Misc. FO's

I'm catching up on my FO pictures! We went to a concert last night, and since we've had a random cold snap (last week it was 80!) I had another chance to wear my favorite FO - Clapotis!



And since I was in a picture taking mood, here's a final pic of last month's Booga Bag:



My order of Kureyon that had been lost finally came this weekend, and of course I celebrated by whipping up a Madeline Bag (from Black Sheep Bags)



The kureyon order included some #139 and #40 along with the #100, and now i'm itching to try the Dibs on Ribs Sweater from Interweave Knits. So I'm on a hunt for 2 more balls of #139 in dye lot A...



There's lots of end-of-semester things going on this week, so I'll have to squash the knitting itch for a bit - it can be motivation to get through the week perhaps!

X-back Completed!

I finished my Ribbon X-back tonight. I used Schachenmeyer Aurora in the Summer Sky colorway. This is a really cute pattern, though I'm not sure it will be my favorite summer top. The seed stitch is really stretchy, more in the horizontal than the vertical direction, so it ended up being slightly shorter than I had anticipated. (This is not such a big deal, since I'm really short waisted) Also, I seem to have gotten lucky size-wise. I don't have that much experience yet with sizing and ease, and I was really concerned about making something that was too big. (and from the posts on the KAL, it seems to be running on the big side.) Despite these problems, I think I chose wisely (I made the small)



The other strange thing was the color pooling that happened in the middle. The strange thing is that it *isn't* where a ball was joined, but in the middle of a ball. I guess that's just one of those things.

Overall, I'm happy with the pattern and the finished product, and I'm proud to have finished my first KAL project!

No knitting today... too much blogging!

Well, the new blog is already taking time away from my knitting (not to mention the work I should have been doing this evening!).

BUT! the good news is that the blog has a bunch of snazzy new features! (Check out the WeatherPixie!) I've figured out how to do a bunch of things with it (including a link to a pretty meager FO gallery... more pics to come shortly!) Hopefully in the future, the knitting and the blogging can coexist :-)

Now I need to knit some more so the blog doesn't look so lopsided!

First Post!

So I'm hopping on the Bandwagon, and getting a knitting blog! Woo!