I got a new camera today--just learning how to use it So far it seems like it takes pretty good pictures. Quite a bit more complicated than my other ones, however.

Here is a picture where I was just playing with the camera.

I have just been working on my knit afghan and have run into a few problems. I had to frog almost 10 inches of the lavender heather panel!! I absolutely must pay better attention! Both the cream and heather panels have still increased by about 8-10 inches . I have figured out that I can't use the same cream panel in the center (it would be narrower than the end panels) and so I think I will go with the bouquet stitch. I think I will post a picture of my progress weekly to keep me going.

Knit Afghan

I am trying a knit afghan this time--I think I am going to go with three of the cream panels and two of the lavendar heather panels. The lavendar heather is really a pretty color although it doesn't show in the picture. It's a work in progress--I may change my mind.

In other news--there is a frost warning! May 17th and my flowers will once again be traumatized!

Finished

Ok--I have finally finished the ripple afghan. That will be the only ripple afghan I ever make--probably. It took forever and was pretty boring to do. Just found out that one of my aunts is having her 80th birthday--the afghan has found its home!

This is a picture of an afghan I made a couple of years ago--I have to post it because I was too lazy to take it off the chair and some of it shows. (Really, I think I have it arranged just the way I like it and I am afraid if I take it off, I won't get it arranged the way I like it again)

OK--here is a pic of the new afghan and a close up of the border.

And here is a picture of Jasmine, depressed because I am playing on the computer and not with her. She is resting her head on one of her favorite toys.

Spring

It's a beautiful day today--the perfect spring day. The grass is green, the temperature is 72 and the sun is shining. For awhile, it didn't seem like spring would be coming. I didn't think that my tree would bloom this year with the late frost and snow, but it did look pretty for a day or two. Unfortuneately, we had a wind advisory the first day it really looked pretty and then it poured down rain the next two days--I did manage to get this picture before it was all gone.

I received my dishcloth swap package from Maria. She sent me some really nice things. I love the colors and the patterns. I am munching on the licorice twists as I write.

Well sitting all my unfinished work in front of me has worked to a certain extent. I frogged one more of them and I am working on the ripple afghan. That has to be the most boring pattern I have ever worked on--just single crochet. There is a really pretty border which is the reason that I started it in the first place, if I can just hang on until I get to that part. I have decided that I am not making it as big as what the pattern says. When I finish this skein, I will start the border.

This does not show it very well but you get the idea. Back to work on it.

Forgot one

One more dish cloth that I forgot to post a picture.

Unfinished Work

I have been torturing myself. I have grouped all my unfinished projects and laid them on or around the footstool in front of the chair that I sit in when I knit or crochet. Two afghans, a scarf, five different pairs of socks and dozens of patterns that I am contemplating beginning. Needless to say, the room is a mess. I solved one of the problems--I frogged the entire project. That wasn't that quick and to undo all of them would be time consuming and then there is the lost time that I spent working on them. What is it that drives one to finish some projects and to let others sit neglected in favor of beginning yet another project. Is it boredom with the project--is the project too hard--or am I just a quitter. Who knows, but guess what I did today--started another sock!!! Shame on me--that is definitely the last new project started before I finish one of the old ones!


I have completed my package for the dishcloth swap--this is what I am sending my partner --I think it is safe to post as I have not really advertised that I have this blog. This was how I avoided my unfinished works for the past week. The potholders are crocheted and the dish clothes are knitted. I really liked the round one--my first round knitted object.





In addition to the one's I am sending to my partner, I also completed these.





Well, I should go work on my ufo's or my new project--or should I look through my books for my next project!

Accomplishments--or Not

I have accidently deleted every post when I try to edit--we will see if I can manage to actually have something written instead of just pictures.

I have been looking at blogs and see all the wonderful things that people have crocheted and knitted--then I look at what I have managed to finish--sigh--not much.

The pictures on the first post are the things made from November to March. I have several unfinished projects that I keep promising myself to finish. Two afghans, 5 prs of socks and two scarves. The afghans are both crochet and the socks and scarves are both knitted. One of my goals for 2007 was to improve my knitting so I have been trying out lots of new things. I don't know that I have improved my knitting that much but I have learned lots of new things.

About all I finished last week were some preemie hats and a blanket.