It took me a week to whip out one of the socks (see previous entry), but alas I'm going to have to slow down. Carpel tunnel strikes my right wrist. Again. I'm currently braced.

Probably for the best, as I really need to focus on some job activities. That involve a lot of sitting in front of the computer... typing...

Riiiight. This will end well.

Wait - Knitting something for myself?

Alright, so it isn't anything to do with my purple yarn, but I remembered other yarn my family got me for my birthday for socks, and pulled out a partially done sock leg that I'd started last year (and never finished). It was a bit too saggy for my tastes, so I frogged it and went down a needle size.

As of yesterday night I had already turned the heel and begun on the gussets. It's Grumperina's Jaywalker pattern; I love it as it's simple enough that I can TV knit but looks more complicated and keeps me entertained enough to not get bored. On size 2 1/2 mm needles (I think). I've knit this pattern before, and loved it then and now.

I'm excited to be doing these, a lot of the socks I'd made for myself are starting to show their age and I need something gaudy and knew for my feet.

Lace mc-lacerstein has been put in the post as of yesterday, and once the recipient receives it I'll post pictures here ;)

It is done! The long lacework is done! Blocked, dried, and now neatly folded on my desk. All it needs are its ends woven in. I spent a full day yesterday getting the thing knocked out.

I am so relieved. And plotting my next move. I have three skeins of Blue Sky Alpaca in a deep purple, a gift from my last birthday when my mum handed me some money "to buy yarn with", that I think is begging to be made into a hat and/or scarf. The current plan is to spend a few moments rolling around Ravelry and Knitty to find some inspiration.

Photos of lace project later, when I get it shipped off to its intended recipient.

A few things...

Can I start by saying one thing?

I WANT THIS LACEWORK DONE. I don't want to post many pictures of it on the internet, as it is meant to be a gift (albeit a gift I wanted to grant three months ago), and I don't know if I have ever shared this blog link with its intended recipient. This means, that for nearly a year I have been slowly churning out this unbloggable project, for nearly a year I have banned all other knits from my To Do list (well almost all knits - for THREE DAYS there I whipped out a kitty pie, which I could only work on after I had knit a full repeat of the lacework in question). I view garter stitch as a treat. Yarn-overs and knit two togethers are to be viewed with extreme suspicion.

Yes this is a gift for a friend, and I love her and what this to be beautiful for her, but damned if I am a classic gemini in that I want a variety of new things. This is no longer novel or new. I want to bury this behind some couch cushions and pretend it doesn't exist.

If I did that, I could knit something else. Something fast, thick, with lots of cables and not an inch of lace anywhere.

Happy New Year!

Well 2010, here we are!

So... uh. How you doin'?

Knit goals for 2010 are simple: finish this white lace thing that has been taking me forever, and wrap up my on hiatus unfinished objects. Whether I finish them, or re-evaluate their status and rip them back to do something else, it doesn't matter: The goal here is to free up my needles and get these WIPs done. I also want to do some selfish knitting; I am wearing through socks and have a list a mile long of items that I want (my precious).

Of course, I've asked The Boy if he wants me to knit him a pair of socks. For his giant size whatever-who-cares-they-are-huge feet.