It’s been a while since I’ve written about it, but I have been knitting!! There’s proof in pictures!
I started the Hedera sock from Knitty, which was supposed to be for Mom for Christmas (I thought it a good idea to get started early). I was worried that it was a little too small since it was my first time using US size 1 DPNs. Turns out it kind of was (my calves are bigger than my mom’s, but I think it still would have been small on her, even though they technically “fit” due to the stretch of the lace). But that, unfortunately, was not the biggest problem I had with that sock, as evidenced here:
My brand-new Lantern Moon DPNs broke! TWO of them! One of them broke when I leaned over my knitting bag in the airport on the way to Puerto Rico (bad timing, huh?), and the other one broke on my second-to-last day in Puerto Rico when I tried the sock on. The first time no stitches dropped, but the second time I lost about 5 or 6. Since I don’t know how to pick up lace when stitches are dropped, I just frogged it. I was kind of angry about the needles breaking ($20 down the drain!) and my gauge being all wrong, so I quit hedera and decided to start these for mom:
They’re Breeze socks, also from Knitty… the newest issue, no less. I’ve actually finished the first sock, a couple of weeks ago, but I had to take a break from the second sock because I couldn’t take it on vacation to Myrtle Beach for fear Mom would see them. I’ll show finished pictures when the second one is done.
Never fear that I’m only knitting socks! Look:
I got Mason-Dixon Knitting from the library and started my first ball-band dishcloth with some Peaches ‘n Cream.
Here’s the first finished one. And the start of the second:
The second happens to be the inverse of the first.
They were quick knits and I’ve finished both. They’re for Kim for a wedding present. She gets married August 10th.
Pattern: Ballband Dishcloth from MDK and the ballband (hence the name) on PnC
Yarn: Peaches ‘n Cream in white and shades of green (I think)
Needles: Size 7 KnitPicks circular
Time to knit: Started and finished the one with MC green on July 9, 2007 (I think) and started the one with MC white July 10, 2007 and finished July 11, 2007
Places knitted: My apartment
And for the end of the pictures of works in progress…
I started the Log Cabin Blanket featured in MDK. It’s not perfect because I’m not great at picking up stitches, which is essential in this type of knitting, but it looks pretty good.
I’m knitting it up in Caron Simply Soft in a variety of colors. I’m going to do the warm/cool contrast on each side, with all these colors:
It should be a really nice blanket when I’m finished! And, should we get pregnant any time soon, I’ll make it a little smaller and it’ll be our baby’s first blanket 
Non-pictured (at the current time) items I’m knitting include some toe-up socks (my first!) in Trekking XXL and Monkey socks in Lorna’s Laces, as well as another dishcloth for myself.
