pattern: Martha from Rowan Magazine 28
yarn: Rowan Felted Tweed, Crush (color 144)
started: January 8, 2007
completed: April 11, 2008

This month at the library I work at we’re doing a Pedometer Challenge. There are different teams around the library competing for the highest weekly average. My average last week wasn’t great but this week is definitely going to be better. Biking can be converted to steps, so we dusted off our bikes this weekend. I’ve already biked over nine miles these last two days. My new walking shoes will be a huge help in motivating me to continue walking to work on those days that my seat is too sore to ride my bike.

pattern modified from Tweedy Vest by Mona Schmidt from Knitscene, Fall/Winter 2005
yarn: Debbie Bliss Aran Tweed, color: 20008
started: November 22, 2007
completed: February 10, 2008

The semester is winding down and there is still so much to be done. I’m looking forward to summer and growing vegetables again. Today I noticed the hostas we planted last year are coming up. They’re in a pot that we buried in the ground that we can dig up and put on our front porch. I just hope the apartment people don’t come by and chop them off thinking that they are weeds. My summer schedule is going to be a bit less crazy than this semester. I have two classes – Non-Fiction for Children and Adult Popular Literature. There will be a lot of reading but I loved reading for my Children’s Lit class last semester.

pattern: Baby Surprise Jacket by Elizabeth Zimmermann from The Knitting Workshop
yarn: Berocco Cotton 100 in Blue (9198) and Lime (9225)
started: March 18, 2008
finished: March 28, 2008

Lately, I’ve been knitting washcloths. I’m nearly finished with my third in as many weeks. Maybe it’s spring fever, maybe it’s finally finishing the Martha sweater, maybe it’s feeling too pressed for time.

Six years ago on April 18, 2002 I started my lowly little blog. Last year, I noted all of the projects I’d worked on since April 2002. It’s been sort of a slow knitting year for me with school and all of the sewing that I did last summer. Since last April: I’ve started Library School, knitted two baby sweaters, finished the pair of Go with the Flow socks, completed a pair of Anniversary socks, and knitted one Waving Lace sock. I also finished the Moderne Baby Blanket. For myself, the Tweedy vest was knitted in a matter of a few months and the biggest accomplishment was finishing the Martha sweater. In the sewing department, I made six skirts for myself, several bags, two adorable bunnies, made my first quilt and started another quilt (which is a surprise).

I’m still alive and very busy. My Google calendar is blocked solid almost every day with classes, meetings, work, practicum and other random things. This weekend is an action-packed one with fiber and stories. Saturday morning, I’ll be attending the Fiber Event in Indiana with my knitting friends. I can’t wait! And the annual Storytelling Festival is this weekend at school. In all of the craziness, I sat down at my wheel for half an hour this afternoon and spun some of the lovely silk hankies that I have from my silk-spinning class in February.

I have finished a few projects but haven’t taken the time to take or post the photos.

Do you ever finish a project and think, “Wow, who knit that!?” The Anniversary Socks by Nancy Bush from the Favorite Socks book was my first wow project, the first project that I actually thought that I created something absolutely beautiful. I realize I posted a photo after I finished the first sock but the pair together just has to be shared.

Anniversary Socks by Nancy Bush from Favorite Socks
yarn: Lorna’s Laces Shepherd Sock (Natural)
needles: size 1 Knit Picks circular needles
sock 1: December 14-24, 2007
sock 2: January 30 – March 17, 2008

After things start to slow down a bit in the next few weeks with the end of the semester quickly upon us, I’ll post more photos. The Martha sweater is so close to being completed but I’ve been fighting with fitting the sleeves into the armholes and not having pointy shoulders, never a good look.

Finally, I can’t write a post without mentioning my beloved Jayhawks who won the NCAA National Basketball Championship on Monday night. It was a very sweet victory and it made me miss Lawrence so much. For those who don’t know, I did my undergraduate work at KU and loved Lawrence. I’ve been singing the Crimson and the Blue alma mater song to myself with a Rock Chalk chant thrown in all week.