Back on Track
Happy New Year Everybody!!! Time to get this blog back on track after the Holiday De-Railment. Man blanket was finished and made it to Georgia in time for Christmas. Up until the bitter end I was worried it wouldn’t be big enough but hear that it is the perfect fit for snuggling up in a recliner and Blanket has been the recipient of many happy snores. Just in the nick of time too as it is cold in Georgia right now.
Christmas Stocking was finished too, all except the name in duplicate stitch. I didn’t think it was necessary to hurry and put her name on it in light of the fact that she decided not to use it this year. You heard me right. I didn’t make myself one and due to unfortunate circumstances I found myself without a stocking this year. While out shopping for my Christmas gifts at Old Navy, she bought me a fleece stocking, which they had on sale for 
$1.00. She gave it to me before Christmas and proclaimed that our stockings didn’t match. Could we please go back to Old Navy and get a stocking for her so our stockings would look alike? (How to resist?) A couple of days later I was graciously given a lovely hand-knit stocking. When I showed it to her she agreed that we could use the homemade ones next year… The purple striped/pink jeweled one is mine.
I also managed to knock out one of those super bulky weekend pullovers for my cousin Sandy who helped me lay ceramic tile in my new house. In Christmas Red of course. We clash beautifully when I wear my bright purple one.
So! On to new and improved projects. The most exciting (and ridiculous)
thing I am knitting is the Leaf Lace Shawl from the Vogue Knitting Shawls and Wraps compilation. I have seen this wrap before in one of their mags and was transfixed by it then. The photography is stunning and as crazy as it looks, it begs to be knit. I found myself with 20 balls of Debbie Bliss butter yellow Como that I impulsively bought when the distributor sent it to us by mistake. I could not resist
the color and had at least three sweaters in mind (as usual). I settled on one in the Como book, cast on and knit in the round up to the armholes. I them divided it into front and back and knit most of the back. Then the sweater got very comfortable in my knitting basket and began to languish. I should have had this sweater done by Christmas and I didn’t even want to work on it. When this Shawls and Wraps book crossed my desk this week and I saw the pic on the back cover, I knew. So I went home and frogged the 10 balls of yellow 
I had knit and cast on the shawl. The Como is bulkier than the yarn in the pattern so instead of a 19 I am using a 35 (because the yarn is doubled). Doesn’t that make it even more over the top ridiculous? Using 20 balls of Como for a wrap is a kind of absurd my co-workers are used to so I am off to the races! I have one of ten total chart repeats done. Check back for progress…
