Swan Lake

This is a swan that I took a picture of last Sunday. Bob lives across the street from Gages Lake and sometimes swans make a stopover at the lake. I am a city girl and am used to seeing swans in zoos in cages. I love that I was able to catch swans in the wild! And they were very cooperative...I started taking pictures and they swam TOWARDS me! How cool is that? 

I am a BAAAAAAAD blogger

I am not the best person for updating blogs. But what with work and being sick, not much time or energy to blog (I would rather knit). But in homage to SOCKTOBERFEST I did finish a pair of socks. I will post at soon as I get my picture off my camera and onto my 'puter. I also started another pair of socks (Pomatomus-how do you pronounce this?) and I LOVE it! I will post progress pics of these, too, as soon as I get them off my camera.

More FO's to come....

All work and no play...

Hi all, I have been SUPER busy at work-I work in IT in software quality assurance. That means we have fixed deadlines and we often don't get the final version until, oh, a day before the install date! FUN! Anyway, we have a little breather coming up so I can post blogs again.

Being busy does not mean that I have not been knitting! I finished my Kiri shawl in kidsilk haze:

I still need to block it, but being a shawl/lace newbie, I still need to get some blocking pins and/or wires. I also got some new yarns:

This is Seas Silk in Nova Scotia (top) and Periwinkle. I am knitting up the Nova Scotia into Eunny's Print o' the Waves Stole for my Mom for birthday/Christmas. Here is pic of the very beginnings of the stole (I have finished one panel and close to finishing the other-will post pics when I have recharged my camera battery):

And I got some laceweight from Handpainted Yarn:

Laceweight wool in purple gold (currently knitting Kiri shawl again). This one reminds me of fall leaves. I also got:

Laceweight in Indigo and Emerald Blue

Laceweight in Bergamot

Bulky merino in Mango (for mitts for Bob's daughter)

I haven't started anything yet in the above yarns...will post when I have pictures. And, I have just joined SOCKTOBERFEST! Time to finish my socks!

I have lots of socks to finish! Posts of socks in progress to come!