Friday, October 3, 2008

Here's the view from my knitting chair with some baseball action on the tv. The plastic tackle box on the chair holds all my gadgets like tapestry needles. That Dale of Norway book (#100, long out of print) on the table has the most beautiful snowflake sweater with half of the snowflakes shaded in reverse. Just yesterday I realized there is also a matching mitten pattern so I'm going to start that this weekend in black and white.



I set up my music stand again right under the lamp. I put it at eye level and it is really helpful for complex charts. I'm working on a mitten pattern from the Japanese booklet in front. How did that Chocolove Raspberry Dark Chocolate bar get there on the Dale booklet?



I usually put all my works in progress on the couch during the week. I've tried neater boxes and baskets but they still all end up on the couch when I'm knitting a lot. Oh well - I do hide them in the tv armoire on weekends in case people come over. I have a really high number of UFOs for me right now - 4 - but I plan to do a lot of knitting during the playoffs this month and hope to finish at least 6 projects.



I'm doing my Black Forest Braided Fingerless gloves in red and black alpaca, some thick bulky purple socks in multiple yarns from the basket, the Whistler hat in 6 colors of Elann's Peruvian Highland sport and the Norwegian mittens from the Japanese booklet in Cascade 220. I'm also hoping to finish another Spontaneous Scarf in handspun, the Dale reverse snowflake mittens and a pair of stranded socks from Robyn at Red Bird Knits this month. I guess that makes seven projects planned for this month but fortunately I'm almost done with three of them.