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