i have decided to grace...

and some in progress shots:

the yarn didnt really do what i wanted, but eh, what can ya do? yarn has a mind of it's own sometimes!  I will knit this pattern again for myself sometime.

Hmmm, what else have I finished lately?  I made Derek some thick wool socks to wear when he hunts... they took me all winter to make.  Ha, oh well!  I knitted them toe up so that they'd fit him.

you can see, especially in that second photo, that they are definitely 2 different dyelots.  Which the yarn is Arcuiania or however you spell that, and the labels say that they dont do dyelots... but yeah, definite difference there... but it's ok... as i said, only going to be stuffed into hiking boots. hopefully he likes them and hopefully they dont felt too badly when he wears them.

let me see if there is anything else in the flickr album...

oh those are my new shoes... i LOVE them!


And it snowed here the other week or so...and I finally got a good snow picture after messing around with all the settings on my camera... it was snowing soooo much when i took this.

and here is some individual snowflakes that I grabbed on macro with my cam:

oh my goodness!  I DIDNT POST HERE ABOUT MY MARIGOLDS!  yikes!  and I did the first one in january when aya came to visit!   I am working on the second one right now.


it's Hill Country yarns and I love it... i love the colors and it's soft and fuffy.  it's just great to work with! I cant wait to have the 2nd one done too!

i also have this lacy scarf dealio on the needles.... i saw this pattern (omo scarf) on ravelry and it was so pretty in some cashmere yarn.... but the only DK wgt yarn I had is this pink berroco (cotton) so I went with it...it's not my favorite thing... but it's not for me anyways.  I have quite a bit more done on it since this picture was taking...almost thru the first skein.  i really suggest you look at the patter in other yarns.  maybe blocking this will help some too.  HAHA, and if you notice, I was using pretty bamboo needles, that I got for free, on it... but dang! SO SLOW!  I have since switched to my knitpicks circs and it's zooming along now.

the color is more darker pink than a purple pink.  i couldnt get it right.

here is a funky picture of me and derek at the arch, while amy was here.  i think at this angle, everyone has several chins! LOL

Hmmm... the purple Hill Country yarn up there, Amy got me for my bday/xmas... but she also got me this beautiful STR yarn too... it's so pretty!  Hopefully I can find a pattern to do it justice!

GEEZ I'm posting tons of pictures today!

me and my aya, while she was here visiting!  I MISS YOU COME BACK RIGHT NOW!

does anyone even remember the never ending pinwheel blanket?  did i ever post this picture?  this little baby was about a week old when the picture was taken...he's 3 months old now! 

OK!  that's it... that's enough!   See ya in another month! ;)