coziness and knitting [now with photos!]

maybe i was wrong in the last post. it looks like fall returned for a short spell :) the bad news is that meant we had to catch up on our yardwork this past weekend with raking all the leaves and mowing the grass one last time. the good news is that the leaves have been beautiful and the weather has been nice enough for us to want to be outside. and of course, its the perfect time of year to knit, bake, and enjoy a cup of tea.

so what are my current projects? i finished the baby sweater trellis; this shot isn't so great, but i don't have any babies accessible for the shoot, soo.... this is what you get.




i'm working on another baby sweater... a friend of ian's moved to japan a few years ago and will be coming home for thanksgiving, so i need to finish this by then! its a cute hoodie that i put an anime monkey on :) the monkey chart is from the stich n bitch books, and i thought it would be perfect on the hoodie :)




i'm about 75% finished with a sweater i'm knitting for myself, the looking glass top from interweave knits summer issue. i'm using recycled yarn for that top. i'm finished with all the knitting, i just need to graft the top and bottom front halves together and seam up the rest. here's a pic of the top 1/2...




i do have some projects lined up. i'm going to do a little lace knitting and work on the swalltail shawl [also from interweave knits], after seeing and falling in love with jared's version. i'm doing it in the same yarn and color scheme, because i really like the simplicity of the ivory, and it will go with most colors.

i ordered a few samples from webs as well, and i am coveting their longmeadow yarn in olive. its beautiful! i even started working on a design for a new sweater in it. here's a sketch of what i'm thinking...



its going to be a top-down or bottom-up raglan in the round... but with the front left seam left open. i'm going to try to find some interesting closures for it. i also want to incorporate some sort of lace/open work pattern down the middle. thoughts?

i have promised myself i won't order the yarn until i have finished my current sweater and have made a little progress on the shawl. i'm also loving the jaeger trinity in 445 [or 449 :/] and the elsebeth lavold silky tweed, but... i'm not sure what i'd use them for, so i should wait til i decide on that. :) i think the trinity would make a great deconstructed hourglass sweater... with some on purpose runs/snags, and more exposed raglan seams. * mental note to start on sketch of that.

but anyways... i'm sure on boring my non-knitting readers :) and i know i promised that wedding post, but... not yet. it is in progress, just not finished. in the meantime, enjoy the wedding and honemoon photos.

other than knitting, this week is going to involve a lot of cleaning and organizing. depending on how long that takes, we may officially start the main bathroom remodel. we're still working on the plans for that, but i can start the demo work as we finalize what we're doing. then, on to the bedrooms... before you know it, we'll be ready to sell!

*updated*... we have officially started the bathroom remodel, because i can't have less than 12 projects going on at once :)



time to make some tea...