them done so she can get final editing wrapped up. That'll be my primary goal over the next week.
This is about an hour's worth of knitting on them. They definitely go quickly! You might recognize the handspun, which I spun up at the end of the fall last year from Zen Yarn Garden's sock-blend roving (75% merino, 25% nylon) specifically for Mim. It's hard to see with the heathering, but there's a pretty little lace band just after the toe increases, which repeats up at the top of the cuff.
Of course, knitting ... and um... closing on the new house later today and getting ready to move. You know. The usual level of insanity around here.
All for now....
