Spring's already Springing

The daffodils can't seem to help themselves...every February here they come! I can just see some yellow on the forsythia bushes and the pear tree is in full bloom. Of course, then it will snow...or ice...or sleet...or all of the above.

A new sock in progress for Jimmy. This is Mountain Colors Bearfoot in the Moose Creek colorway. This is some seriously nice yarn. I'm basically a budget gal, and this is the most I've spent on sock yarn to date. Yum.

I'm looking to cast on for another sweater, but first I've got to make myself finish up some quilting that has been laying about for months. The knitting has really taken over my brain, and my "want to." But...no new sweater until the new bed quilt and the baby quilt are done! I think. Maybe 75% done. Maybe.

Hey, I Made a Sweater!

Name: February Lady Sweater by Pamela Wynne

Yarn: Northampton by Valley Yarns

Color: Ocean Heather

Needles: US 7 (4.5 mm) Knit Picks Options

Mods: I used kf&b for the eyelet row, otherwise just as written.

I am in love. I've worn it everyday since I finished it. It's just a great sweater. If (and I probably will) I make another one, I'll probably go down a size, just because the garter stitch is so stretchy. But all in all, it's love.

Lace Knitting

I'm still working away on my February Lady Sweater. I've got most of one sleeve done and only lack finishing it and the other sleeve to be finished! Hopefully next weekend it'll be done. I'd love to be one of those people who whip out a sweater in two weeks flat, but I don't know how you get anything else done in life. I know I'm not the fastest knitter around, but I also know I'm not the slowest. Ah, well, if I only had the hours I spend at my job. Pesky job.

(The color is a little washed out in these pics, it's a very rich teal blue)

I also cast on for a lace scarf for myself. I don't really have a handknit scarf of my own. So I thought I'd go "pretty" as well as soft. Yummy, yummy Kidsilk Haze in the colorway Marmalade. This is the Feathery Lace Stole from Exquisite Little Knits.

I also made myself some stitch markers, as you can see above. These were a pack of 4 charms for .52 cents! How can you go wrong?