Is there a lazy-faced smiley?

Don't really feel like blogging. Don't know why :P So today I'm just giving some (random) updates.

Knitting:
Procrastinating on starting the second sock.

Started a cloche instead to use up some mohair and match the Pink Aura Scarf. It is going very easily; I just hope I have enough yarn.

Also, since cloches are so easy, I am going to design a cloche after this one is finished. It will be prettier edging-wise, but easy and of course you will get it free ;)

Art:
Drawing/sketching a book inspired portrait/scene/whatever, it's gonna take a while, so now I will puzzle you with a close-up of the (un-colored) sketch.


Music:
Started Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (the actual original version that stumbled the great players of Beethoven's time, along with me.) It may sound very pretty, but playing it is another story.
Also with close-ups:



And there you go! Updates! Yaaaaaay! :P

That frog better not be nocturnal

Sorry this post got out late. I've just been . . .busy. Wow. That feels strange to say. I am very very very rarely busy. That's why I have a blog ;)

Anywho, my first ever sock is taking forever+two weeks and four hours to finish. I swear the foot shrinks when I'm not looking. I have been measuring and knitting and measuring and knitting some more, and it seemed like time was in slow motion while I was knitting for seven inches.

And finally I have reached the toe decreases.
And then I will have those for another freaking two inches.

I cannot even imagine how bad my Second Sock Syndrome will be. First Sock Finishing Syndrome has pretty much eaten all of my brain, along with my sanity.
Can socks eat you? Can they? Really? Are you sure? Positive? So that means I am not even here typing this. I am being digested.

Head over heels

Lookee here, I turned a heel!

While reading through the instructions, my first thoughts were something like Ohcrapohcrapohcrap this looks hard!
Then I turned the heel, and I was like, Well that was a lot of nail-biting over nothing!

Right now I'm onto the foot decreases, which are taking forever because you have to decrease from 82 stitches to 64 stitches over something like twenty rounds. Tiny needles+many stitches=frustration

Please ignore the garishly colored pajamas in the background. It was late and I was knitting while watching the new season of Trading Spaces. Garishly colored pajamas are acceptable in those kind of settings ;)

Too much love to fit into one post~Part 2

And now the knitty part of my weekend comes in!

Monday
I visited Yarns Unlimited!

It is the greatest place ever.
Well, maybe not ever.
But it is still really cool ;)

After like spending half an hour nearly swooning from yarn lust, I started shopping. I got another skein of Steadfast Fibers Marvelous Mohair, because I didn't think my first skein was enough for the Gossamer Shell Lace scarf (from One-Skein Wonders) that I want to make.

And I also picked up two skeins of Koigu Painter's Palette Premium Merino (man that's a mouthful—of gob-smacking gorgeous color nonetheless :P)

For this!

It is the beginning of the Spiral Eyelet Socks. My first socks :D
The colors are amazing and variegate like a rainbow, with a little brown stripe every here and there, looking like a little rain cloud amid all the glorious rainbow-ness.
Rainbow+clouds+socks=April Showers Socks

Also, while my grandma may not be much of a knitter (yet), she does have a stash of yarn that she's used over the years for doll hair. And she graciously let me keep these two.



Oh how I love my grandma!