Goodby Green June

 

1. Miss R's scarf, 2. New sweater yarn, 3. June sock in Kynance Cove, 4. Men an tol, 5. RAB tent city, 6. The Lizard, 7. Sprout prepped, 8. Sprout, 9. Canadian sock yarn, 10. Cheshire, 11. Bodmin Moor, 12. RAB map

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The past month's Project Spectrum photos. There was not a huge amount of knitting that got done over the past 29 days, but I did manage to get Dev's new yarn finished after I returned from RAB, knit up a sock design prototype in worsted weight yarn (hooray for a 2 evening sock!), and finished off the first teacher gift. Oh yeah, and rode my bike 965 miles across Great Britain - I guess that counts for something too!

Now on to July - blue is my all-time favorite color. I've got one blue project on the needles already, which needs to be done in a week, so that will take care of that. Socks...I need to finish this month's socks first, so maybe no blue socks this month (sad day). As for spinning: the Tour de Fleece starts on Saturday, and I've got one mostly blue top and one partly blue top in the lineup. Now if I can just manage to get the girls to feed themselves for three weeks, I'll be all set!

Admitting defeat in the face of ridiculous odds

Not surprisingly, after the amount of time I spent not knitting this month, my June socks are not going to be done. Sad day. In fact, as of June 21st, they looked like this:

Which is not all that different from how they looked on June 10th, on my way to John O'Groats.

Oh well, such is life. Recent knitting time has been taken up with teacher gifties - numero uno (which is actually the second one I started) will be finished tonight,

which will let me get back to numero dos, which is about one third done. I'm hoping that garter stitch goes faster then stockinette on this one. The socks will just have to wait for July, and having one sock almost done will hopefully make up for the fact that the Tour de Fleece starts (gulp) this weekend!

On hiatus

I'm in the Inverness airport waiting for the bus up to John O'Groats. I have knitting, but I doubt if much will get done in the next nine days. But I'll leave you with my current progress. See you in about a week and a half!

Deadline knitting begun

I've started the first school scarf of the year - this one is for Dev's Year 1 teacher. After some debate, I chose Lacy Baktus as this year's semi-mindless project. It's a great pattern, but I'm not totally sold on Malabrigo Sock in garter stitch. Or maybe its that I think the garter stitch isn't quite drapey enough for what I had in mind. In any event, the next one might have to be the stockinette version. Onward!

It's that time of year again

The end of the school year, that is. Last year, I went a bit nutty and made six scarves (in about three weeks) for the girls' teachers. This year, there are only three teachers, but I still need to get on the ball here. So today I took advantage of a trip to Islington to go to Loop. Here's what I ended up with: three skeins of Malabrigo sock in Cote d'Azure and Playa for Devil's teachers, and Aguas for Boo's teacher. Yummy!