Updateyness

Yesh, i know it's been a while...it had been a very busy month!

First off, I hope everyone had a wonderful Lughnassadh yesterday if they celebrated, and a happy day if they didn't. *lol*


So, for quick updates--i finished the bat shawl early last month, but the only pictures i have of the finished thing are while it's laid out for blocking. I may re-block it again later, because it didn't hold it's shape the way i wanted it to, but. It is a shawl. It is finished. I love it. And i regret not snagging it on my way out for breakfast with my sweetheart this morning, because it was cold in Denny's.

Before blocking, laid out on my bed:

During blocking, pinned out on a couple of old towels, on my bed:

I also knit another shawl, a simple garter stitch rectangle, as a "feel better!" gift for one of my co-workers. He's been ill lately, and lost weight he really couldn't afford to lose (the man's already a bean-pole; now if he turns sideways, he disappears!), and a constant fever. I'm more concerned that he regain his health and feel better, stronger, more like his old self, than finding out what is making him ill--that's the doctor's job. No pictures of that shawl exist, but it is done in a dark grey colorway of Lion Brand Homespun ("Edwardian").

Lets see, what else. Oh, there's the hat that has been sent to the frog pond; I recently learned that a friend of ours is a knitter who is interested in developing her skills beyond knits and purls, into the realm of shaped objects (she wants to make socks), so she started with a hat. I bought some of the same yarn she's using, but in a different color, and worked on it to help show her the techniques she didn't know, or couldn't figure out from looking at pictures--mainly cabling and SSK. She finished her hat, i frogged mine--the yarn will go to something else, eventually.

I am still working on my fraternal twin mellow stripe socks; they are going to be the same size, but their stripes and colors don't match up correctly. Thus, they are not identical twins, but fraternal twins. That's still my "on the go" project, and really, it should be finished by now, but it's not a priority. I'm an inch or two from the toe shaping.

I also cast on for "Silvanus," the surprise design from the Anticraft October 2006 issue, "Fear Itself." And i have to say, stranded knitting is a lot easier than i thought it would be--with the bonus of few yarn ends to weave in. I'm still a bit concerned with how the felting of this bag will go, but i have high hopes.

Silvie from the front, work in progress--you can see the chart I'm working from in the top of the picture, and my favorite skully stitch markers that one of my Anticraft friends made for me, and gave to me in a trade.

And flipped over, showing the strands from the back. Janus the Cat decided to test it out as a pillow/blanket for her, and refused to get out of the camera shot.

I'm a bit further along on this now, but only up to his nose--in these pictures, i was at his bottom lip. Since it is storming out, i may go and simply work on him for a while though. If i just work on him, i may be able to get him finished, and start on the back of the bag before we go to the movies tonight, actually.