I Have a Pair...

of socks off the needles.

I had started this pair over a year ago. The socks were a project that I would work on at my Monday KAL. I haven't been to a Monday KAL for a long time and decided that it was time to finish these. The yarn label has become MIA but I believe that it is Opal yarn that has aloe in it. The pattern is from Fiber Trends. It was a basic sock pattern that I had used in a sock class to learned to knit socks

I also am working on the Vanilla spice cardigan posted on knitty. This was also started over a year ago. The Aran afghan had taken its place. I'm going to try and not have so many WIPs in the future. I find that it is hard to get into the pattern again after so much time has lapsed.

Today I will be going through my bins of yarn in the spare room to find my size 4 harmony needles. I wonder how many other WIPs are lurking there.

I Have Pictures

I finally have photos. This is my family of cats. I have four beautiful babies.

This is Molly. She was found by our neighbors who are not cat people. They called us late one night for our help. Molly was scared and so hungry that she wouldn't run off because the neighbors had put out a dish of tuna for her. She kept running around and around us until she just had to have the food. That is when I grabbed her. The moment I had her in my arms, she never stopped purring. It was like she knew that she was at the end of her journey. Whenever I rescue a stray, I always make an appointment to take them to the vets the next day if possible. Molly was at least 5 pounds under weight, had ticks, and a broken tail. She is now the beauty that you see above. Too bad you cannot see her gorgeous tail in this picture.

Above is Casey and below is Chyna. They were born the same year but different months. They were both born under my stylists shed. Her neighbor took care of all the kitties from the litters until homes were found for all. She gave the momma cat a permanent home. Casey is my most aloof cat. She only wants attention on her terms. Chyna is my skittish one and also the smallest. She barely weighs 5 1/2 pounds. Momma cat was also petite.

And finally, this is my boy Smokey. As you can see he and Molly are buddies. He arrived soon after I took in Molly. I think this was a conspiracy between the two of them. I often find them grooming each other and generally just being together. He is top cat and can be very dominate. He is also the only one that is a lap cat. He knows that he is not to sit on my lap while I'm knitting. He will either be on the arm of the chair or he will be on the foot rest.

NowI've aquainted you with my family.

Where are my.....

knitting needles?

I have too many WIPs at the moment. I'm currently signed up for three knitting classes. I only have one more class on the Great American Aran Afghan. I then have to assemble the remaining eight blocks and attached the border. I will be so glad when this project is done.

The North American Afghan just started in April. This class will continue until the Fall of 2010. I have all but one of the solid colored blocks done and 2 of the multi color squares are done. I will post pictures soon of the completed squares. Denton said he will show me how to get the pictures into my blog. Yeah, I'm a real ditz when it comes to doing anything on my own with a computer. I was a computer operator for thirteen years but that was big main frames not these little PC's.

Then I signed up to do a Faroese shawl. I've been wanting to do one for quite some time and this is the perfect opportunity. This one is a KAL on Wednesday nights at my LYS. To be honest, I just like to get together with ladies my age to knit. I had joined a local knitting group that met on Thursdays at Barnes & Noble, but this group was too young. There was too much talk about babies and such. How can one talk for two hours about the baby not sleeping the night before?

Anyway, getting back to my needles. The size I need is no where to be found. I have the Harmony straight and interchangeables from Knit Picks and I can't find either set of the size I need. I also have the Options set but I would rather not knit with the metal needles for the lacy project. But, I do have around eight pairs of size seven needles. Now how did I accumulate so many of them?

I believe that I should do what Toni does. She took her projects and put each in a seperate bag. Each month she will pick a different project bag to work on. I like this idea very much. I was taking Thursdays as a day to finish projects, but they were only small projects, i.e., weaving in ends, sewing on buttons. I wonder how many bags I will get. That is for another post.

Off to find my needles.