Textileophile

It's been about two weeks since I last posted, and surprisingly a lot has happened craft-wise.  I didn't think that it would be the case, seeing as how I've spent the last four days only stitching for about an hour in the evening after spending the rest of my waking time playing Final Fantasy 9.  But, alas! I got a few tools in the mail, I finished a thing, started a thing, dabbled in a few things, and continued knitting on other thing. I suppose I should start with the finishing: I finished my shawl!  It is So Scrummy! (blogger says this is not a word, but I assure you, it is).  It's soft and warm and the colors are lovely.  I love the way the singles yarn looks in lace and garter.  It was exactly the project I needed to do in this exact time in my life.  I love when things like this work out.  The pattern was really simple, especially when I counted off my sets of rows.  It was also both charted and fully written out, which I appreciate....

 I finished my third pair of socks for the year! The lighting is a bit off, and they're a smidge stretched out cause I had just been wearing them in the evening after I finished them. Didn't you know the rule?  Once you finish a pair of socks, you're obligated to remove the pair you have on and wear the new ones.  Hey, I didn't make up the rules! I pretty much immediately casted on new socks.  Vanilla again.  The usual.   The color here is completely blown out, by the way.  The yarn is not that bright.  It's actually a subdued lavender and gray blue thing.  No electric blue to speak of.  The light was just a little too ambitious.  haha. I started these during a movie session the other night.  On my couch.  Because I have a couch again!  And table!  And beds!  It's very exciting to see your stuff again after so long without. The yarn for the socks is from Webs.  I bought it using a gift card from my brot...

 Hi there.  Still waiting on my chairs and assorted furniture here in California. Meanwhile I've been sock knitting. These are my typical 64 stitch vanilla sock with an eye of partridge heel using hedgehog fibers yarn in the ozone colorway. Say that five times fast. I really haven't been working on much else, but I had another reason to stop by and hang out for awhile.  I was asked to talk about how I got into all this crafting stuff.  Which is an interesting story (or not, depending on your perspective). It actually didn't start with knitting.  My first love was counted cross stitch.  I guess that happened when I was a child, my mom was an avid cross stitcher, I think she dabbled in crochet, too.  But I didn't really take to it that much.  In the spring of 2007 I moved in with Zac, my now husband (spoilers!). I was a student at the time and he lived about 6 hours north of where we met and where my dad lived at the time.  Zac had recently got...

So we made it to California!  to essentially an empty house, but we're here! Husband traveled in the beginning of February to set it up for us when we land (and you know, to start his new job!) so there are at least mattresses and a desk. (and this here laptop!)  Which was extremely helpful and nice. But alas and alack, my stuff is somewhere between New Hampshire and here and I have to be patient.  But I do have stuff to do meanwhile, to keep me relatively busy.  And I have some knitting. While on the planes and for the first few days here, I worked rather steadily on my MIL's socks, and last night I finished them! I have another pair started from before, but I don't have a picture.  I will have to rectify that soon. The shawl and the sweater WIPs are with me, but I haven't worked on either since the move. Here's an updated picture of the shawl though: Unfortunately that's all I have to share with you today.  I'm hoping my stuff arrives next week.  But...