I’ve nearly finished my second Fluted Bannister sock! Yay!
I’m thinking that instead of starting Butterfly next, I might do a few little things. I’m feeling the need for Finished Objects right now. I’ve done 4 out of 7 repeats on the Flower Basket Shawl, but it’s looking very small. I have plenty of yarn, so I might do 8 or 9 repeats instead.
Hopefully I’ll have a FO to share tomorrow!

I finished Em’s sweater. Well, I finished knitting it. I have yet to block it, seam it and weave in all those bloody ends. Remind me not to do stripes again in a hurry. 😉
I’m sure I’ll do it in the next few days, I just don’t much feel like it at the moment. I’ve been doing a few rows on the Flower Basket Shawl, and working on the Fluted Bannister socks.

After receiving all that beautiful sock yarn the other day, I started feeling a little guilty about the sock yarn stash, and decided I’d better do something about it 🙂
The colour in this picture is way off! The actual colour is much, much brighter 🙂

First off, I have to say Happy Birthday to my dear DH who turned 30 today! 🙂
Yes, he’s my toy boy 😉
But what a day here at Casa Del Random!
I got a gift in the mail from a lovely lady named Janine. Janine and I had a swap early in the year that resulted in me receiving the beautiful Cherry Tree Hill yarn that is in the midst of becoming my Fluted Bannister socks.

Have a look at that! It’s like Santa came early!! 🙂 A lovely card, 2 skeins of Lorna’s Laces in Mixed Berries, 2 skeins of Koigu, 2 Hershey bars and a gorgeous pair of hand dyed socks made on Janines sock knitting machine.
Am I lucky and blessed or what? I’ve been stroking yarn and oohing over the socks all afternoon 🙂 DH’s birthday, and I got the gifts!
My Old Rose Lorna’s Laces for the Breast Cancer Awareness socks also arrived today from Threadbear.

I’m in sock yarn heaven!

Jill posted the other day about blaming the Internet for her stash woes.
I agree 100%. I never even had a stash before I started looking at knitting sites on the internet. And whilst I’ve always been a knitter, the availability of yarn, patterns, magazines and the like in Australia has always been limited. So I would knit something every once in a while when the mood took me, or when the craft store actually got in a pattern I liked.
Then I discovered knitting on the ‘net. I have projects planned for years to come. I have unallocated yarn stuffed into nooks and crannies over the whole house. Without actually checking the stash, I believe I have sock yarn for around 20 pairs of socks, 5 sweaters for me, 3 summer tops for me, 3 sweaters for Em, 2 ponchos, a sweater for DH, several scarves, and god only knows what else.
Does this stop me?
Good God, no!
Elann is tempting me with the Highland wool. I have the pattern for Rogue. I’ve had the pattern for some time. I don’t have the yarn yet. I adore the Violet Heather, the Brook Blue,the Wisteria and the Lotus Blossom. I put the yarn in the cart, I take it out. I repeat this several times a day. I check to make sure they haven’t sold out of the colours I want. I keep going back.
I can’t afford more yarn. I don’t need more yarn. I certainly don’t need any more projects. I have some Jo Sharp Silkroad in a very similar colour to the Violet Heather, so I shouldn’t buy it. But that still leaves the other colours.
We’re coming into summer here, and thats another good reason not to buy it.
So I should leave it.
Shouldn’t I?

This post should have gone up last night, but I crashed out early!
Here is the current progress on the stripey sweater.

Emily is very pleased with it! I’m knitting the sleeves both at once to avoid second sleeve syndrome.
Our mystery guest arrived. It’s DH’s birthday on Monday, so his mother came in for a surprise visit for him. She has come 1300km for just one night!