Minnesota Weather is Ridiculous

The wind chill has left us with weather anywhere between 35 and 45 degrees below zero these past couple of weeks. While that makes for awful, awful, awful going outside weather, it makes for beautiful knitting weather!!!! So, recently, I have started "Twig", for my youngest daughter, to help her get through these cold months of winter!

It has a gorgeous fur insert for added warmth. I can't wait to see it completed. I am hoping to have it done this week! Hope everyone is having tons of knitting fun!

Nothing says winter like knitting something warm and cozy for someone you love. I have an afghan going for my oldest son, but I also have this handy dandy (definitely) more portable project going on as well. The love of my life is the outdoorsy type, who enjoys hunting and fishing, especially ice fishing. So, I'm making him a nice wool hat to keep him warm during his outings. Given the amount of cabling required, I sure do hope he likes it!

Oh Look Who Got Engaged While She Was Away

That's right! ME!!!!! I got engaged last October and I couldn't be happier. I found the perfect guy for me and now we're planning a June wedding and getting our new house settled. WHEW!!! Busy busy and happy happy.

Now that life in the new place is starting to find it's rhythm, I find that I finally have time to knit again. Now the problem is (and isn't it always) I have too many projects on the needles. There's an afghan for my son, hat for my fiancee, scarf for one step daughter, mittens for another and two tops for Halloween for a friend..... Oh, and a baby blanket. EEEEEEK! I will start sharing my progress again and try to wade through some of what needs to get finished. Life is good :)

Forever

Wow! I was updating my other blog today when I realized that it has been approximately forever since I have updated this one! My intention was to begin to blog from various and assorted mobile devices. Turns out that this is not a good plan because those devices either do not like me or Blogger. I have not determined which of these reasons it is yet. Either way, I find that I am unable to update as much as I would like as I am more on the go than at home near my computer. This also, unfortunately, applies to my knitting. I have not been able to knit nearly as much as I would like either. I am in the process, currently, of finishing up a Vine and Lace Prayer Scarf for a friend. Then, I would like to finish my other North Star Mitten and my Son's afghan. Then, who knows. I am almost done with the class I am in and then, hopefully, I will have more time to knit. I find I am doing it more and more as I wait for my daughter at her various cheerleading and gymnastics activities. It is a good way to be productive as I wait. So, I leave you with a picture of one (almost) finished North Star Mitten (missing a thumb) and the hope to have more pictures to post soon.

What Kind of Yarn Are You?

I am "Mercerized Cotton. You are always very crisp and neat. You are very playful and are happiest while outdoors in the sunshine. You are sometimes accused of splitting hairs, but in the end people find you pretty easy to live with."

Must Be Spring

Well, the weather must be getting nicer because it has come to my attention that I have been neglecting my blogs. Between enjoying the sun and outdoors with my family and going back to school, I just don't seem to have as much time as I used to.

All that aside, I have missed blogging.

Not too much has been happening on the knitting side of things with me. I worked a little more on my Son's afghan and completed all but the thumb on my Northstar Mittens. All has been cast aside though for an ADORABLE hat for my Daughter from KnitWhits, Flora I believe it's called. Looks just like a flower. C U T E I have finished two of the four "petal" layers. I'll cast on the third layer tonight and, hopefully, will be ready for the "stem" by next weekend. I can't wait to see it completed.

Okay, off to make something for dinner and knit a little before bed.

It's good to be back.

(Oh, if you're on Ravelry and would like to add me as a friend, my username is MagikalMom)

Well, Dang

Every time I think I'm just about finished with my two color mitten, I realize I wasn't paying enough attention and have to rip back. I hate that!!!! lol

The first time, I was doing little happy dances because I was FINALLY to the decrease portion of my day, when I realized that somewhere along the way, I jumped the track and confused the colors so that the side seam stopped being blue and turned white and looked very odd.

So, I ripped back and began again. No biggie. I did it once already, right? How had could it be the second time.

Second time was a charm. Had it all knit up. Everything was where it is supposed to be. YAY!

Now for the decrease. Did the decreases. I was finally at the last two rows. Suddenly it dawned on me that I had four extra stitches. I seriously toyed with the idea of not caring, BUT, if you've spent that much time on something, it seems silly to let it get FUBAR'd in the last two rows, no?

So, I ripped back AGAIN!

Then, I laid it down on the table until I no longer felt like kicking it across the room.

Unfortunately, now I have a cold or flu type thing that makes me feel like something is kicking ME across the room. So, the decreases will just have to wait.

Maybe tomorrow.