That’s the Breaks
Hey! Yeah, I know I’ve been away for quite a while. My husband and I started the summer by moving from one side of Denver to the other and then spent the entire month of August on a Navajo reservation in Arizona. Unfortunately, my camera wasn’t working while we were there, so I have no photos of the red rocks and dirt, huge blue skies, fluffy white clouds, sage brush, Navajo tea and other unidentified yellow and purple flowers, or the giant tumble weed in our back yard. I have no photo of the cliff where I though my husband and I had gone to die on a hike (which, he had only warned me, was a little steep). Nor to I have photos of Windo Rock, the Canyon de Chelly, or any of the old Anasazi ruins.
I’ll try to make some links to some of the photos of these places which are already on the Internet – pending copywright permission.
But now we’re back home, settling back in. Most important, my camera has decided to start working properly again, so I’m able to take some pics of my current knitting projects.
What have I been knitting?
Right now I have several projects to finish:
My mom’s lace scarf (how many years have I been knitting this?!?!?!)
My husband’s gray sweater.
My new fall “Wavy” scarf.
Other than those, which I’m having trouble picking up, I’ve recently been knitting up a storm of swatches from any pattern book I can get a hand on, using all the old acrylic yarn I can find in my stash (because I’m too broke to buy yarn this month).
Two center-pull balls of yarn from unfinished and frogged sweater. Beautiful, no?
So, what am I going to do with those balls of yarn, you ask? I’ve been searching on Ravelry to figure out what I can make out of these two skeins of Brown Sheep Cotton Fleece yarn. The best I can com up with is a small shrug. I’m just trying to decide if I want to use a stitch pattern besides stockingette stitch, for once. Here is my “Norwegian Fur” swatch:
Okay, I’m gonna get back to swatching. I’ll publish a pic of all my swatches and perhaps my mini-sweater plans, tomorrow.
