Progress!

I am not a fast knitter.  Not terribly slow, but really not fast.  With that said, I have a very successful (for me) few days of knitting progress to report.  That would be an unchanged brown blob of lace shawl in the center.  Disregard that as there has been no progress there.  What is exciting is the wee Baby Gundy sweater with a complete left and right front and two complete sleeves, just waiting to be cast off.  Baby Cashmerino knits up beautifully.  Now onward to the back and seaming it up.  The seaming will be the big challenge here.

That is also a growing sock over on the right.  This photo does not show the pattern well, but the Jaywalkers are fun to knit.  Despite using size 1 1/2 needles, these babies are going to be a bit snug.  I am not one to rip back this much sock, so if they do not end up fitting me, they will be a gift to someone with smaller feet.

I also received the nicest note from H & Annie about their (unphotographed) Christmas mittens.  Best of all, it included a photo of the mits in action which I will add to my completed work gallery.  The picture does not show the pattern well, but at least I have some proof that I finished this project.

I briefly considered the Knitting Olympics yesterday.  It would be a great opportunity to knit my felted blag from the Navajo yarn I bought in Arizona while on vacation last summer.  The challenge there would have been in the designing.  What is really calling me right now is that skein of Anne, purchased during a naughty moment at a LYS last week. 

I am desperate to knit it up into some springtimey lace thing.  I have a ONE LACE PROJECT AT A TIME rule, so that would mean abandoning the brown Shaped Triangle Shawl from A Gathering of Lace.  I really like both the brown yarn and the lace pattern, but it is mind-numbingly dull right now.  A four-row pattern repeat of a six-stitch pattern that is just causing my eyes to glaze over....That, plus the fact that by the time I get that baby done it will not be "brown" weather, it will be time to wear colors like these:   

So what to do?  Maybe if I wind the yarn into a ball it will speak to me and tell me what it really wants to be.  However that turns out, I have decided to let the whole Olympic knitting thing be taken up by better, faster knitters than I.