Good Morning, Good Morning - Sleep is Good!

Hello there - I'll bet you thought I lapsed into a caffeine coma!  Things are going well at the old SB (we have a transfer from Alabama who is ... you'll never guess.......












a knitter!!! :)))))))) MNFC is really fun, peppy and likes to knit complicated items (and...is willing to test knit :)  What a great day!!!

Back to the title of this entry...I have had 2 nights of great sleep in a row with happy hands - yippee!  I finally found the right combination of  wrist braces and tightness and actually woke up feeling refreshed both yesterday morning and today! (and yesterday was at 3:45) I hope this keeps going - I really had no idea I was sleeping THAT badly!

Finished Slanting Gretel Tee and she's blocking (Class at Only Ewe in March)

Gotta Go!

Lots of Snow in Atlanta :)

4 inches and it is staying cold today so we are staying put :) I am committing to researching 3 questions for MKI (Master Knitting Level I) and then I will be working on Spellbound take 2:)  I may need to force myself into a little bit of housework too :(  Hope to be able to head on over to OE tomorrow but I don't know how the roads will be!

Hopefully this will tide you over...

I was going to blog first thing this morning but was disciplined and therefore started working on the Master Knitter program finishing (or so I thought!)  I spent ALL day labelling my swatches and (of course reknitting some of them.  These are the poor lonely souls that don't get to go on the big adventure!

 

These are a few with the tags all attached in the appropriate corner! (The labels have my info on one side and detailed references for the techniques used on the other)

I also got my template set up for answering the questions and got a bit of a start on actually answering some of them...it's not the answering that is difficult ..it's the referencing how you came to the answers!!!  I have always hated footnotes and this is one giant footnote!  Then ... as I am reading through the questions, I notice one little reference to a report!!!  I know I saw this before but had conveniently forgotten!  I have to write 2 pages (no more than 14 pt) on fiber care - arghhhhhh  Guess I am not completing the package today (but I did get all 16 swatches completely done :))

Made some progress on take 2 of Spellbound.  I am knitting up a different colorway in the yarn quality (100% Superwash Merino - YUMMY!!!) that will be included in the kits for stitches.  Bella is getting in on the action! (notice the yarn that somehow got into her mouth!)

I initially had some doubts about the bright blue color being in the mix but I like it now :)

This yarn is incredibly soft!!!  I LOVE working with it!  Thanks KnitWitch :)

The total yardage for the shawl is 1116 BUT and this is a big one - P.L.E.A.S.E. (please please) make sure you have plenty of extra if using a substitute - yarn has a funny (or not so) way of behaving sometimes.   Also, FYI everyone, I will be republishing this pattern in about a week with a few little tweaks to improve it along with lots of yardage info about the Celestial Bounce yarn I am using now.

Last but not least - here's another sweater I have been working on - hope to do a class in March  (this is the back blocking - I took the picture a while ago - the whole things almost done :)

OK - this is really last - here's The Every Way Wrap...

Ok - now you have something to read (and look at until I blog again! :)

Wow - Schedule Craziness!

I have no idea what day it is let alone what time :)  Starbucks is fun but scheduling changes are throwing me for a loop...  I have finished Scotch & Soda but need to take out the brioche rib at the bottom as it is flapping in the wind!  Otherwise I am very pleased - DHJ is just hoping to be able to wear it this winter! :)  I also finished Sausalito - came out a little large but very cute!  I think cotton yarn can be a bit tricky - not much give so it doesn't block well if you need to embiggen (as the Yarn Harlot says:) and heavy so it can get bigger all by itself!  I am about halfway done with the Every Way Wrap - Very fun and a beautiful pattern - I can't wait to see if the "Every way " part of it works :)   Of course, with all these "finishings", I started one new project "Mountain Shades" and have "Slanting Gretel Tee" from Interweave (#2 in the class series) waiting anxiously in the wings.

Oh...almost forgot...knitting is done for Master Knitter I - I just have to do the written part - shouldn't take too long once I get off the procrastination train!!!:)