I am more than

halfway through block number nine (there is a really good chance it will be done tonight before I go to sleep). So far I have made (in finial arrangement, not knitted order) blue, white, green; purple, red, white; red, green, and in progress green. I still have another green, red, and white one to make and then will just need to put them together. There really is a method to my odd color choices/order. I know some of you have figured it out on your own, some of you had access to the method, and at least one of you are still confused. Think about it for a bit longer and what you know about me, I bet you'll figure it out.

 

Oddly (or not really) the black looks more gray when the picture is washed out with a flash inside (these are number three and eight).
As of last Friday (April 22), Kay, the pattern designer, had donated $12,500 to Mercy Corps for Japanese relief. According to her:

Mercy Corps was curious about all the payments so they emailed me. I explained that it was proceeds of a knitting pattern. Dead silence, then: “I didn’t know a knitting pattern could be so…. lucrative!”

Pretty awesome for a $5 pattern! (You can see her finished project here.)

(Oh, in addition to Mitered Cross Blocks, I have made two baptismal blankets in the last seven weeks and finished up a couple of other things. So my obsession hasn't been totally single minded.)

The obsession continues

Number six (really number three, and no, my nick-name isn't George) has been started. They will probably look a lot better when I am more obsessed with blocking and photographing than with knitting them.

Number three

is languishing on the needles. I knew I would need more than one skein of black to make all twelve squares and finish the project. I had decided to knit as far as I could with the one skein I had, so that I would have a better idea of how much more I would need to order. Last night I got to the point where I knew, placed an order for the yarn at 12:30 this morning and at 10:30 this morning I had an email saying my order was filled and shipped. Hopefully it will be the only one that will have to wait long.

Current Knitting Obsession

From here,

 

using Classy,

 

the third one is on the needles.

Hubband and I have decided

that this might explain some of Oribel's behavior. Not a lot of it, just a little bit. Her biggest problem seems to be figuring out which one is in disguise, which leads to the explanation as to every cardboard box that enters the house.

Not the best pictures I've ever taken,

but hey, they are pictures and they are here. Just sharing the view I have when I drive into town via West River Parkway. There are two of them that live in that house and they have been busy working on the spring housebuilding addition.
(The very first time I came around the curve and saw the nest last fall, I knew immediately who was living in it, even though they were off to dinner at the time.)

Today I was cleaning the family room,

which involved moving the ignored toys around. Of course, as soon as I touched her stuff, it became the center of attention.

 

Oribel had already pulled her bootlace out of the toy bowl to get a better look at what else was in there by the time I grabbed the camera. (About an hour later, her bootlace had found its way into the kitchen, near her box.)

 

She decided at that point the best thing to be found in the toy bowl were her catnip pillows.

 

Personally, I think it would have been a lot easier for her if she had taken them out first.

 

 

Yes, she is perfectly capable of getting them out of there if she wanted, and no, I am not going to do it for her. They are her toys and she is responsible for putting them where she needs them when she want to play with them. Unfortunately, she is much better at getting them out for play-time than she is at putting them away when she is done.


(Yes, I am mean like that. Just ask my kids, I made them carry their own school bags full of snowsuits and boots into preschool every day too. Well, maybe my kids didn't think it was mean, but I do remember another preschool mom saying as much one day.)

Last year

I only got four pairs of socks completely knit, but I have three other pairs that were started in 2010 and are still in progress. I also have had four other pairs that I started but for some reason or another they were all frogged, to be remade at a later date. (Mostly they didn't fit the intended person, as in go over their heel, but all were stranded/color-work so I can work on that problem this year.)
These were some Thuja's I made May 3-11, for my mother-in-law's birthday.

This is a pair I made for Hubband, started in February and finished in April.

These are some Colobus No Purl Monkey socks. I know, they aren't symmetrical, but I figure the monkeys aren't all the same either.


These are mine, and I made them September 7-11.
In addition to these three pairs, there was the pair I made my mom for her birthday in January. Yep, that's it, the sum total of the socks I got finished in 2010. Fortunately, they aren't the only things I knit last year, nor the only things I made out of stashed sock yarn. That said, you're going to have to wait another day (or couple) to see some of the other stuff that can be made out of sock yarn.

Tuesday Miss Oribel

decided she actually wanted to go outside. Lately it has been more of a "I want to go out! Open the door! Now! Wait, what is this wind in my face crap?! I don't do wind!" Then about ten or fifteen minutes later we have to do it all over again because, you know, the wind might have stopped. Not that I really blame her, I am not that crazy about -15F (or lower) windchill myself.

 

 

For some reason, she didn't go very far.

The other day

I was driving home and saw the neighbor's cat.

 

Once again, I was really glad I carry my camera with me whenever I go out.