Mikknit

I have been knitting, there just hasn’t been much time/energy/interest in posting about it. We’re finally getting back into the swing of things now that Chris has gone back to work, but I’m still mostly in read mode rather than write mode.

I got a decent amount of knitting done over our Christmas travels and this past week. First:

That’s the back and left front of Grace’s Robin Hood Jacket. I’m almost to the neckline decreases on the right front but was only about 1.5″ in when I took this picture on Monday. The yarn is lovely and this particular color was well worth the wait - it’s going to be spectacular on her!

The picture of the sweater could be better, but this is what I had to contend with as I was trying to take a picture:

That’s Max. He’s the center of the universe, dontchaknow.

Next, a sock for Chris:

The main yarn is Trekking XXL that I got on sale at Black Purl in Wausau. I figured I should do contrasting heels and toes since he’s got big feet (size 13, 11″ around) and I don’t want to run out of yarn. I must’ve been looking at my work in the dark when I decided to get black for the heels and toes - as you can see, it doesn’t quite match. I went back to my friendly neighborhood yarn shop to get charcoal and they didn’t have it, so I went to another yarn shop and found a dark grey which turned out not to match either. I’ll have to drag the kids out to yet another yarn shop sometime this week in search of charcoal sock yarn. I’m sure they’ll be thrilled.

I wrote up a post and WordPress is being a bitch and stripping out my </a> so the whole damned post turns into one link. I know HTML better than that but I deleted the post to keep from looking like a moron. I’ll try again in the morning.

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I can’t even get that right. It’s bedtime.