I got quite a bit done on the Neckdown Pullover last night and today.

As I said before, I have decided to knit the 42″ size. However, I was a little concerned that the raglan “seams” seemed to be short, and I was getting more than a little worried that I was going to have to rip it back again and start the 46″ size.
I put in a safety line just above the part where you seperate for the sleeves, figuring that I could just keep increasing for a few more rows if I had to. I then persevered until I got to this point (just under the underarms), and tried it on. I am happy to say that my fears were for nought, and all appears to be going swimmingly. I am now up to the part where i just knit and knit around and around, for 20 inches or so. Boredom is already setting in. Maybe it’ll be a crop top 😉

Another FO!!

DH’s socks in DK weight yarn. Nice and cozy – I thought about not handing them over, but I’d already told him they were his, damn it 😉
I bought it as a kit from an Australian eBay seller. I believe that the yarn has some mohair in it.
I have begun my Knitting Pure and Simple Neckdown Pullover in Plymouth Cottrica. I’m actually quite pleased with the way the yarn looks when knitted up. However, I cast on for the 46″ size, knit a ball and a half, then realised that I had lost weight and really only needed the 42″ size. Yay me!
So I have recast on today, and have knitted one ball again.
My beef for today? Comment spam. Hey, if any of you actually want links to texas hold ’em, cheap phentermine, viagra, cheating housewives and the like, let me know and I’ll save the comments for you. Does anyone really go to any of those sites, or are the spammers just having fun watching us spend half the day with MT-Blacklist?

I finally bit the bullet today and inventoried (in a haphazard fashion) the stash. Even I am in awe. I picked up the needles again in roughly August of last year. At that time, I said that I would not stash yarn. I would only buy yarn for each project as I started it.
Not counting sock yarn, I have enough yarn for 27 planned projects. Most big, some small. I also have enough yarn for 25 or so pairs of socks. There are many, many balls of unallocated yarn. This tiny little house contains somewhere in the vicinity of 300 balls of yarn. Actually that is a lie. Emily is developing a healthy stash herself. I am so proud 😉 (And I didn’t count it!)
That figure doesn’t count partial skeins or leftovers. Yes, I said 300. No wonder I can’t afford my freakin’ holiday. It took me only a year to accumulate it. It also doesn’t count the Elann order from yesterday.
My name is Donna and I am a Yarnoholic. Much as it pains me to say it, I am on a yarn diet. I am not going to buy any more yarn. I am not. Not.
Please send gifts of yarn, I’m not allowed to buy any 😉

I am weak. I succumbed.

That’s what my Ribby Cardi will be made of. I need another project like I need a hole in the head, but there you have it.
Top Secret Christmas Project number one has been completed tonight. The next one is now on the needles. Sssh 🙂

Not much knitting going on in these parts.
It was disgustingly hot again yesterday, and while today was cooler, it was a busy day with housework, shopping and the like.
We were out tonight at another of my niece’s First Holy Communion which was nice. Emily is at a slumber party – although I seriously doubt that there is much slumbering going on 🙂
As it has been too hot to knit of late, I did work on this.

I handquilted the ballerina and the edges and details, and did the ruffles and finishing by machine. I’m donating it to the Dance School for a raffle to raise money for the end of year trophies. I did the same last year, and the girls all want one. Including my daughter. Who I am ashamed to admit is still waiting. I’ll do it, I swear. As soon as I have some of that free time I hear people talking about!
And I am in the process of telling myself that I do not need to buy enough Highland Wool from Elann to make a Ribby Cardi. I do not. I have enough projects. I have enough yarn. I do not have time or space for any more. I do not need to make a Ribby Cardi.