Lime Progress ~

If worse came to worse (and I am asking the planets NOT to align that way, thank you) I could probably block the lime within an inch of all that is angora, and it could pass for a scarf...

However, I still have several days before I have to block it, so I am still knitting like a wild one..... The scarf is looking very lovely and limey!

Friday Lime ~

Here's a good tip for knitting on a deadline and minimizing distractions.   Go to your local coffee shop and sit and knit. Go directly after work (Do not pass Go, Do not collect $200) and get a cool drink, and call Jitteryknitter to see if she can join you for deadline support....

No laundry or dishes to do, no home distractions to call you away from the task at hand.  Knit Knit Knit!

It's Electric ~

I have been told that my sense of color matching is not the best. Yes, my best friends have spared my feelings in the hopes that I would not be unwittingly unmatched - only unmatched if I recognized the color mismatch and still liked it.  (I must say that often I still like the mismatch of colors, but I do try to learn from my friend's ability to match colors....)  Well, we have a deadline here, and I have two wedding scarves that I am knitting in a flurry of needles and tenacity... and I thought I should ask the Jitteryknitter which scarf is the one that matches best, the Artsygal or the Spinningstreak...

She choose the Spinningstreak with the words, "It's Electric!!!!"     Well, I do agree!

Complete madness ~

More madness than can be imagined is going on at my house. As I started knitting the scarf for the wedding in July, I also decided to order some other yarn from the spinningstreak in the UK as it looked perfect on-line. Jitteryknitter, the Enabler, encouraged me to order it, as I still have plenty of time to knit this scarf.

The yarn arrives Monday, and yes, of course it is lovely and perfectly matches my outfit for the wedding. Although I have ten inches of scarf out of artsygal that matches well and is lovely with tencel, I cast on another scarf. Another perfect scarf for the July wedding. Complete madness...

Lovely, but complete madness. Good that today is a holiday so that I can knit knit knit all day, right? Jitteryknitter is loaning me her Signature size 9 needles, in a lovely purple...they will help me knit faster, right?

Madness of the worst kind ~

Oh, the PAIN of messing up when a deadline is looming! Major bummer, as I had knit a good six inches of scarf and then a big mess up....I was distracted and BAM!

 *heavy sigh* and a few choice words and cast on fewer stitches, to make it a less wide scarf (for summer, right?), so that should knit up faster, right? As you can see from the picture above, all that yarn wrapped around the "other way" shows how much I ripped out. Just to make the picture not totally sad, I added our first homegrown strawberry of the season! Hurrah!

I have finally caught up to the place where I messed up...NOW FOCUS!!!  We have a deadline approaching!  P.S.  This is lovely sock yarn by Artsygal. I purchased this at the first sock summit.

Sherlock Secret Pal ~

I remember telling you about my amazing secret pal this year.  I have been very very blessed this year and last year with pals that I know-in-my-heart to be my knitting soul mates. Last year's pal was a double surprise, as you can read here.   As I told you in my last visitation by my secret pal, she (although it could be a "he") said that the Circus had left town, and taken the lovely World Circus crazy sock yarn with it....

When, my secret pal must be Sherlock, as she (he?) caught up with said Circus and came away with another ball of crazy sock yarn!  Did I mention that during the yarn shop hop we checked all the shops, and no Circus.... so I am amazed and just a little bit curious (actually super curious) as to where she (he?) found this great crazy sock yarn!  I am excited to cast on and find out what super deluxe fraternal twins I'll get!!! Plus, can you believe that Sherlock also found Red-White-Blue for the July holiday!  How great is this!!

Cast on madness ~

Most knitters I know have a strange sense of time. Not only do we know that we can knit up all our stash in our life time (of course we can!), we also know that we can knit anything once we have a deadline, right? Well, my niece is getting married July 23.

So I have 23 days to finish this lacy scarf that I have just cast on, as the yarn matches my outfit perfectly...No problem, right?  Plenty of time, right? Especially since the wedding doesn't start until 4:00 pm....plenty of time!!!