There has been so much going on for me for the past week, I cant believe it.  I’ve had my first few days off of work in over 3 months and took full advantage of the ability to sleep in, lay about and knit when and where I want to and take Sisu for a walk on the tidal flats when the tide is out, regardless of the plane schedule.  That was last week and I loved it.  I still love it.

Since I phoned Skeins and found out the good news about my yarns, Nancy sent me a list of the colourways  that she would like to have restocked so while I had to fill in at work on Monday, yesterday, I dyed like a madwoman.  7 colourways, 28 skeins, 8 hours.  Ouch.  But, I caught up on podcasts and while my feet hurt, I loved every moment of the process.  And I ran out of blue dye right at the end so that is perfect for my move situation.  I’m going to restock as soon as I get there with another round of sock blanks and dyes.  I really do love dyeing, especially right now as I am knitting with some!

Since I prefer the DK weight, I dyed for myself a skein of Otter in the DK weight a few weeks ago and once I finished my slippers…

…though they still need to be shorn and get a bottom coating…I started to knitting on socks.  My Otter socks are going to be 3×1 rib socks and I am knitting them on my 3mm Harmony DPN’s.  While I love my Harmony needles and I wouldnt trade them for anything, I cant ever seem to knit without creating ladders when I use DPN’s.  I love using 2 circs or magic looping because I never have ladders but it doesnt matter what I do, I always have ladders with DPN’s and its enough to make me want to pitch them all.

12 more days before my move…I am getting more excited/nervous as the days go by!

No, I didnt spell “dyeing” wrong, thats the one I meant to write. I

I’ve been busy the past 4 days with a project that I love and I hope I can do for a long(ish) time because I really enjoyed doing it…Dyeing yarns.

Last year while fishing I kept taking pictures, trying to catch the beauty of SE Alaska and thinking to myself, “Wow, that would make really pretty yarn colours.” Seriously, that is how much fiber I have on the brain. Anyway, I kept a list and recently decided to take the plunge and buy some dye and blanks and dip my fingers into the dye pots. I painted one of each of my colourways and here they are to show off along with names   ETA: All of the “The …” names are fishing boats in the community.  The Nightingale is mine and J’s and J is out fishing right now on The Alitak!

Clockwise: Top R: Puffin, The Pegge, Brown Bear, The Alitak, Tasha’s X-tra Tuffs, Coho

Clockwise: Top centre: Icy Point, Bald Eagle, Dixon Can, Otter, Inside Passage, King Salmon

L: Waterfalls, R: Glaciers

L to R: Lemesuier Island, The Gold Dust, Survival Suit, Humpies, The Nightingale, The Oceanaire, The Dutch Master

All are more beautiful than the pictures and I would be hard pressed to name the “best” one but I have to say, when I showed BrightonWoman “Puffin” she mentioned a Puffin poem and I, in all my dorkyness, perfected over the roughly 22 years that I have had this poem memorized, said:

There Once Was a Puffin

Oh, there once was a Puffin
Just the shape of a muffin,
And he lived on an island
In the bright blue sea!

He ate little fishes,
That were most delicious,
And he had them for supper
And he had them for tea.

But this poor little Puffin,
He couldn’t play nothin’,
For he hadn’t anybody
To play with at all.

So he sat on his island,
And he cried for awhile, and
He felt very lonely,
And he felt very small.

Then along came the fishes,
And they said, “If you wishes,
You can have us for playmates,
Instead of for tea!”

So they now play together,
In all sorts of weather,
And the Puffin eats pancakes,
Like you and like me.

by Florence Page Jaques

I memorized it in 1st grade for a talent show and forgot some of it then in stage fright and excitement and have always had it since. Thanks Mums.

What do I plan to do with all these yarns? Well, sell them for starters They are DK, Fingering and Feltable worsteds and I already have a special order for sock yarn in King Salmon and Otter from a newbie sock knitter in town and I have 2 local stores who are willing to try and see if they sell (me thinks that the cruise shippers might really enjoy) and 1 not so local store who has also expressed interest AND I have feelers out for one other option.

Iffn you want a skein or two for yourself, let me know…I can dye what you want in the way you want!

Every time I have sat down at the computer for the past week and a bit I couldnt think of what to write about.  I have had so many ideas running through my head that nothing has come out on paper or on the computer and it is a frustrating feeling.  Getting ahead of myself, getting excited about something that mayn’t happen, studying for my class and adding more information to whats already swimming around in there…wow.  It doesnt help that J is gone fishing and that the weather is icky so Sisu and I are pretty much stuck in the house.  Now, thats not entirely true because we do go for at least 3 walkies a day, but it sure feels like its true sometimes!  The good things about being “stuck” in the house are the knitting and the movies!

Movies:  Rent/borrow Stardust.   I got it from the library and I have watched it 3 times already.  Yup, 3.  Its like Princess Bride in and adventure/love story/fantasy sort of way but, of course, its different.  I just love it and will probably own in one day, I just loved it that much.  Robert DeNiro makes this movie fantastic and a must see and Claire Danes, Charlie Cox and Michelle Pfeiffer really grab you from the very start of the film.  The narrator is Ian McKellen, the king is Peter O’Toole and the guard, who has a sadly small role, is the funny and fantastic David Kelly.  I cant rave about this film enough or recommend it higher either.

Knitting:  I am almost done with the left front of my Ribby Cardi and I am still loving it.  I am realising now though that since I am living here in Pelican, getting a zipper that matches and fits right may be a bit difficult.  I will have to call on Grumperinas blog to show me not only HOW to put in the darn thing again but where to get a good zipper!  I put a zipper into my Mariah cardigan but that was a while ago and I need a little refresher!   Darn my not thinking about using buttons instead but really, this is not a button-y sweater at all!

I finished my pair of Simple Cherry Blossom socks and they are perfect.  Both of them.  Except that some how, I have a whole bunch of yarn leftover after making the second.  Dont ask me how the heck this happened, it just did.  I was so careful to count the strands when it was in a skein and continued to count as I wound it into a ball and they looked the same size (I didnt have a scale to weigh them) but I have at least the same amount of leftovers having both done as I did with the first!  One of two things will come from this: 1)I will have to weigh the 2 balls of Pickle before I start knitting them and I will have to be sure to add calf shaping because they will be significantly longer than the cherry blossom pair or 2) I will make 2 pairs of shorter socks.  I’m rooting for #1 but God only knows what happened before and if it will happen again!

Remember me telling you about the Malabrigo in Juneau?  Here is a teaser picture and the rest are on my Flickr.  I cant rave enough about the beauty of these colours, the softness of the wool and just the all around brilliance of this yarn.  Go fondle so when you have the chance and just see if it doesnt jump into your shopping cart!

For a little break from the world of the boardwalk, I decided to take a trip into Juneau.  Well, that and I wanted to take Sisu to the vet, get her up to date on her shots and get spayed.  Please, if you have comments about the cruelty about a spay, ie removing organs and the necessity of all animals to be able to reproduce, keep them to yourself.  I would rather not lose her during whelping because of lack of a vet if something went wrong.  Anyway, here I am and here I may be staying for a bit longer.  There are plenty of crazy people who want to get from Juneau to Pelican and because I fly for free, I get bumped for paying customers (Of course!).  Its just fine by me because it gives me more time to enjoy the view from R and C’s living room, Sisu more time to recover before getting on the plane and, naturally, I can enjoy more time knitting…while watching the Food Network!!  I love the Food Network and I could watch all day long because of the mad varitey of shows that they play.  Its not all recipies but also entertaining, history and challenges with the added tang of different presenters personality.  I swear, if I had cable at home, I would be stuck between Discovery and Food all the time.  My only downside to cable is that they dont have PBS and if I could have those and NBC, ABC, FOX and CBS, TV would be perfect.  I dont need all those other channels.  Heck, if I could have PBS only all the time TV life would be perfect.

I’ve been working on my second sock of the Cherry Blossom socks that you can see in a previous post and they really do go up fast.  I like working in DK/sport because of that and the fact that its just so nice to have thick squishy socks.  I know that some people dont like wearing thick socks because their shoes arnt fit for them.  Me?  I wear welly-like boots nearly all the time and they need all the comfort help that I can give them.  The extra cushion is perfect and, to me, cute socks are like cute panties; only certain people see you in them but you feel special and good all day wearing them!

 Speaking of yarn (and when do I not?), I found some Malibrigo Chunky on sale at the LYS here in Juneau and just fell in love.  It is so pretty and as soon as I get home and can take pictures of it, you can see it too.  I bought 12 skeins of handpain in all different colours and plan on making a blanket.  My plan is to make squares with garter stitch edging and then plain stockingette centres.  I want to alternate K, P, K sides “out” on the first row, then P, K, P on the second, repeating for the 3rd and 4th, so that there is no “wrong” side of the blanket, just alternated.  Pretty smart if you ask me   I cant wait to show you all so you can drool too!!!

This morning I had to do something scary to something that I love.

I cut my knitting.

No, this wasnt the dreaded steeking because you KNOW that I would have gotten much more worked up and had to talk about it more than “Hey, guess what I did this morning!” Nope, I had to lengthen a sock.  I cast on on Monday morning as I was administering a test to a 5th Grader.  You know the drill:  Here is your test book, do NOT open it until I tell you to.  Fill in the bubbles with your #2 pencil and dont make marks outside the circles.  Here are the directions and you have 40/25/55/30 minuets for this section.  You may begin now.  This is a boring job most of the time but when there is only one student taking the test, there is no one he can ‘cheat’ off of, talk to or generally mess about with so there is no real need for me to pay more attention than to the clock counting down the seconds he had left.  The kid is fantastic and the test went so smoothly AND I finished the first sock of the pair….except…This is what I had left from the first half of the skein.    Its Cherry Tree Hill Supersock DK in Cherry Blossom and I am in LOVE.  I am a huge fan of CTH anyway and when I found that Sheri has the DK, I had to try some.  It has all the joy of the perfect twist and colours of the fingering weight but its DK and that makes it all the better for me.  I divided the full skein into 2 equal balls so that I could knit the legs as long as I could.  Anyway, I knit this plain, top down stockinette sock with about 5 rows of 1×1 ribbing at the top.  I made the leg 6″ long before starting the heel and that picture shows just how much yarn I had left over from the first half of the skein.  I went to 6″ because that is what most patterns say that I, as a large, ski-footed woman, should do.  Um, No.  The foot fits perfectly and I dont want to have a pair of baby socks left over from anything!  So I went looking for some help.

There was NO WAY on earth that I was going to frog the whole thing back to the leg and keep going because I still wouldnt know how much further I could go without running short on the toe.  And because I worked this sock top down, I couldnt easily unpick the cast on row and I know better than to run half a stitch short by picking up the cast on edge.  These socks are my test runs before starting on my Pickle socks and I want to use all the yarn possible on those!  So I searched on Ravelry to find out how to lengthen an item.   While I didnt find anything specific about lengthening a sock, I did find a link HERE.  Oh. My. Gosh.  This person is amazing.  Everything I ever wanted to know about the technical side of fixing/adapting knitting was and is here.

So I follow her instructions and did this:

   I went just below my ribbing and snipped a stitch.  And then I had to steady my hands before moving on because, Wow, cutting knitting is a rush.  Not in a good way, in a ‘I’m going to be a sobbing mess if this doesnt work!’ kind of way.  No need to stress though, because it all worked perfectly!  A few stitches into it and I am not only picking up like a pro but I am learning so much about the anatomy of knitting.

  Because I was pulling back one stitch at a time, I could see exactly how the yarn wove through each loop and how each loop connected to each other in different rows and how cool is that!!!  It stopped being scary and started being fun and easy and then  it was over!  I had done it!  There is a separate band of ribbing on the size 0 circs and all 48 stitches on the Harmony DPN’s.  (Which, by the way, I LOVE!)

So last night I knit round and round and now the length is 8.5″ and I think that I have enough yarn to go to 9.5″ and then do a bit more ribbing before grafting the original ribbing back on.  I’m not scared of grafting and after this, I dont think that I will be scared of steeking the Vail sweater when I get to it or ever cutting into my knitting to fix some problem or another.  It wasnt so hard or scary when I think back on it, just not something I would ever do with caffeine in my system!

Whats that neat looking tin, heart patterns and that hint of red the the corner of that picture?  It’s my last Woolgirl Sock Club package!   The yarn is ‘Blush’ by Zen Yarn Garden, the little stitch marker is a sweet heart with a tiny flower by WeeOnes (who makes just amazing stitch markers, you really should go see her Etsy store).  The bag is waterproof, has a large pocket and a zippered outer pocket and the shoulder straps are the drawstrings and I really, really like it!

More knitting later…I want to update you on my Ribby Cardi Sleeves too.  And FYI, I still dont have running water at my place, despite all the warm weather.  Hopefully today though…I always dwell in hope and I pray you do too!

Its been a flying leap,   Sisu Snow swimmin’,    enjoying every moment of it   sock knittin’

past few days.

OK, so that was the post that I WAS going to post a few days ago.  Then the tide came in high and washed away a lot of the snow and then the warmer weather came and with it rain and then that has washed away the majority of the snow.  This is not such a bad thing.  I was feeling very dried out from all the 0 and below weather and my hair was super frizzy too.  The major downside to this break in the weather was the fact that since it finally came above freezing, J turned off the by-pass that had been keeping the water flowing all this time.  And then we froze.  So I have no water.  And no heat, because we ran out of fuel and then in an attempt to un freeze the pipe, J cut into the house line and all the existing water in the house, including that in the heater lines flowed out.  The good thing about that is that we know for sure that the frozen spot isnt at the house!  We knew that though.  The reason that the line froze is that, despite being above freezing in the air, the ground isnt and the cold only goes deeper for a bit when it warms up slightly and J, in an attempt to conserve water, turned it off too soon.  Its really not his fault but it is a bit annoying.  Its a repeat of a year ago for me but as long as the drains dont freeze, I am completely OK with bucket flushing and getting showers at someone elses house.  I got one last night at Brighton Womans house and I am grateful that I did!

On a good-er note, we got a ferry yesterday, got a whole month of mail and boxes and I got a stack of boxes from Full Circle Farms, my organic grocers.  I get a box from them once a week and going without it for these past 3 weeks has been really difficult.  I never knew how much J and I liked to have the fresh veggies until we weren’t getting them.  We are now well stocked and there are even tomatoes that taste like tomatoes!  I’m really excited about mail too because there are my biological samples for my A&P class, colouring book and a few other A&P supplies too, not to mention Netflix movies, regular mail and any catalogs too.  Good thing that I never have to worry about bills cause those come online

Knitting Wise:  Yes, those are my Waterfall socks in the picture above and I love them dearly.  I wish that I could buy a whole bunch more of that colourway in lots of different weights, its just that nice.  I have also been working on my Ribby Cardi and I almost have one sleeve done.  I will have to get on Knit Picks soon and order more of the front and back colourway…because its being discontinued!  Of all the silly things because its so pretty and if they take it off, WotA will only have dark blue colours because they will have gotten rid of the lighter ones!  I know that some new ones will come out but really, this is crazy.

More later, I promise

OK, so only one is here and the rest are on my Flickr site I wanted to post them here but because we are getting to the end of the month, our server slows way down. You have to take a look at the way I am keeping my freshly wound skeins of sock yarn in control…very creative, if I do say so myself!  There are some cute pictures of Sisu and her latest quest to keep J and I safe from the local wildlife and a really nice shot of a Christmas Cactus flower which is now gracing my desktop.

All this pretty sock yarn…which do I knit first?

They are from Spunky Eceletic – Irish Dreams, Duet Sock Yarn – Mod, The Unique Sheep – Spruce Tips, Cherry Tree Hill – Cherry Blossom and CTH – Pickle Juice. The Spunky Eclectic and The Unique Sheep yarns are special dye lots and are part of the Woolgirl Sock Club, which I LOVE the yarns from. The CTH in Pickle Juice is a special colourway that was made specifically for the Loopy Ewe. All are DK or Sport weight and I cant wait to knit them!

On a note about the Woolgirl Sock Club, I love the yarns and special treats that I have gotten from them. As a gift, it was perfect. its been such fun to see what comes every other month and February is the last shipment. That said, after my experience with this club, I would not join one myself (ie: not a gift), though I wouldnt turn away any gift of one! I liked getting a surprise of the different yarns and all are beautiful but it was the getting them that made me feel bad about not having the package before done. I wasnt such a fan of the patterns but that is more because I am boring about the type of patterning that I like on my socks…different kinds of ribbing or simple lace is as far as I go. Either way, I loved the yarns, the service, the community and well, the yarns! I would say this was a fantastic experience but because of my knitting ADD and previous stash of sock yarn, I guess it just want the perfect timing. Maybe next year or so when I am out of sock yarn and need to re-stock I will be ready for the Rockin Sock Club

Though I havent tried Socks that Rock yet, that Raven Series is SO calling to me. I mean really, how can I resist Tlingit and Haida yarns in the medium weight? HELLO, SE Alaska Native Alaskans and J IS Tlingit! I have bought yarn with much less specified pull, remember Cider Moon Glacier in Juneau? How about J. Knits Alaska? Besides, after all those hats that I knit, I still dont have one for myself! This would be one beautiful, DK hat Anyone wanna buy me some STR yarn? Its just 2 skeins!

Have a blessed day!

51 more to go!

In reviewing my knitting year, 2007 was truly fantastic for me. I made 9 pairs of socks, 5 of which live here, 4 pairs were gifts. There were 2 sweaters, both are loved, worn and admired and both are not quite what I hoped they would be. I had fun with felting and made 3 things (2 pairs of mittens, 1 pair of clogs), all from Fiber Trends. Noro and Swish were my friends as I created and made 10 different Stranded hats. I tried an Interweave Knits pattern for the first time with the Syncopated Cap (Loved it! In Sirdal and Cider Moon – Glacier) and branched out from wool and wool/nylon blends and made 2 Angora Toques (sounds nicer than plain ‘ol “hat”) A grand total of 27 projects. You can see them listed on my “2007 completed” page. I will have pictures eventually but I am missing some final pics…Jinny and P, I need yours and Mum, if you can find a digital, I would love a pic of yours too!

Whats on my list for 2008?

First Off (or rather, On the needles): Chic Knits – Ribby Cardi Using Knit Picks – Wool of the Andes – MC: Cerulean CC: Chocolate
Followed by: Dale of Norway – Vail Using Knit Picks – Telemark – MC: Charcoal CC: Cream CC2: Bayberry CC3: Cobalt

Then: Peace Fleece – Everyday Cardigan (Scroll down)- Peace Fleece DK - Kamchatka Seamoss (A perfect colour for an Alaskan sweater, even if I dont live near the Kamchatka sea!)

Another Peace Fleece sweater, yet to be created/determined using Peace Fleece Worsted – Lenas Meadow

I would also like to make the Colette Pullover from Interweave Knits Winter 07 by Veronik Avery, but I may be a bit overwhelmed with the Vail for the rest of the year so I didnt want to buy too much sweater yarn all at once!

Can you sense a theme here? I also have a plan to knit at least 4 pairs of socks. I must knit 4 pairs of socks before I can buy more sock yarn so there is a pressure on me for that! I have 20 skeins of sock yarn in my possession at this very moment but will begin my sock yarn buying fast with 22 because I just had to buy 1 skein of the special CTH DK in the colour Pickle Juice (Its a funny story and I’ll tell you when I start knitting it!) and I have 1 skein left in my Woogirl sock club. One or two of the skeins should go up on Ravelry as a sell but I just love the colours and my yarn so much!

Wish me luck knitting in 2008!

YAY!  Its up!  I do love knitty for both patterns and the articles but this issue really isnt in my top faves because of two things…Fit and function.  The sweaters for adults just dont appeal to me based on fit shown and the functionality of them as sweaters in a Winter issue of anything.  I dont want to cinch my short-sleeved scoop neck sweater, I dont want a lacy little sweater to wear over my black dress, if I had such a thing and I dont have a place to wear a beautifully cabled, bell sleeved I dont know is its a shrug but it looks like one to me or a sweater that flares out like a babydoll dress.  Dont get me wrong, I DO LIKE the patterns and they do have their place and, sadly, thats not on my body or in Pelican, AK.  Its cold here and I have no place to wear anything fancy.  That lacy sweater might have a place in the future but just not now.

HOWEVER…WOW on the sock patterns…all of them.  I will be knitting the pair with the whales tail pattern out of J.Knits Alaska and the kilt hose will be knit soon too but I just may have to buy the yarn for those   The kids sweater is beautiful and will be done soon too, if only to add to my future baby knitted things coffers!

Somehow, for some reason, the most searched term that brought people to my blog was the phrase “Frosted Window” Since I dont remember typing those words together or posting about a frosted window, I will now and satisfy all those searchers! The picture above is one that I took I think in 2005 or 06 and was the main window in my dorm flat. While the entire thing was frosted over, this section here was the part where Jack Frost did all his detailed work. Though I have seen other frosted windows since then, I have never seen one so pretty again.

Why has it been over a week since my last post? Well friends, its because of travelling and shopping and seeing and moving and settling. I went to Sitka with J and Sisu on Thursday, got there Friday morning, 1 am and then went about our days gathering my things from storage to move them to Pelican because there were few things that I held dear in that unit and there was no way I was going to pay $80 a month to keep them there when I have plenty of room here at the house. Sadly, because of the mass departures from Sitka because of the closing of Sheldon Jackson College (my almost place of employment), the second-hand shops there are over whelmed with supply and without new college students to demand, they are not accepting donations. Anywhere. So I had to trash a lot of things that were perfectly good but had no place in an already full home or things that I just didnt need or want anymore. I am very good about sorting and trashing when I move…lots of practice you know. Have no fear though, I donated a good deal to my old place of employ and the students there will like having dishes and tools to make their Ramen with!

J and I shopped for groceries and you would think that we were the only people who ever went to SeaMart and bought a winters worth of groceries. Yes, I know there are 4 full huge carts. Yes, there are only two of us but it needs to last until Christmas at the very least. Oh, its just over $1,000 and we get a tax break for spending that much all at once? Fantastic! I also got to visit with P and talking with him really helped with various things on my mind…it always does and thats the best part of having friends.

Part of my visit too was seeing the opthomologist and hearing that I needed only a slight change in my contacts but holy cow, how do you see out of these glasses? Sisu got a hold of my already 4 years out of date glasses her first night on the boat and chewed on them quite thoroughly. They are scratched on one lens really badly and have 4 definitive bite marks on the other, not to mention that she loved the give on the plastic ear pieces and I had to boil and file one to make it even wearable for the plastic poking into my ear and head! I have very poor uncorrected vision, an understatement really, because without glasses or contacts anything that isnt 6″ in from of my eyes is quite out of focus. Because of this, my glasses, which I have had since I was 5, have always had to be rather thick and heavy and reasonably, so have my frames. Over the years they have gotten much thinner and lighter but I was never able to get the thin wire frames that I have always coveted. Until now. Imagine my surprise when I was talking to the office manager and she said that they could fit any lens into any frame, no matter the prescription. I made her check because it seemed too good to be true and lo! and behold…it was! I have some fantastic glasses on their way, just made a new order of contacts online and gosh am I glad to have a steady job to be able to pay for all this.

The past 2 days have been all about moving stuff and settling back in so I wont bore you with details but gosh does it feel good to have a freezer full and a well stocked pantry shelf.

Knitting wise? Though I took socks with me, I really didnt knit on them at all. We really didnt spend too much time just sitting or waiting anywhere though so I dont feel bad about wasting any time. I do feel badly that my sisters socks are still 2″ away from being done but those are getting worked on just as soon as I stop typing!

I’ve frogged my Waterfall socks that were part of the Woolgirl Sock Club first shipment because the pattern was just not doing it for me. I like me some tall socks and dont mind buying more yarn (ha!) but when a pattern is written for a specific skein and then leaves a good bit of leftover (some people have like tennis ball sized leftovers!)…well, lets just say that I dont like waste or leftover when I do my socks.  I even have no problem making a mis-matched toe but have only had to do that once because I am a very good judge (knock on wood).  Either way, I love, love, love the Miss Babs yarn and the colours make me happy and the yarn is so soft and lovely to work with.

I am lucky enough to have spinner friends and there is a couple who lives off the grid just outside of town who raise sheep!  They have for years and have more roving than they know what to do with and I cant tell you how happy it makes me and how lucky that I feel to know them and them wanting to give me/get rid of some roving.  There will be cookies involved in the exchange…maybe even a pie!  I want to spin enough to make felted slippers and because my spinning right now is at the level of thinner singles, most of the time, I would welcome something to felt away my mistakes!  It will take a while but with all the other projects on the needles and in my head, this is a good thing.

As of today, this is my WIP list:

Re-Knitting Rogue (still frogging and re-knitting)

Hat #1 (Noro and Swish in a stranded pattern of my own)

Hat #2 (LS Fat Bunny, just started because I love the hand to this)

Sisters Socks (2″ from end)

Waterfall somethings (I left the cuff…maybe I’ll make true fingerless gloves or maybe socks again)

PNW Shawl (yes, still.  And I still might give it to someone else to finish!  But I still love it and want to work on it)

Work Socks (in the desk at work, only worked on during slow times at work, gen while waiting for a plane)

Walk in the garden socks (own design, last of 3 for Mum)

What I need to start and finish before December 8th?  At least 5 more Stranded hats, 2 Fat Bunny ones and my Rogue.  There is a craft fair here in town that people come out from Juneau for and I would love to sell my work there, in addition to sending some hats to Mum and Jinny so they can sell them to friends/co-workers for me!  I just need to buckle down and give myself a schedule and all will be good.

That, in fact, is my chore for today; to create a schedule for myself that will let me be the domestic goddess that I want to be, not make me a house elf, have guilt-free knitting time and spin to my hearts desire and still get out and up the mountains with J every chance we get.  Wish me Luck and I promise to post more often, much easier now that I will have a routine for day to day!