Must be that Olympic spirit

I don't know how I'm doing it, but I've been zipping along through the green scarf that is meant to be a gift to my mom (who I'll be seeing on Sunday). At this rate I will probably have knitted too much by the time I get home. Who has put the wind in my fingertips? I'm loving it!...so much wind is there that I whipped out a hat as well this week!

Red XandO scarf finished!!!

Just need to weave in some of the ends, block it, photograph it and send it to Sweden now!

Fun around Town

So I had a friend visiting from Australia and I took a few days of vacation to be a tourist with him. I hadn't realized how much I missed my camera until I got ahold of his (also a Cannon, so I didn't have too hard of a time adjusting).

I took some great shots of Chicago that I thought I'd share here...

We had an inside joke about dolphins going on, and so when we saw some stuffed dolphins at the Field Museum we, of course, HAD to have pictures with them:

Long time no see

So I've been quite remiss on my posting...and for fairly good reasons. First off there hasn't been a lot of knitting going on. Secondly, with my digital camera broken there hasn't been a lot of pictures of what knitting IS going on. Thirdly, it was the holidays and I have been busy.

So...

Projects:
-Scarf/belt for my Cousin Jaya finished and given at Christmas, no pictures taken
-New Sweater started, 1/2 way completed and abandoned for bad fit (too wide in the shoulders)
-Two scarves are still "In Progress"

Christmas sales made the stash grow quite a bit and I'm looking forward to using some of the pretty and soft new yarns I got...when the camera's fixed pics will be posted.

PHOTOS!

Okay, I need to send my camera in to Canon, but I bought a card reader, so I can show you the pictures I took before, and the newer ones (of lesser quality) taken with my camera-phone.

Here are the two main patterns I'm using:


And here are the scarves at various states of progress:

Great news on the knitting front, Sad news on the picture front

So my camera went comatose on me. I'm trying to find my warrentee information, as it's been less than 6 months since I got it, but for now I'm just sad and a little pissed. Battery is fully charged, but there is absolutely no response when you (try to)turn it on

And I had such great photos to share!!!

I'm working on two scarves right now, and both of them are shaping up to be quite beautiful! One is alpaca and silk and the other is pure baby alpaca. One is a deep wine red, and the other is called "Grass" and is a crisp, pale yellowish-green.

The red scarf has a seed stitch border, then a pair of paired lattice panels, then a center "X" and "O" cable worked in threes running up the center (three downs then three ups which form and "O" in the middle, then three downs forming and "X" in the center)

The green scarf has a broad moss stitch border and a spiral and latticework center panel

I have great pictures that I took before my camera died. I'd love to share them with you. Boo.

Buttons

While home for Thanksgiving I spied my grandmother's button box and asked if I could go through it and pick out some for myself. She said I could and I stayed up until 1AM sorting buttons by color and materials (plastic, shell, metal).

My mom was proud to share her button stash as well and pulled out a rusty tin full of buttons the next day and sorted them with me.

So now I'm sinking further into knitting nerd-dom with a button stash. I photographed some of the more interesting ones last night.



These two were my favorite buttons. They are metal with a shell insert. Unfortunately the metal is pretty rusty, but I think I can get the majority of it off and then seal it and it should be fine.



More Buttons



These were my second favorite...so unique










A landscape of buttons is a beautiful thing













I'm ready for future cardigans and shrugs now.