The Golden Iris

I will blame being at work 8 hours a day for no significant bloggage. Of course, I know many, many other people are able to handle getting a post out every once in a while, but evidently since my job involves typing at a computer all day, I can't get it done. So here is a photo-less knitting roundup, because I gave my digital camera away and I haven't yet learned how to use S's. Old things: Gloves: at the same stage they were at in the last photo. Yep, I'm awesome like that. Anastasia socks: I've finished the first and am halfway through the foot on the second, and somehow I am not really working on them right now. Raglan V-neck: is getting ripped out. It's a little too short, a little too small, the raglan stuff doesn't fit right, and it's a little too itchy. Maybe it will get made into something with some jacquard-style fair isle on it. Who knows. New things: Mermaid scarf : I have somehow managed to crochet and not die. I will probably run o...

I have a feeling I'll be playing catch-up for a while. As I get used to my new job I think it will become easier, but that may be a while. So I have worked for a week in my new job and I'm happy to be going back tomorrow. I'm getting to learn about interesting things as I write reports on patents. My co-workers seem pretty nice and I get to go home for lunch. I have found some time to knit, amazingly... although most of it was this weekend. I have been slowly working on my custom-fit gloves. I think it's important to make the process look as scary as possible and add all the extra dpns I can to stick out of the glove. I don't know why this project is going so slowly, but I'm just not excited about making those fingers. Maybe once it cools off a little.... And I am impatient and started another sock. These are Anastasia socks, in Claudia Hand Paint Bearded Iris. It's shades of brown and purple, even if my camera cannot properly photograph royal purple t...